Terms of Use

The Kern Community College District (Kern CCD) encourages the use of this site and related KCCD websites as a means to share information in support of the District's mission to educate students and to provide service to our communities.

This site is owned and operated by the Kern Community College District. While areas of this site are publicly accessible, certain services and information available online may be restricted to specific users of the Kern CCD community.

Site content is subject to change without notice, and at any time. Information regarding college fees and tuition is provided as reference only. For official information regarding costs please contact on e of the three college Admissions and Records offices.

By using this site, or any sites owned and operated by Kern Community College District, you agree to the terms of use provided in this document. Continued use of this website implies agreement to the Terms of Use, including any changes to the Terms of Use document. You are encouraged to review the Terms of Use periodically for any changes.

Content

The Kern Community College District upholds the principles of academic freedom and shared governance, freedom of speech, and privacy in the use of electronic resources by our students, faculty, and staff, consistent with college and district policies. The official Kern CCD website contains official pages in support of academic, student services, and administrative departments.

The Kern CCD server may also contain web pages generated by groups or individuals, such as students, faculty or staff. These sites do not officially represent Kern CCD.

Any content contained or accessible from unofficial Web Sites does not reflect the views of the Kern Community College District and the District does not endorse, warrant, or otherwise take responsibility for the contents of unofficial Web Pages or of any material accessible from unofficial Web Pages.

Kern CCD does not actively monitor or control web content on these sites; however, if the District receives information or notification of an alleged violation of law or policy we will investigate and address any such violations accordingly. To report a violation of law or policy, please send the information to lsc_helpdesk@kccd.edu.

Kern Community College District Name and Logo's

Kern Community College District and Kern CCD are all names representing the Kern Community College District.

All logos used by the District are proprietary to the Kern Community College District and may not be used by third parties without permission.

The Kern Community College District will not be responsible for misuse or misrepresentation through the use of either the District name or logo's.

Other trademarks, service marks, and trade names used in the www.kccd.edu domain are the property of their respective owners.

Restrictions on Use of Materials

No material from any Official KCCD website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without explicit permission, except that you may download one copy of the materials on any single computer for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Kern Community College District complies with the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the use of copyrighted material on the KCCD website, please contact lsc_helpdesk@kccd.edu.

Endorsements and External Links

Links from a web page on the Kern CCD web server to any non-Kern CCD site does not imply endorsement of the site's products or services by Kern CCD. Links from sites not located on the official Kern CCD servers to sites on the Kern CCD server likewise does not imply endorsement of the originating site's products or services.

References to non-Kern CCD sites, products, organizations or services do not imply District endorsements of those items.

Feedback

The Kern Community College District is committed to providing a user-friendly web environment for our District community, including faculty, staff, students, alumni, visitors and our community members.

Your comments and feedback about our website are always welcome. We respect the opinions of all our site users and carefully consider all input regarding ways to improve our website to best serve your needs. Please submit comments using the Feedback Form.

DISCLAIMER

THE MATERIALS IN THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. KCCD DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS OR MATERIALS OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT THE SITE OR SERVER ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. KERN CCD DOES NOT WARRANTY THE ACCURACY, CORRECTNESS, OR RELIABILITY, OF THE MATERIAL CONTAINED ON THE SITE.

Privacy Policy

The Kern Community College District respects the privacy of our website visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines the information we may collect from our visitors and how that information is used.

Personal Data

Kern Community College District will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you such as your name, address, telephone or email address unless you have provided this information voluntarily. When provided, this information will be used to better serve your needs and assist you in provided requested student services.

Minors

Kern Community College District does not intend to collect any personal information from minors, nor is this website intended for persons below college-attending age.

We encourage all adults to instruct minors under their care in the safe and responsible use and dissemination of their personal data on the Internet.

Additional Information Collected Automatically

In some cases, we may automatically collect technical information from our site visitors. This information is not personally-identifiable, and includes information such as the domain name of the website from which you linked to our website, or type of operating system or Internet browser you are using.

Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer - "Cookies"

This site may utilize cookies as a means to enhance the convenience of our site and to help protect against unwanted use of specific pages. The cookie tells our Web server that you have accepted the use policy of specific pages, or that you have returned to a specific page.

A cookie is a text file that is stored on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies are not able to run programs or download viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to each user and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you, meaning that only KCCD's web server can only read the cookies placed on your computer by KCCD.

In order for cookies to be placed on your computer your web browser must be set to allow cookies, thus giving you the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers are automatically set to accept cookies so you will need to modify your browser settings if you do not wish to do so. Most browsers also allow users to delete stored cookies on their hard drives. Please refer to your Browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.

If you choose to decline all cookies, you may not be able to fully utilize our Web site, and you may not have access to certain pages.

Revised August 25, 2004.