Information about privacy: Before using the Website it is your responsibility to read these standards.

The basic principles

In order to ensure that our website is continually improved, the University of Idaho needs to aggregate information about our users. We collect this information through the methods stated below and in way that does not unacceptably compromise a user’s personal information.

Collecting information through the below stated methods allows us to build an accurate picture of the needs and wishes of our users, and to communicate with you. This in turn enables us to offer information that is relevant and truly interactive, which is what our users expect.

Answers to your important questions:

"What information do you collect about a user?"

We automatically collect data about our users' browsing actions and patterns. This is aggregate data and does not identify any individual.

We also may ask you to provide personal information on a voluntary basis in order to get a clearer picture of our users. It is then entirely up to you whether you give us this information.

"For what purposes do you collect and use this information?"

We use aggregate audience details (where no individual is identifiable) to help us improve our understanding of our users and their preferences. We use it to assist us in arranging relevant content designed to meet the needs of our specific audiences (alumni, students, etc). It also helps us develop the Website and audit its use.

Use of cookies on the University Website:

The basic principles

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser of your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Two types of cookie are used on the Website:

Session Cookies that are temporary and remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the Website.

Persistent Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly.

Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

How we use cookies on the Website

Session Cookies: We use session cookies to allow you to carry information across pages of the Website and avoid having to re-enter information.

Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to help us recognize you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to the Website and to allow us to tailor content and the presentation of the Website to match your preferences.

We use information from both types of cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the Website and to help us improve the structure of the Website. We cannot identify you personally from this information.

Disabling/Enabling cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, if cookies are disabled you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the Website.

Use of Web Beacons

Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images know as Web beacons (sometimes know as clear .gif images) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information, including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Further information

If you want further information, or wish to communicate with us about these standards, please e-mail us at webteam@uidaho.edu.