TAMU Association of Professional Support Staff

Privacy & Security Policy

The TAMU Association of Professional Support Staff (TAPSS)(hereafter referred to as "we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy. We are providing this privacy statement to ensure that we make every effort to respect your privacy and to inform you what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, when we can release it, and how you are entitled to access it. This privacy statement applies to the website we administer and the e-mail you send us.

Information Collection, Use, and Release

When you visit our website to read or download information, we do not collect personal information about you. In particular, we do not use "cookies" to collect or store personal information. However, we do collect and store technical information about your visit in server logs. We use information from server logs for troubleshooting and to identify system performance issues.

Our website also sends general information about your visit to Google Analytics. We do not send personal information to Google Analytics. We use information from Google Analytics to evaluate accessibility or gauge the popularity of various features on our websites. We also use that information for general reporting and management functions.

We use personal information that you provide via e-mail or through other online means to serve your needs, such as responding to an inquiry or other request for information. This may involve redirecting your inquiry or comment to another person or department better suited to meeting your needs.

All information collected from our website, including server logs, and information collected from web forms or e-mail you send to us, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act. This means that while we do not actively share information, in some cases we may be compelled by law to release this information.

Cookies

A server session is like a cookie that is stored on a web server. It can store information such as what web pages you visited, when you visited a web page, or personal information that you supply or information the web page retrieves for you. Occasionally, we use server sessions to store information about your session. For example, we may require you to login to a website and store your username, distinguishing you from other people using the site.

Sessions

A server session is like a cookie that is stored on a web server. It can store information such as what web pages you visited, when you visited a web page, or personal information that you supply or information the web page retrieves for you. For example, we may require you to login to a website and store your username, distinguishing you from other people using the site.

Server logs

We store the following information in our server logs:

  • User/client hostname - The hostname or IP address of the user/client requesting access.
  • HTTP header, "user agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system on which it is running.
  • HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
  • System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
  • Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
  • Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
  • Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.
  • Method - The request method used.
  • Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server including web pages, images, and other files.
  • Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI.
  • Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics stores the following information on their web site:

  • User/client hostname - The host-name or IP address of the user/client requesting access.
  • HTTP header, "user agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system on which it is running.
  • Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server including web pages, images, and other files.
  • HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the user/client accessed the current page.
  • Screen colors - Color processing ability of the user/client screen.
  • Screen resolution - The resolution or dimensions of the user/client screen.
  • Service Provider - The Internet service provider of the user/client.
  • Mobile device - If user/client is a mobile device, the manufacturer of the mobile device.
  • Mobile carrier - If user/client is a mobile device, its Internet service provider.
  • Bandwidth (Internet connection speed) - The speed of the user/client connection from their Internet service provider.
  • Java support - If Java is enabled.
  • Flash version - Which version of Adobe Flash is installed.
  • Geographic data - Country, State, City, language preference of the user/client.
  • Time on page - The time spent on a web page.

Questions

If you have any questions about this privacy and security statement, the practices of our website, or your use of our website, please send e-mail to the webmaster, or by postal mail to:

TAPSS
P.O. Box 1335
College Station, TX 77841