Northeast Alabama University
At Northeast Alabama University, our students and visitors remain our
top priority and we understand that our visitors need to be in control
of their personal information. Whatever we do is targeted towards
providing them with the best services. The main purpose of the privacy
policy is to help our students understand why we collect their
information and what we do with it.
All information that is collected during the process is used for the
provision of our services and to make improvements to our services in
general and student care in particular. Information that is collected
is kept under strict confidentially and is only accessed by the
concerned authorities. Your information is neither rented nor sold out.
We maintain utmost security in all our procedures. Each process takes
place with complete confidentiality and only authorized people can
access the information. We respect your privacy as ours and know how to
safeguard it. Northeast Alabama University strongly believes in following
fair practices of disseminating information on internet. Our privacy
policy is a reflection of our commitment.
Privacy policy
This is the privacy policy for the Website of Northeast Alabama
University www.nothernportuniversity.com. This Privacy Policy describes
how we treat the information we receive about you when you visit or
use our Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because by
visiting or using this Site you agree to its terms and are consenting
to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information as
described in this Policy. Particular pages of this Site may contain
notices providing more details about the information we collect on
those particular pages. Certain portions of this Site may contain
notices advising you that different policies and practices apply to the
information collected through those particular portions of this Site,
in which case those different policies and practices will supersede
this Policy. These additional notices are referred to as "Privacy
Notices" in this Policy.
Definitions
As used in this Policy, the term "personal information" means
information that identifies you personally, alone or in combination
with other information available to us; the term "Site" means our
website at www.nothernportuniversity.com.; and the terms "Northern
Port," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Northeast Alabama University.
Personal Information that you provide us knowingly and voluntarily
We respect your right to choose the way we collect, use, and share
your personal information. In most cases, we will ask you to indicate
your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your
personal information.
Northeast Alabama collects the information you knowingly and voluntarily
provide when you use this Site. Personal details are provided by the
students for different purposes. Some of the basic information
collected by Northeast Alabama University includes for example personal
information such your name, email and mailing address, phone number
academic credentials, and whether you are in the military, etc. that
you provide when you fill out our forms, request information about
Northeast Alabama, or e-mail us with questions or feedback, order documents,
etc. This information is collected when you provide information at any
step. In many cases, this information will identify you personally.
For students, we use details such as the mailing and email addresses
for making general correspondence. We respond to your comments,
concerns and queries on the given email addresses. Mailing addresses
are also used for shipment of degrees and transcripts of students.
For non-students, we may also use this personal data to contact you
after you have expressed an interest in our programs and to follow up
with you by sending information of our educational programs, services
and products we think you might be interested in; this is only after
your consent. For internal use, we may study the personal information
collected through this Site to improve our programs and services
themselves, to improve the content, functionality, navigation, and
usability of this Site; to better understand the needs and interests of
learners, alumni, and the other stakeholders; and improve our programs
and services. We may also remove all the personally identifiable
information and use the rest for historical, statistical, or scientific
purposes.
You provide us information by
Anonymous data that is provided to us automatically
We automatically collect different types of information your
browser or Internet session sends us automatically each time you visit
one of our sites. We use this information to create statistics that
help us improve our Site and make it more compatible with the
technology used by our visitors. This information typically includes the
IP address of your Internet service provider, the name of your
operating system and the name and version of your browser. This
information depends on the settings on your Web browser, so you may
check it directly to learn what information your browser sends or how
to change your settings. The information provided by your browser does
not identify you personally. Unless you access this Site through an
e-mail we have sent you or have created a "user identity" by creating
an account during one of your visits, this information will not be
linked to information that identifies you personally. The types of
information include your:
Cookies and Their Use
A cookie is a string of information (an alphanumeric identifier)
that is sent by a Website and stored on your hard drive or temporarily
in your computer's memory. Cookies are that are transferred to the
students' hard drives through their Web browsers. We use cookies to
allow you to move quickly through our site, to recognize repeat
visitors, and to allow you to take advantage of some of our site's
special features. Cookies are small files and won't pose any
significant disk-space concerns.
We actively use the cookies to display messages to returning users and our students.
NOTE: If you disable cookies in your browser, you will not be
able to access all of the functionality of the Site or any of the
University's secured websites.
Use of Data
Information provided by students is used directly in variety of
areas. Personal information is normally used in processing application,
shipment of the documents (degrees and transcripts) and correspondence.
Also all staff members who use your provided information for
scrutiny and evaluation purposes have signed a non-disclosure agreement
for not sharing your information with anyone.
Being a student of Northeast Alabama University, candidates may receive
updates about new programs and services that will be introduced. Your
information will also benefit us while updating and improving our
systems and services. Northeast Alabama University also contacts
prospective students via phone, mail and email to confirm student's
interest in pursuing their degree.
Note however that all comments, feedback, information or
materials submitted to Northeast Alabama University through the contact us
areas in this website (collectively, "Feedback") will be considered
non-confidential and the property of Northeast Alabama University, except
for the contact information provided by you for a response or in
reference to this feedback. By submitting such Feedback to us, you
agree to assign Northeast Alabama, without charge, all worldwide rights,
title and interest, including copyrights and other intellectual
property rights, in and to the Feedback. Northeast Alabama shall be free to
use such Feedback on an unrestricted basis.
3rd Party Sharing
Northeast Alabama University follows strict code of confidentiality and
will abide by all applicable laws concerning the release of personal
information. Under no circumstances do we divulge, provide or sell or
rent any personal data submitted by visitors to our site to any third
parties.
Additionally note that the credit card Information for payments
provided by students is saved with the third party credit processing
companies through which they are billed. This information is kept
secret; neither retained nor shared for any purpose, and is discarded
the moment procedures get completed.
We may need to disclose your personal data to third parties if
required by law or to enforce our User Agreement or this Privacy Policy
(see below). There are other limited circumstances in which Northern
Port may share or transfer the personal information in our databases to
unrelated third parties in our sole discretion, such as when we
believe it is necessary to comply with [Government Department]
reporting requirements or the reporting requirements of accrediting
bodies; to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or
identity theft; to comply with a court order; to comply with a legal
requirement; to enforce a contract; to protect the rights, property, or
safety of Northeast Alabama, our users or others; to protect your own
interests; or in connection with a corporate sale, purchase, merger,
reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or similar event.
Additionally we exchange personal information in our databases with
other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk
reduction purposes, when this occurs we take appropriate steps to
protect the confidentiality of your personal information.
Security of Personal Information
Northeast Alabama University websites have security measures in place
to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of information.
The personal data we collect about you is stored in limited-access
servers behind a firewall. We will maintain safeguards and passwords to
protect the security of these servers and the databases of your
personal data.
We ensure that the information of our visitors under our control is
protected during transmission. Information that our students provides
us which we use when accepting your credit card information during the
online process, as well as whenever we ask you to log in to any of the
University's online student and faculty services, is encrypted via
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Software as it travels between your computer
and our servers. When you see a solid key or a locked padlock icon at
the lower portion of your browser window, this indicates that your
transmission will be protected by SSL technology. For the protection of
the personal information we follow generally accepted industry
standards.
How to Review, update or correct your information
Our student and faculty services sites provide you with the option
of changing and modifying information you have previously provided to
us. If you have created a Northeast Alabama account, You may review, update
or correct the personal data you have provided to us and / or
your student or faculty services account information by accessing
your student area by clicking here, else or in the case
that you have not created an account, but would like to review,
correct, and update the personal information you have provided to us
through this Site, please contact us by
Phone: Toll Free for US: 
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Access of Student Area
Once our students get enrolled with us, they will be granted access
to their Student Area. You can access your courses, results and
documents from the Student Area. You can even update your information
and enroll for the next course from your Student Area.
How to stop receiving any further information
You can let us know that you do not wish to receive any further
information from us by clicking the unsubscribe link in the emails we
send you, by communicating your request by
Phone: Toll Free for US:
Chat - Start a Live Chat
E-mail - Click here to fill in our Contact Us form.
Links to Other Web Sites
This Site may contain links to other Websites external to and not
owned or operated by the University. These other sites are not governed
by this Privacy Policy. When you access these external websites, the
providers of the sites will have access to certain information about
you. Northeast Alabama is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of any websites which we do not directly control, so be sure to
look for the privacy policies that govern your use of these other
Websites. (See the Disclaimers section in our conditions of use.
Notification of the Changes in Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement and any
Privacy Notice at any time and without prior notice. In case of changing
our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy
statement and on all Privacy Policy links. If we modify this Policy or
any Privacy Notice, the modifications will only apply to the personal
information we collect after we have posted the revised Policy or
Privacy Notice on this Site.
We will notify all registered students of any important changes only
in the case of a major change by posting a notice. If you see a notice
of change, please check the Privacy Policy because your continued use
of the Informational Site after we post the change means you have
agreed to the new terms and 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 Site.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is
necessary when required to disclose such information by law or in
response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority to
protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court
order, or legal process served on our Web site.
Questions about this Policy or our Data Practices
If you have questions or concerns about this Policy or any Privacy Notice, please contact us by
Phone: Toll Free for US:
E-mail - Click here to fill in our Contact Us form.
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