The University of California, Berkeley is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize access, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared. In particular, we do not re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our web servers.
Information collected
- UC Berkeley websites may collect personal information such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number(s), and/or educational interests. Such personal information may be requested by us for research, public service or teaching programs, or for administrative purposes. Additional personal information, such as credit card account information, may be requested for purchases or enrollment purposes.
- Web servers typically collect, at least temporarily, the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; web pages requested; referring web page; browser used; date and time. UC Berkeley may collect statistics identifying particular IP addresses from which our websites are accessed.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
This website uses cookies for session maintenance: they allow us to see which pages a given user visited, but do not have any identifying information about the user.
Analytics partners
We partner with multiple third-party analytics providers to help us understand how visitors use our sites. We use this information to improve our content and your experience visiting our site. In order to generate this information, these analytics partners set their own cookies. We do not pass any personally identifying information about users to our partners.
Google Analytics
How Google uses information from sites that use Google Analytics. Google does not combine, match or cross-reference information from Google Analytics with any other user information
Siteimprove
How Siteimprove uses information from sites that use Siteimprove Analytics and Siteimprove’s privacy policy.
Chartbeat
You can configure your browser to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from websites you visit. Also, Google offers a browser extension to opt out of Google Analytics.
Webforms
This website uses webforms. Contact information from these webforms is used only to send material relating to the purpose for which it was collected and will not be sold to another party. This website will only use personal information collected from this site for the purpose of communicating with individuals who contact us via the site.
Use of collected information
- UC Berkeley may use personal information collected from websites for the purpose of future communication back to online enrollees, in order to keep you informed of such activities as campus programs, symposia and/or special events, but only if you are provided the opportunity to opt out of that type of use.
- UC Berkeley may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve Web presentation and utilization. The campus also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.
- Some UC Berkeley online activity sites may use “cookies” in order to deliver web content specific to individual users’ interests or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.
Distribution of collected information
- UC Berkeley will not disclose, without your consent, personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law.
- UC Berkeley will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.
Individual choice
- Individuals who wish to use methods other than online enrollment may submit requests by email or U.S. mail addressed to the UC Berkeley organization responsible for the website. Email can be sent to citrincenter@berkeley.edu or U.S. mail can be addressed to
Jack Citrin Center for Public Opinion Research
UC Berkeley
The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
798 Barrows Hall #1950
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
Access to own information
- Questions regarding users’ rights to review, modify or delete their previously provided personal information should be directed to the campus organization to which they provided the information. Any disputes will be resolved under existing records regulations applicable to UC Berkeley.
Additional Information
- For more detailed information about requirements for campus online activities see the Campus Online Activities Policy section on Privacy and Confidentiality of Information.
Responsibility for external sites
- UC Berkeley does not control the content or information practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the privacy statements of these organizations.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a data privacy regulation. It applies to the processing of personal data related to:
- Organizations operating within the EU, even if the data processing takes place outside of the EU.
- The offering of goods and services to individuals in the EU.
- The monitoring of behavior of individuals in the EU.
The regulation is effective May 25, 2018, and replaces existing EU data protection directives. It is similar to existing regulations, but strengthens the rights of individuals and significantly increases fines for non-compliance.The above information represents a summary of a complex regulation. For guidance regarding specific situations or sets of data, contact the Campus Privacy Officer; privacyoffice@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail). Links to additional information and guidance on GDPR will be forthcoming in the near future.
How to contact us:
Email to citrincenter@berkeley.edu