Who we are
Our website address is: https://omniedulab.mit.edu/.
Your privacy is important to MIT, and we are committed to respecting it.
This privacy statement applies to the main MIT website, which includes the MIT homepage at http://web.mit.edu(opens in new window) (also viewable at http://mit.edu(opens in new window) and http://www.mit.edu(opens in new window)), as well as the following top-level pages: Education, Research, Innovation, Admissions + Aid, Campus Life, Alumni, About MIT, Visit, Contact, Accessibility, Privacy, and Feedback.
In addition to the main MIT website, MIT departments, labs, centers, and individuals publish many other websites and pages outside the scope of this privacy statement, which may post and adhere to their own privacy statements. Visitors are encouraged to review posted privacy statements for each MIT website they visit.
Your personal information
You can visit the main MIT website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information about yourself.
Voluntarily provided information
In using specific features, such as web forms, on the main MIT website, you may be asked to provide additional information, such as your name or email address, that may be needed to contact you or to subscribe you to updates. In such cases, it is our intent that your provided information will be used only to fulfill the request(s) you make of us, and to allow us to contact you if there are any problems with your request. We will not share, exchange, or sell your email address and other provided personal information to third parties.
Automatically collected information for visitor and traffic analytics
Cookies
A cookie is a short identifier, stored on your computer, that may contain site-specific settings or identify you to a site when you make a return visit. The main MIT website does not use cookies, with the exception of those used by Google Analytics, described below. All features of the main MIT website are designed to work without cookies. If you turn off cookies in your browser, you will still be able to fully experience the main MIT website.
Google Analytics
The main MIT website uses Google Analytics to gather anonymous statistics. The information gathered is used to improve web services for visitors. Google Analytics uses a browser cookie for statistical analysis related to your browsing behavior on these websites. If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser, or download and install Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on(opens in new window). For more information, visit Google Analytics Solutions(opens in new window).
Basis for processing
We process your personal information collected on the main MIT website to facilitate our online interactions with you. We only collect and process your personal information in furtherance of MIT’s legitimate interests and/or to fulfill any contractual obligations with you.
If you have concerns about this privacy statement, any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at dataprotection@mit.edu(opens in new window). We will always respect a request by you to stop processing your personal information (subject to our legal obligations).
How your information is stored and secured
MIT uses risk-assessed administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information. There are reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
How long we keep your personal information
We consider our relationship with the MIT community to be lifelong. This means that we will maintain a record for you until such time as you tell us that you no longer wish us to keep in touch. After such time, we will retain a core set of information for MIT’s legitimate purposes, such as archival, scientific, and historical research and for the defense of potential legal claims.
Rights for individuals in the European Economic Area
You have the right in certain circumstances to (1) access your personal information; (2) correct or erase information; (3) restrict processing; and (4) object to communications, direct marketing, or profiling. To the extent applicable, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation provides further information about your rights. You also have the right to lodge complaints with your national or regional data protection authority.
If you are inclined to exercise these rights, we request an opportunity to discuss with you any concerns you may have. To protect the personal information we hold, we may also request further information to verify your identify when exercising these rights. Upon a request to erase information, we will maintain a core set of personal data to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in the future, as well as any information necessary for MIT archival purposes. We may also need to retain some financial information for legal purposes, including US IRS compliance. In the event of an actual or threatened legal claim, we may retain your information for purposes of establishing, defending against, or exercising our rights with respect to such claim.
By providing information directly to MIT, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area to the United States. You understand that the current laws and regulations of the United States may not provide the same level of protection as the data and privacy laws and regulations of the EEA.
Additional information
The main MIT website may contain links to third-party sites located outside of MIT. MIT is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites. We encourage you to review privacy statements and policies published by these third-party sites.
We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information we will make this clear on our website or by contacting you directly.
The controller for your personal information is MIT. We can be contacted at dataprotection@mit.edu.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) respects the privacy of people who visit our website, http://ctl.mit.edu. This privacy statement reflects our current information practices.
MIT CTL web site usage statistics provide information on how our content is used by viewers worldwide. This data will be used only in the aggregate for evaluation purposes. We do not collect personally identifiable information about any user unless the person voluntarily provides such information. For example, you might voluntarily provide email or other contact information when using a contact form on the MIT CTL website. Individual user data will never be made available to anyone nor will it be used for any commercial or philanthropic purpose without your consent.
We do not make your contact information or any other personally identifiable information available to anyone outside the MIT CTL or our service providers (who use the information only for authorized MIT CTL website purposes) unless we are legally required to do so. The information that you provide (name, and e-mail address,) is used to offer information about upcoming events or news on MIT CTL. Account information is subject to this privacy policy and will not be shared with anyone.
We do collect certain anonymous (non-personally identifiable) information to help us evaluate and improve the MIT CTL website:
- We may use web analysis tools that are built into the MIT CTL website to measure and collect anonymous session information.
- We also use cookies (see below) to improve your MIT CTL website experience and to collect anonymous information about how you use the website, but cookies are not required to use the website. Even if your browser is configured not to accept cookies, you will still enjoy full access to the MIT CTL website.
Use of cookies on the MIT CTL website
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that this website transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser when you make return trips to the site. This allows us to track your use of the site (anonymously) and to analyze patterns in site use, such as repeat visits, length of visits, and breadth of content used, for example. Cookies also allow us to conduct periodic, online, voluntary user surveys where we can gain more insight into the type of people who are actually using the site, how they are using the site, and what the educational impact of the site is on these users.
Our use of cookies is designed to be unobtrusive, and we do not collect personally identifiable information through their use. However, if you do not wish to accept cookies, the “Help” portion of the toolbar on most web browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Disabling cookies will in no way affect your access to content on the MIT CTL website.