Privacy Statement for UCSB EH&S

Privacy Statement for
University of California, Santa Barbara
Environmental Health & Safety Web Site

Policy: The University of California, Santa Barbara is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize access, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared. In particular, we do not re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our Web servers.

Information collected: This UCSB Web site may collect personal information such as name, employee identification or student perm number, e-mail address, telephone number, and/or building location. Such personal information may be requested by us for training, emergency planning, or administrative purposes. Web servers typically collect, at least temporarily, the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; Web pages requested; referring Web page; browser used; date and time. UCSB may collect statistics identifying particular IP addresses from which our Web sites are accessed.

Use of collected information: UCSB may use personal information collected from this Web site for the purpose of future communication back to Department Safety Representatives, in order to keep you informed of training or emergency information.

UCSB may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve Web presentation and utilization. The campus also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.

Some UCSB online activity sites may use "cookies" in order to deliver Web content specific to individual users’ interests or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.

Distribution of collected information: UCSB will not disclose, without your consent, personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law.

UCSB will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.

Access to your own information: Questions regarding users’ rights to review, modify or delete their previously provided personal information should be directed to the campus organization to which they provided the information. Any disputes will be resolved under existing records regulations applicable to UCSB.

Responsibility for linked sites: While using a UCSB Web site, you may encounter hypertext links to the Web pages of organizations not directly affiliated with UCSB. UCSB does not control the content or information practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the privacy statements of these organizations.

For information regarding this Privacy Statement, send email to: webdeveloper@ehs.ucsb.edu.

Privacy Statement for University of California, Santa Barbara Environmental Health & Safety Web Site

Privacy Statement for
University of California, Santa Barbara
Environmental Health & Safety Web Site