Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective as of October 1, 2024.

South College (“South College”, “we”, or “us”) has created this Privacy Policy to describe our practices regarding information we collect through our website, www.south.edu as well as any information we collect offline and combine in our databases. Certain features discussed in this Privacy Policy may not be offered on each Service at any particular time. Note that we combine the information we collect from you through our website, and other Services.

Note about Children: Our Services are not intended for, marketed to, or available to individuals younger than the age of 13, and individuals younger than the age of 13 should not submit personal information to us or use any Service. We do not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of 13.  When we do receive such information, we delete it as soon as we discover it and do not use it or share it with third parties.

WE FULLY DESCRIBE OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES BELOW IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. THIS SUMMARY PROVIDES AN OVERVIEW OF SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING OUR USE AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION, AND THIRD-PARTIES WHO MAY SERVE ADVERTISEMENTS AND WHO MAY SET COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, OR SIMILAR TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES WHEN YOU USE THE SERVICES. PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE PRIVACY POLICY VERY CAREFULLY. BY USING ANY SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY.

NOTE: THIS POLICY IS INTENDED FOR GENERAL WEBSITE VISITORS (INCLUDING PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS).  IF YOU ARE A STUDENT, PLEASE SEE OUR FERPA INFORMATION REGARDING DATA PRIVACY PRACTICES SPECIFIC TO STUDENTS.

Information collection/How we use your information: We primarily use the information we collect when you use the Services in connection with your relationship with South College, your use of the Services, and for sending you information from us or on behalf of certain third-parties. This may include linking you to other members of the South College community. It also includes providing offers to you based on information you provide or we collect, or your use of the Services. Please review the “What information does South College Collect? and “How does South College use the information it collects?” sections of this Privacy Policy for a full description of the information we collect, including Personal Information (as defined below), and how we use that information.

Information Sharing: Remember that if you create a Profile (as defined below) or participate in community forums and similar features on the Services, your information may be public. Note that we do not share your Personal Information with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent; however, we may share your Personal Information under certain limited circumstances. For more details, please review the section below entitled “Will South College share any of the information it collects?”

Third-party networks and analytics providers: South College does not currently host advertisements on the Services. However, we work with analytics service providers and other third-parties to provide us with information regarding traffic on the Services, including the pages viewed and the actions users take when visiting the Services; to serve our advertisements on other websites, within mobile apps, and elsewhere online; and to provide us with information regarding the use of the Services and the effectiveness of our advertisements. For example, if you click on a South College advertisement, our service provider(s) may be able to tell us the advertisement you clicked on and where you were viewing the advertisement.

Our analytics service providers and other vendors may set and access their own tracking devices (including cookies and web beacons) and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you and your visits to and activity on the Services, as well as on other websites or online services. Some of these parties may collect Personal Information when you visit the Services or other websites and services. Please review “Third-party Networks and Analytics Providers” for additional information.

Opting out: Some of the companies who serve these targeted ads participate in a self-regulatory program that allows you to opt-out of having information about you used for this purpose, and you may access that opt-out by emailing privacy@south.edu. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads while online. Please review the section entitled “How can I opt- out of sharing, providing, or receiving certain information?” for more details on opting out generally.

The Services may collect “Personal Information” (which is information that can reasonably be used, alone or in combination with other reasonably available information, to identify or contact a specific individual). Personal Information includes, but is not limited to, your name, email address, phone number, physical address or zip code, account information (such as a password or other information that helps us confirm that it is you accessing your account) and demographic or other information (such as your gender, age, or birthdate), and information about your interests and preferences. Any information combined with Personal Information will be treated as Personal Information. Please note that if you access the Services via Single Sign On through a college or other account, the Personal Information collected by South College may vary.

More specifically, South College collects the following information through its online inquiry form:

Please note that this list does not include information collected during the application process. If you choose to submit an application at enroll.south.edu, additional Personal Information, including your social security number, will be collected.

Third parties may provide us with information about you. For example, if you are on a third-party website, and you opt-in to receive information from us, that third party will forward information about you to us so that we may contact you as requested.

The Services may permit interactions between the Services and a third-party website or service, such as enabling you to “like” a product within our Services or “share” content to other websites. If you choose to “like” or “share” content or to otherwise post information from or via the Services to a third-party website, feature, or application, that information may be publicly displayed, and the third-party website may have access to information about you and your use of our Services. Similarly, if you publicly post information on a third-party platform that references South College or one of the Services, your post may be published on our Services in accordance with the terms of that third party. These features may collect your IP address or other Device Identifier, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie or pixel to enable the third-party feature to function properly. Third-party features and applications are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy(ies) of the company(ies) providing it.

To the extent permissible by law, we also may supplement the information we collect with outside records from third parties in order to provide you with information, services, or goods you have requested, to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you, and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information we collect through the Services. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to the combined information.

Like other websites and online services, we and our analytics providers, vendors, and other third-party service providers may automatically collect certain “Usage Information” whenever you access and use the Services, including, without limitation, by viewing information about a course or department/school, exploring academic programs and co-curricular opportunities in a department/school, exploring career options,, asking or answering questions, viewing another user’s Profile, sending a message, searching for a person or information, or by clicking on an advertisement.

Usage Information may include the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement that referred you to our Services (if applicable), the search terms you entered into a search engine that lead you to our Services (if applicable), all of the areas within our Services that you visit (including information about any ads you may view), and the time of day you used the Services, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to tell you about people or events nearby, to provide special offers, to serve advertisements, to select appropriate content to display to you, and to enhance or otherwise improve the Services and our products.

In addition, we automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for any computer, mobile phone, or other device (any, a “Device”) you may use to access the Services. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access a Service, and our servers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Some mobile service providers may also provide us or our third-party service providers with information regarding the physical location of the Device used to access a Service, internet service provider (ISP), date and time of your visit, browser language, browser type, referring and exit pages and URLs, amount of time spent on particular pages, which parts of our Services you use, which links you click, search terms, operating system, traffic and related statistics, keywords, and/or other general browsing or usage data. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.

1. Cookies:  Our Services may utilize Cookies to improve your current and future experience by allowing us to understand your usage of our Services. For example, cookies help our systems recognize you if you return to our Services shortly after exiting them. Cookies are small text files stored on your computer that allow us to personalize the content of our Services during a particular browsing session (a “session” cookie) or a future browsing session (a “persistent” or “permanent” cookie). “Session” cookies are temporarily stored on your hard drive and only last until they expire at the end of your browsing session. “Persistent” or “permanent” cookies remain stored on your hard drive until they expire or are deleted by you. Local stored objects (or “flash” cookies) are used to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on a website. First-party cookies are set by the website you’re visiting, and they can only be read by that site. Third-party cookies are set by a party other than that website. Cookies can be turned off via your browser settings if you so choose. However, if you turn your cookies off, some features of our Services may not function properly. In our Products, we use local storage to help remember your settings and account configuration.

2. Third-Party Web Plugins: We utilize a third-party software plugin on our website that tracks and aggregates deidentified usage information. This information is used to help improve the overall quality and experiences of our Services. Information remains anonymized and is not tied to Personal Information.

3. Web Beacons:  We, as well as our affiliate program partners, service providers, and other third- parties, may employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons/web bugs) that help us better manage content on our Services by informing us of what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of web users for our affiliate program. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. This information is used to help improve the overall quality and experience of our Services. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ Personal Information.

4. An Embedded Script:  This programming code is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded  onto your computer or other device from our server or a third-party service provider and is deactivated or deleted when you disconnect from the Services.

In addition, we may use a variety of other technologies that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes.

5. Flash & HTML5:  We use Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content, information, and preferences. Third-parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML 5 & Flash to collect and store information.

Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. To manageFlash LSOs please click here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

6. Other Third-Party Technologies: Some third parties may use automated data collection technologies to collect information about you when you browse the Internet. The information they collect about your online browsing activities over time and across different websites and other online services may be associated with your personal information and used to provide you with targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about targeted content, you should contact the responsible party directly or consult their privacy policies.

We may from time to time contract with third-party vendors to work on our behalf to provide ads to our customers via the Internet or to send direct mail to customers whom we think may be interested in our College. In order to do so, these third parties may collect information concerning visitors to our websites using JavaScript software code and “cookies.” A “cookie” is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser or mobile device by websites, mobile apps, and advertisements that you access or use. This “cookie” is stored on your computer or mobile device and helps websites and mobile apps to remember things about you to improve your experience with the website. Our vendors may then connect the information that they collect from our website using “cookies” to other sources of information, which may include your name and mailing address, for the purpose of sending you direct mail promotions. By using this site, you consent to these activities, including information collection by our vendors. If you do not wish for cookies to be placed on your computer, most web browsers permit you to prevent that from taking place. Additionally, information about opting out of cookie-based advertising can be found via the following links – https://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/ and https://privacychoices.home.neustar/?t=213550604753001042559#/login. However, please keep in mind that cookies and similar technologies are an important part of how the website works; removing, rejecting, or limiting the use of cookies or other similar technologies might affect the availability and functionality of the website. To opt-out of receiving our direct mail or other information, you may send us an email at privacy@south.edu,  or send a written request to Privacy Policy, South College 3904 Lonas Drive Knoxville, TN 37909. We will honor those requests, but please understand that it may take up to 21 days for such mailings to end.

Most web browsers are set by default to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to refuse all or some types of cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent by website tracking technologies and advertising. You may adjust your browser settings to opt out of accepting a “persistent” cookie and to only accept “session” cookies, but you will need to log in each time you want to enjoy the full functionality of the Services.

Please be aware that, if you decline the use of cookies, you may not have access to the full benefits of the Services, and certain features of the Services may not work properly. In addition, adjusting the cookie settings on the Site may not fully delete all of the cookies that have already been created. To delete them, visit your web browser settings after you have changed your cookie settings. Additional information is provided below about how to disable cookies or manage the cookie settings for some commonly used web browsers:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac and https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

For more information on how to modify your browser settings to block or filter cookies, visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/. You may learn more about internet advertising practices and related consumer resources at http://www.aboutads.info/consumers/, http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices and http://youronlinechoices.eu/.

Please note that your browser setting may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal to websites and online service you visit. DNT is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. However, we do not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals, as the internet industry is still working to determine what DNT means, how to comply with DNT, and how to create a common approach to responding to DNT. To find out more about “Do Not Track”, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

We may use information about you, including Personal Information, that you provide in your Profile, User Content, and Usage Information to:

Note that we may create, facilitate, or display social advertisements, whereby your name and photo may be used to advertise products and services to your network based on your use of the Services and your interactions with South College and third parties through the Services (a “Social Ad”). If we are utilizing Social Ads on one of our Services, you will be able to opt-out through your account settings for that Service.

Please note that information submitted on the Services via a “Contact Us” or other similar function may not receive a response. We may use the information provided via these functions to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request.

Except as set out in Section 5 (“How does South College work with third parties?”), South College does not share your Personal Information with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent and in compliance with applicable laws. South College may share non-Personal Information, such as aggregate or de-identified user statistics, demographic information, and Usage Information with third parties, including advertisers, content providers, and analytics providers; and third parties may collect non-Personal Information when you visit the Services.

We also may share your Personal Information with third parties with your consent (if permissible under applicable law), as disclosed at the time you provide us with information, and as described below or otherwise in this Privacy Policy:

We work with other colleges, universities, scholarship providers, and educational institutions (“Educational Institutions”) to help guide students through the educational journey – exploring, learning, planning, and collaborating, as well as extract insights from across various siloes. We do not share your contact information (email address, full postal address, or phone number) with these Educational Institutions without your consent, but we may send you information on their behalf.

In addition, you may indicate that you would like to receive additional information from Educational Institutions or other third parties and we will then share your information with those parties so that they may contact you per your request. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that party directly.

In compliance with all applicable laws, we may offer opportunities and features through the Services that are brought to you by a third-party or that otherwise involve sharing your information with a third-party. If you request or agree at that time to have your information shared, your information will be disclosed to that third-party (or parties) and will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of that third-party.

This includes, without limitation, instances in which you use our Services to purchase products or services provided, in whole or part, by third parties. You also may request, sometimes through your use of an interactive feature, a widget or third-party application, that we share information about you with a third-party and we will typically do so under those circumstances.

We will share your Personal Information with third parties to provide services to us or you in connection with the Services, but subject to confidentiality obligations which limit their use and disclosure of such information. For example, we may provide your Personal Information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities, such as shipping your order, sending our emails, or offering customer service. If you purchase any products or services, our billing partner will receive billing and financial information (e.g., credit card numbers) necessary to process your charges, including your postal and e-mail addresses, depending on your payment method.

We may also disclose your information, including Personal Information, in response to a legal inquiry or case, subpoena, court order, request from an educational agency, or when otherwise required by law; in response to bankruptcy proceedings; to defend our rights; in response to a request from law enforcement; or to provide  information to a claimed owner of intellectual property who claims that content you have provided to us infringes on their rights; as necessary in connection with to an investigation into academic integrity; to protect and/or defend any applicable Terms of Use or other policies applicable to the Services; or to protect the personal safety, rights, property, or security of any organization or individual.

We may also use Device Identifiers, including IP addresses, to identify users and may do so  in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers, or legal/ law enforcement agencies in our discretion. These disclosures may be carried out without your consent or without notice to you.

South College may share Personal Information with its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates, and investors    primarily for business and operational purposes so long as any recipient agrees to comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable law with regard to such Personal Information. In the event that South College goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, sale of all or a portion of its assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process, your information, including Personal Information, will likely be among the assets transferred.

You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on Services of any completed change  in ownership or uses of your Personal Information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your Personal Information. Email notices will be provided to the email South College has on file for you. You are responsible for updating your email if there are any changes. This Privacy Policy will become binding upon the new owner of the information until amended.

We work with analytics service providers and other vendors to provide us with information regarding traffic on the Services, including the pages viewed and the actions users take when visiting the Services; to serve our advertisements on other websites, within mobile apps, and elsewhere online; and to provide us with information regarding the use of the Services and the effectiveness of our advertisements. For example, if you click on a South College advertisement, our service provider(s) may be able to tell us the advertisement you clicked on and where you were viewing the advertisement. Further, to optimize these targeted ads on third party websites, South College shares hashed and/or anonymized data with the third parties, including data on whether an advertisement generated an enrollment, to improve our advertisements, and to find students that would be a good fit for South College’s programs. South College provides aggregated anonymized data from our online forms with third party service providers in order to analyze the effectiveness of contacts generated through the online forms. Additionally, we may utilize third parties to analyze whether individuals that click on advertisements end up enrolling at South College.

South College does not currently serve advertisements on or through the Services.

Some of the companies who serve these targeted ads participate in a self-regulatory program that allows you to opt-out of having information about you used for this purpose, and you may access that opt-out by clicking https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads while online. We may share Usage Information about visitors with analytics providers and other vendors. Our analytics service providers and other vendors may set and access their own tracking devices (including cookies and web beacons) and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you and your online browsing activities. Some of these third parties may collect Personal Information over time when you visit the Services or other websites and services. Your use of third-party websites is subject to the privacy practices of those parties. South College is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or business practices of any third party.

Certain content provided through the Services may be hosted and served by third parties, which may include third-party widgets (such as those that allow you to “like” or “share” content with third-party websites and online services). In addition, the Services may link to third-party websites or content over which South College has no control and which are governed by the privacy policies and business practices of those third- parties. In addition, third-party partners of South College from whom your order through the Services may have different privacy policies which apply to such partners use of your information.

Please also note that South College content and widgets may be included on web pages and websites that are not  associated with us and over which we have no control. These third parties may independently collect data. South College is not responsible or liable for the privacy practices or business practices of any third party.

If you use the Services through a mobile device, your mobile Device Identifier, your mobile carrier, and your physical location may be transmitted to South College. You agree that South College may store and use that information for security purposes. You may be able to opt-in to receiving text messages from South College. You may always opt-out by replying “STOP” to one of the text messages received. You also acknowledge and agree that use of the Services through a mobile device may cause data to be displayed on and through your mobile device which may be viewed by your mobile carrier or other access provider.

South College takes data security very seriously and takes commercially reasonable technical, physical, and administrative security measures designed to protect the Personal Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Such measures vary depending on the sensitivity of the information at issue.

Please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, that is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially reasonable means designed to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

In the event that South College becomes aware of a data breach impacting your Personal Information, we will provide notification in compliance with all applicable laws. For example, we may post a notice on our homepage at / or elsewhere on the Service and may send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

South College has procedures in place that are designed to stop threats that may expose personally identifiable information, restore Services to full functionality, and document and take proactive steps to ensure the incident cannot be repeated. South College will also preserve necessary evidence for investigation by security professionals and law enforcement as appropriate. In the unlikely event of an unauthorized disclosure of records, South College will follow its incident response plan, which articulates how to report the problem to internal and external stakeholders. The notification process includes any information that can identify which customers and students may have been impacted, the data that may have been accessed, South College’s process to inform affected customers, and steps to prevent the incident from happening again as appropriate.

In the unlikely event of an unauthorized disclosure of Data, South College has implemented a process for responding to incidents and notifying affected individuals and, if applicable, law enforcement personnel.

If you have any questions about security on our Services, you can email us by emailing privacy@south.edu

Providing Personal Information: You can always decline to share personal information with us, or even block all cookies. However, it’s important to remember that many of South College’s features may not be accessible, or may not function properly – for example, we may not be able to remember your language preferences.

Targeted Advertisements: Some of the companies who serve targeted ads participate in a self- regulatory program that allows you to opt-out of having information about you used for this purpose, and you may access that opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads while online.

Social Advertisements: If we are utilizing Social Ads on one of our Services, you will be able to opt-out through your account settings for that Service.

Mobile Use: You may always opt-out of receiving text messages by replying “STOP” to one of the text messages received. You may opt-out of receiving push notifications at any time by going to the phone settings and turning them off.

Email Communication: You can opt-out of receiving further communications by emailing privacy@south.edu and requesting to unsubscribe from emails.

You may be able to review the information you provided to us on a Service and make any desired changes to the information by contacting us at privacy@south.edu and requesting to access your personal information. Such requests will be handled in a timely manner.

South College sends a variety of communications via email, text message, and push notification. Such messages include academic and administrative information, notices, and alerts, as well as communication about various campus events and admission-related information to prospective students.

You may be able to limit the information you receive from us using the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the South College email. However, we reserve the right to send you information on our behalf regarding emergencies and on behalf of third parties in connection with providing information. If you no longer want to receive information from us, you will need to contact us by emailing privacy@south.edu.

South College keeps information for a minimum of five years. You may request to have your information deleted from our live databases by emailing us at privacy@south.edu.  Upon receiving a request, South College will take commercially reasonable steps to delete any Personal Information from our live databases in a reasonable amount of time not to exceed sixty (60) days.  You understand and agree that South College may continue to have Personal Information may in backup or archive records and we may retain certain data relevant to preventing fraud or future abuse, for legal reasons, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable or de-identified data, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the applicable to this Privacy Policy.

We will notify you of material changes to the Privacy Policy on our Website and/or by email and make additional efforts to notify customers of material changes that impact the treatment of data collected through our Services.

South College may update this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting. Upon any update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy will be updated. In the event that there are material changes to the way we treat your Personal Information, you are responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy and your South College account for notice of such modifications. Your continued use of the Services following an update to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

Our Privacy Policy was last updated and is effective as of October 1, 2024.

What if I am a California resident?

What if I am a Virginia resident?

What if I am a Connecticut resident?

What if I am a Colorado resident?

What if I am a Utah resident?

What if I am a Texas resident?

What if I am a Florida resident?

What if I am a Montana resident?

If you are a resident of the state of California, you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of California residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA.

Your Rights

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may exercise your California privacy rights described above as follows:

We reserve the right to confirm your California residence to process your requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to exercise your information, access, or deletion rights. As part of this process, government identification may be required. Consistent with California law, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government issued identification. We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and respond to it.

If you are a resident of the state of Virginia you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of Virginia residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the VCDPA.

The VCDP gives consumers the right to access their personal data and request that to be deleted by businesses. In addition, it also requires a company to conduct data protection assessments related to processing personal data for targeted advertising and sales purposes.

Your Rights

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may exercise your Virginia data privacy rights described above as follows:

We reserve the right to confirm your Virginia residence to process your requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to exercise your information, access, or deletion rights. As part of this process, government identification may be required.

If you are a resident of the state of Connecticut you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. However, the CTDPA (Connecticut Data Privacy Act) at this time only applies to people who conduct business in Connecticut or who produce products or services targeted to Connecticut residents and that, during the prior calendar year, controlled or processed the personal data of:

It also applies to service providers (called “processors”) that maintain or provide services involving personal data on behalf of covered businesses.

South College, as a higher education institution does not qualify as either a “Controller” nor a “Processor” as we do not sell, rent, or profit from the data collected by our website, digital or manual at the opt-in level by a prospective student nor the 1st party data collected that is anonymized by a website visit.

For further information, the following entities are exempt from the CTDPA:

As a Connecticut resident you are able to unsubscribe from our emails at any time using the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of our emails. At this time, there is no additional provision provided by the CTDPA for any further action to remove Personal Data. We will amend our Policy should this change.

If you are a resident of the state of Colorado, you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of Colorado residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information.

The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) applies to “Controllers” (persons that determine the purposes for and means of processing personal data) of personal data that:

The Colorado Privacy Act protects the privacy of Colorado consumers by providing them with the following privacy rights:

Opt-out of sales. We do not currently sell, rent nor distribute for profit Personal Information as that term is generally used; however, as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we may share certain anonymized information with third parties whose use of the data may be subject to their own policies. If we plan to sell your Personal Information, you will be notified and you can opt-out.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may exercise your Colorado privacy rights described above as follows:

We reserve the right to confirm your Colorado residence to process your requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to exercise your information, access, or deletion rights. As part of this process, government identification may be required. Consistent with Colorado law, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government issued identification. We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and respond to it.

If you are a resident of the state of Utah you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information as a Utah resident. However, the UCPA (Utah Consumer Privacy Act) at this time only applies to companies who conduct business in Utah or who produce products or services targeted to Utah residents and that, during the prior calendar year, controlled or processed the personal data of:

It also applies to service providers (called “Processors”) that maintain or provide services involving personal data on behalf of covered businesses.

South College, as a higher education institution does not qualify as either a “Controller” nor a “Processor” as we do not sell, rent, or profit from the data collected by our website, digital or manual at the opt-in level by a prospective student nor the 1st party data collected that is anonymized by a website visit. Nor do we meet the threshold of data collection as outlined above.

For further information, the following entities are exempt from the UCPA:

As a Utah resident you are able to unsubscribe from our emails and contact by South College at any time using the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of our emails. At this time, there is no additional provision provided by the UCPA for any further action to remove Personal Data. We will amend our Policy should this change.

If you are a resident of the state of Texas you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of Texas residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the TDPSA.

The TDPSA gives consumers the right to access a copy of their personal data and request that to be deleted by businesses.

South College by definition in the TDPSA provision does not qualify as a “Controller” of data as a higher education institution, nor do we sell, or engage in the trade or sell of data at any time.

Your Rights

In all circumstances, you have the following data protection rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may exercise your Texas Data Privacy Rights described above as follows:

We reserve the right to confirm your Texas residence to process your requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to exercise your information, access, or deletion rights. As part of this process, government identification may be required.

If you are a resident of the state of Florida you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, and share Personal Information of Florida residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal Information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (“FDBR”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the FDBR.  Please see FDBR narrowed provisions for those exemptions using a search engine or State of Florida website.

The FDBR gives consumers the right to access a copy of their personal data and request that to be deleted by businesses. You may exercise this by emailing privacy@south.edu and request removal of your information that you volunteered if you filled out a form requesting more information.

South College by definition in the FDBR provision does not qualify as a “Controller” of data as a higher education institution, nor do we sell, or engage in the trade or sell of data at any time.

If you are a resident of the state of Montana you have certain data protection rights. South College takes reasonable steps to allow you  to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. This section describes how we collect, use, Personal Information of Montana residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that Personal information.  For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (“MTCDPA”) but does not include information exempted from the scope of the MTCDPA.

The MTCDPA gives consumers the right to access a copy of their personal data and request that it be deleted by businesses.

South College, by definition in the MTCDPA provision does not qualify as a “Controller” of data as a higher education institution, nor do we sell, or engage in the trade or sell of data at any time.

Your Rights

In all circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

How to Exercise Your Rights

You may exercise your Montana Data Privacy Rights described above as follows:

We reserve the right to confirm your Montana residence to process your requests and will need to confirm your identity to process your requests to exercise your information, access, or deletion rights. As part of this process, government identification may be required.

The Services are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States. By using the Services, or providing us with any information, you fully understand and unambiguously consent to this transfer, processing, and storage of your information in the United States, a jurisdiction in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as those in the country where you reside and/or are a citizen.

Your rights

You may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

Access.  Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.

Correct.  Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.

Delete.  Delete your personal information.

Transfer.  Transfer a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice.

Restrict.  Restrict the processing of your personal information.

Object.  Object to our reliance on our legitimate interests as the legal basis of our processing your personal information, where that processing adversely impacts your legal rights.

You may send us these requests by contacting us at privacy@south.edu We may request information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to reject part or all of your request.  If we reject your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.  You can find your data protection regulator here.

Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including to continue providing the Services to active users you sent information to and for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at  privacy@south.edu or by phone at 865-329-7801 or contact us at:

South College
3904 Lonas Drive
Knoxville, TN 37909