The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is committed to protecting visitor and prospective student privacy and developing technology that gives them the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences site and governs data collection and usage. By using the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences site, the user consents to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Personal Information

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences collects personally identifiable information, such as email addresses, names, home or work address or telephone number, when a user chooses to complete any form on the website (e.g. events or request for information). The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to users, such as ZIP codes, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about user’s computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. This information can include: IP addresses, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service and to provide general statistics regarding use of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences does not read any of your private online communications.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share user information. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences family of Web sites.

Use of Personal Information

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences collects and uses personal information to operate the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Web site and deliver the services requested. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and its affiliates (marketing and promotions). The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences may also contact users via surveys to conduct research about opinions of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences may, from time to time, contact users on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to them. In those cases, user’s unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send emails or postal mail, provide customer support or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using personal information except to provide these services to the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without the user’s explicit consent.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, in order to determine what the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Web sites will disclose personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences or the public.

Use of Cookies

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Web site use “cookies” to help personalize the user’s online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on the user’s hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to computers. Cookies are uniquely assigned to the user, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to the user.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save the user time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that a user has returned to a specific page. For example, if the user personalizes the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences pages, or register with the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences site or services, a cookie helps the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences to recall their specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses and so on. When the user returns to the same the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Web site, the information previously provided by the user can be retrieved, so they can easily use the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences features that they customized.

Users have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but users can usually modify their browser setting to decline cookies if preferred. If the user chooses to decline cookies, they may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences services or Web sites when they visit.

Security of Personal Information

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences secures every user’s personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences secures the personally identifiable information provided by the user on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences encourages users to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is protecting user information.

Contact Information

The School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences welcomes comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If there are beliefs that the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences has not adhered to this Statement, please contact the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at support@shrs.pitt.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

Updated December 3, 2024