Site Use and Privacy

Unless otherwise indicated, the content of this website and other University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) websites on the domain usc.edu.tt or uosc.edu are the property of the University of the Southern Caribbean. Any sites on these domains may also include content whose copyright belongs to third parties and which has been lawfully included in this site by agreement or specific license.

• All content is protected by Trinidad and Tobago copyright laws and, by international treaties, equivalent copyright laws in other countries.
• Users may, for their own non-commercial purposes, view or make copies of material contained on any USC website(s), but content should not be systematically downloaded and/or stored in any form whatsoever, and under no circumstances should any content be reproduced and made separately available online.
• Copyright inquiries relating to this site should be directed to the office of Integrated Marketing and Communications (IMC).

Use License

Permission is granted to all our service groups to download information and material on any USC website. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not:

• Modify or copy the materials;
• Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
• Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on any University of the Southern Caribbean’s websites;
• Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions, and may be terminated by the University of the Southern Caribbean at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession, whether in electronic or printed format.

Disclaimer

The University does not warrant or represent the accuracy, currency and completeness of any information or material available on its websites.
The University reserves the right to change information or material on any USC website at any time without notice, including but not limited to details relating to programs, courses, admissions, fees and services.

Please note the university may discontinue, vary or make unavailable programs and courses contained on any USC website at any time without notice.
It is the user’s responsibility to consult directly with the authorised officer listed on that site or the main website to confirm the accuracy, currency and completeness of information found on the site, particularly before acting in reliance upon such information.

Web links from any USC website to external, non-university websites should not be construed as implying any relationship with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by the University of the Southern Caribbean, nor any commercial or other relationship with the owners of such site.

Limitations

In no event shall the University of the Southern Caribbean be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on the University of the Southern Caribbean’s Websites.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information.

Web servers are generally capable of collecting, storing and analysing a variety of information about those who visit the site. Our goal is to keep the information collected at this website secure and to use it only for the purposes for which it was intended or to improve the quality of the web service we provide. To inform you of our policies, we provide the following detailed information about our data collection processes.

Collected Information

The University of the Southern Caribbean does not collect your personally identifiable information when you visit one of our websites unless you choose to provide that information to us. We collect the following to improve our service to our business groups:

• Internet address of the computer being used (IP address)
• Web pages requested
• Referring web page
• Web browser utilised
• The Operating System of the computer being used
• Date and time
• Other privacy matters are listed below.

Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which the information is being collected.

We will collect and use personal information solely to fulfil those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.

We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.

Questions

If you have questions about our privacy and website usage statement, send an email to imc@usc.edu.tt.