This Privacy Policy supplements the Blogs@Baruch Mission Statement, the Blogs@Baruch Terms of Use, and the CUNY.edu Privacy Policy.
Please also familiarize yourself with those documents. (Especially the Mission Statement, we really like that one.)
Every sub-site on Blogs@Baruch maintains its own Privacy Policy.
Who we are
Blogs@Baruch is maintained by the Center for Teaching and Learning, Baruch College, CUNY.
Our website address is: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
User Accounts
To maintain an account on Blogs@Baruch, we collect your Baruch College username, email address, name, and Baruch College role. You may change your name and role from your profile.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
The form on the Contact page does not store your information on the server. If you are already logged it to Blogs@Baruch, your account information will be automatically filled in to provide more accurate support information. Anything you enter into the contact form will be emailed to our support team along with your IP address, not stored on the web server, and used only to resolve the issue about which you are contacting us.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Your data may be shared with the Baruch Computing and Technology Center, in order to provide technical support.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
By posting Content on this Site, you are granting Baruch College a nonexclusive, royalty free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use the Content on the Site until you remove or delete it, including but not limited to, the right to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, edit, translate, and reformat the Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
If you delete Content, Baruch College will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Site, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Informaiton
If you have any privacy-specific concerns, please contact us at: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/contact or by email at: blogs@baruch.cuny.edu