Covenant College Online Privacy Policy

Last revised 3.24.23

Thank you for visiting Covenant College's website and online services. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we've developed this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used within our sites and services. Please read on for more details about our privacy policy.

You may view, copy, print, and use content provided on Covenant’s website for your own personal use provided that:

The website's content is used for informational and non-commercial purposes only;
No text, graphics, or other content available from this website are modified in any way; and
No website graphics are used, copied, or distributed separately from the accompanying text.

The Covenant logo may not be used in any electronic or printed publications without permission from Covenant College’s Marketing and Communications Office. Please contact marketing@covenant.edu for additional details.

The Covenant College website contains links to other websites on the Internet; we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these sites. Reference herein to any specific products, process, publication, or service does not necessarily constitute or imply an endorsement by Covenant College.

To maintain the uniformity and integrity of this website, any Covenant departments or programs that wish to have independent pages on the website must be approved on a case-by-case basis. Contact marketing@covenant.edu for more information.

When Personal Information Is Collected And How Covenant College Uses Your Personal Information

Covenant College gathers information in order for us to better personalize your website experience. The information we automatically collect includes your IP address, Internet service provider, time on website, and navigation path using Google Analytics. We use this information to provide you with the best experience and information relevant to you. In addition, some demographic and geographic information is gathered via Google Analytics. Prospective student data is gathered through Slate and used for communication via email, print, and web.

Your information is for internal use only. We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about the College and these offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to our services, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about your account with us. Our communications provide an "opt-out" feature.

We may also use your information to update internal systems. This allows for seamless delivery of services and resources to you across the College.

Covenant College websites and online services may contain e-mail services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal Web pages, calendars, photo displays and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others. The information we collect in connection with these methods is used to provide an interactive experience and to facilitate participation. Within some third party services, Covenant College provides you with privacy options that allow you to alter your information and/or adjust what information is viewable to others.

Identity Theft Program
Data Classification Policy

Cookies

To enhance and personalize your experience, some of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive to store your preferences. We do not store personally identifiable information within the cookie. Using first-party and third-party cookies together is standard in the marketing automation industry. Cookies do not store personally identifying information, they store only a unique identifier. Cookies track visitor and prospect activities on this website and on landing pages by setting cookies. These cookies are set in order to remember preferences (like form field values) when a visitor returns to this site, and again to provide you with the best possible information service. Please note that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. It is our recommendation that you do not disable cookies.

Collection Of Information By Third-Party Sites

Some of our website and online services contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy policies as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Covenant uses remarketing and other online advertising means to better reach our online audiences. Through third-party vendors, including Google, Covenant is able to show ads on sites across the Internet. To opt out of Google's use of cookies, please visit Google's Ads Settings. Also, if you would like to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Will Covenant College Disclose My Personal Information To Parties Outside The College?

Covenant College does not sell, rent, give away, or loan any identifiable information regarding its members to any third party other than agents and contractors of Covenant College.

Agents and contractors of Covenant College who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Covenant College.

Covenant College may release personal information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i.) comply with law, (ii.) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii.) protect the rights, property, or safety of Covenant College, our users, or others.

We do not disclose private information about you for the purposes of marketing or soliciting products or services other than our own.

How Covenant College Protects Your Information

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. We secure information transmission, storage, and retrieval.

On our secure servers, we use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer ("SSL") technology to guarantee the confidentiality of online transactions made on our site. SSL authentication and encryption of the information that you send to us over the Internet helps protect your online transaction information from third party interception.

We never display your sensitive information (such as your full credit card number) once it has been entered. We will only reveal the last four digits of your credit card for verification purposes.

We urge you to protect your own privacy. We recommend that you do not share any account information or passwords used to access our website or online services.

Unfortunately, despite all of our efforts, there is always a risk that third parties may unlawfully intercept transmissions. This reality is true of all Internet use. As a result, we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit, and you transmit all information at your own risk.

How You Can Access or Correct Your Information

Many digital services we provide allow you to manage your personal information. Should you need further assistance, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

How Does Covenant College Protect The Privacy Of Children Younger Than 13 Years?

Covenant College is concerned about the privacy of young children and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13 years. We suggest that you become involved with your child's access to the Internet and to our site to ensure that his or her privacy is well protected.

Your Consent

By using our website and online digital services, you consent to the collection and use of your information by Covenant College.

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Consent for Collection and Use of Personal Data Required by European Union General Data Protection Regulation

This consent applies to the processing of personal data in accordance with and to the extent required by the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Pursuant to the GDPR, Covenant College (Covenant) requests your consent to the processing and use of personal data about you for the following purposes: admissions, academic programs, employment, participation in study abroad programs; marketing, research, and maintaining visa status and related records, among others.

The personal data we collect may include your name, address, email, phone number, academic records, and other data relevant to college operations. Your personal data may be shared with third-party software providers, internal units, partner schools, and faculty members as needed, all of whom are contractually obligated to keep your personal data confidential subject to appropriate safeguards to prevent it from unauthorized disclosure.

Your personal data will be transferred to and stored by Covenant in the United States, subject to U.S. laws and record retention requirements. Your personal data will be processed in compliance with applicable laws and for legitimate purposes, any record retention requirements applicable to Covenant arising from its receipt of federal student aid or other federal funds (e.g. grants), and any other applicable laws of the United States or Georgia. For data subject to the GDPR, you have the right to request access, rectification, erasure, and restriction of processing of your personal data, and the right to withdraw your consent. If you feel Covenant has violated GDPR, you have the right to file a complaint with the appropriate EU supervisory authority.

By using our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy Statement and agree to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data in accordance with the GDPR.

Community Engagement & Commenting Policy

These guidelines have been compiled to help ensure that social media accounts using the Covenant name and representing the college are managed in a manner consistent with the college’s standards, values, and beliefs. Just as we hold our in-person community to a higher standard, we also hold our social media community to a higher standard. We encourage Christ-like engagement, commenting, and connection on this page. By participating on this page, you agree to our commenting policy, outlined below. We reserve the right at our sole discretion to delete, hide, or review comments on our pages containing any of the following elements: