Privacy Policy

Acceptable Use Policy: The Department of Computer Science's electronic directory is provided solely for the information of the Princeton University community and those attempting to reach a specific individual. Any solicitation of business, information, contributions or other response from individuals listed in this directory by mail, e-mail, telephone or other means is forbidden. This directory cannot be duplicated, sold or distributed in any manner without explicit permission from Princeton's Office of the President.

Privacy Policy:

Types of information collected on www.cs.princeton.edu:

  1. Information Collected From All Visitors
    1. Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:
      1. Type of user agent (web browser) used, software manufacture and version number.
      2. Type of operating system
      3. Screen colors (color processing ability of the users screen)
      4. Javascript support
      5. Flash version
      6. Screen resolution
      7. Network location and IP address
        1. Can include country, city, state, region, county, or any other geographic data.
        2. Hostname
        3. Bandwidth (internet connection speed)
        4. IP address anonymization is enabled in Google Analytics (more information can be found here)
      8. Time of visit
      9. Pages visited
      10. Time spent on each page of the website
      11. Referring site statistics
        1. The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
        2. Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)
      12. This data is primarily used to optimize our website for our visitors
      13. This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as:
        1. Names
        2. Phone Numbers
        3. Email Addresses
        4. Mailing Addresses
        5. Social Security Numbers
        6. Bank Account Numbers
        7. Credit Card Information
      14. Google's privacy policy can be found here.