Privacy Policy

Welcome to our website (“Site”). To better protect your privacy, this notice explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by Leighton University (Leighton University). To learn more about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, click here.

Our Collection and Use of Information
Leighton University may collect and store personally identifiable information about persons who visit this Site and voluntarily submit information in contacting Leighton University. Leighton University may also collect and store aggregate or anonymous information about user contact with and use of the Site. In addition, at times, we send your Web browser a “cookie,” a small data file that’s stored on your hard drive, to help us provide you with customized services. Information obtained in connection with the Site may be intermingled with and used by us in conjunction with information obtained through sources other than the Site, including both offline and online sources.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

We may use the aggregate or anonymous information we collect about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information for marketing purposes, to better design our Site and/or to share with reputable third-party vendors.

Opt-out
You may ask us to delete any information about you that we retain and cease further contact from us at any time by sending us an email making such request and marked “Do-Not-Contact”, addressed as follows [email protected]. Please note that while we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete any personally identifiable information about you that we retain, we cannot compel any third parties to delete such information.

Security
We are committed to taking reasonable steps to ensure the security of your information. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put into place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Privacy Precautionary Warning
Please note that no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. Despite making all reasonable efforts as described above, we cannot guarantee the security of the information that you transmit via our online services.

Please note that we reserve the right to access and/or disclose the user information discussed herein (including personal information) as required by courts and/or administrative agencies and to the extent required to permit us to investigate suspected fraud, harassment or other violations of law or our Site Terms of Use or policies.

Consent
By using our Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal and non-personal information as described in this policy. You further authorize the export of personal information and use as specified in this policy when you provide such information to us. This policy and all legal obligations of Leighton University are subject to the laws of Indiana and the USA, regardless of the location of any user. Any claims or complaints must be filed in the State of Indiana, United States of America.

We may amend our Privacy Policy, but if we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, so you always have access to an explanation of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.