Effective Date: 10.8.2026
Protecting Your Privacy
Kalamazoo College respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. During your visit to our website, we may collect and store some technical information, such as the domain name of your Internet provider, which pages you visit, and the time and duration of your stay. This information is used solely to provide us with a better understanding of how our website is being used and to help us make it more useful to visitors like you. It is never used to identify you.
Analytics
We utilize Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics to anonymously capture how users interact with our website through tags, cookies, behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve the usability of our website. For more information about how Microsoft and Google collect and use data, please visit Microsoft Privacy Statement and Google Privacy Policy.
We use this information to respond to inquiries, send admission and College communications, process applications, analyze and improve our website, deliver relevant advertising about the College, maintain security, and meet legal obligations.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on. You can opt out of Clarity telemetry by selecting Microsoft in the DAA WebChoices Tool; the Protect My Choices browser app can preserve your opt-out preference.
Personal Information
Personal identifiable information about you is collected and stored only when you provide it voluntarily. It is never shared with any other organization, except as required by law or in those cases in which we have engaged an outside organization to provide services on behalf of the College. In the latter case, the outside organization is required to keep such information confidential and prohibited from using it for any other purpose. For example, when you fill out and submit a web form or send us an email expressly containing such information. This information is used to provide you with more targeted information about the College or its programs and to enable connections for Kalamazoo College alumni, students, staff, faculty, and families, as well as to enhance the user experience and services. The College takes every reasonable precaution to keep such information secure.
Cookies
To optimize your web experience, we may store small amounts of information on your computer using cookies. Cookies are not used to identify you personally. We use strictly necessary cookies to operate our website, analytics cookies and pixels to understand how visitors use it, targeting cookies and pixels to make our site and advertising more relevant to your interests, and functionality cookies to remember you and your preferences. For additional information, please review the Kalamazoo College Web Cookie Management Policy.
Digital Marketing Technologies Used by the College
The College and contracted service providers may use marketing technologies such as cookies and pixels to automatically collect data about how visitors interact with the website, target ads on third-party websites, and provide measurement services. This information is collected and stored in tools such as Google Analytics and customer relationship management systems.
Use of Links
At various points on our websites, we provide links to other servers that may contain information of interest to our readers. We take no responsibility for and exercise no control over the views or accuracy of the information contained on these outside websites. Also, if you wish to make a text link from your website to any portion of ours, you may do so without asking permission.
Retention and Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. This website logs IP addresses locally for security purposes. Advertising partners are prohibited from retaining our audience lists beyond the scope of the specific project.
Enrolled students’ education records are protected under FERPA; this policy does not alter those rights.
Use of Text and Images
If you would like to publish information that you find on our website, or use our logo or images, please send your request to info@kzoo.edu.
Questions About Our Policies
If you have any other questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at: webservices@kzoo.edu.