Privacy Statement for TechQual+ Surveys

This privacy statement applies to the Web site of:

Higher Education TechQual+ Project
c/o Dr. Timothy M. Chester
245 Harben Place
Athens, Georgia 30606
US
310-880-7651
accidentalcio@me.com

We respect your privacy. This is why we have taken the time to disclose our information collection practices and our privacy policy. Please take the time to review this document.

Collecting information provides specific benefits to our website visitors:

• By participating in this survey, you are providing your institution with crucial information regarding the quality of and expectations for its technology services.  You are also providing the Higher Education TechQual+ principal investigators with information by which to develop general and best practices for technology services in higher education.

We collect information for the following purpose(s):

• Completing or supporting an activity
• Website and system administration
• Ensuring that website performance is adequate 
• Research and development of this website
• Research, analysis, reporting related to service quality effectiveness

The feedback regarding technology services remains anonymous.  The information may be reviewed in detail, summary, or aggregate form by the following, who share our privacy policy.

• TechQual+ Principal Investigators (see http://www.techqual.org/docs/about.aspx)
• TechQual+ Institutional Coordinators and other faculty and administrators at your institution for a list of participating institutions).
• TechQual+ participants at other institituons who use the TechQual+ peer database to compare their summary results with similar results from peer institutions.
• Other Researchers in Higher Education:  Information may be shared with other legitimate researchers studying similar questions pertaining to the subject of the service quality effectiveness of technology organizations.
• Third-party organizations that provide hosted analysis of website visitor traffic.  These third-party organizations are required to adhere to our privacy policy and the data collected is reported back to the project directors in aggregate form.  Individual traffic profiles are not recorded or reviewed.  Aggregate web traffic activity information is available only to the principal investigators and is collected in order to ensure that Web site performance is adequate.  

By submitting data via this Web site, you are indicating that you agree with the terms expressed by this privacy policy. If you believe that our Web site has collected incorrect information or if you would like to dispute any information, please contact us using the address at the top of this page.