Web Privacy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They help recognize your browser or device and support site functionality. Cookies may be used to remember your preferences, improve site performance, maintain security, understand how visitors use the site, or provide relevant information and advertising.

Why We Use Cookies

Slippery Rock University uses cookies to improve your experience with our website. Cookies help us understand how visitors engage with our content, remember certain preferences (such as language or navigation), and enable features like secure log-ins. In some cases, information gathered may be used to provide more relevant communications or advertising for prospective students and their families.

Types of Cookies We Use

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: Required for core functionality (e.g., secure access, navigation, or logging into SRU systems).

• Functionality Cookies: Support convenience features such as remembering preferences, language settings, or location-based content.

• Analytics Cookies: Collect aggregate information about how visitors use our website (e.g., which pages are viewed). This helps us improve usability and does not typically identify individuals.

• Advertising/Targeting Cookies: May be used to provide more relevant messaging or to measure the effectiveness of outreach and digital campaigns. These typically do not identify users by name.

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by sru.edu directly (first-party cookies). Others are set by external services integrated into our site, such as embedded video platforms, analytics providers, or advertising partners (third-party cookies). Third-party cookies are subject to the privacy and cookie policies of those external providers.

How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device

• Session cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser.

• Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them.

How to Manage Cookies

You may accept, refuse, or remove cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings. Most browsers accept cookies by default, so you may need to manually update your settings if you prefer not to allow them. Please note that restricting certain cookies may limit website performance or functionality.

Contact

If you have questions about this cookie notice, or would like assistance, please contact us at websupport@sru.edu.

Web Server specific Logs and Metrics

When someone visits www.sru.edu, internal servers automatically collect and store limited information about the visitor's computer connection to the Internet. The information collected allows Slippery Rock University to make the site more useful to visitors. Slippery Rock University does record some or all of the following information:

1. The Internet Protocol address (IP address) of the machine a visitor used to access the website. A visitors IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send data. A visitor's IP address does not identify them personally.
2. The date and time a user visited www.sru.edu.
3. The pages visited on www.sru.edu.
4. The Web browser, type of computer and operating system used to access www.sru.edu.
5. A list of files downloaded or viewed
6. The amount of time spent viewing files

This specific data does not contain personally identifiable information. Data is used to analyze website traffic and make improvements to www.sru.edu.

Google Remarketing

Slippery Rock University advertises with Google Remarketing, displaying ads across the web to users who may have visited the Slippery Rock University's website in the past or have shown interest in specific information within the site.

1. Slippery Rock University utilizes cookies to track information unique to each visitor including pages visited and past site activity in order to provide better service when users return to the site as well as provide a better user experience in the future.
2. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads on sites across the internet based on past activity and visits to www.sru.edu.

Visitors may opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting the Ads Preferences Manager. Alternatively, you may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting here.

Web Directory Services

Faculty, staff and student directory services provided through sru.edu are to be used exclusively to advance SRU's mission of education, research and scholarship for use by prospective students, parents, current students, faculty and the staff of Slippery Rock University.

Any person accessing or establishing a connection to SRU directory services is a User. Any conduct by a User that, in SRU's discretion, restricts or inhibits any other User from using or enjoying the SRU directory services will not be permitted. A User shall use the SRU directory services for lawful purposes only. Use of the directory services for commercial, political, or nefarious purposes, including any sort of solicitation, is prohibited.

A User shall not use the SRU directory services to access information to advertise or perform any commercial or political solicitation or obtain personal economic benefit, including, but not limited to, the solicitation of users to become users of other online information services.

SRU reserves the right to terminate a User's right to use these directory services and/or seek damages if the service is utilized in a manner not intended.