FERPA and frontier.edu Privacy Policy:

Frontier Nursing University  (FNU) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy statement describes how FNU collects, utilizes, and protects the information you provide while visiting FNU websites.

This privacy statement is effective July 1, 2024 and may be updated as necessary; therefore, you are encouraged to check this page periodically to confirm any changes and how they may affect you.

You can visit official FNU websites without revealing personal information. If you choose to provide any personal information, it will only be used by FNU for the purpose of conducting official University business. Further, personal information will not be disseminated to unaffiliated third parties. Your continued use of our website indicates consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this notice.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes with the exception of text messaging originator opt-in data and consent.

The information FNU collects generally falls into one of two categories: 


Automatically Collected Information

When you view pages on FNU websites, some specific technical information about your visit is automatically collected. This information includes:

  • Device IP address
  • The domain name from which you visit our website
  • Customer-specific information on which pages are visited
  • Aggregate information on the specific pages visited
  • The website or service that referred you
  • The date and time of the website visit
  • The duration of the website visit
  • Browser and device type
  • Screen resolution
  • Your interactions with the web page
  • Aggregate information collected by Google Analytics

Manually Collected Information

In order to make products and services available to you, FNU may ask you to provide information voluntarily through forms or other manual input. This information allows FNU to better serve your needs and is generally retained as long as you continue to maintain a relationship with the University. You may choose not to provide FNU with this information. However, not providing the requested information (or subsequently asking that the data be removed) may impact FNU’s ability to deliver the products and/or services for which the information is needed. Providing the requested information indicates your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of this information as described in this privacy statement. Examples of information that FNU may ask you to provide include:

  • The email addresses of those who communicate with us via email
  • The email addresses of those who make postings to our chat areas
  • Name
  • Address
  • Telephone number
  • Fax number
  • Payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address)
  • Information volunteered by the visitor, such as preferences, survey information and/or site registrations

Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA)

The FNU Registrar's office is responsible for monitoring access to and release of information from student education records. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), ensures students have the right to privacy in their education records and affords students certain rights with respect to their education records.  These rights include:

  1. The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days of the day Frontier Nursing University (FNU) receives a request for access.

  2. The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the student believes are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student’s privacy rights under FERPA.

  3. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by FNU to comply with the requirements of FERPA.

 

FERPA allows FNU to disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless a student has advised FNU to the contrary.  If a student does not want FNU to disclose directory information without their prior written consent, the student must notify FNU in writing by the first day of each term.  The notice should be sent directly to the Registrar (registrar@frontier.edu). FNU has designated the following information as directory information:

  • Student's name
  • Participation in officially recognized activities (for example: student council, SAGE mentoring)
  • Address
  • Telephone listing
  • Email address
  • Photograph
  • Degrees, honors, and awards received
  • Major field of study
  • Dates of attendance

Students who do not want FNU to disclose directory information without prior written consent must submit the FERPA Directory Information Opt-Out Form to the Registrar (registrar@frontier.edu).

Students wishing to release additional academic record information to a specific third party designee must submit the FERPA Student Information Release Authorization to the Registrar (registrar@frontier.edu).

 

For more information on FERPA, please visit the FNU Catalog or contact the Registrar’s office.

For the full law, please visit the U.S. Department of Education website.