Privacy Statement

The Alabama Commission on Higher Education (ACHE) respects the privacy of visitors to our website. We follow the policies set forth by the Information Services Division (ISD) for the State of Alabama regarding online privacy of information.

Web sites developed by the State of Alabama, including this site, may use cookies to carry user information from one page to another. An example is a search criterion. This information is not stored on our server but on your workstation. We do not track this information on our server. The cookies we use are set to expire at the end of your browser session. This means that when you close your browser they are deleted.

Our server tracks statistical information (through the use of server logs) to help our agency analyze the use of our site.

We collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• the name of the domain from which you access the Internet;

• the date and time you access our site;

• the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, such as an email address. We use your email address to respond appropriately. This may be to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to further improve our web site, or to forward email to another agency for appropriate action.