Privacy Notice
In accordance with California law, Citrus College is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website. This notice explains the types of information we may collect and how we use it.
Information We Automatically Collect
When you visit the Citrus College website, we automatically collect certain information
from your device to help identify technical problems, ensure site security and improve
our services. This information may include, but is not limited to:
- your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- the URL of the page you requested;
- the URL of the page that referred you to our site;
- your browser's information (providing data about your browser and operating system);
- the date and time of your request; and
- information about the size of your request and whether it was successful.
This data is used for internal purposes such as system diagnostics, security auditing and analytics.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
We may also collect personally identifiable information (PII) that you voluntarily
provide to us. This may occur through:
- online forms (e.g., contact forms, feedback forms),
- signing up for services (e.g., campus alerts) and/or
- student information system updates (e.g., during registration or record updates)
This information is collected and used only for the specific purposes for which it was provided, and is protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and applicable California laws.
Use and Disclosure
Collected Information
Information collected by Citrus College is used only as permitted by federal and state
law. We do not sell your personal information. We may share data with trusted third-party
service providers solely for purposes related to college operations, such as student
services, IT support and analytics. Any such sharing is done in accordance with applicable
laws and contracts that safeguard your data.
Cookies
Our various Citrus College websites may use cookies — small text files stored on your
device — to improve user experience, maintain your session and customize content.
You may choose to disable cookies through your browser settings; however, some features
of our websites may not function properly without them.
Google Analytics
Some pages on the Citrus College website use Google Analytics and other related tools
to help us better understand how our visitors interact with our content. These tools
collect and analyze aggregated data to help improve the usefulness, accessibility
and performance of our site.
Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior in an anonymous form. This data may include, but is not limited to:
- Approximate geographic location
- Browser and device types
- Click-through rates
- Demographic information
- Interests and engagement patterns
- Page views and navigation patterns
- Time spent on pages
We do not collect personally identifiable information (PII) through Google Analytics. The information we access is anonymized and presented in aggregated reports. Citrus College staff do not have access to individual user data, and no data is ever used to identify or contact specific users.
Google Analytics and Managing Your Data
You have control over your data and how it's collected.
- You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings.
- Google provides a free opt-out browser add-on that you can install to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics across all websites.
For more information about how Google uses data from sites that use its services, please visit Google Privacy and Terms: How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps.