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Privacy Policy

Southwest School of Business and Technical Careers is pleased to present this Internet site featuring its services available to the public. Although every attempt is made to provide accurate and current information on this website, Southwest Schools provides no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, timeliness, completeness, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose of any information contained in this website, produced and provided by Southwest Schools, in any form or manner whatsoever.

Reproduction of any information contained on the Southwest Schools website may be made without limitation as to number provided that it is not for the purpose of private gain. This does not apply to other websites that may be linked to/from the Southwest Schools website. They are governed by the individual policies of the relevant providers.

Use of this website for commercial purpose or to obtain direct financial gain (e.g. mass marketing) is prohibited.

Interactive messages will not be posted if their content contains material that is: unlawful, harassing, libelous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive, inaccurate, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature or that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation, or that encourages the use of controlled substances. Southwest Schools reserves the right to edit interactive messaging questions for clarity.

If you do not agree with any portion of this policy you have the right to exit and not continue the session. However, if you do continue to remain on this site you IMPLICITLY CONSENT to this policy.

Keeping Your Information Confidential—Privacy Policy

We use the information you provide about yourself to complete the transaction for which the information is intended. Such transactions may include but are not limited to:

  • Ordering high school seminars and promotional items
  • Requesting transcripts
  • Updating on-campus student file information
  • Answering questions
  • Posting and answering message board questions
  • Contacting referred friends and family members
  • Sharing news and information via opt-in mail groups

From time to time, we also use the information you provide about yourself or others to inform you of news, updates and upgrades at Southwest Schools. (For example, new program offerings, increased class schedule options, technology updates, and more.)

We do not share your personal information with outside parties without your permission or unless legally required.

What we collect

We may collect the following information in order to provide information or services to you when using our website information request forms, subscriptions to newsletters, or contacting our customer service representatives by phone. We only collect personally identifiable information that you submit voluntarily:

  • Name and job title
  • Contact information including email address and telephone
  • Demographic information such as postcode, mailing addresses, preferences and interests
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

Southwest Schools collects personal information only with the express consent of the user when they request information from our organization. This information is only used when communicating with users as per their indicated preferences and as needed for service-related communications. We may use the information you provide for:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • To improve our products and services.
  • To send promotional communication about special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
  • We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Opting Out

Southwest Schools provides users with the ability to opt out from communications from any of our newsletters. An opt out option will either appear at the bottom of a newsletter received by email, or users can reply directly to the emailed newsletter and request removal from that correspondence.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Questions about our web policies?—Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding our website usage policies, please email us at info@sws.edu