Northeast Community College

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to the protection and security of your personal information. Northeast Community College (the College) has established this policy and security measures described below to protect the following types of personal information that may be requested from you as you visit our websites:

Websites Covered by this Policy:

This policy applies to official websites only. This includes websites of academic and administrative units of the College that contain “northeast.edu” or “northeastcollege.com” in the URL address. Unofficial or individual websites of students, faculty, and staff should not request confidential and personally identifiable information from website visitors. You should not provide any of these types of information when in doubt about the authenticity of a webpage.

Our websites are not directed at children under the age of 13, and it is not our intent to collect their personal information. Children under the age of 13 should not submit any personally identifiable or confidential information to a College website. In the event a child under the age of 13 is interested in any Northeast event or program, a parent or guardian must contact the appropriate department for additional information.

Northeast Community College's website may contain links to other websites not affiliated with the college. Northeast is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of other sites for assurance that their practices safeguard your privacy.

The Information We Collect and How it is Used:

Northeast Community College collects information from individuals or entities when they access any College website. Information that is collected from this contact is the contactor's IP address, date and time of the website access along with the web pages(s) visited. In addition, Northeast may also collect any information that it receives from your web browser, including browser type and version, and operating system. This information helps us understand aggregate uses of our site, track usage trends and improve our services.

Cookies are pieces of data that many websites transfer to users' web browsers to enable the site to deliver personalized services or to provide persistent authentication. The information contained in a cookie typically includes information collected automatically by the web server and/or information provided voluntarily by the user. Our website uses persistent cookies in conjunction with a third party technology partner to analyze search engine usage and web traffic patterns. This information is used in the aggregate to monitor and enhance our web pages. It is not used to track the usage patterns of individual users.
In order to provide the best service to you, we ask for general and directory information on some web pages. On pages where this type of information is collected, the web page will identify the purposes for which the information will be used. Uses for general and directory information include:
- To personalize your experience and improve customer service
  Your directory information helps us to better respond to your needs and requests for college-related information.
- To improve our websites
  We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the feedback we receive from you.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  Your directory information may be requested when registering or participating in a contest or promotion, responding to a survey, or participating in another site feature. We may ask you for your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. Occasionally date of birth may also be requested to ensure you are eligible to participate.
- To provide for order processing, information requests, or account management
  When opting-in to our mailing lists by providing your email address, you may receive emails that include news; updates; related class, product, or service information, etc. In certain cases, we contract with third party vendors to execute or provide a variety of business transactions, and in such cases we will disclose your e-mail address for the limited purpose of facilitating your request to receive additional information from the College. Third-party vendors will be required to enter into an agreement with the College to not use information shared by the College for their own use beyond what they have contracted with the College to do, or to share or sell this information to other parties without permission.
  
  Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we will provide instructions on how to unsubscribe.
Personally identifiable and confidential information will be requested for the following types of service: applying for admission, paying tuition and fees, and registering for a class. Please see How We Protect Your Information below.

Release of Information:

We will not share your information with third parties except:

as necessary to meet one of its lawful purposes, including but not limited to,
- its legitimate interest,
- contact compliance,
- pursuant to consent provided by you, and/or
- as required by law;
as necessary to protect the College's interests;
with service providers acting on our behalf who have agreed to protect the confidentiality of the data.

How We Protect Your Information:

The College is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We have put in place reasonable physical, technical and administrative safeguards designed to prevent unauthorized access to or use of the information collected online. All personally identifiable and confidential data collected or processed by the College must comply with the security controls and systems and process requirements and standards of the College's Information Security Policy.
If you have concerns regarding the security of a Northeast webpage, notify the College webmaster by e-mail at webmaster@northeast.edu or by calling (402) 844-4357, extension 7060. Be sure to provide the web address (the complete URL) of the page which asked for the information when calling or writing the webmaster.

Online Accounts and Passwords

Our students, alumni, and employees are given online passwords (or PIN numbers) that are unique to their accounts. Individuals interested in attending the College will be required to establish a password if applying online. Your passwords are designed to protect your accounts from unauthorized use. You should guard your passwords and not provide them to anyone. The College will not be responsible for any lost, stolen, or otherwise disclosed passwords. College employees will never ask you for your passwords. If you have forgotten your passwords, you can request that they be reset.

Changes to our Privacy Policy:

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. The effective date of this policy was 2/3/2023.

Your Consent:

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.