Alumni Security and Privacy Concerns

Changes to the www.washburnrural.com website

As of January 15, 2015 detail alumni contact information is no longer displayed on the www.washburnrural.com website.

The world is changing, and as a result, for the safety and privacy of our alumni, alumni names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses are no longer displayed on this website.

For a plethora of reasons, a few being, web crawler software that is used to gather people’s personal information without the approval of the people whose information is being gathered, internet stalkers, identity thieves, and disgruntled exs, etc., the decision has been made to no longer display alumni’s names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses on the www.washburnrural.com website.

Data collected at www.washburnrural.com is not lost and will be shared with alumni reunion coordinators when requested, however the data is no longer being updated, so eventually its value will be limited.

We also encourage alumni to register with other websites like www.classmates.com and www.reunions.com, to name just two, as reunion coordinators use those websites when trying to locate alumni for up coming events.

I apologize for any inconvenience this change has caused. I feel that the safety and privacy concerns of our alumni outweigh the inconvenience of the change.

Sincerely,
Ted Mitchell
Current web manager

If you have any questions, please email me at tedmitchell@prodigy.net.