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Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for The Carnegie Pulse. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.tcpulse.com. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the Web at http://www.tcpulse.com/privacy.html Users may go to http://www.tcpulse.com/contact for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

The Carnegie Pulse
Carnegie Mellon University
University Center, Box 78

Pittsburgh, PA 15213 
USA

You may contact us by e-mail at tcpulse@andrew.cmu.edu. You may call us at 801-848-4812.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

Dispute Resolution: You may use this page to contact us if you have any problems.

Additional Information

This policy is valid until 1 Jan, 2006 at 12:00:00 EST.

This policy is for test purposes only - clients will not process the policy.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 8 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Basic Information"

We collect the following information:

Click-stream data
HTTP protocol elements

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

This information is used only by tcpulse for website administration and development.

Group "Talkback Public"

We collect the following information:

Given Name (First Name)
Family Name (Last Name)
Request timestamp

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

We collect this data so that you may participate in the talkback feature of the Carnegie Pulse online.

Group "Talkback Private"

We collect the following information:

Home e-mail address

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

This is your email address which we do not give out but keep for our records only.

Group "Event Submission Public"

We collect the following information:

Content

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

This data is being requested so that we can present event information as fully as possible.

Group "Event Submission Private"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Organization Name
Telephone Number
Fax Number
Online Address Information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

We collect this personally identifiable data to contact the sponsors of the event. This information submission is optional.

Group "Polls"

We collect the following information:

HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Other purposes
Cookies for prevention of voter fraud

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

We set cookies on your machine to prevent voter fraud and use the voting data in aggregate form to present poll results. We have no means to use the cookie to track you or your vote.

Group "Pulse Scheduler"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

Content

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
One-time tailoring.
Other purposes
Most popular courses

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

The general public.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Aggregate data is used from this category to present the most popular courses.

Group "Third Party Data Collection"

We collect the following information:

Navigation and click-stream data

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Other purposes
Please refer to Google's privacy policy.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents. In addition, the following types of entities will receive this information:

Others following different practices.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

This is data that is collected by Google through their advertisements. See their privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Site administration
Completing the user's current activity
Other (Cookies for prevention of voter fraud)

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

    CP="NON DSP COR LAW CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OTPa OUR PUBa OTRa STP IND PHY ONL UNI COM NAV DEM CNT TST"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
`CP=`	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
`NON`	No access is available to collected information.
`DSP`	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
`COR`	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
`LAW`	Privacy law specifies penalties for a violation of this policy.
`CURa`	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
`ADMa`	The data is used for site administration.
`DEVa`	The data is used for research and development.
`TAIa`	The data is used for tailoring the site.
`OTPa`	The data is used for other purposes.
`OUR`	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
`PUBa`	The data is made public.
`OTRa`	The data is given to other organizations with different privacy practices.
`STP`	The data is kept for the stated purpose only.
`IND`	The data will be kept indefinitely.
`PHY`	Physical contact information is collected.
`ONL`	Online contact information is collected.
`UNI`	Unique identifiers are collected.
`COM`	Computer information is collected.
`NAV`	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
`DEM`	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.
`CNT`	Content data is collected.
`TST`	Policy is for test purposes only.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Unsatisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered unsatisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. The behavior of Internet Explorer 6 regarding cookies set under this compact policy is as follows:

	First-party usage	Third-party usage
Persistent Cookies	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be downgraded to a session cookie. Medium High: No opt-out is provided, so the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.	Low: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be downgraded to a session cookie. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be blocked. Medium High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.
Session Cookies	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium High: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.	Low: Policy satisfactory at this level; cookies will be accepted. Medium: Opt-out is not provided for all unsatisfactory purposes and recipients, so the cookie will be blocked. Medium High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked. High: Since opt-in is not required, the cookie will be blocked.

A policy which is considered unsatisfactory by Internet Explorer 6 contains certain categories of data which are used or shared in a particular manner. This policy is placed in the unsatisfactory category, because the following categories of data are associated with this policy's cookies:

Physical contact information is collected.
Online contact information is collected.

In addition, the data is used in the following manner, marking the policy as unsatisfactory:

The data is used for other purposes.
The data is given to other organizations with different privacy practices.
The data is made public.

Note that allowing an opt-out will make this policy acceptable under the Low and Medium settings, and under Medium High for first-party cookie usage. At the High setting, and at the Medium High setting for third-party cookies, all of these data uses must be opt-in for the policy to be considered satisfactory.