Privacy Notice

The following privacy notice describes what we collect from you when you visit and how we use this information. Please read this privacy notice carefully so that you understand our privacy practices. 

Effective Date of Privacy Notice

The privacy notice was last revised on November 7, 2021.

Online Privacy Notice

TV City College (SBCC) is concerned and committed to protecting your privacy to the greatest extent possible, subject to applicable state and federal law, through our compliance with our privacy policies and this privacy notice. 

This privacy notice describes our policies and practices regarding the most common ways we collect, use, disclose, or otherwise process your personal information. Except as specifically described, our sites are operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. In certain circumstances, we may provide you with supplemental disclosures regarding our data processing activities.  

This notice does not apply to information collected from or about current or former employees, contractors, volunteers, and other workers of SBCC (“Workers”) as part of their employment or working relationship with SBCC.

What Information Is Collected

We automatically collect certain information from you when you visit www.sbcc.edu. This data is used in conjunction with Google Analytics to gather metrics on site usage. The information we collect is not linked to anything that identifies you as an individual. Your session will be tracked but you will remain anonymous as a user.   

User-provided Information

We may also collect other information as described in this notice or other specific college privacy notices. You may be required to provide personal information to access or use certain parts of our sites, or features of our sites or services, including but not limited to: applying or enrolling at one of our campuses or programs, subscribing to a newsletter or email list, purchasing, donating, filling out a form, participating in any of our programs, special events or promotions, contacting us with a comment, question or complaint, etc. If you do not provide the requested personal information, you may not be able to access or use the features of our sites or service where such information is requested.

How We Use Your Information

This website does not collect personally-identifying information about you except for information that is voluntarily provided to us so that we can serve your needs and our legitimate business and/or educational purposes. Your personally-identifying information may be used by SBCC to help us improve the website, and also for our institution's marketing and promotional purposes. It will be treated confidentially within our institution. Our policy is not to share this information with third parties. Although we may employ "cookie" technology on this website, it will only be used to track non-personal information such as type of browser, operating system, SBCC internal transactions (such as fiscal services forms, online registration, or requests for assistance) and domain names in order for us to improve our visitors' experience online.

We may also use your personal information for operational and other lawful purposes such as security, analytics, operations, fraud detection and prevention, reporting, making back-ups and legal compliance.

Legal Basis for Processing (for personal information subject to the GDPR)

With respect to personal information subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we rely on the following lawful bases for processing:

  • Our legitimate interests, such as monitoring our website usage
  • To provide you with services or perform on contractual obligations, such as managing our relationships with our suppliers and alumnae
  • For compliance with our legal obligations
  • With your consent, when applicable 

Protecting your Information

We take reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information against loss, unauthorized access, and illegal use or disclosure. Such personal information is stored by the College in secure locations and College staff is trained on procedures for the management of personal information, including limitations on the release of information.  

The security of your personal information is important to us, but please remember that no method of transmission over the intern