Cookie Statement
What tracking technologies do we use?
We use certain technologies to collect information about your use of our Services to operate the Services, conduct analytics, improve your user experience, and for marketing purposes.
Cookies
Our Sites use ‘cookies,’ which are text files placed on your device when you visit a site and help us understand how you use our Site. Some cookies remain on your computer after you leave the Site (called ‘persistent’ cookies). Others are deleted when you close your browser, and others simply expire (called ‘session’ cookies). For more details on cookies, please visit All About Cookies.
By choosing to use our Site after being notified of our use of cookies in the ways described in this Privacy Statement, you agree to such use.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies/session: Used to operate the Site and provide users with the Services available through our Site, including log-in and access to secure areas. These cookies are essential for using and navigating the Site, and without them, the core functions of our Site would not work. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Site and the Services, you cannot refuse them.
- Analytics: Used to better understand the behavior of the users on our Services and improve our Services accordingly. For example, to ensure users are finding what they need easily.
- Functionality: Used to enhance the performance and functionality of the Site and our Services.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”) that collects, records, and analyzes data regarding website visitors' behavior. The information collected by Google (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States (Google is certified to the Privacy Shield for data transfers). How long a Google Analytics cookie remains on your computer or device depends on what it is and what it is used for. Some Google Analytics cookies expire at the end of your browser session, while others can remain for up to two years.
You can prevent your data from being collected by Google Analytics on our Site by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your current web browser.
For more information on Google Analytics privacy practices, read here.
Digital marketing and advertising
Although we do not share Personal Data with the third parties that conduct interest-based advertising operations on our behalf, these third parties and their affiliates do collect certain information as a result of their JavaScript “tags” and other technologies such as web beacons or pixels being used on our Site. The information that they collect includes the names of web pages you view (URLs), unique identifiers, your IP address, timestamp, and certain types of technical information.
Where required by law, we will only send you marketing information if you consent to us doing so at the time you provide us with your Personal Data. You may opt out of receiving such communications by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you. In addition, if at any time you do not wish to receive future marketing communications, please contact us at webserv@richmond.edu.
If you ask us to delete your data or to be removed from our marketing lists and we are required to fulfill your request, we will retain basic data to identify you and prevent further unwanted processing.
To control whether companies serve you online advertising, visit an industry-standard website such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.