Commitment to Privacy. Individuals' privacy is important to Sewanee: The University of the South. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information policy and practices.

Notice About the Information We Collect. This notice applies to all information collected by or submitted to official Sewanee: The University of the South Web sites . The following information explains the Internet privacy policy and practices that the University has adopted for its official Web sites In legal terms, it shall not be construed as a contractual promise, and the University reserves the right to amend it at any time without notice.

In addition to this explanation of policy and practice, the University encourages its schools, departments, divisions and other units contributing to its official Web pages to provide specific notices about the collection and use of any personal information associated with those pages. The following information is therefore general, and we encourage you to read page-specific notices to ensure that you understand precisely the applicable privacy policies and practices.

When you access our Web pages, the client information and the essential and nonessential technical information listed below is automatically collected -- we refer to those categories collectively as "access" information. No other information is collected through our official Web sites except when you deliberately decide to send it to us (for example, by clicking on a link to send us an e-mail). The information you might choose to send us is listed below as "optional information."

We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site For example, we may report that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.

We may keep client information from our systems indefinitely after the Web page is transmitted, but we do not try to obtain any information to link it to the individuals who browse our Web site However, on rare occasions when a "hacker" attempts to breach computer security, logs of access information are retained to permit a security investigation and in such cases may be forwarded together with any other relevant information in our possession to law enforcement agencies.

We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request. Similarly, we use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order or request only to complete that order or request. Again, we do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or request.

We generally use return e-mail addresses only to answer the e-mail we receive. Such addresses are generally not used for any other purpose and by University and state policy are not shared with outside parties.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without a clear notice on the particular site and without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment To Data Security To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online, consistent with the policies of the University and with the laws and regulations of the State of Tennesssee.

How To Contact Us Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies and practices, please send us an e-mail at Webmaster@sewanee.edu. If you wish to review or change information gathered about you via an official Sewanee: The University of the South Web site but you do not know how, the University Webmaster will assist in locating the persons responsible for that site so that you may make your request for that review or change directly to them.

REFUND POLICY You may request a refund for event payment up to two days before any scheduled event. You may also request that this payment be transferred as a gift to the University if canceling two days or more prior to an event.