Privacy Notice

Last modified: February 2, 2025
Prior Versions: N/A

NOTICE: Data collected by this site may be subject to disclosure under Chapter 132 of the North Carolina General Statutes (“NCGS”) as a public record. Please see NCGS Chapter 132 for information on records that are excluded from disclosure.

Introduction

Central Carolina Community College ("College" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this notice.

This notice describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This notice applies to information we collect:

• On this Website;
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website;
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website; and
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this notice.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the College or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website, through any chatbot services, or through third party service providers such as Blackboard, NEOGov, Yuja, Follett, WorldCat, or similar service providers. Any information provided to a third party shall be subject to the privacy policy of the applicable third party.

Please read this notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your sole choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy notice. This notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the notice periodically for updates.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The College complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, (“FERPA”). This privacy notice does not apply to student records or information protected by FERPA. For information on the College’s handling of student records and information, including both directory and non-directory information, please see the College’s policy and procedure manual.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social security number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as demographic information; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us;
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and
• From third parties, for example, our business and educational partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or on a third party’s website, including information provided at the time of applying for enrollment or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically includes statistical data that may also be linked to your personal information in certain instances. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the College, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you;
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us;
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• To notify you about changes to our Website, programs, or services we offer or provide through it;
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about programs and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us requesting to opt-out (see Contact Information). For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy notice:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates, such as the College Foundation;
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our operations;
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
• For any other future purpose with your consent at that time.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply contractual and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Central Carolina Community College, our students, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, misuse of the website, or other unauthorized activity.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Personal Information. You may choose not to provide the personal information we request through the Website. However, not providing the information we request may restrict your ability to use certain features of the Website.
• Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Advertising. We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI's website and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) on the DAA’s website. Please note that any opt-out choice you exercise through these programs will apply to interest-based advertising by the third parties you select but will still allow the collection of data for other purposes, including research, analytics and internal operations.
• "Do-Not-Track" Signals. At this time, the Website does not respond to browser "do-not-track" signals, and other parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and other online products or services when you use the Website.

Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature or processing purpose.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
  • targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
  • sales; or 
  • profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us (see Contact Information).

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

It is our practice to post any changes we make to our privacy notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by updating this page. The date the privacy notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page along with links to prior versions of this privacy notice. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy notice to check for any changes.

Children

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, unless they are explicitly labeled for children. We do not knowingly solicit data online from, or market online to, children under the age of 13. We may collect personal information about children under the age of 13 when provided by the child's parent or legal guardian in connection with certain programs run for children. Parents and guardians may register or apply for their children for these College programs through the Website or one of our third party service providers. These registration and application websites are intended to be used only by adults and not by children under the age of 13. We do not not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Any personal information of children provided to the College on the Website or through third party service providers should be shared with the College only by a child’s parent or legal guardian.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy notice and our privacy practices, or to register a complaint or concern, please contact us at:

1105 Kelly Drive
Sanford, NC 27330
web@theabsolutelongestwebdomainnameinthewholegoddamnfuckinguniverse.com