This Web site does not collect personally identifiable information when you browse this Web site and request pages from our servers unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide it to us. This means that we will not know your name, your email address, or any other personally identifiable information just because you browse the Web site unless you:

In these cases we will know who you are based on the information you previously supplied to us. When you request a page from our Web site, our servers log the information provided in the HTTP request header including the IP number, the time of the request, the URL of your request and other information that is provided in the HTTP header. We collect the HTTP request header information in order to make our Web site function correctly and provide you the functionality that you see on this Web site.

When we need to collect personally identifiable information from you to provide you with a particular service, we will ask you to voluntarily supply us with the information we need. For example, if you would like register for an event we will ask you for information such as name, address, telephone number, email address, credit card number to process your registration. We will use your email address to send a confirmation and, if necessary, we might use the other information to contact you for help in registration. We will also use your email address to:

1) send you a pre-arrival message summarizing your confirmation details;

2) send you periodic satisfaction or market research surveys.

We treat the information you provide to us as confidential information; it is, accordingly, subject to our company's security procedures and policies regarding protection and use of confidential information. When we ask you for credit card data, it is transferred over a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) line, provided you are using a SSL enabled browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. We also use SSL links on other pages where you would enter personally identifiable information. This ensures that your information is encrypted as it travels over the Internet. This secure mode is enabled before any such information is transmitted from your computer. You will know you are in secure mode when the padlock or key icon in the lower right-hand or left-hand corner of the computer screen appears in the locked position.  In addition, when accessing a secure server, the first characters of the site address will change from "http" to "https."

Our Website uses "cookie" technology. "Cookies" are encrypted strings of text that a Web site stores on a user's computer. Our Web site requires the use of a Cookie throughout the online registration process. Without Cookies we will not be able to keep information you enter on multiple pages together. For example, unless erau.edu/ams can remember the dates you used in your search, we will not be able to check availability. Cookies also enable us to customize our Web site and offerings to your needs and provide you with a better online experience on erau.edu/ams. In addition, Cookies are used to:

The types of Cookies that we use are referred to as "session" Cookies and "persistent" Cookies.  Session Cookies are temporary and are automatically deleted once you close your internet browser.  Persistent Cookies remain on your computer hard drive until you delete them or are otherwise removed upon expiration.  We do not use Cookies to ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with us.  Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.

We may use third-party advertising technology from time to time to serve ads when you visit our Web site and sites upon which we advertise.  This technology uses information about your visits to this Web site and the sites upon which we advertise, (not including your name, address, or other personally identifiable information), to serve our ads to you.  In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party persistent Cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser.  In addition, we may use beacon gifs (see description below), provided by our ad-serving providers, to help manage our online advertising.  These beacon gifs enable our ad server to recognize a browser's Cookie when a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to our Web site and whether a reservation on erau.edu/ams is executed.  The information our ad-serving providers and we collect through this technology is not personally identifiable.

erau.edu/ams and its third-party service providers may use pixel tags (also known as "clear gifs" "beacon gifs" etc.).  Pixel tags are not visible to the user of the Web site and consist of a few lines of computer coding delivered with the Web page.  Pixel tags are not used to collect any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with erau.edu/ams and our email service provider use pixel tags to:

It is our intention to only send you email communications that will be useful to you and that you want to receive. When you make a registration and provide your email address, we will periodically contact you via email to provide you with updates and information about special events and promotions that may be of interest to you.

This is a United States Web site and is subject to laws of the United States and the State of Florida. Embry-Riddle University will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or in good faith belief that such action is necessary to investigate or protect against harmful activities to Embry-Riddle University students, guests, visitors, staff, associates, or property (including this site), or to others. As mentioned previously, laws related to personally identifiable information vary by country.