University of Missouri Cares About Your Privacy
Updated 10/07/2024
The Curators of the University of Missouri (hereafter “University of Missouri”) respects your privacy and recognizes the importance of your personal information. We are committed to protecting your information through our compliance with this privacy policy. This privacy policy applies to all individuals who visit and/or use University of Missouri websites, services, and products directed to youth program(s) participants.
All references to "us," "we," or "our" refer to the University of Missouri. All references to "child" or "children" refer to children under the age of 13. References to ‘participant’ or ‘student’ refer to the person attending the program(s).
By accessing or otherwise using any of our sites and services, you consent to the terms contained in this privacy statement, including the collection, use, and disclosure of data as described below.
I. Information We May Ask You To Provide
Through our sites and services, we collect information about you and/or your student when you choose to provide it to us. For example, we collect information from you so you can use our sites, purchase products and services, register for and obtain an account, request information, register for one of our programs, or verify your age. In general, we may ask you to provide us with the following types of information about you and/your student:
- Contact information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone numbers (note to parents/guardians of children: if we have actual knowledge that a user is under 13 years old, the child will be asked to have their parent or guardian continue the registration process);
- Month, day, and year of birth;
- Gender;
- Course interests;
- Billing information such as credit card number and billing address; and
- Health histories, participation limitations or needs, immunization, and allergy
II. Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies
Our site uses cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Local Storage Objects, and/or other technologies to collect certain information about visitors to and users of our sites and services, such as the date and time you visit, the areas or pages you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using our site, the number of times you return, other click-stream or usage data, and emails that you open, forward or click through to our sites and services. For example, we may automatically collect certain
information, such as the type of web browser and operating system you use, the name of your Internet Service Provider, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, software version, and the domain name from which you accessed our website. We use this information to monitor, analyze and improve our website, support internal operations, and personalize your online experience.
We do not use cookies or similar technologies to track your activities on sites not managed by the University of Missouri, or to serve advertisements based on your browsing activities.
Our sites and services use third-party plug-ins to provide additional services and benefits. These third parties may collect information about you as well. When we use a third-party plug-in, please read the 3rd party website’s Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
III. Third-Party Vendors of Online Registration and Participant Information Services
The University of Missouri uses Ideal-Logic, a third-party vendor, for its online registration, to collect, maintain and disseminate important participant information and program materials. Ideal-Logic does not perform any other function for our summer programs.
In addition, our website may collect geolocation information from your device. In most cases, you are able to turn off such data collection at any time by accessing the privacy settings of your device.
IV. Social Media
You also can engage with our content, and other offerings, on or through social media services or other third-party platforms, such as Facebook, or other third-party social media plug-ins, integrations and applications. When you engage with our content on or through social media services or other third- party platforms, plug-ins, integrations or applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information in your profile. This may include your name, email address, photo, gender, birthday, location, an ID associated with the applicable third-party platform or social media account user files, like photos and videos, your list of friends or connections, people you follow and/or who follow you, or your posts or "likes." For a description on how social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, or applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings.
When we interact with you through our content on third-party websites, applications, integrations or platforms, we may obtain any information regarding your interaction with that content, such as content you have viewed, and information about advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on.
We may also obtain other information, including personal information, from third parties and combine that with information we collect through our third-party. Any access to information from a third-party social media or authentication service is in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by that service. If you authorize us to connect with a third-party service, we will access and store your name, email address(es), current city, profile picture URL, and other personal information that the third-party service makes available to us, and use and disclose it in accordance with this Policy. Please check your privacy settings on these third-party services to understand and change the information sent to us through these services.
V. How We May Use Your Information
The information we collect from you and/or your participant may be for one or more of the following purposes:
- Respond to requests or inquiries;
- Provide information about our programs;
- Register a participant for a program;
- Provide information about university programs and enrollment;
- Monitor and improve our Sites & Services, or personalize your online experience;
- Protect the security or integrity of our Sites & Services and business operations;
- As required by
VI.How We Share Information
We do not sell or otherwise share your information with any third parties, except for the limited purposes described below.
1. Law Enforcement And Safety
We may access, preserve, and/or disclose the information we collect and/or content you and/or your student/child provides to us (including information posted on our forums) to a law enforcement agency or other third parties if required to do so by law or with a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) respond to claims that the content violates the rights of third parties; or (iii) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the owners or users of our sites and services, a third- party, or the general public. We also may disclose information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability; to protect or defend our rights or property; or protect the safety, rights, or property of others.
2. Service Providers
Information collected through the University of Missouri sites and services may be transferred, disclosed, or shared with third parties engaged by us to handle and deliver certain activities, such as housing, meals, payment processing, mail/email distribution, software providers, and to perform other technical and processing functions, such as maintaining data integrity, programming operations, user services, or technology services. We may provide these third parties information collected as needed to perform their functions, but they are prohibited from using it for other purposes and specifically agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information. Some of these providers, such as payment processors, may request additional information during the course of offering their services. Before you provide additional information to third-party providers, we encourage you to review their privacy policies and information collection practices.
VII. Parental or Guardian Rights
Parents or guardians may request to review their child's personal information and refuse to permit further collection or use of a child's information. To exercise any of these rights, please email us at stemcenter@mst.edu.
VIII. International Visitors
The University of Missouri sites and services are operated and managed on servers located in the United States. If you choose to use our sites and services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and uses that differ from the United States, then you recognize and agree that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States, and you consent to that transfer.
IX. Data Security Commitment
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We also use Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol on your account information and registration pages to protect sensitive personal information. For more information on our data safeguards, please visit our Encryptions Standards webpage.
X. Electronic Communications
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you have provided your email and/or address, and prefer not to receive marketing information, please contact us via email or call at the number provided below. If you no longer wish to receive text message updates from us, you may call or email us to request that we remove your mobile number from our list.
stemcenter@mst.edu 573-341-6204
XI. Credit Card Information & Transactions
All credit card transactions are managed by our third-party service, TouchNet. For your security, your credit card security number is not stored or processed on our website. Our third-party program registration service has procedures in place designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction, or loss, or unauthorized disclosure of or access to such information appropriate to the nature of the information concerned, including:
- (where appropriate) password protection, encryption, and use of secure communication transmission software (known as "transport layer security" or "TLS") to protect their Sites;
- placing confidentiality requirements on its employees and service providers;
- destroying or permanently anonymizing personal information if it is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected; and
- following strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of your personal information to prevent unauthorized access to it. While we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information, no transmission over the Internet can ever be guaranteed to be secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that you transfer over the Internet, and any such transmission is at your own risk.
The security of personal information depends in part on the security of the computer used to
communicate with us. We recommend that users take steps to protect against unauthorized access to passwords, computer, and web-enabled devices by signing off after using a shared computer, inserting a password key on your web-enabled device, choosing a password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your passwords private, and periodically changing passwords. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or compromised passwords, or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.
Our third-party service stores personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Where your information is no longer needed, we ensure that it is disposed of securely. There are circumstances when we may be required to store your personal information for longer periods of time to be in compliance with legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements.
XII. Social Networking
The University of Missouri provides several opportunities for social networking for both participants and staff on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. These sites are not affiliated with the University of Missouri and offer their own individual social networking services.
XIII. Privacy Statement Changes
We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this statement at any time. If we materially change our use of your personal information, we will note it in this privacy statement. The effective date of this privacy statement is documented at the beginning of the statement. If you have any questions about our privacy statement, please contact us at umcompliance@umsystem.edu