Privacy Policy

Internet Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Santa Fe College's website. Your privacy is very important to us. Simply stated, our policy is to collect no personal information about you when visiting our website unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us.

When you visit our website, our Web server automatically recognizes only the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our website. This information does not result in the identification of your personal email address or other personal information.

In addition, we gather information regarding the volume and timing of access to our website by collecting information on the date, time and Web pages accessed by visitors to the website. We do this to improve the content of our website, and this information is not shared with other organizations. Again, only aggregate information is collected, and individual visitors' personal information is not identified.

If you choose to share personal information with us — by subscribing to listservs, sending us a message, or filling out an electronic form with personal information — we will use the information only for the purposes you authorized. Some of the information may be saved for a designated period of time to comply with Florida's archiving policies, but we will not disclose the information to third parties or other government agencies unless required to do so by state or federal law.

If you have questions about the privacy policy, please call the Help Desk at 352-395-5999.

Email Policy

Under Florida law, email addresses are public records. If you do not want your email address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.

Notice of Collection, Use, and Release of Social Security Numbers

This notice is intended for students, employees, volunteers, contractors and applicants and is made in compliance with Florida Statute section 119.071(5). Santa Fe College collects your social security number for use in performance of the college's duties and responsibilities for the following possible purposes: classification of accounts; identification and verification; credit worthiness; billing and payments; data collection; reconciliation; tracking; benefit processing; tax and scholarship reporting; financial aid processing; athletics recruiting; accreditation of programs; and reporting to a receiving agency or governmental entity where the disclosure is necessary for it to perform its duties and responsibilities. Social security numbers are also used as a unique numeric identifier in certain cases and may be used for search purposes. Federal Law requires that we protect social security numbers from disclosure to unauthorized parties. Students and employees are assigned SF identification numbers to assist in protecting their identities.

The following chart lists the college areas that collect social security numbers and the laws that mandate or authorize them to do so:

State and Federal Statutes and Regulations That Mandate or Authorize the Use of Social Security Numbers