Privacy Policy

Privacy and Sharing of Personal Information

This Privacy Policy explains how North Florida College (College) collects, uses and discloses personal information of its students, prospective students, alumni, and/or visitors to its website at www.nfc.edu.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Information collected directly from you:
We may collect personal information directly from you, for example through a web form, during an online or in-person application submission, while making an appointment with a College representative, while meeting with a College representative, while setting up an account with us, when you contact us for support, or at a College event. Personal information we collect directly from you may include first and last name, address, date of birth, email address, and phone number.

Information collected from your device:
Our website may use tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information from your device, including for example your IP address, browser and operating system information, geographic location, referring website address, and other information about how you interact with the website. Our website may also use cookies to personalize your experience and enable certain features. You may disable cookies in your web browser however parts of our website may not function properly. More information about blocking and deleting cookies is available at http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Our email campaigns may also use tracking technologies such as web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and email engagement statistics.

Information collected from our advertising partners:
We may collect personal information about you from our advertising partners. Personal information we collect from our advertising partners may include your demographic information, website history, and geographic location.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use information collected directly from you to provide you with service and support for College degrees and programs, deadlines, or events and other relevant information. We may also use this information to market College degree and certificate program offerings and services to you, including by email and text message subject to your consent.

We use information collected automatically from your device to provide our website to you, to optimize our website, and to assist with our advertising and marketing efforts.

We may also use information collected from you and information collected from your device to send you reminders if you began an online application and did not complete the application, or if you completed your application but did not register for courses.

We use information collected from our advertising partners to market College degrees and programs, services, deadlines, or events to you.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use third-party service providers to assist us with providing and marketing our products and services to you and we may share your information with such third parties for these limited purposes.

We use myEmma for our email marketing and text message communications. For more information about how we may use your information with myEmma and the information that may be collected through our email campaigns, see myEmma’s Data Subject Rights available at https://help.myemma.com/s/article/Data-Subject-Rights and Privacy Resources here https://help.myemma.com/s/article/Privacy-Resources.
We use Google to help us understand how visitors interact with our website. Google uses and processes your information in accordance with its privacy policy available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
We use Ellucian to provide our online application. Ellucian uses and processes your information in accordance with its privacy policy available at https://www.ellucian.com/privacy.
We use PayPal as our payment processor. PayPal uses and processes your payment information in accordance with its privacy policy available at https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full.
We may also share your personal information if necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS

If you wish to unsubscribe from our email campaigns, please click on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email sent from us.

If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply STOP, QUIT, CANCEL, OPT-OUT, or UNSUBSCRIBE to any text message sent from us. For more information, see our Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions.

For more information, see our Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions.

WEBSITE TRACKING AND RETARGETING

When you visit NFC’s website, information on the date, time and pages you visited is gathered in addition to your Internet domain and IP address. The collection of this information does not result in the release or identification of your personal email address or other personal information. The information NFC gathers through website tracking and analytics is used as part of its remarketing efforts. When you visit other websites, you may see advertisements related to NFC. These advertisements are managed by third-party vendors who utilize the website analytics and cookies we collect to serve you advertisements based on your visit(s) to NFC’s website.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, or to request that your personal information be corrected or deleted. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at 850-973-1613 or email [email protected].

CHANGES TO THE THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review it frequently.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at 850-973-1613 or email [email protected].

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North Florida College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate and baccalaureate degrees. North Florida College also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of North Florida College may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website (www.sacscoc.org).

North Florida College is dedicated to the concept of equal opportunity and access to all programs and activities. In accordance with federal and state laws, and College policy, NFC does not discriminate in any of its policies, procedures or practices on the basis of age, color, gender, sex, religion, ethnicity, national origin, race, marital status, genetic information, pregnancy, physical or mental disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Inquiries or complaints regarding equity issues of any nature may be directed to Denise Bell, Equity Coordinator, 325 NW Turner Davis Drive, Madison, FL 32340, Telephone 850-973-9481 or email [email protected].

If you have feedback or concerns related to the accessibility of any content on this website, or have ideas or comments that would help us improve the accessibility and usability of our website, please contact College Advancement at [email protected] or phone 850-973-1613. If applicable, please include the web address or URL and the specific problems you have encountered.