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Privacy Statement

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 Last Revision Date: — March 13, 2024

 

Privacy Stance 

The University of California (UC) system and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) respects the privacy of individuals. Privacy plays an important role in human dignity and is necessary for an ethical and respectful workplace. The right to privacy is declared in the California Constitution.

Thus, the University continually strives for an appropriate balance between:

  • Ensuring an appropriate level of privacy through its policies and practices, even as interpretations of privacy change over time;
  • Nurturing an environment of openness and creativity for teaching and research;
  • Being an attractive place to work;
  • Honoring its obligation as a public institution to remain transparent, accountable, and operationally effective and efficient to the extent possible; and
  • Safeguarding information about individuals and assets for which it is a steward. – UC Statement of Privacy Values

The University of California, Riverside is committed to ensuring the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Unless required by law, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared. In particular, except when noticed, we do not knowingly re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our web servers. 

 

Overview/Summary

In principle, the University of California, Riverside strives to: 

  • Collect, store and use the minimum amount of personal information that is necessary for its legitimate business purposes, and to comply with applicable legal obligations.
  • Take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information we manage is accurate and up-to-date.
  • Limit who has access to the personal information in our possession to only those who need it for a legitimate purpose.
  • Protect personal information through appropriate physical and technical security measures tailored to the sensitivity of the personal data we hold.
  • Communicate with our students, faculty, employees, suppliers, partners and others about how we use personal information in our day-to-day operations.
  • Provide opportunities to control your personal information, as permitted by applicable United States and other laws.
  • Consider privacy principles in the design of our projects or activities that involve the use of personal data.

 

Scope

The University of California, Riverside’s Privacy Statement is generally applicable to activities conducted by the University of California, Riverside that involve the collection and processing of personal information. It is meant to give you a broad overview of these activities and our approach to protecting privacy.

The University of California, Riverside is a large organization and it is difficult to provide a detailed description of all the personal information we collect and use as an institution. You can find more detailed information in specific privacy notices provided by the schools, departments, health care components, units, or groups with which you interact. Each area may have its own specific requirements imposed upon it by various commonly accepted practices, contract, laws, regulations, accrediting/regulatory bodies, and/or other sources. 

Special Notices