Giant Campus

Refund Policy
Nondiscrimination Policy
Student Disability Nondiscrimination Policy
FERPA Policy
Privacy Policy
Your Personal Information
Child Personal Information Provided by Parents
The Use of Cookies on Giantcampus.com
What Are Cookies?
Links
Data Security
Changes to Giant Campus Privacy Policy

Refund Policy

Students may cancel their enrollment for any reason and receive a complete refund of their tuition prior to the first day of class. To make a cancellation, please call or email us to let us know your change in plans. Once class has begun, students may cancel their enrollment and receive a 50% refund of their tuition payment if they do so before the add/drop period closes. (Typically, the add/drop period ends on the 10th day of instruction. Your enrollment advisor can verify this date for you.) After the add/drop period has ended, students may cancel their enrollment but they will not receive a refund. Please note that your refund may take up to two weeks (10 business days) to be processed.
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Nondiscrimination Policy

Giant Campus is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and employment. Giant Campus does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, employment policies or within our programs and activities.
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Student Disability Nondiscrimination Policy

The purpose of this policy is to protect disabled students from discrimination on the basis of disability and to identify and evaluate learners who, within the intent of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), need special services, accommodations, or programs in order that such learners may receive a free appropriate public education.

A. Disabled students who meet the criteria of Paragraph C below are protected from discrimination on the basis of a disability.

B. It is the responsibility of the school district to identify and evaluate learners who, within the intent of Section 504, need special services, accommodations, or programs in order that such learners may receive a free appropriate public education.

C. For this policy, a learner who is protected under Section 504 is one who:
1. has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of such person’s major life activities; or
2. has a record of such an impairment; or
3. is regarded as having such an impairment.

D. Learners may be protected from disability discrimination and be eligible for services, accommodations, or programs under the provisions of Section 504 even though they are not eligible for special education pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Persons who have questions, comments, or complaints should contact James Peters.
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FERPA Policy

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. It is the policy of Giant Campus and its affiliated school programs to fully comply with this law.

For more information on your rights as a parent or student, visit the U.S. Department of Education's website. For detailed information on how Giant Campus complies with FERPA, please contact James Peters.
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Privacy Policy

Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. Because we gather certain types of information about the users of Giant Campus (hereafter referred to as Giantcampus.com), we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
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Your Personal Information

Giantcampus.com will not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent. We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to outside parties. Giantcampus.com may release account information when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with the law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Giantcampus.com, our users or others. We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing or delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those companies will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
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Child Personal Information Provided by Parents

Giantcampus.com understands the need of safeguards and privacy protection for student users under the age of 13 and it is our intent to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). For the protection of online privacy for children, Giantcampus.com in general will not (i) collect online contact information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of parents/guardians, (ii) collect personal offline contact information of a child under the age of 13 without the consent of parents/guardians or (iii) provide any personal information to any third party for any purpose whatsoever concerning our students or visitors who are under 13 years of age.
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The Use of "Cookies" on Giantcampus.com

To protect your privacy, we do not use cookies to track people throughout our site. We do use cookies for enabling or disabling advanced Web features like Shockwave. Giantcampus.com assigns an identification number to registered users, which is encrypted for security reasons. These cookies are stored on each registered user's machine and have a frequent pre-determined expiration.
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What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small data file that certain Web sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Giantcampus.com does not use cookies to track user traffic patterns.
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Links

The site may contain links to other websites, chat rooms or other resources that we provide for your convenience ("Linked Sites"). Linked Sites are not under the control of Giantcampus.com, and Giantcampus.com is not responsible for the content available on any Linked Site. Such links do not imply our endorsement of material on any Linked Site and we expressly disclaim all liability with regard to your access to such Linked Sites. Access to any other websites linked to the Sites is at your own risk.
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Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place commercially reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. We also use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol on your account information and registration pages to protect sensitive personal information.
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Changes to Giant Campus Privacy Policy

Giantcampus.com may change its privacy policy from time to time. We reserve the right to change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. Any changes to this policy will be posted here to keep you informed about how we treat your personal information.
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Last Updated: September 6, 2011