Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for The College of Business at the University of Missouri. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web. This policy does not tell users where they can go to exercise their opt-in or opt-out options.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

College of Business
Cornell Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri 65211
United States

You may contact us by e-mail at umcbuswebmaster@missouri.edu. You may call us at (573) 884-1385.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, please address your concern to the below email address.

• Dispute: Any disputes of this privacy policy should be addressed to umcbuswebmaster@missouri.edu

Additional Information

This policy is valid until 31 Dec, 2006 at 12:00:00 CST.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 2 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Access Information"

We collect the following information:

• Request date
• Request time
• Client's IP address or hostname
• URI of requested resource
• HTTP request method
• Response status code
• HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.
• Anonymous user analysis.
• Anonymous user profiling and decision-making.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

The site's servers do automatically collect the IP address, date/time, and other information sent by the user's machine. This information can not identify a user by name.

Group "Web Forms"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

• User's Name
• User's Birth Date
• User's Gender
• User's Job Title
• User's Home Contact Information
• User's Business Contact Information
• Name of User's Employer
• Department or division of organization where user is employed

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

• Site administration
• Completing the user's current activity
• Pseudononymous analysis
• Pseudonym-based decision-making
• Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

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The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.