Rising Blazers Privacy Policy

This Web site (https://risingblazers.org/) uses browser detection to determine the browser type and browser version of site visitors. This information is used only in its aggregate form, to help us further refine our web site design. The remote host name is collected from each site visitor, and is used only to provide statistical data, specifically, the percentage of “hits” from the Rising Blazers domain vs. the percentage of “hits” from outside the Rising Blazers domain for this Web site. The pages accessed by each visitor are recorded and preserved in an aggregate form to provide us with information about the relative usage of the pages in our Web site. The web page that referred the site visitor to this Rising Blazers Web site is also recorded, and used to improve overall site navigation.

Email messages sent to the email contact for this Web site will be answered by that account holder or forwarded to another individual at Rising Blazers to be answered. Email messages sent to the email contact for this Web site and copies of replies sent by this email contact may be kept and reviewed to help ensure the relevance of information presented in this Web site and the usefulness of the replies from the email contact.

Privacy Policy Requirements

Privacy Policy

(Excerpted from the web Publishing Policy)

CYD Rising Blazers is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit affiliated with the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNTD). All UNTD web sites must provide a privacy statement on their top-level web page (also called home or index pages). Each privacy statement must identify the information collected from site visitors, describe its use, and assure site visitors of the integrity of their information during transmission and storage.

Privacy Notice

Each privacy statement must identify both passive and active information collected from site visitors and describe its use. Passive information is collected without alerting the site visitor. Active information is purposely provided by the site visitor.

Examples of passive information include:

  • browser detection: browser type and browser version

  • remote host name: the DNS entry for the computer accessing the web site

  • cookies: hidden identifiers used to store data during a visit, and cumulatively over time

Examples of active information include:

  • name of the site visitor

  • e-mail address of the site visitor

  • comments or answers to questions provided by the site visitor

Security of Private Information

Each web site at UNTD will assure site visitors of the integrity of their information, in transit and in storage. This assurance should include whether or not the data is encrypted in transit via Secure Socket Layers (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS), the positions or UNTD employees that will be able to access the information, and under what conditions that information will be accessed.

Because the university has special responsibilities to protect students’ information under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, any university web site collecting data falling under FERPA guidelines must carefully review its handling of such data and insure that its procedures adhere to the act.