Privacy Statement
Virginia Tech Pesticide Programs has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site (http://www.vtpp.ext.vt.edu) and its alternate and alias addresses which include: http://vtpp.org, http://www.vtpp.org, http://pesticidepics.com, http://pesticidepics.org, http://pesticidelinks.org, http://pesticidelinks.com, http://pesticidetutor.org, http://pesticidetutor.com.
Information Automatically Logged
This site uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our site. This site records the browser type to monitor market penetration of various web browsers so we can better determine the Internet technologies we may utilize in the design of our pages. We use page referrer data - that is, information about the page that linked you to this page - to determine to what extent our page is referenced by other resources on the Web. These data may be used to preserve the integrity of our computing resources.
Personal Information
This site keeps information on registered users only. This information is shared between other registered users for collaborative purposes. We do not share any personal information with any third parties nor do we use any personal information for any purposes beyond those stated here. If you are a registered user, you can log in and go to: http://cherryhill.ext.vt.edu/vtpp/index.php/login to update your personal information.
The security of your personal information is very important to us. In our efforts to protect your online privacy, we use a technology called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). If your browser is capable of SSL (and most are), your personal information will be automatically encrypted, or encoded, before it is sent over the Internet.
SSL is the industry standard security protocol to encode sensitive information. SSL creates a shared digital key, which only lets the sender and the receiver of the transmission scramble or unscramble information. To everyone else, even the servers relaying the message, the SSL transmission is indecipherable. SSL encryption can only be broken by intercepting the encrypted message, recording it, and using a computer to try every possible combination until the key is cracked. Most keys range from 40 to 1,024 digits long...as you can imagine, the number of possible combinations can be into the billions and beyond!
We have also obtained a digital security certificate from Thawte, Inc., a leading provider of Internet trust services. This certificate guarantees that your personal information is being transmitted in secure (encrypted) form to our Web servers, not to some unknown or unauthorized server. When you enter a secure portion of our site (which is any page containing any of your personal information), an image of a closed lock or a solid key should appear in your browser window.
Links to Virginia Tech Sites
This site contains links to other Virginia Tech pages. The privacy practices of other pages may vary from the purposes of the page. Consult the privacy statement on each page.
Links to External Sites
This site contains links to other sites. Virginia Tech is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Cookies
This site uses Urchin Web Analytics software to track site usage data. Only http://www.vtpp.org has access to the cookies from this site. These cookies are saved until Jan 17, 2038.
Session Management
This site uses cookies to maintain a continuous user session. The cookie contains a unique ID that identifies your browser session. The session information used by this site is deleted when your browser is closed.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. Log file access is restricted to system administrators while stored on the server. Log files are rotated regularly and archived in a secure location. User and password information is encrypted before it is transmitted across the network. Users should also consult Virginia Tech's Policy on Acceptable Use. Virginia Tech complies with all statutory and legal requirements with respect to access to information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at the address listed in the "About" section of this website.
