Apollos University - Online Privacy Policy
Apollos University (Apollos) holds in high
regard the privacy rights of our website visitors. This Online Privacy Policy
describes our online information practices and some of the choices you can make
about the ways we collect and use your personal information.
Governing Law
Apollos University is a United States
corporation and is in the State of Montana. Our Policy shall be governed under
the laws of the State of Montana, United States of America without regard to
its conflicts of law provisions.
Personal Data Collected
Some of the information collected from our
visitors is given freely to Apollos University via internet inquires sent to
Apollos, admission applications, surveys, and telephone conversations with our
representatives. This data is collected only on a voluntary basis and is at the
option of the website user.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Apollos utilizes “cookies” and other standard
web technology to collect non-personally identifiable information from our
website visitors. This data is automatically collected data includes such data
as: type of web browser you use, your IP address, the operating system on your
computer, the links you follow within our website, and the links you follow
when entering and/or leaving our website.
Use of Information
The personally identifiable information is
only used internally to Apollos and every effort is made to ensure that it is
not released outside of the university to a third party without your consent.
Data that you provide voluntarily such as your name, address, telephone number,
and email address is collected and used by the university to respond to your
inquires and to provide you with information concerning future products and/or
services.
Apollos utilizes the non-personally
identifiable information that is collected via cookies in an effort to ensure
that our webpage is usable by the majority of its visitors. The information
allows Apollos to update and modify its webpage, so it reflects the features
most often requested and used by its visitors.
Security of Information
Apollos University utilizes best efforts to
protect and secure personal information that is collected through its website.
All financial and application transactions that require the use of personal
data are submitted through the website using the encrypted Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) protocol.
Website User Options
You have several options that will allow you
to opt out of providing information to Apollos University. First, you may opt
out of providing non-personal information collected through the use of cookies
by disabling or rejecting cookies for Apollos’ website. For more information on
cookies, including how you can delete or reject cookies, please refer to your
Web browser’s help file. Disabling or rejecting cookies may impact your user
experience as they are necessary to provide you with the ability to maneuver
through the website and view various data files.
Regarding personal information collected
through the website, you may opt out of Apollos University’s marketing
solicitations at any time by contacting us through our admission
representatives or sending an email to info@apollos.edu. The email should
contain a statement saying that you wish to be removed from Apollos’ marketing
solicitations and providing AU with the spelling of your name, your address,
and your email address. You will promptly be removed from our solicitation
lists.
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA)
The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act
(FERPA) of 1974 provides, generally, that (1) students shall have the right of
access to their educational records, and (2) educational institutions shall not
release educational records to non-college employees without consent of the
student. Written consent of the student
is required before Apollos University can release information concerning the student
to prospective employers, government agencies, credit bureaus, etc. Students and alumni applying for jobs,
credit, etc., can expedite their applications by providing Apollos University
with written permission to release their records, specifying which records and
to whom the release should be made. For
further details on and exceptions to the policies affecting disclosure of
student records, contact the Administrative Office.
International Visitors
Apollos University is operated and managed on
servers located within the United States. If you are a citizen of the European
Union or other regions of the world and choose to use request information about
Apollos or become a student, you then acknowledge that Apollos will transfer
your personal data to the United States in order to provide you with the
requested information and/or provide educational service. The only other
sharing of your PII will be for purposes where you provide written informed
consent.
European Union Data Protection
Citizens of the European Union are entitled to
certain rights with respect to personal information that Apollos holds about
them:
- Right to object. The right to object, on grounds relating to
your situation, to the processing of your personal information, and to object
to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, to
the extent it is related to such direct marketing;
- Right to data portability. The right to obtain access to your
personal information, along with certain related information, and to receive
that information in a commonly used format and to have it transferred to
another data controller;
- Right to be forgotten. The right to obtain the erasure of your
personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as
where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the
purposes for which it was collected or processed;
- Right to ask for incorrect data to be corrected. The right to
have your personal information corrected without undue delay if that personal
information is inaccurate or incomplete; and
- Right to restriction. The right to obtain the restriction of the
processing undertaken by us on your personal information in certain
circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is
contested by you, for a period enabling us to verify the accuracy of that
personal information
You may also have the right to make a
complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. A list of Supervisory
Authorities is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
Links to Other Sites
Apollos may link to and may be linked by
websites operated by other entities or individuals. Some of these websites such
as Facebook or Twitter websites where Apollos used as information sites for
students, alumni, faculty, staff, and other interested individuals. This
Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot always control the activities
of, such other third-party websites. You should consult the respective privacy
policies of those third-party websites.
Privacy Policy Agreement and Modifications
Apollos University reserves the right to
update or modify this policy and any privacy notice, at any time and without
prior notice, by posting the revised version of the policy or privacy notice on
this website. If Apollos modifies this policy or any privacy notice, the
modifications will only apply to the personal information the university
collects after the new policy or privacy notice is posted to this website
Your use of this website following any change
to the policy or privacy notice is posted constitutes your agreement that all
information collected from or about you after the revised policy is posted will
be subject to the terms of the revised policy. You may access the current
version of this policy at any time by clicking on the link marked "Privacy
Policy" at the bottom of each page of the public areas of this site.
The last update to this privacy policy was
made on January 24, 2019.
For more information
For further information about this privacy
policy or to inform Apollos of future changes that need to be made to your
information, contact Apollos at:
Apollos University
600 Central Ave., Suite 215
Great Falls, Montana 59401
Email: info@apollos.edu