Barstow College Privacy Statement

Last Updated: August 15, 2008

We recognize and respect your need for privacy and security as you visit our site. When you visit our site to view any pages, read information, or preview our on-line courseware before registering, you do so without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. While we do not collect identifying information about visitors to our site, we do use standard software to collect information for the strict purpose of tracking activity on our site. This allows us to better understand how many people use our site and which pages and features are most popular. The only information we normally collect and store is:

• The name of your Internet service provider.

• The web site that referred you to us (if any).
• The date and time the pages were accessed.
• The page or pages you requested.
• The browser and operating system you are using.

After you apply for admissions to our college you provide us with personal information. If you fill out one of our feedback or request forms or send us email, you are transmitting the information that appears to you in the form or the message. This will typically include information like your name, mailing address, email address, the kind of request you are making, and any other information necessary to fulfill your request. You never transmit personally identifying information that you do not enter yourself. This information cannot be collected unless you specifically elect to send it to us. This information is used internally only for the purpose of allowing you to complete your course work, fulfilling a request you have sent us, or for contacting you directly and is not given or sold to any other organization.

When you submit personally identifying information (other than your name and email address in a course form) via one of our feedback or application forms, that information is also encrypted, or scrambled, by your browser before it is transmitted back to our web site. This effectively prevents anyone from intercepting and reading any personal information about you. Note that this encryption does not take place if you send us email, but only when you use your web browser with one of our site's registration or admission forms. All registration and application information is sent on an encrypted form.

We hope you find our website useful and informative and we are always willing to answer questions and receive suggestions. If you have questions or suggestions, please e-mail the webmaster at webmaster@bcconline.com.

Thank you
Barstow College Administration, Faculty and Staff

* We reserve the right to change our privacy policy. A revised policy statement will only apply to data collected subsequent to its effective date. Any revisions will be posted at least 30 days prior to its effective date.

If you have any questions please email either the Vice President of Academic Affairs: Dr. Meadows or
the webmaster: Nancy Olson