In general, you can visit us on the Web without revealing any information about yourself. If you fill out one of our request forms, we ask you for information such as your name, address, phone number, and email address so that we may send you the materials you have requested or so that we may follow up on your comments as you request.
In addition, as you register for a class, it is necessary that we collect your full personal data including Social Security number and your credit card information so that we may successfully process your registration and reserve your seat in the course(s) you have requested. We do not retain credit card information as part of your student record. Information furnished on these forms may be used by University department for distribution of information on future Extension programs and other University activities and will be transmitted to the state and federal government if required by law.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. In that context, you as an individual user remain anonymous.
We may collect and distribute aggregate statistics about our Web site visitors, traffic patterns, and related site information. These statistics do not include information that would allow us or the recipient to identify any individual in any manner whatsoever.