The Department of Residence Life at Texas A&M University respects your privacy. The Department of Residence Life web site does not collect or permanently store personal information about visitors browsing the web site.

Personal information is collected and permanently stored only if you choose to submit an online form for processing by Residence Life, for example the application for campus housing. Also, if you choose to submit a form, cookies are used to manage your session, however, cookies are not used to collect personal information and do not persist beyond the time of your session on the web site.

Personal information that you provide via e-mail or through other online means may be stored permanently as needed but will be used only for purposes necessary to serve your needs. This may involve redirecting your information to another department better suited to meeting your needs.

We do use server logs to collect technical information concerning your Internet connection. This information may be used to analyze trends; to create summary statistics for the purpose of determining technical design specifications; and to identify system performance or problem areas.

Server log information is only released -- when legally required -- to help law enforcement investigations, legal proceedings or internal investigations of TAMU rule and regulation violations. These groups would use the information to track the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or account(s).

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your use of this Web site, please contact Residence Life at webmasters@housing.tamu.edu.

Cookies: A cookie file contains unique information that a web site can use to track such things as passwords, pages you have visited, the date you last looked at a specific page, and to identify your session at a particular web site. Residence Life uses cookies only to identify your session on this web site.

Server Log Information: The following information is collected from server logs for analysis:

• User/client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
• HTTP header, "user agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it is running on.
• HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
• System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
• Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
• Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
• Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.
• 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 version used.