Grants Management Office is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Grants Management Office Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Grants Management Office website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Grants Management Office collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Grants Management Office also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Grants Management Office. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Grants Management Office for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Grants Management Office Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Grants Management Office public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Grants Management Office does not read any of your private online communications.

Grants Management Office encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Grants Management Office so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Grants Management Office is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Grants Management Office and Grants Management Office family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Grants Management Office collects and uses your personal information to operate the Grants Management Office Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Grants Management Office also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Grants Management Office and its affiliates. Grants Management Office may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Grants Management Office does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Grants Management Office may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Grants Management Office may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Grants Management Office, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Grants Management Office does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Grants Management Office keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Grants Management Office, in order to determine what Grants Management Office services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Grants Management Office to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Grants Management Office Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Grants Management Office or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Grants Management Office; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Grants Management Office, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Grants Management Office Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Grants Management Office pages, or register with Grants Management Office site or services, a cookie helps Grants Management Office to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Grants Management Office Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Grants Management Office features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Grants Management Office services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Grants Management Office secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Grants Management Office secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Grants Management Office will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Grants Management Office encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Grants Management Office is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Grants Management Office welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Grants Management Office has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Grants Management Office at gramir61@epcc.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.