Office of Information Technology

Privacy of Information
Private information must be maintained consistent with federal and state laws and regulations and with college policies. All college employees with access to private information must protect that information in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations and college policy. The college must maintain the following characteristics for private information:

•  must be accessible only by authorized individuals
• must be corrected if incorrect information is known to exist
• must be removed or made inaccessible, if appropriate and if the individual makes this request consistent with federal and state laws and regulations and with college policies
• must be gathered in a manner consistent with federal and state laws and regulations and with college policies
• must be protected using computer based and non‐computer based access controls
• must be retained for the longer amount of time as required by federal and state laws and regulations or as required by college policies and then, unless there is a pending court order, must be disposed of by physical destruction of the media on which the information resides or by erasing the information from the media in a manner that results in the information being totally unrecoverable
• must not be disclosed unless authorized or required by federal and state laws and regulations and by college policies

Who can I contact for help?

Faculty: You can call the OIT help desk at (716) 614-6730, email us at helpcalls@niagaracc.suny.edu or stop into the OIT office in A-131.

Students: You can call the OIT help desk at (716) 210-2505, email us at helpcalls@niagaracc.suny.edu or stop into the OIT office in A-131.