Information Automatically Collected When Visiting the Empire State University Website

Introductory Information

When you visit the SUNY Empire website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit. None of the information we collect is deemed to constitute personal information by the Internet Security and Privacy Act.

Information we collect:

  • User client hostname. The hostname or Internet Protocol address of the user requesting access to a university website.
  • HTTP header, "user agent." The user agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system on which the browser is running.
  • HTTP header, "referrer." The referrer specifies the web page from which the user accessed the current web page.
  • System date. The date and time of the user's request.
  • Full request. The exact request the user made.
  • Status. The status code the server returned to the user.
  • Content length. The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user.
  • Method. The request method used.
  • Universal Resource Identifier (URI). The location of a resource on the server.
  • Query string of the URI. Anything after the question mark in a URI.
  • Protocol. The transport protocol and the version used.
  • Processing time. The time, in milliseconds, it took for the server to process the request
  • Host header. The hostname of the requested file, e.g., www.sunyempire.edu.
  • Cookies. The name of any cookie used.


In addition to the above-mentioned information, when you access a password-protected part of the website, your username is collected automatically.

All information that is collected automatically is used to improve our web content, to investigate possible problems and in general to help us understand how you are interacting with our Web site. This information is collected for statistical analysis and to determine what information is of most and least interest to our users. The information is not collected for commercial purposes and the university does not sell or otherwise distribute the information collected from the website for commercial purposes.

For complete information, visit Web Privacy Policy.

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