Privacy

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Harvard Summer School website (www.summer.harvard.edu).

Information gathering

Our web server software generates logfiles of the IP addresses of computers that access this website and of what files they access. These web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted completely from our systems. We also may ask our visitors to provide information about themselves.

We may use cookies to maintain a user’s identity between web sessions.

Website traffic is analyzed using Google Analytics, a web metrics service. This information is used to generate statistics on web usage and assists us in improving the overall experience for our visitors.

Use of information

We do not provide any personally identifiable information about our visitors to any third parties for any purpose.

We use your IP address and files you access to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website by identifying which parts of our site are most heavily used. We also use this information to tailor content to user needs, and to generate aggregate statistical reports. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual visitors.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Contacting the website administrators

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact us at webmaster@dcemail.harvard.edu.

Links to other websites

This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Changes to this policy

An announcement of any changes to this policy will be posted prominently on the homepage for three months before any changes go into effect.

Effective date

The effective date of this policy was January 1, 2008.