Drake State Privacy Statement
Drake State Community and Technical College respects your privacy and collects no personally identifiable information about you unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to it. Drake State does not actively share personal information about website visitors. Personal information provided by visitors, such as e-mail addresses or information submitted via online forms, is used by the College to assist individual visitors as necessary. This assistance may involve redirecting an inquiry or comment to another College, individual or unit better suited to provide resolution.
Drake State analyzes web server log files to collect summary information about visitors to its websites. The College also subscribes to website analytics, heatmapping applications, and digital marketing platforms, which use cookies to collect anonymous traffic data. This information is analyzed by the College and by the applications to generate summary statistics for purposes such as guiding design considerations, determining successful site segments and site problem areas, and tracking marketing activities. These cookies may also record your visit to the website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed to target advertising to your interests. The College may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Because Drake State is a public institution, some information collected on its websites may be subject to the Alabama Open Records Act, or, in some instances, the College may be compelled by law to release information gathered on its web servers. Some web servers at Drake State may adopt different privacy statements as their specific needs require that they differ from this statement.
Drake State is an educational institution. At any time, online surveys may be conducted on the College’s websites. Confidential information gathered in these online surveys is used only for the purpose indicated in the survey. Unless otherwise noted on the specified survey, your answers are confidential and individual responses will not be shared with other parties unless required by law. Aggregate data from surveys may be shared with external third parties.
Drake State complies with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"), which generally prohibits the release of educational records without student permission.
