Your Rights

 State of Texas governmental bodies, including Texas public universities, have the following obligations:

• To inform individuals about the information collected about them if a request is submitted;
• To permit individuals to receive and review information collected about them if a request is submitted;
• To permit individuals to correct information about them that is incorrect if a request is submitted; and
• To inform individuals about obvious or non-obvious information being collected electronically about them, about their computer network locations, and about user identities.

The Graduate School collects the following information about you:

Information provided by you on applications for graduate admission: Name, social security number, mailing address, telephone numbers, email address, date and place of birth, sex, citizenship and residency, educational history, recent employment history, standardized testing information, area of academic interest, degree sought, and credit card number (if you charge your application fee).

1. Portfolio information provided by you for admissions applications, as required by particular programs.
2. Results of standardized examinations and transcripts provided as part of admissions applications at your request by national testing organizations or previous universities attended, respectively.
3. Letters of recommendation provided at your request by persons that you select as part of your admissions applications.
4. Information provided by you on submittable web forms: Name, mailing address, email address, Social Security number (optional), area of academic interest.
5. In addition, our submittable web forms and site visitation counters also collect information on the identity of your computer network and on the type of browser you are using (for example, Internet Explorer, Netscape).
6. None of the information collected about you is used for any other purpose other than to send you information about graduate academic programs that you requested or to assess, for admissions purposes, your potential as a graduate student. Information concerning admissions is passed forward to the relevant academic unit for further evaluation. Information about your computer network and about your browser is not utilized and is discarded. Neither the Toulouse School of Graduate Studies nor relevant graduate academic units within the University of North Texas sells or otherwise passes forward information about you, your computer network, or your browser to any other governmental or non-governmental organization.
7. If you would like for us to provide you with the specific information collected in obvious or non-obvious ways about you, or if you have already obtained this information and would like to provide corrections to it, you may e-mail, call, write or fax us. Be sure to include your name and, as necessary, your social security number so that we may locate your information in the relevant files.