SMCCACE collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. SMCCACE also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by SMCCACE for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the SMCCACE website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through SMCCACE public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: SMCCACE does not read any of your private online communications.

SMCCACE encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from SMCCACE so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. SMCCACE is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the SMCCACE and SMCCACE family of Web sites.

SMCCACE collects and uses your personal information to operate the SMCCACE Web site and deliver the services you have requested. SMCCACE also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from SMCCACE and its affiliates. SMCCACE may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

SMCCACE does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. SMCCACE may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (email, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, SMCCACE may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

SMCCACE does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

SMCCACE keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, in order to determine what SMCCACE services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within SMCCACE to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

SMCCACE Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on SMCCACE or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, or the public.

The ACCEL San Mateo SMCCACE website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize SMCCACE pages, or register with SMCCACE site or services, a cookie helps SMCCACE to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same SMCCACE website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the SMCCACE features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the SMCCACE services or Web sites you visit.

SMCCACE secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. SMCCACE secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

SMCCACE will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. SMCCACE encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how SMCCACE is protecting your information.

SMCCACE welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that SMCCACE has not adhered to this Statement, please contact SMCCACE at: admin@smccace.org We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.