Privacy

The St. Jude Graduate School respects your privacy, will use reasonable efforts to keep your Personally Identifiable Information (i.e., information that can be used to identify you) private, and will not share it with third parties, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, or unless the St. Jude Graduate School has a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others.

What information this Privacy Policy Covers

Some of a Site's functionality can be used without revealing personal information; however, for features or services related to an online course registration and participation, personal information is required. If you do not use these specific features or services on the Site, then the only information the St. Jude Graduate School collects will be "Non-Personal Information" (i.e., information that cannot be used to identify you). Non-Personal Information includes information such as the web pages that you have viewed.

In order to access certain features and benefits on our Site, you may need to submit "Personally Identifiable Information." Personally Identifiable Information can include information such as your name and email address, among other things. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the Personally Identifiable Information you submit to the St. Jude Graduate School. Inaccurate information may affect your ability to use the Site, the information you receive when using the Site, and our ability to contact you. For example, your email address should be kept current because that is one of the primary means to communicate with you.

Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to information that we collect through the Site and does not apply to information that we may collect from you through other means such as by mail or the telephone.

What You Consent to by Using Our Site

Please understand that by submitting any Personally Identifiable Information to us, you consent and agree that the St. Jude Graduate School may collect, use and disclose Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, and as permitted or required by law. If you do not agree with these Terms, then please do not provide any Personally Identifiable Information to us. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, or if you choose not to provide us with any required Personally Identifiable Information, the St. Jude Graduate School may not be able to provide you with the services and courses that can be offered on a Site.

We gather the following types of information about users through the Site:

Non-Personal Information. When users come to our Site, the St. Jude Graduate School may track, collect and aggregate Non-Personal Information indicating which pages of our Site were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks were "clicked." We also collect information from the URLs from which you linked to our Site. Collecting this information may involve logging the IP address, operating system and browser software used by each user of the Site. Although the information is not Personally Identifiable Information, we may be able to determine from an IP address a user's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.

Cookies. The St. Jude Graduate School also uses or may use cookies and/or web beacons to help us determine and identify repeat visitors, the type of content and sites to which a user of our Site links, the length of time each user spends at any particular area of our Site, and the specific functionalities that users choose. Cookies are a user's identification card for the St. Jude Graduate School servers. Web beacons are small graphic files linked to our servers that allow us to track your use of our Site and related functionalities. Cookies and web beacons allow the St. Jude Graduate School to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience at our Site. Cookies and web beacons are not used to retain Personally Identifiable Information. From time to time the St. Jude Graduate School also may use additional methods of collecting data. The St. Jude Graduate School does not provide data collected through cookies to third parties.

You should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions, in the "Help" section of the toolbar, on how to reset the browser to reject cookies. If you reject our cookies, many functions and conveniences of this Site may not work properly.

This website uses a remarketing service to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our Site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who have not completed a task on our Site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our Site. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy.

Personally Identifiable Information. This Privacy Policy serves as notice that the St. Jude Graduate School collects Personally Identifiable Information in the manner described. The information may include but is not limited to username, email address, home address, IP address, postal code, gender and year of birth. The St. Jude Graduate School collects Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to us when you sign-up for email updates, participate in online courses or services through our Site, participate in our public forums, send us email messages, and/or or otherwise contact us. To subscribe to services, you may be required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your username, name, postal address and email address. You may also be asked to provide demographic information such as date of birth, gender and educational and vocational information. The St. Jude Graduate School may also receive Personally Identifiable Information when you access or log-in to a third-party site, e.g., Facebook, from our Site. This may include the text and/or images of your Personally Identifiable Information available from the third-party site.

We may permit a limited number of authorized third parties, such as analytics partners, to place cookies through the Site to provide us with better insights into the use of the Site and user demographics. These third parties may collect information, including non-personal information, about a user’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our website.

We do not use technology that recognizes a "do-not-track" signal from your web browser.

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways the St. Jude Graduate School uses and may disclose the information that we gather. We do not share your Personally Identifiable Information with third parties.

Non-Personal Information. The St. Jude Graduate School uses Non-Personal Information in aggregate to build higher quality and more useful services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of our Site. Such aggregate information may include but is not limited to video player interactions, views of posts, views and actions on pages, assessment results, completion rates, and assignments. We may share Non-Personal Information with service providers and others to assist us with operating and enhancing our programs and Site.

Personally Identifiable Information. The St. Jude Graduate School may use Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the specific course and/or services you select, send you updates about online courses, events and email messages about Site maintenance and updates. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, the St. Jude Graduate School will not disclose any Personally Identifiable Information we gather from you on the Site. In addition to the other uses set forth in this Privacy Policy, the St. Jude Graduate School may disclose and otherwise use Personally Identifiable Information as described below.

Updates. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected when you sign-up for our various email or update services to send you the messages in connection with the Site or an online course. The St. Jude Graduate School may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.

Forums. The St. Jude Graduate School uses Personally Identifiable Information collected during your use of forums to facilitate your use of the forums. In addition, the St. Jude Graduate School may display this information either on the Site and/or in other publications. The St. Jude Graduate School may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you and/or your designee(s). Since a forum is open to the public, you may wish to select a username that does not disclose your identity when you post on the forum.

Participation in Courses. We use Personally Identifiable Information username and email address that we collect from you when you participate in a course through the Site for processing purposes, to track attendance, progress, and completion of an online course. The St. Jude Graduate School may archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you. This information may be shared with the content providers or contractors.

Communications with the St. Jude Graduate School. When you send us an email message or otherwise contact us, we may use the information provided by you to respond to your communication and/or as described in this Privacy Policy. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.

Third Party Sites. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected from third-party sites for research and teaching purposes. To the extent Personally Identifiable Information contains images of you; you grant the St. Jude Graduate School a limited, non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works, or publicly display the images and/or your likeness for educational purposes.

Disclosure to St. Jude Graduate School Contractors. Our contractors may have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products and services to us. These contractors may include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, marketing assistance, and/or content related to the operation and maintenance of the Site or an online course. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for us.

Government Authorities, Legal Rights and Actions. The St. Jude Graduate School may share your Personally Identifiable Information with various government authorities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; to establish or exercise our legal rights and to protect our property and safety, and rights and safety of others; to prosecute and to defend against legal claims; and as otherwise required by law and applicable regulations. In these cases, the St. Jude Graduate School reserves the right to raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. We also may share your Personally Identifiable Information when the St. Jude Graduate School believes it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities; to protect and defend the rights, property, and safety of the St. Jude Graduate School, the Site, our users and others; and in connection with our Terms of Use and other agreements.

Security

The St. Jude Graduate School takes reasonable measures to protect your Personally Identifiable Information from disclosure to or access by third parties. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. Please note that the St. Jude Graduate School does not guarantee the security of Personally Identifiable Information, and there is some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way to circumvent our security systems or that transmission of your information over the Internet is intercepted. Information that you post on our site or send to us in an email is not secure.

You also play a role in protecting your information. Please safeguard your username and password and do not share them with others. If we receive instructions using your log-in information we will consider that you have authorized the instructions. You agree to notify us immediately of unauthorized use of your account or other breach of security. We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, and remove or edit content in our sole discretion.is policy is July 1, 2020.

External Links

For your convenience we may provide links to sites operated by organizations other than the St. Jude Graduate School ("Third-Party Sites") that we believe may be of interest to you. The St. Jude Graduate School does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third-Party Sites without obtaining your consent. The St. Jude Graduate School does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third-Party Sites. If you choose to click on a link to one of these Third-Party Sites, you should review the terms of service and privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third-Party Site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.

Updating or Deleting Your Personally Identifiable Information

You may update your Personally Identifiable Information by logging into the Site and visiting your account page. Keep in mind that there will be residual information that remains within our databases, access logs and other records, which may contain your Personally Identifiable Information.

Opt-Out Rights

If you do not wish to receive information or other notices from us in the future, you can "opt out" by contacting us at the address indicated at the end of this policy or by following the "unsubscribe" instructions in any communication you receive from us. Please be aware that you are not able to opt out of receiving communications about your account or your transactions with us.

Changing Our Privacy Policy

We review our privacy practices from time to time, and that these practices are subject to change. Any change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our Site. We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting a notice on our Site's homepage for a reasonable period following the update, and by changing the effective date (located at the bottom of this Policy).

Protecting Children's Privacy

The St. Jude Graduate School does not knowingly collect or maintain Personally Identifiable Information on our Site from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our Site is directed to persons under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access this Site at any time or in any manner. Upon learning of the existence of Personally Identifiable Information, the St. Jude Graduate School will take appropriate steps to delete Personally Identifiable Information of persons less than 13 years of age that has been collected on our Site without verified parental consent.

Consumer Notice

St. Jude Graduate School's Online Privacy Policy

The St. Jude Graduate School provides the following information relating to your privacy when using websites in the St. Jude Graduate School domain. This privacy policy covers all St. Jude Graduate School websites unless otherwise indicated on a specific website.

Online Privacy Notice

This Online Privacy Notice applies to the information that we collect when you visit the St. Jude Graduate School main website stjudegraduateschool.org and other websites that we own or control (together, the “Sites”). This Notice describes how information is processed and the choices that are available to you regarding the use of the information you provide.

Unless otherwise indicated on a specific Site, the St. Jude Graduate School is the data controller for all information collected under this Notice. Contact information for the St. Jude Graduate School is listed at the end of this Notice.

This Notice does not apply to information collected from or about current or former employees, contractors, volunteers, and other workers of the St. Jude Graduate School as part of their employment or working relationship with the St. Jude Graduate School.

Personal Information We Collect and Process

When you access or use the Sites, we may collect and process the following types of information from you:

“Personal Information” is any information that we can reasonably use to identify you. If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), Personal Information includes all Personal Data as defined under EEA laws.

“Sensitive Personal Information” includes special categories of Personal Information (race, ethnicity, political opinions, religious and philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, health data and sexual orientation) for which applicable law provides enhanced protections.

As part of the application package, we collect Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information (name, address, contact details, race/ethnicity, demographic information, educational history and reference letters) from other schools, references and family members as part of the admissions process, evaluate applications, course registration, and to provide online/hybrid educational programs.

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy applies to the cookies we use when you visit the St. Jude Graduate School’s main website and other websites that we own or control and link to (the “Sites”).

This cookie policy provides you with more information about cookies, what types of cookies we use and how we use them. Our Sites use cookies with the intention of providing you with a user experience that best suits your needs, while concurrently allowing us to improve the design and functionality of our Sites. Cookies can be adjusted or disabled, and this policy provides you with instructions to do so.

Cookies

A cookie is a file designed to contain a small amount of user and website information stored on a user’s computer. The file interacts with the user and the website to provide a webpage tailored to the user through its awareness of information held within the file. Cookies also have the ability to carry all or parts of the information stored within the file to other websites that the user may visit or to third parties.

Types of Cookies

A third-party cookie is placed by a domain other than that of the website the user is visiting.

A session cookie is temporary, linking the actions of a user during a browser session. When the browser is closed, the cookie is deleted.

A permanent or persistent cookie is stored for a specific period and activates each time the user visits the website that created the cookie.

Our Use of Cookies

We use third-party, session and persistent cookies and similar technology to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about Sites’ usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit the Sites. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. We also use technology to remember you the next time you log in. Some of these cookies are erased when you close your browser window and some persist for a designated time. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at allaboutcookies.org.

We may allow selected third parties to place cookies through the Sites to provide us with better insights into the use of the Sites, user demographics, and to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a user’s online activities across different websites when he or she uses our Sites.

Th­­­e cookies used on our Sites may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Session. These cookies expire when the browser is closed. The purpose of these cookies is to temporarily retain information related to the user’s visit to a Site, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, and what pages have been loaded.

Permanent. These cookies remain in operation, even when the browser is closed. The purpose of these cookies is to retain information to help the user avoid retyping data.

Third-party. Third parties install these cookies to collect certain information for statistical purposes and conducting research into behavior, demographics and similar topics about our users.

Analytics. These cookies help us understand how our visitors engage with our Sites. These cookies collect information and report website usage statistics. Some of these cookies are used to see how people use our Sites, which helps us improve it.

Preferences. These cookies allow our Sites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks for you, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. For instance, by remembering your region, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news. These cookies can also assist you in changing text size, font and other parts of web pages that you can personalize. Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working.

Security. We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials and protect user data from unauthorized parties.

Some of these cookies may collect the request made by your browser to the server hosting the website which includes the IP address, the date and time of connection and the page you ask for. We use this information to ensure the security of our Sites.

Some of these cookies help make the Sites work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the Sites cannot function properly.

Advertising. We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of these cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; and, to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

We use cookies like NID and SID to help customize ads on Google websites and other online properties, like Google Search. Some uses include remembering your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser’s ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser’s website. This helps us to show you customized ads.

Adjusting Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie settings by reviewing your internet browser’s cookie options. The links below to popular browsers may help you understand your cookie options better. Typically, such information can be found under the browser’s ‘Help’, ‘Preferences’ or ‘Options’ menus.

• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Safari – iOS
• Cookie settings in Safari – macOS

Internet-Based Advertisements

To learn more about interest-based ads or to opt-out of receiving third-party interest based ads, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info or www.youronlinechoices.eu. Please note that if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you will still see advertisements, they will just not be tailored to your interests. Also note that deleting browser cookies can remove the cookie preferences you have made, so you may need to opt-out again in the future.

Blocking Cookies

Should you choose to decline or block cookies by adjusting your browser settings, may include cookies essential to the Sites. Please note that all or parts of our Sites may not be functional or accessible to you. Our Sites will issue cookies as soon you visit the Sites, unless your browser cookie settings are adjusted to prevent such an occurrence. Please review the information provided in this cookie policy on adjusting cookie settings for the browser of your choice.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We share your information internally at the St. Jude Graduate School to facilitate and manage the purposes listed above. This includes third parties that the St. Jude Graduate School engages to process your Personal Information on our behalf for the purposes stated above, such as vendors who help the St. Jude Graduate School with our marketing, application processing and web hosting. The St. Jude Graduate School may also share your personal data with government and law enforcement agencies or regulators to 1) comply with a legal process, subpoena, order or other legal or regulatory requirement applicable to us; 2) enforce our terms of use or other policies; and 3) pursue available legal remedies or defend against legal claims. Other third parties as you may so request as permitted by this and other St. Jude Graduate School policies and applicable laws and regulations. The St. Jude Graduate School will not sell any personal information to third parties for their use in direct marketing, advertising, or promotion of their products or services.

International Transfer of Personal Information

Personal information provided to us by users outside of the United States may be transferred to other countries, where data protection laws may differ from those of your home country. By providing us with your information you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to the U.S. and processed on servers in the U.S. However, all reasonable steps will be taken to protect your privacy in accordance with the applicable data protection laws.

Non-personally Identifiable Information We Collect and Process

Standard, non-personally identifiable internet log information such as browser type and navigation to various parts of the Sites, in an aggregated form, is collected for analytical purposes to improve the browsing experience of our Sites, update relevant content and improve the overall design.

Information Security

The St. Jude Graduate School takes the security of your personal information seriously. Our minimum security standards can be found at stjudegraduateschool.org.

Marketing

Personal Information you submit through our Sites, such as your name, address and other contact information may be collected by the St. Jude Graduate School for internal marketing and development purposes and to respond to your inquiry, complete a transaction for you, or fulfill other forms of customer service. You can choose not to receive marketing from us by “unsubscribing” using the instructions in any marketing email you receive from us.

EEA Data Subject Rights

If you are an individual located in the EEA only, you will have the following rights in regard to your Personal Data:

1. Right of access You may request details of your Personal Information that we hold. We will confirm that we are processing your Personal Information and we will disclose supplementary information including the categories of Personal Information, the sources from which it originated, the purpose and legal basis for the processing, the expected retention period, and the safeguards regarding Personal Information transfers to non-EEA countries, subject to the limitations set out in applicable statutes, regulations and other laws.
2. Right of correction We will comply with your request to edit and update incorrect Personal Information promptly.
3. Right to be forgotten At your request, we will delete your Personal Information promptly if:
   •  it is no longer necessary to retain your Personal Information;
   • you withdraw the consent that formed the basis of your Personal Information processing;
   • you object to the processing of your Personal Information and there is no overriding legitimate ground for the processing;
   • the Personal Information was processed illegally; or
   • the Personal Information must be deleted for us to comply with our legal obligations.
     
     We will inform third parties we might have shared your Personal Information with of your deletion request.
     We will decline your request for deletion if processing of your Personal Information is necessary:
     • to comply with our legal obligations;
     • in pursuit of a legal action;
     • to detect and monitor fraud; or
     • for the performance of a task in the public interest.
4. Right to restrict processing of your Personal Information At your request, we will limit the processing of your Personal Information if:
   • you dispute the accuracy of your Personal Information;
   • your Personal Information was processed unlawfully, and you request a limitation on processing rather than the deletion of your Personal Information;
   • we no longer need to process your Personal Information but you require your Personal Information in connection with a legal claim; or
   • you object to the processing pending verification that an overriding legitimate ground for the processing exists.
5. Right to notice related to correction, deletion, and limitation on processing As practicable, we will notify you of corrections, deletions, and/or limitations on processing of your Personal Information.
6. Right to data portability At your request, we will provide you free of charge with your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format, if: (i) you provided us with Personal Information; (ii) the processing of your Personal Information is based on your consent or required for the performance of a contract; or (iii) the processing is carried out by automated means.
7. Right to object Where we process your Personal Information based upon our legitimate interest then you have the right to object to this processing.
8. Right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing You will not be subject to decisions with a legal or similarly significant effect (including profiling) that are based solely on the automated processing of your Personal Information, unless you have given us your explicit consent or where they are necessary for a contract with us.
9. Right to withdraw consent You have the right to withdraw any consent you have previously given us at any time. If you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our collecting, using and sharing of your Personal Information up to the time that you withdraw your consent. Even if you withdraw your consent, we may still use your information that has been fully anonymized and does not personally identify you.
10. Right to complain to a supervisory authority If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to complain to or seek advice from a supervisory authority and/or bring a claim against us in any court of competent jurisdiction.

If you wish to contact us in connection with the exercise of your rights listed above, please email sjgradschool@stjude.org. We will respond to your written request without unreasonable delay and in accordance with any deadlines imposed by law. Unless we notify you at the time of your request, we will not charge you any fee in connection with the exercise of your rights.

Access and Choice

The St. Jude Graduate School students can manage privacy settings for their directory information by contacting sjgradschool@stjude.org.

You can choose not to receive emails from us by “unsubscribing” using the instructions in any email you receive from us. This will not stop us from sending emails about your account or your transactions with us.

Document Retention

We keep your Personal Information for as long as needed to fulfill the particular purpose for collecting it. We may also retain your records if legally required or to fulfill a legitimate interest.

Updates to Privacy Policy

The St. Jude Graduate School reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time. Prior to changes to the Privacy Notice, we will provide you notice, which will be available at stjudegraduateschool.org, prior to the effective date of any notice. Your continued use of the Sites after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the change.

Contact Information

For more information on how we collect and process your Personal Information, or if you have any complaints please contact sjgradschool@stjude.org.

Effective Date

The effective date of this policy is July 1, 2020.