Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is firmly committed to maintaining appropriate data privacy; our data gathering and dissemination are governed by state and federal laws, including the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13.

The following discloses our data practices policy for this web site: http://www.firecenter.mnscu.edu.

For security purposes and to ensure that the web site remains available to all users, we use software to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Online Forms

On our feedback and links forms, we ask for contact information such as name and email address so that we may respond to your questions or comments if necessary. The information that you provide may be classified as private by law. You are not legally required to provide this information, but if you do not supply this information on a feedback links form, we will be unable to contact you.

The information you provide will be available to MnSCU Fire/EMS/Safety Center staff to allow them to perform their work-related duties.

Server Logs

We store only the following information:

• the IP address from which you access the internet
• the date and time you visit our site
• the internet address of the web site from which you direct-linked to our site
• the web pages on our site that you visit
• the browser you use to access our site

We use this information to determine the number of visitors to the site and to different sections of the site, to monitor system performance, to assess technical design requirements, and to design our site to support our users' needs. We only analyze the above information in aggregate; we cannot and do not use the information in our server logs to identify an individual.

If you wish to visit our site anonymously, there are services for this available on the internet. For more information, search for "anonymous web surfing" using your favorite internet search engine or directory.

Cookies

Cookies are a mechanism that allows a web server to store and retrieve information about a user on the user's computer. Web sites sometimes use cookies to "remember" information about a user, such as login ID or user preferences. Cookies cannot be used to identify individuals, only machines.

We do not use cookies, nor do we plan to do so.

Other Web Sites

MnSCU Fire/EMS/Safety Center is not responsible for the privacy or integrity of any data or personal information that you submit on another web site that may be accessed through a link from our site.

How to Contact MnSCU Fire/EMS/Safety Center

Requests for data collected on this web site will be dealt with in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13 and other applicable laws. If you have any questions about this privacy statement, this web site's data practices, or your dealings with this site, contact:

MnSCU Fire/EMS/Safety Center
1450 Energy Park Dr.
St.Paul, MN 55108
Phone: (651) 649-5454

Revised March 12, 2002