COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy explains the different types of Cookies used on BROWARD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, INC.’s Site (“BIU”, “we”, “our”) and how you can control them.  We may change this Cookie Policy at any time: please take a look at the “last modified” legend at the bottom of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. 

By using or registering on BIU’s Site, you are agreeing to this Cookie Policy and expressly consent to information handling practices and storage and access of Cookies as described in this policy.

We hope that this policy helps you understand, and feel more confident about, our use of Cookies.  If you have any further queries, please contact us at [[email protected]].

1. What Is a “Cookie”?

Like many other institutions, we and/or our third party providers use cookies to recognize you as you use or return to our Site. This is done so that we can personalize and enhance your browsing and shopping experience. 

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device.  They are widely used in order to make websites and software applications work, or work in a better, more efficient way.  For example, cookies help us to: (1) speed navigation, keep track of items in your shopping cart and provide you with content that is tailored to you; (2) remember information you gave us so that you do not have to re-enter it; (3) determine the effectiveness of some of our and our third party partners’ marketing efforts and communications; and (4) monitor the total number of visitors, pages viewed, and the total number of ads displayed.

2. What Cookies Do We Use?

The following are the different types of Cookies that BIU may use on the Site:

• Essential or “Strictly Necessary” Cookies: These cookies are essential to the operation of the Site in order to enable you to move around it and to use its features.  They cannot be disabled without severely affecting your use of the Site.  Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as accessing secure areas of the website or paid-for-content, cannot be provided.
• Performance Cookies: Performance cookies collect information about your use of the Site and enable us to improve the way it works.  For example, performance cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on the Site, allow us to see the overall patterns of usage of the Site, help us record any difficulties you have with the Site and show us whether our advertising is effective or not.
• Functionality Cookies:  Functionality cookies allow us to remember the choices you make on the Site and to provide enhanced and more personalized features in order to improve your visit and use of our Site.  
• Targeting or Advertising Cookies: We and our service providers may use targeting or advertising cookies to deliver ads that we believe are more relevant to you and your interests.  These cookies remember what you have looked at on the Site.  We may share this information with other organizations, such as advertisers.

3. How Do We Use Cookies?

• Remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your subsequent visit to our Site;
• Provide advertisements and marketing materials more relevant to your interests;
• Compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interactions in order to offer better Site experiences and tools in the future;
  • We may also use third party services to track this information on our behalf.
• Diagnose or fix technological problems on the Site;
• Plan for and enhance our online services.

In all these cases cookies that have been collected will be retained for an indefinite period of time unless otherwise required by law

4. How Can You Limit or Block the Use of Cookies?

Your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser Cookies are set and to delete them.  For more information about these controls, visit your browser or device's help material.  Below you can find a list of links for the most used browsers on how to disable Cookies:

• Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
• Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
• : https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
• Safari para IOS (iPhone y iPad): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265

Note that certain parts of the Site may not work properly if you have disabled browser Cookie use.

For any further information, please contact us at: [[email protected]].

Your Rights as to Personal Information: Accessing and Updating Information 

If you have submitted Personal Information through our Site and would like that information deleted from our records, please contact us at [[email protected]]. and provide us with the requested information.  We will use reasonable efforts to delete this information from our existing files.

Notice to California Residents.

If you interact with our Site and services while physically located in California you need to review our Notice to California Residents, which supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy, before continuing to browse our Site.