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  1. Re:Just nother dot-com wanting to ride the IPO wav on Campus Pipeline: Schools Selling Students' Eyes · · Score: 1

    Campus Pipeline's Commitment to Privacy


    Protecting your privacy is of the highest priority at Campus Pipeline. Our
    success depends on how much schools and you, the end user, trust us to deliver
    valuable services, information, and opportunities.


    How the Campus PipelineTM System Works

    The Campus Pipeline software relies on information held by your institution
    in secure campus databases. With this information, Campus Pipeline technology
    provides convenient, around-the-clock, web-based access to critical services
    and powerful tools. Our system requires certain limited information about you
    that is given to us by your institution in order to function, but Campus Pipeline
    personnel do not have access to your school records. In this way, we provide
    important functionality to your institution without compromising your security
    and privacy.


    In order to provide our software to your school at no charge, Campus Pipeline
    recoups its development investment by selling sponsor placements and advertising
    within the Campus Pipeline interface. Individually identifiable information
    about you will not be disclosed for purposes of sponsorship or advertising without
    your explicit permission.

    Collecting Information about Campus Pipeline Users

    Campus Pipeline collects the following types of information about our users:

    When you log into the Campus Pipeline site at your institution, the system creates
    a log file to record where you go and what you do within the Campus Pipeline
    system. Unless you provide voluntary personal information in the Personal Profile
    survey, this file contains no personally identifiable information, such as your
    name or student ID number, so we cannot connect it back to any individual user.
    However, to help us assess traffic and usage patterns within the Campus Pipeline
    system, the file may contain other depersonalized information such as major
    or degree being sought. (For more detail, see the FAQ on Campus Pipeline
    and User Information.)


    When you log into the Campus Pipeline system, we invite you to complete the
    Personal Profile login survey. In this survey, you can tell us about yourself,
    so that the information and features you experience with the Campus Pipeline
    system are more customized to your personal interests and educational needs.
    We may use this data to provide messages, offers, and opportunities on the Campus
    Pipeline interface that are more relevant to your own interests. We do not transfer
    your personal information to any third party unless you have given us explicit
    permission to do so. You can always edit or change the personal information
    you have provided by going to your Personal Profile from the link on "My Pipeline"
    or within "Options."

    The Campus Pipeline web platform also uses a browser feature called a "cookie."
    Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to your computer's
    memory for record keeping purposes. The cookie used by the Campus Pipeline web
    platform is not saved on the hard disk of your computer, nor does it contain
    any personal information. Its sole purpose is to identify a logged in user.


    All personally identifiable data collected by the Campus Pipeline system are
    protected using industry standard methods such as firewalls and secure socket
    layers. Whenever sensitive personal information is involved, such as credit
    card numbers, the information is encrypted for secure transmission.

    Campus Pipeline's internal policies and procedures also protect your privacy
    with respect to any personal information that you have shared with us. Our personnel
    are held to the highest standards with regards to the integrity of your personal
    information.

    How Campus Pipeline Utilizes Information About Users

    The information that we collect guides us in enhancing the features, functionality,
    and experience that the Campus Pipeline system provides. Specifically, we may
    use it in the following ways:

    We may aggregate depersonalized log files in order to assess how people use
    the Campus Pipeline interface and to understand what they like and what they
    do not like about Campus Pipeline, so that we can improve and enhance our services
    and offerings. Campus Pipeline personnel cannot tie this aggregate information
    to any specific individual's personal information or usage pattern.

    We may analyze usage patterns in the aggregate in order to select or place
    advertising to be displayed to groups of users of the Campus Pipeline web platform.

    We may use information you provide about yourself to personalize portions of
    our interface, in order to provide content, offers, and messages that are relevant
    to your interests and educational needs.

    We may act as an intermediary between you and our sponsors, advertisers and
    strategic partners. We never provide your personalized information to sponsors,
    advertisers or strategic partners unless you have given us express permission
    to do so. Instead, we work with sponsors, advertisers, and partners to understand
    the type of audience they wish to reach. We then direct sponsor messages and
    advertising to the desired audiences. In this process, only Campus Pipeline
    has direct access to your personal data and contact information.

    We may disclose aggregate user statistics as we describe our products and offerings
    to prospective sponsors, advertisers, partners, and other third parties, and
    for other lawful purposes.

    We may disclose personal information in limited circumstances to our agents
    and subcontractors that assist us in fulfillment. In each case, our agents and
    subcontractors are contractually obligated: (i) to keep such information completely
    confidential; (ii) to use the information only for the limited purpose for which
    they were retained; and (iii) to destroy or return the information to us at
    the conclusion of their work.

    We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the
    good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts
    of the law or comply with legal process served on Campus Pipeline; (b) protect
    and defend the rights or property of Campus Pipeline Inc. or the users of the
    Campus Pipeline system; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
    personal safety of users of Campus Pipeline or the public.

    We may also disclose personal information in limited circumstances that are
    specifically described when we collect the information. For example, we may
    reserve the right to publish the names of winners of contests, sweepstakes or
    other promotions after informing you of this right in the entry rules.

    From time to time, we may send e-mail communications to tell you about commercial
    offers, products, and opportunities based on your interests or educational needs.
    It is our policy only to send e-mail to users who give us permission to do so.
    In every such e-mail, we will also provide instructions on how to unsubscribe
    from these communications.

    Campus Pipeline and Children The Campus Pipeline system is directed
    to higher education students, faculty, and administrative personnel. It is not
    directed to children under the age of thirteen. However, we are aware that a
    small percentage of higher education students may fall within that category.
    We recognize that those students have exclusive rights to their educational
    records as set forth in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974
    ("FERPA"), and acknowledge that those rights afforded by that legislation may
    conflict with certain provisions of the Children's Online Privacy Protection
    Act of 1999 ("COPPA"). Accordingly, Campus Pipeline will comply with the Children's
    Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999 to the extent that it does not conflict
    with the established rights extended to all higher education students by the
    Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.


    Other Privacy Considerations


    Privacy is a serious issue in the online environment. Whenever you voluntarily
    disclose personal information online--through e-mail, message boards, or chat
    rooms--this information can be collected and used by others. If you post personal
    information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited
    messages from other parties in return.


    While we strive to protect your privacy, Campus Pipeline cannot ensure or warrant
    the security of any information transmitted to us through publicly accessible
    channels, and you do so at your own risk.

    Also, the Campus Pipeline interface contains links to other sites, which have
    separate privacy and data collection practices independent of our own operations.
    We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these entities,
    and encourage you to read the privacy policies of each outside site that you
    visit. We advise you to act carefully and responsibly online, maintain the secrecy
    of passwords and account information, and to be aware of the risks and responsibilities
    of Internet usage.

    Campus Pipeline will post all changes to this policy on this page so that you
    will know what information we will collect and how we may use or disclose that
    information. We are also available to answer priacy questions or discuss privacy
    concerns at privacy@campuspipeline.com. You can also contact us by mail at Campus
    Pipeline, Inc., 155 North 400 West, #500, Salt Lake City, UT 84103; by phone
    at 801-485-6000; or by fax at 801-485-6606.

  2. Re:Campus Pipeline sucks on Campus Pipeline: Schools Selling Students' Eyes · · Score: 1


    The pipeline mail system seems to be a pain in the shorts to administer because it actually downloads your mail from the campus POP server to the pipeline intranet when you check your mail through pipeline. its not a truly integrated webmail thing like some providers offer.

    If we could only still use pine. (waah) We lost access to that a LONG time ago. Business students don't need shell accounts i guess...

  3. Re:To Slashdot Editors!!! on RealNetworks Settles Lawsuit With Streambox · · Score: 1
    YES! LETS DO SOMETHING.

    Slashdot is great at exposing clueless or evil corporations and government agencies.

    Where are the sites actually DOING SOMETHING about it besides complaining about it? Could an audience of such widely varying opinions actually get together and become a real resource for petitioning and organizing?

    I took a step in the right direction today. I got off my ass and sent $ to the EFF. Yeah im pretty dang proud of it, thank you very much.

    --theherd

  4. 99% of your audience are not anal web developers.. on Destroying The Myth Of The Web-Safe Palette · · Score: 3

    A secretary in my office has a windows95 machine that the sysadmin never installed the correct video driver on. Her machine is set on "default display" which only displays 256 colors.

    It never bothered her that everything looked really weird.

    Consider your audience.
    Design accordingly.

    Roughly 99.9% of the general population are not anal retentive web developers.

  5. Re:No accountability on AmEx To Offer "Disposable" Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 1

    If we don't know about it then it doesn't concern us. It's that simple. If we don't know about it then they obviously aren't using the chemical weapons for anything, therefore who cares? Oh no the government stockpiles chemical weapons! oh no! WHO CARES!? Until they use chemical weapons or use my e-mail addresses to send me government SPAM, then who cares if they have chemical weapons? Hell, I could have chemical weapons right now. Would you know? NO, not until I use them to kill you. If I never use them then who cares if I have them? Its better that we DON'T know what they know.

  6. slow day on slashdot? on Copyrights on Web Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter that he "stole" his layout from linux.com ? wtf?

    Whiners. you are all a bunch of whiners. taco must be hard up for sensational pseudo-journalism today.

    At least the kid had the taste to copy a site that was nice and tidy with lots of white space.

    --theherd

  7. How do you pronounce... CLIE ??? on New Sony Palm, With Removable Memory Stick · · Score: 1

    Why does sony keep releasing products that nobody can pronounce? You think they would have learned with that... um whatcha callit... notebook...

    Is it V-ay-oh or V-eye-oh ???

    just wondering
    -theherd

  8. Re:Static Charge, Anyone? on Palm M100 "Kaizo" Hack: 8 Megs On the Cheap · · Score: 1

    and toothless hilljacks such as yourself typically make a whistling sound when pronouncing words like "special" -theherd

  9. Re:Hagelin on Voteauction.com · · Score: 1

    thats kinda a silly statement... but then you're an AC so i guess you can make offhand comments like that, and i can respond to a 0 score comment with something intelligent.. Whats wrong with a president who meditates? that sounds wonderful to me actually. What's wrong with a president with a 165iq who actually cares about something other than what the latest polls tell him to care about? Its really sad how the mainstream media jumps to call him a crank, and how many people regurgitate what the mainstream media tells them to think. this so called crank has a better platform than anyone else on the ticket. Natural Law baby... sustainable practices in agriculture, elimination of special interest influence in government, exploiting existing free renewable energy resources, real educational reforms, healthcare focused on prevention, yeah hagelin's a crank alright..