Last Updated 07/29/2025

This notice applies to our practices for collecting and processing personal information related to the School for Environment and Sustainability. The general privacy statement describes activities conducted by the University of Michigan that involve the collection and processing of personal information.

At a Glance

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If you don’t have time for the detailed privacy notice below, here is what you need to know:

  • Our goal is to limit the information we collect to what we need to support your use of The School for Environment and Sustainability.
  • We are committed to using your personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected.
  • We do not sell your personal information and when we share it outside U-M, it is only to enable operations and services on the university’s behalf, meet legal obligations, or protect the safety, property or rights of the university, its community, and guests.
  • We strive to give you choices about the personal information we collect.
  • If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy, you can contact us at [email protected].

What Information We Collect

The School for Environment and Sustainability collects the following personal information in these ways:

  • When you directly provide it to us, like when you sign up for our email newsletter. Directly collected information may include: Name and Email address
  • When technology captures your information automatically, such as when Google Analytics or Microsoft Clarity tracks a user's session, it remembers specific details about the user's interaction with the website during their visit. Automatically collected information may include: Page visited, time on site, links clicked, and documents downloaded.
  • Third-party advertising and marketing providers, such as Cloudflare, Microsoft Clarity (including Bing), Google (including Analytics, Ads, and Marketing), LinkedIn, and Facebook, capture your information on our behalf. Examples of information captured by third-party service providers include:
    • Cloudflare: Cloudflare uses this to distinguish between human and bot traffic. Unique ID for a user across different sites using Clarity. Verify that a user has successfully passed a challenge.
    • Facebook pixel: The cookie stores a unique identifier for the user and their browsing activity on that website.
    • Google Ads: Google Ads cookie used for conversion linking across domain.
    • Google Marketing Platform: Check if a user's browser is capable of accepting cookies.
    • Google Analytics: A randomly generated identifier to differentiate between individual users and analyze their activity over time. Helps maintain a user's session state, meaning it remembers certain information about a user's interaction with the website during their visit.
    • LinkedIn: Browser Identifier cookie used for diagnostic purposes.To facilitate data center selection. Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity. Supports Google attribution reporting API integration to mitigate signal loss. LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. The Browser Identifier cookie is used for diagnostic purposes—bot detection provided by Cloudflare.
    • Microsoft Clarity and Bing: Unique ID for a user across different sites using Clarity. Stores a unique user ID and preferences for a specific site, enabling Clarity to attribute actions to the same user ID across multiple visits. Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains. Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. Indicates whether to refresh MUID. Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0.

How We Use Personal Information

The University of Michigan uses information about your interactions with https://seas.umich.edu to:

  • Provide service support: information about your visits to our website allows us to monitor website performance, make improvements to site navigation and content, and provide visitors with a positive experience, relevant outreach and effective engagement.
  • Support educational programs: information collected through our website is used in processes related to admissions.

With Whom We Share Personal Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information collected here. We may, however, share your personal information in limited circumstances, such as with university partners or external service providers that support business activities. 

Specifically, we share your information with the following service providers:

  • Mailchimp: signups to our public newsletters and event announcements are conducted through and stored in Mailchimp.
  • Advertising and marketing providers, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google, use the personal information collected on our website to create audience segments, enabling us to deliver targeted advertising content.

We require these service providers to keep your personal information secure, and do not allow them to use or share your personal information for any purpose other than providing services on our behalf. 

We may also share your personal information when required by law, or when we believe sharing will help to protect the safety, property, or rights of the university, members of the university community, and university guests.

What Choices You Can Make About Your Information

Direct Collection

You may choose not to enter personal information into our website. You can change email and communication preferences by clicking on the Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences links at the bottom of any email from us and unchecking the relevant boxes.

Automated Collection: Pixels

We use pixels, which are pieces of code we have put on our website, to measure, optimize and build audiences for our ad campaigns. This helps us make sure our ads are shown to the right people. When you access seas.umich​.edu, the following pixels may be placed on your computer or device: Facebook, Google, and Meta.

Cookies

We use “cookies” to enhance your user experience with seas.umich.edu. Cookies are files that store your preferences and other information about your visit to our website. When you access Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft Bing, and Google, the following cookies may be placed on your computer or device, depending on your web browser settings:

Google Analytics

Purpose: Google Analytics cookies count visits and traffic sources in order to measure and improve the performance, navigation, and content of our website. See details about Google’s usage of cookies.

Opt Out: To block these cookies, visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on page. Alternatively, you can manage your browser settings to accept or refuse these cookies.

Google Advertising

Purpose: Google, including Google Ads, uses cookies to personalize ads and content, as well as provide, develop and improve new services. See details about Google’s usage of cookies.

Opt Out: You can manage your browser settings to accept or refuse these cookies.

Facebook/​Instagram

Purpose: To show you better ads, Facebook uses data that advertisers and other partners provide about your activity on Facebook Company Products. See Facebook’s cookie policy.

Opt Out: You can opt out of Facebook ads through your Facebook privacy settings.

YouTube

Purpose: We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playback of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

Opt Out: You can manage your browser settings to accept or refuse these cookies.

LinkedIn

Purpose: LinkedIn uses cookies to personalize your experience, enhance security, and remember your preferences. They help you stay logged in, track your activity, and tailor your feed and notifications based on your interactions. 

Opt Out: Choose the cookie settings you want to allow. If you turn off a cookie category or don’t consent to the use of cookies, the cookie(s) belonging to that category will be removed from your browser.

How We Keep Personal Information Secure

The University of Michigan recognizes the importance of maintaining the security of the information it collects. We strive to protect information from unauthorized access and damage, and ensure reasonable security measures are in place to keep your personal information secure.

Privacy Notice Changes

This privacy notice may be updated from time to time. We will post the date our notice was last updated at the top of this privacy notice.

Who to Contact with Questions or Concerns

If you have any concerns or questions about how your personal data is used, please contact us at [email protected].

Special Notices

Persons under the age of 13 or their parents or guardians

Persons within the European Union

If you will be targeting EU/EEA residents with your website, plan to implement the U-M Cookie Consent and Disclosure Banner.