Privacy Notice

Washington State University Extension and the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (referred afterwards as “we,” “us,” and “our”) has created this Privacy Notice to explain why we collect particular information from you, how we use your information, and actions we take to protect your personal privacy when you visit our websites. In order to fully understand your rights, we encourage you to read this Privacy Notice. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time, and we encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Notice.

Scope

This Privacy Notice applies to all websites, domains, services, applications, and technology products implemented and managed by WSU Extension and the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. This includes Departmental or Unit sites related to CAHNRS as well as development and beta sites.

Collection of Personal Information

Personal information is any information that personally identifies you or from which you could be identified. This may include information related to you that can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as an identifier number, name, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.

While using our sites, users may choose to submit personal information through email or online forms. We collect, export, and use personal information as described in this Privacy Notice.

Use of Information

Your personal information may be used for legitimate academic or business purposes. Use of our website and web resources are subject to all applicable state and federal laws, as well as our general and campus policies. It is our usual practice not to share your personal information with other individuals and organizations. However, when circumstances arise for the need to share information gathered from our web servers, we may share as authorized or required by applicable law, including where:

  • permitted under our general and campus policies;
  • necessary in order to carry out legitimate education purposes or in the fulfillment of approved contracts;
  • as necessary to process requests you make of us;
  • clearly stated on our website that such information will be shared and you have proceeded to provide that information;
  • you have otherwise granted consent;
  • may be provided to other individuals and organizations if your data has been aggregated with other data in a way that does not compromise privacy;
  • allowed for purposes as may be detailed on our websites or mobile applications;
  • otherwise described in this Privacy Notice.

Statistical Logs Kept

We use reporting programs and site analytics through Google, Facebook, and others to collect data about visitor traffic to our websites. We do not attempt to personally identify visitors. Instead, we collect data to analyze in aggregate to determine trends and improve our sites. Here are some examples of the types of data we routinely collect:

  • Browser type or other client application used
  • The operating system of the computer or device
  • Internet address of computer or device
  • Web pages requested
  • Referring web page
  • Date, time and duration of visit

You can opt-out of some anonymous website and/or application traffic behavior by clicking on the following opt-out privacy link

  • Google Analytics Opt-Out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Additionally, you can use the following tools to control what resources are allowed to be accessed by your browser to selectively disable tracking

Cookies Used to Preserve Data

Our websites (e.g. with the domain name “cahnrs.wsu.edu”) require the use of cookies (bits of data passed by our network to your browser for storage). Accepting the cookies used on our webpages may give us access to information about your browsing behavior, which we may use to personalize your experience. For instance, our web applications use cookies to remember that a user successfully authenticated and to track your login session across our sites.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept cookies by adjusting the preferences in your browser (please refer to your browser’s help function to learn more about cookie controls). If you turn off cookies, our web applications will not be able to log you in.

Web Beacons

Web beacons (also known as pixel tags, internet tags, clear GIFs, or single-pixel GIFs) and embedded scripts are other technologies that we use on our websites and in our applications, as well as in some of our emails and ads.

Web beacons (or “tags”) are bits of programming code included in web pages, emails, and ads that notify us (or the companies that help us run our business) when those web pages, emails, or ads have been viewed or clicked on. Embedded scripts are bits of programming code included within some of our web pages that measure how you use those web pages, such as which links you click on. We use this information to improve our websites and online services, tailor our websites and online services to your likely interests, and conduct market research.

You may be able to turn off scripting functionality, such as JavaScript, within your browser (please refer to your browser’s help function). If you turn off JavaScript there may be some features of our sites that will not be available to you, and some web pages may not display properly.

Security

We have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, to assist in maintaining data security and to assist in correctly using the information we collect online. We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your information when you transmit it to us. This ensures a level of security appropriate to the risks presented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected when we store it on our information technology systems. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information.