MIT Sloan Privacy Statement

Overview

Your privacy is important to MIT Sloan, and we are committed to respecting it. This privacy statement applies to the main MIT Sloan website, which includes the MIT Sloan homepage, as well as the following top-level pages: Ideas Made to Matter, Events, Alumni, Faculty, About MIT Sloan, our Academic Programs, Privacy, Diversity, Licensing, and Press.

To review the privacy statement for the MIT Sloan Admissions Office, please read more here.

In addition to the main MIT Sloan website, MIT and MIT Sloan departments, labs, centers, and individuals publish many other websites and pages outside the scope of this privacy statement, which may post and adhere to their own privacy statements. Visitors are encouraged to review posted privacy statements for each MIT website they visit.

Your personal information

You can visit the main MIT Sloan website without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information about yourself.

How we collect information for visitor and traffic analytics and remarketing

Cookies

A cookie is a short identifier, stored on your computer, that may contain site-specific settings or identify you to a site when you make a return visit. Cookies are used by Google Analytics, Contentsquare, AdForm, and by social media networks, described below. All features of the main MIT Sloan website are designed to work without cookies. If you turn off cookies in your browser, you will still be able to fully experience the main MIT Sloan website.

Google Analytics and Contentsquare

The main MIT Sloan website uses the analytics services Google Analytics and Contentsquare to gather data about the usage of the site. All statistics that are created are anonymous. The information gathered is used to improve the user experience for visitors. Google Analytics and Contentsquare use browser cookies for statistical analysis related to your browsing behavior on this website. 

If you choose, you can opt out by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. To be excluded from Google Analytics tracking, you can also install Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On. To be excluded from Contentsquare’s monitoring, please click here. Clicking this link will opt you out from Contentsquare's tracking but will not open a new page.

For more information, visit Google Analytics Solutions or Contentsquare Privacy Center.

AdForm

MIT Sloan uses AdForm, a third-party advertising platform, to track engagement with pages and forms across its website. AdForm serves online and mobile advertising to visitors based on their interests. For more information about the data that AdForm collects, visit https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/website-privacy/website-privacy-policy/

If you prefer to opt out of AdForm’s tracking services, please visit https://site.adform.com/privacy-center/website-privacy/opt-out/

Social Media Networks

The main MIT website uses pixels and web beacons provided by social media networks - namely, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook - to collect information about you when you visit the website. We use this information for legitimate purposes, all in support of the school and its mission. Examples of information collected include time on page, your web browser, and what pages you viewed. We may use this information to improve your experience on the website and to show you editorial content when you visit those social media sites. To opt out of this practice, visit an industry-standard website such as http://www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

We encourage our social media followers to learn, share ideas, and engage in conversations about the issues that face global business leaders in a respectful manner.

Learn more about our social Media comments policy 

Basis for processing

We process your personal information collected on the main MIT Sloan website to facilitate our online interactions with you. We only collect and process your personal information in furtherance of MIT’s legitimate interests and/or to fulfill any contractual obligations with you. If you have concerns about this privacy statement, any of these purposes, or how we communicate with you, please contact us at privacymitsloan@mit.edu. We will always respect a request by you to stop processing your personal information (subject to our legal obligations).

How your information is stored and secured

MIT Sloan uses risk-assessed administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information. There are reasonable security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100 percent secure.

How long we keep your personal information

We consider our relationship with the MIT community to be lifelong. This means that we will maintain a record for you until such time as you tell us that you no longer wish us to keep in touch. After such time, we will retain a core set of information for MIT’s legitimate purposes, such as archival, scientific, and historical research and for the defense of potential legal claims.

Rights for Individuals in the European Economic Area

You have the right in certain circumstances to (1) access your personal information; (2) to correct or erase information; (3) restrict processing; and (4) object to communications, direct marketing, or profiling. To the extent applicable, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation provides further information about your rights. You also have the right to lodge complaints with your national or regional data protection authority.

If you are inclined to exercise these rights, we request an opportunity to discuss with you any concerns you may have. To protect the personal information we hold, we may also request further information to verify your identity when exercising these rights. Upon a request to erase information, we will maintain a core set of personal data to ensure we do not contact you inadvertently in the future, as well as any information necessary for MIT archival purposes. We may also need to retain some financial information for legal purposes, including US IRS compliance. In the event of an actual or threatened legal claim, we may retain your information for purposes of establishing, defending against or exercising our rights with respect to such claim.

By providing information directly to MIT, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area to the United States. You understand that the current laws and regulations of the United States may not provide the same level of protection as the data and privacy laws and regulations of the EEA. You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide any personal data to us.

Additional Information

We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information we will make this clear on our MIT websites or by contacting you directly.

The controller for your personal information is MIT. If you are in the EU and wish to assert any of your applicable GDPR rights, please contact dataprotection@mit.edu.

This policy was last updated in August 2024.