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If you believe any of the material on this website violates your copyrights, please contact the LFD director or send an email to lfd@uci.edu.
Privacy Notice
The LFD is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your personally identifiable information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize disclosure, personally identifiable information is not disclosed without your consent.
Information Collection and Use
Categories of personally identifiable information collected by Web pages managed or maintained by the LFD, may include: your Internet location (Internet domain and IP address), type of browser and operating system used to access our site, date and time our site was visited, pages visited on our site, search terms used on our search engines, along with information you use to fill out forms such as: name, e-mail address, address, and ucinetid. This personally identifiable information is used to respond to user inquiries. Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution grants authority to the University of California to maintain this information.
In order to keep you informed of such activities as symposia and/or special events, we may use personal information collected from Web pages for the purpose of future communication back to online enrollees. Such email notification will be conducted in conformance with University of California and campus policies implementing anti-spam laws (pdf).
Additionally, the Web server collects, at least temporarily, the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; Web pages requested; referring Web page; browser used; date and time. This information is collected to monitor your navigation of our Web pages. We may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve Web presentation and utilization. We also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.
These Web pages may use "cookies" in order to deliver Web content specific to individual's Web navigation interests or to keep track of online transactions.
Disclosure of Collected Information
The LFD will not disclose or share, without your consent, personally identifiable information, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure may be required by law. Nor will the LFD distribute or sell your personally identifiable information to third-party organizations.
Updating Personal Information
Questions regarding your options to review, modify or delete previously provided personal information should be directed to lfd@uci.edu.
Links to Other Sites
You may encounter links to Web pages of entities not managed or maintained by the LFD. Those Web pages may have privacy policies that differ from this one. You also may encounter links to websites of organizations not directly affiliated with the LFD. Please be aware that the LFD is not responsible for the information practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the privacy statements of each Web page that collects personal information.
Links on this website to commercial Web sites do not represent endorsement by the University of California or its affiliates.
Site Security
All information entered into online forms, such as name, passwords, postal address, and email address, is transmitted securely from your Web browser to the LFD's secure Web server (https://www.lfd.uci.edu). The LFD's SSL Web Server Certificate offers domain name and identity verification as well as 2048 bit encryption.
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The LFD website strives to adhere to the following standards:
- W3C XHTML 1.1
- W3C CSS level 3
- W3C MathML 2.0
- RSS
- Section 508 (validated by Cynthia Says)
- UCI Graphic Identity
Browser Compatibility
This site strives to work with latest versions of the following Web browsers for desktop and notebook computers:
- Microsoft Edge for Windows 7 or 10
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
Some functionality on this website requires JavaScript to be activated.
For optimal viewing experience, the browsers client size should be larger than 790x400 pixels when using normal font sizes.
Email addresses published on this website are encoded using JavaScript or have the @ character replaced by "at" to obstruct spammers.
Technologies Used
This website has been implemented using the following technologies and products:
- IIS web server
- XHTML hypertext markup language
- CSS styling
- RSS content syndication format
- iCalendar file format
- PHP hypertext preprocessor
- Python programming language
- JavaScript scripting language
- PostgreSQL database and psycopg2 adapter
- FileMaker database and fmkr.py adapter
- UCI WebAuth and uciwebauth.py
- numpy, matplotlib, pywin32, and python-ldap libraries
- curl command line tool
- Google Search
- Google Calendar
- OpenStreetMap