Joliet Junior College believes strongly in protecting the privacy of users of its Web site.

When you visit the Joliet Junior College Web site, you can surf the site anonymously without revealing your identity. At times, Joliet Junior College (JJC), may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. Joliet Junior College may require that you provide your contact information which may include your name, mailing address, e-mail address. When you submit  information to JJC, you understand and agree that the institution may access, store, and use your information for normal business operations. JJC DOES NOT share or publish information of site users.

Information Collection and Use
Joliet Junior College collects information from our users at several different points on our Web site. The college is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.  We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others, or use the information in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement.

Forms
We use forms to collect personally identifiable information, for normal transactions of our business. We do collect Social Security Numbers, date of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and other personally identifiable demographic data. Credit card numbers may be collected for payment of services. Credit card numbers are transmitted to a third-party, with no other personally identifiable information, for authentication and accounting purposes.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates.

In order to improve our Web site, Joliet Junior College  uses 'cookies' to track your visit to our Web site. A cookie, which is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you, functions as your identification card, recording your passwords, and preferences. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.  Some Web pages which require authorization have cookies that are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will likely not be able to access those pages. While Joliet Junior College uses cookies to track your visit, this information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided Joliet Junior College with personal information.

Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.