Stanford's SCPD recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information online.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties or share it with them.

In order to provide service to our students, we must obtain some limited personal information from you. This information may include your address and other contact information, birth date and location, educatonal history, employer information, educational plans and, for registration purposes, your social security number. This information helps us in serving your needs better when you contact us or when we contact you. We understand that you may be concerned about how we handle and maintain this information and your need to keep information private.

We protect your account information by placing it on the secure, encrypted portion of our Web site.

We only use your personal information to help us serve you, to improve those services to you, to provide you with offerings you have requested, and to inform you about additional offerings or services that may be of interest to you.

This web site only collects personally identifying information about you when you specifically and knowingly provide it. We use a technology called "cookies" to provide confirmation of your registration to access free seminars from our Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored 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. Cookies harmlessly and automatically expire within a specific period of time. For more information, please refer to the information supplied with your browser.

If you wish more information or to request changes to any of your personal information stored by SCPD, please email SCPDWebMaster@Lists.stanford.edu. Any changes to this privacy policy will posted on this page.

Policy last updated on April 12, 2006