Privacy Policy

Pitzer College is committed to protecting your personal information. During your visit to our website, a limited amount of personal and technical information may be stored, such as the domain name of your internet service provider, which Pitzer webpages you visited, the time and duration of your visit, and how you interact with our site. This information is used solely to provide us with a better understanding of how our website is being used and to help Pitzer College make future improvements for our visitors. This information is never used to identify you.

Privacy Information

Personal information is collected and stored only when provided —for example, if you fill out and submit a web form or email us your personal information. Pitzer College takes reasonable precautions to keep information secure. It is never shared with any other organization, except as required by law or in those cases in which we have engaged an organization to provide services on behalf of the College. In the latter case, Pitzer College vendors are required to keep information confidential and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.

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Pitzer College may store small amounts of information on your computer through the use of cookies. Our website does not require that you grant us the right to store cookies on your computer. If you do not want cookies on your computer, consult the documentation provided with your web browser or privacy add-on/extension to turn off the “accept cookies” feature.

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Pitzer College provides links to other websites that contain information of interest to our community. We take no responsibility for and exercise no control over the views or accuracy of the information contained on third-party websites. If you wish to link from your website to any portion of ours, you may do so without asking permission.

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Pitzer College ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when you visit our website or interact with us in any other way.

Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of personal data about you, depending on how you interact with our website:

  • Identity Data: name, username or similar identifier
  • Contact Data: address, email address, and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data: internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data: information about how you use our website, products, and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.

How We Collect Your Data

You directly provide Pitzer College with most of the data we collect.  We collect data and process data when you:

  • Register online, request more information, submit an application, or place an order for any of our products or services.
  • Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our messaging platforms, social media, or via email.
  • Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
    • What are cookies?
      • Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. 
    • What types of cookies do we use?
      • A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.  These cookies provide functionality that recognizes you to provide (such as what language you prefer) and cookies that collect information about how you used the website (for advertising and quality assurance purposes).
    • You can set your browser to not accept cookies or remove the cookies yourself, however some websites features may not function as a result.

How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To provide you with information, products, and services that you request from us.
  • To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our services, terms, or privacy policy.
  • To administer and protect our institution and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
  • To measure or understand the effectiveness of the content we serve to you.

Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Data Protection Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Access: You have the right to request access to your personal data and to request information about how it is processed.
  • Correction: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
  • Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Data Portability: You have the right to request the transfer of your personal data to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

Privacy Policies of other websites

The Pitzer College website contains links to other websites.  Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website you should review their privacy policy.

Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page.  Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Notice.  This notice was last reviewed: October 2024

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our data protection practices, please contact us at:

help@big5vn.com  |  (909) 607-3065  |  1050 N. Mills Ave. Claremont, CA 91711

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We improve our site by using Microsoft Clarity to see how you use our website. By using our site, you agree that we and Microsoft can collect and use this data. 

We partner with Microsoft Clarity to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization and fraud/security purposes. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.