The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination
practices for the Phonebook application which is product-managed by the
Directory Services Product Team. This group reports to the University
Chief Information Officer, and is a part of the Central Administration IT
Organization.
Information
gathering
Central
Administrative Systems may collect your IP address, HUID (as a unique login
identifier), username, pages visited, files uploaded, as well as information
about your browser type, and operating system. And, these web logs may be
archived.
Use of
information
Central Administrative Systems personnel may use the information
collected to diagnose problems, for session control, to create web page
statistical reports, to determine web page usage patterns, or to verify if
unauthorized or inappropriate access to confidential data has occurred.
User sessions may be analyzed and the data may be linked to your user
name to determine if you are a frequent user of an application.
Employees
and contractors may, under strict confidentiality requirements, access and use
personally identifiable information for authorized administrative purposes as
well as for the maintenance purposes outlined above. We do not otherwise
disclose any personally identifiable information to any third parties, except as
required by law.
Security
This site has security measures in place to help prevent unauthorized
access to and misuse of the personally identifiable information under our
control.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your interactions with this site, contact Harvard's
Directory Services Product Team at directory_services@harvard.edu.
For additional information please see Harvard University's enterprise
security policy regarding the use of information collected on web sites - http://www.security.harvard.edu.
This web site may contain links to other independently run web sites
within the Harvard network and to some sites outside the "harvard.edu" domain.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web
sites.
Changes
to this Policy
Any
material changes to this policy will be posted prominently on the first page of
our web site for a reasonable time before such changes go into effect.
Effective
Date
The
effective date of this policy: March 1, 2010