Privacy Statement
Overview/Purpose
Butler University is a not-for-profit educational institution
domiciled in the State of Indiana. The University exists to
provide the highest quality of liberal arts and professional
education and to integrate the two by creating and fostering a
stimulating intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue
and inquiry among faculty, staff and students.
Butler University is committed to protecting the privacy of its
constituents.
Information Gathered
Butler University websites may collect personal information such
as your name, address, email address, telephone number(s) and
password(s). Additionally, credit card or other personal
information may be requested for selected activities such as
purchases, donations or registration.
Security
Butler University is committed to ensuring that your information
is secure. To protect the privacy of your data and others, we
have taken important environmental, electronic and managerial steps
to safeguard and secure the information.
Distribution of Collected Information
Information gathered will only be used for purposes consistent
with the University mission. Butler will not share
personal information about you with unaffiliated third parties for
use in marketing their products and services.
Butler does work with select third parties to accomplish its
mission. We may disclose information about you as necessary
to fulfill those third-party service agreements. For example, we
may disclose information about you to assist us in servicing or
maintaining your account with us. These third parties must agree to
use the information only for the services requested by the
university.
We may also disclose information about you to governmental
entities when required under law or in response to subpoenas.
Lastly, we may disclose your personal information to other
organizations when you specifically request us to do so, such as in
a transcript request.
Links
While using the Butler website, you may encounter links to the
web pages of organizations not directly affiliated with
Butler. Butler does not control the content or information
practices of external organizations or the information they may
collect. We recommend you review the privacy statements of
these organizations. Please keep in mind also that, whenever
you voluntarily disclose personal information online-for example,
on a social network site shared by many individuals or in a chat
area-that information can be collected and used by others who also
have access to that service. In short, if you post personal
information online that is accessible to other members of an
organization, we cannot control others' use of that
information.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by the web browser,
often used to remember information about preferences and pages you
have visited. By setting preferences in your browser, you can
refuse to accept cookies, disable cookies and remove cookies from
your computer; however, that may affect the functioning of the
sites you visit.
Username & Password
The university may assign you a username and password to permit
access to selected sites. You are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password.
You must immediately notify the university of any
unauthorized use of your username and password. Whenever you
provide personal information via a web transaction, you should sign
out of the web site and close your browser at the end of each
session.
Alternative to Web Site Transactions
Butler web sites provide access to information and services for
constituents that may not have a formal relationship with the
University as a student or employee. If you are neither a
student nor employee and prefer not to provide any information
online, we invite you to cancel the transaction and contact the
administrative unit responsible for the service to conduct the
business in person, by mail or by telephone.
Consent
Your use of our services and Web site indicates your acceptance
of the terms and conditions of use. In addition to the terms of
this Privacy Statement, all pertinent, non-conflicting provisions
of the Student Handbook, Employee Handbook, Faculty Handbook,
Computer Use Policies, and the My.Butler Terms & Conditions
apply to your use of Butler's websites. If you do not agree
to these terms, please discontinue your use of our sites.
This Policy
Butler University's Privacy Statement is available on our web
site or a hardcopy may be requested via telephone or mail.
Our Privacy Statement may, from time to time, change, and we invite
you to periodically review it to ensure your familiarity with the
most recent version.
For more information regarding this Privacy Statement or use of
Butler's web sites, contact the Information Technology Help Desk at
317-940-HELP (4357), send an email to helpdesk@butler.edu or
contact the campus main number at (800) 368-6852.