Privacy Statement

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has created this privacy statement in order demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of your information. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the College website: http://www.cals.vt.edu/

Information Automatically Logged

This site uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site.

This site records information about your web browser so that we can monitor the market penetration of various web browsers and better determine the Internet technologies that are most appropriate for the design of our pages.

This site uses page referrer data - that is, information about the page that linked you to this page - to determine the extent to which our site is referenced by other resources on the Internet.

The above information may also be used to preserve the integrity of our computing resources.

Personal Information

Connections Subscription Forms

The Connections newsletter subscription forms ask you for your first name, last name, and e-mail address.

Your name and e-mail address are used to confirm your request to subscribe or unsubscribe to/from the Connections newsletter.

Your e-mail address may also be used to contact you in case of a problem with your subscription.

E-mail us Forms

The E-mail us forms, found on various pages throughout this website, ask you for your name, department, phone number and e-mail address.

All of the requested information is optional.

All of the information that you choose to provide is mailed to the person in the College who can best respond to your question or comment.

Your name, phone number, or e-mail address, if provided, may be used contact you with a response to your question or comment.

Third Parties

We do not share personal information with any parties outside of Virginia Tech, nor do we use personal information for any purposes beyond those stated here.

Links to Virginia Tech Sites

This website contains links to other Virginia Tech websites. The privacy practices of the other sites may vary from the privacy practices of this site. Please consult the privacy statement for each site.

Links to External Sites

This site contains links to other websites external to Virginia Tech. Neither the College nor Virginia Tech are responsible for the privacy practices or content of such sites.

Cookies

Cookies are used to change the appearance of certain sections of this website based on user selections within the website.

No other sites can access the cookies.

The cookies are saved for one year after the user's last visit.

Session Management

This site may use a session key in the URL to maintain a continuous user session.

The session key identifies your browser session. The key is in no way associated with your machine or you individually.

The session information is deleted when your session times out or is terminated for any other reason.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Log file access is restricted to system administrators while stored on the server. Log files are rotated regularly and archived in a secure location.

Users should also consult Virginia Tech's policy on Acceptable Use.
http://www.policies.vt.edu/7000.pdf

Virginia Tech complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact calscomments@vt.edu