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Lanier Technical College (LTC) uses reasonable precautions to protect your privacy to the maximum extent possible on this web site. LTC cannot ensure absolute privacy. We are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties which result from any such security breach. These terms inform you of the information that LTC collects from you at this site, and what we do with it.
Cookies – small text files downloaded to a visitor’s computer where site customizations, preferences, and user IDs are stored. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information that you supply. We use cookies to help us tailor our site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service. In addition, we may use cookies to track the pages on our sites visited by our users. Users can set browsers to not accept cookies, but this may render parts of the site inaccessible or unusable.
IP Address – Internet Protocol Address – a unique number usually assigned by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) to identify computers connected to a network (either a local network or the internet, or both). Your IP address does not identify you personally to us. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our sites to the interests of our users, and to measure traffic within our sites.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) – high level security protocol for transmitting encrypted documents over the internet that prevents eavesdropping, interception, or tampering.
To apply for admissions, or personalize our website experience, you may be required to provide certain information as part of the process. We do not sell or disclose contact information of our users to third parties. LTC will not disclose any personally identifiable information collected online to entities outside of LTC except: (1) where you have given your permission; (2) where the information is considered public information under the Georgia Open Records Act O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et. seq., or other applicable laws; (3) where required to do so by other operation of law. Visitors should be aware that information collected through this website may be subject to examination and inspection, if such information is a public record and not otherwise protected from disclosure.
In order to request information and materials, register or sign up for e-newsletters, or provide comments and suggestions, we collect your contact information for the express purpose of fulfillment of the requested services. At any time, you may opt-out of any communications or services.
If you choose to request information, or apply for courses through the website, we will request information from you including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and possibly your social security number and/or your student number. Personal information that you provide via email or through other online means will be used only for purposes necessary to serve your needs. The service may involve redirecting your inquiry, information or comment to another person or department better suited to meeting your needs.
LTC can use your IP address to compile site statistics, and the popularity of its various pages and functions. LTC will not attempt to match any personally identifiable information that you provide with your IP address, unless there are reasonable grounds to believe that doing so may provide information that is relevant to or necessary as part of an investigation concerning the violation of a law or College terms. LTC may also collect information regarding the type of browser and operating system used to access this site along with the internet address from which linked to the LTC site, as well as links followed to other sites from the LTC site. We can continue to improve the LTC web site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often.
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for laniertech.edu. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption (SSL) to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
If you feel that we are not abiding by these terms, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 770-533-7000 or via email.
We use “cookies” on this site. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). We implement the scripts (cookies) onto our webpages, however, we have no access to or control over the data once collected, and processed by our partner(s). This aggregated demographic information is shared with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Revisions to this privacy statement will be posted to this location so that you will know the type of information we collect and how that information is used.
If you have comments or questions regarding privacy at laniertech.edu, please contact us.
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