Privacy Policy

At the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, we value the privacy of our customers and everyone who accesses our online services. The Privacy Policy provided below describes how your personal data is collected and used.

Information You Provide

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center collects information provided voluntarily by users on its website. For example, UCLA Asian American Studies Center collects user-submitted data related to filling out the ‘New User Registration’ form on the AAPI Nexus Journal website. The information UCLA Asian American Studies Center collects at this point is directly related to the communication, product, or service the user is requesting or accessing. It includes basic information that may identify the user, such as name, city, email address, or other details. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. 

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center also handles data for its customers in accordance with their request for or use of its services. UCLA Asian American Studies Center’s customers remain the data controllers of any data they provide to UCLA Asian American Studies Center that is related to the execution of its services. UCLA Asian American Studies Center acts in accordance with the instructions of its customers regarding the collection, storage, processing, retrieval, deletion, and/or transfer of customer data. 

Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically

In addition to user-submitted information, we may automatically collect basic information that is not personally identifiable to an individual user, such as IP address, internet service provider, the browser used to visit the website, and other anonymous website usage data. 

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the AAPI Nexus website, and their website access preferences. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. In addition, UCLA Asian American Studies Center uses cookies to improve user experiences on the AAPI Nexus Journal website. If you wish to do so, you can set your web browser to block all cookies, including those collected by UCLA Asian American Studies Center, or to prompt you when a cookie is being sent. 

Additionally, UCLA Asian American Studies Center uses Google Analytics to identify and analyze trends in the usage of its website. Any reports created with this data will be for internal use only. You may opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. 

Contact aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu if you have any concerns or would like more information about our data collection practices. 

Usage and Sharing

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center collects data for the sole purpose of providing its services to our clients. As such, we will not sell, share, or rent information collected on our website or blog to third parties, except as described in this statement. We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information to third parties for their promotional use.

We use both personal and non-personal data for internal purposes, including enriching your experience with our online services, gathering information about demographics and usage patterns, and enabling purchases of goods and services. We may disclose your personal information when we believe we have a legal obligation to do so. 

Links to Third-Party Websites

Sometimes we work with third-parties on your behalf, and we also provide links to industry-related organizations or educational partners you might find helpful. These third-party websites are outside of the control of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. When you access these sites, their policies will govern your activity, and we encourage you to review them. 

Data Breach

In the event of a data breach, our policy is to notify everyone whose data was involved in the breach. If you have questions about a reported breach, please contact aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu.

Notification of Changes to UCLA Asian American Studies Center’s Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy was last updated on January 13, 2020 and is subject to change. UCLA Asian American Studies Center may update these terms of utilization for its website whenever without notification. Asian American Studies Center will post any changes to this policy on this public website.

For more information about our privacy policy, please contact aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu.