* To register with the IE&M Alumni Association please read the following privacy statement and click the AGREE button at the bottom of this page. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions described below, then click the DISAGREE button

School of Industrial Engineering & Management

Oklahoma State University
Alumni Web Site Privacy Statement

The School of Industrial Engineering & Management is committed to preserving the privacy of alumni.  Portions of the IE&M Alumni web site are accessible only for alumni who have registered, including the Online Directory and Alumni Quotes.  Other areas of the Alumni web site are open to the general public.

Please note the following items regarding personal privacy as it pertains to the Alumni web site:

1. Professional and personal information you provide is password protected and only available to registered users (those alumni who have taken the step of registering with the system); it is not openly available to the public or even to all alumni.  You may choose to keep your information private from other users if you prefer, yet still access the sections of the web site requiring registration.

2. The Online Directory is for official use by IE&M, as well as for individual communication of a personal nature between members.  Use of the information available in this directory for any other purpose, including, but not limited to, reproducing and storing in a retrieval system by any means, electronic or mechanical, photocopying or using the addresses or other information contained in this directory for any private, commercial or political mailing, is strictly prohibited and is in direct violation of copyright laws and constitutes misappropriation of corporate property.

3. When you register for the Alumni web site and provide addresses, those addresses are recorded.  They may be used for sending out future mailings via regular mail or E-mail (event announcements and so forth).  E-mail addresses of registered users will never knowingly be disclosed to non-University affiliated or University-approved third parties.

  In addition to privacy issues, you may be interested in issues of inappropriate usage, copyright restrictions, and so forth.  Registering with the Alumni web site presumes that you will abide by the following guidelines:     

Web Content

You will not post any of the following materials on the Alumni web site:

• Material that defames, abuses or threatens others.

• Unauthorized copyrighted material.

• Statements that are bigoted, hateful, racially offensive, harassing, defaming, or vulgar.

• Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation.

• Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them.

• Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images.

Postings that violate the above terms will be deleted from the web site upon discovery.  IE&M does not guarantee that it will monitor all postings and cannot guarantee that material in violation of this policy will not be posted.  IE&M may at any time and in its sole discretion change its policy regarding on-line conduct.

Free Services

At present, the IE&M web site may be freely accessed on the internet. If a change to this policy occurs, registered users will be notified prior to the change.

Copyrighted Materials

The downloading of copyrighted material is allowed only for personal use.  Users may not copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit, or otherwise transfer any copyrighted material.  The burden of determining whether any information, software or any other content on the service is protected by copyright rests with the user.  The user acknowledges that he/she does not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted materials.

Limitations of Liability and Warranty

IE&M disclaims any and all warranties, including without limitation: 1) any warranties concerning the availability, accuracy or content of information, products or services; and 2) any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

This disclaimer of liability applies to any damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of record, whether for breach of contract, tortuous behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

User specifically acknowledges that IE&M is not liable for the defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of other members or third parties and that the risk of injury from the foregoing rests entirely with user.

Neither IE&M nor any of its agents or affiliates shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages arising out of use of the service, or inability to gain access to or use the service, or out of any breach of any warranty.

Distribution/Uploading of Third Party Content

By submitting content to the IE&M Alumni web site, the user permits any other registered user to access, view, store, or reproduce the content for that user's personal use.

Termination of Service

IE&M may terminate a user account or access rights to this web site at any time, without notice, for conduct that violates this agreement or is harmful to other users, to IE&M, to the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, or to Oklahoma State University.