Privacy

The Oregon State University EECS Capstone application collects the information you give it in order to run the capstone program: to publish and review project proposals, to match projects with teams, and to track equipment lending. We do not sell it and we do not use it for anything else.

What is public stays public. Published and archived projects, including their descriptions and any contact details typed into them, are readable by anyone and stay readable at their existing URLs. Do not put anything in a proposal you would not want published.

You can close your account. Doing so removes your profile: your name, your email address, your affiliation, and your interests. It does not remove projects you proposed, which stay published and are re-attributed to "Deleted user", and it does not remove records of departmental equipment you borrowed, which are institutional property records. Closing an account cannot be undone, and a new account cannot be linked back to old projects.

Page views are counted, without cookies. When a public page is opened, such as a project or the project listing, we record the page, the site that linked to it, any filters or search words used on it, and the country, browser, operating system and kind of device it was opened from. Nothing is stored in your browser, and the record is never connected to your account, even when you are signed in. It does not include your IP address. Instead, the address and your browser details are combined with a random value that is replaced every day and then discarded, so page views can be grouped into visits within one day but never connected across days, by us or anyone else. Pages that require signing in are not counted. Separately, the servers keep ordinary request logs, which do include IP addresses, for 30 days.

Questions about any of this go to eecs-capstone@oregonstate.edu.