Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 23, 2026
Hawaii Medical College respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, retain, and protect personal information when you visit our website, submit an inquiry, request information, apply for admissions, register for programs, request financial aid information, subscribe to updates, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with Hawaii Medical College. This Privacy Policy applies to website visitors, prospective students, students, alumni, parents or guardians where applicable, applicants, employees, contractors, business contacts, and others who interact with us. In this Privacy Policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Hawaii Medical College. By using this website or providing personal information to us, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website or submit personal information to us.
1. Who We Are
Hawaii Medical College provides healthcare career education, training programs, admissions information, student support, career services, community resources, and related educational services in Hawaii. For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, you may contact us at:
Hawaii Medical College
Email: help@hmi.edu
Website: https://hmi.edu/
Privacy Request Form
2. What Personal Information Means
“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular person or household. Personal information may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, admissions information, student information, education history, employment information, financial aid inquiry information, online identifiers, communication history, or information you submit through our website forms.
3. Personal Information We Collect
The personal information we collect depends on how you interact with us.
Information You Provide Directly
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide, including:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Mailing address, where applicable
- Date of birth, where applicable
- Program of interest
- Admissions, enrollment, or application-related information
- Education history or employment information you choose to provide
- Financial aid inquiry information, where applicable
- Student support, career services, or alumni-related information, where applicable
- Parent, guardian, or emergency contact information, where applicable
- Business name or organization name, where applicable
- Preferred contact method
- Information submitted through website forms
- Messages, comments, or communications you send to us
- Newsletter or event signup information, where applicable
- Payment, billing, or transaction-related information where applicable
- Any other information you choose to provide
Information Collected Through Website Forms and Communications
When you submit a form, request information, apply for admissions, inquire about financial aid, register for events, subscribe to updates, or contact us, we may collect and store the information you provide so we can respond to your inquiry, process your request, maintain communication records, and manage our relationship with you.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, including IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring website, pages viewed, time spent on pages, clicks and website interactions, approximate location derived from IP address, cookie identifiers, pixel identifiers, and analytics identifiers.
4. How We Collect Personal Information
We may collect personal information when you submit a form on our website, request information about programs, admissions, enrollment, financial aid, events, or services, apply for admissions or register for programs where applicable, subscribe to updates, contact us by email, phone, form, or other communication method, interact with our website, or through cookies, analytics tools, pixels, and similar technologies.
5. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to respond to inquiries, process admissions, enrollment, event, financial aid, student support, or service requests, communicate with prospective students, students, alumni, parents or guardians where applicable, community partners, and business contacts, provide program, admissions, student support, career services, alumni, event, and organizational updates, provide customer service or student support, manage student, prospect, applicant, alumni, subscriber, and business contact relationships, send newsletters, updates, announcements, recruiting communications, or marketing communications where permitted, process payments, billing, or related transactions where applicable, improve our website, content, programs, services, and user experience, measure website performance, conduct analytics and reporting, prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or illegal activity, comply with legal, regulatory, accreditation, contractual, payment, tax, accounting, education, and business obligations, maintain internal records, enforce our terms, rights, agreements, or policies, and evaluate or complete an organizational or business transaction.
6. How We Share Personal Information
We may share personal information with trusted third parties when needed to operate our website, manage communications, process requests or payments, provide programs or services, or support our organization. These third parties may include website hosting and technology providers, website form providers, email or communication providers, admissions, student information, learning management, event, or enrollment management providers where applicable, payment, billing, or financial aid support providers where applicable, analytics and website performance providers, advertising, remarketing, and pixel technology providers where applicable, student support, career services, alumni, and business operations providers, contractors, consultants, or service providers assisting with our organization, accounting, tax, legal, insurance, accreditation, compliance, and professional advisors, information technology and security providers, and government agencies, regulators, accrediting bodies, or law enforcement when required or appropriate.
We share only the information reasonably needed for these providers to perform their services. We do not allow service providers to use your personal information for their own marketing purposes unless permitted by law and disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We may also share personal information if required by law or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Hawaii Medical College, our visitors, students, applicants, alumni, employees, website, or others.
7. Payments, Tuition, and Transactions
If payments, tuition payments, fees, event registrations, or other transactions are accepted through our website or related organizational processes, they may be processed by third-party payment processors or payment platforms. We do not intentionally collect or store full payment card numbers on our website. Payment information is handled by payment processors according to their own privacy and security practices.
8. Cookies, Pixels, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, analytics tools, advertising technologies, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used to operate the website, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the website, measure website performance, improve website functionality, detect fraud or security issues, understand the effectiveness of outreach or recruiting efforts, and provide more relevant content or advertising, where applicable.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to work. Other cookies and pixels may be used for analytics, advertising, or marketing purposes. You may manage cookies through your browser settings. If the website uses a cookie consent or preference management tool, you may also manage your preferences through the Cookie Preferences link or tool available on the website.
9. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging personal information for money. However, like many websites, we may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, advertising platforms, and marketing technologies that may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” targeted advertising, or cross-context behavioral advertising under certain privacy laws. Where required by applicable law, you may opt out of certain cookies, pixels, analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies by using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or Cookie Preferences tool available on our website.
10. Email, SMS, and Marketing Communications
We may contact you by email, phone, text message, or other communication methods for inquiries, admissions updates, enrollment communications, student support updates, event updates, career services communications, newsletters, recruiting communications, promotions, or other communications related to Hawaii Medical College.
You may opt out of marketing or recruiting emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us directly. Even if you opt out of marketing or recruiting emails, we may still send transactional, admissions-related, enrollment-related, student-related, service, legal, safety, or relationship-related communications.
SMS/Text Messages
If you provide your mobile phone number and opt in to receive text messages, you consent to receive text messages from or on behalf of Hawaii Medical College. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. You may opt out of text messages at any time by replying “STOP” or following the instructions provided in the message. We do not sell, rent, or share SMS opt-in consent or mobile phone numbers with third parties for their own promotional use.
11. How Long We Retain Personal Information
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the purpose for collection, legal, regulatory, accreditation, educational, or organizational needs, and applicable obligations.
12. How We Protect Personal Information
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, loss, alteration, or destruction. No website, system, transmission, or storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to protect personal information using reasonable safeguards.
13. Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live and how you interact with us, you may have certain privacy choices or rights regarding your personal information. These may include the ability to request access, correction, deletion, stop-contact requests, marketing or recruiting communication opt-outs, cookie opt-outs, and information about how we collect, use, share, or retain personal information. To exercise a privacy choice or submit a privacy request, contact us at: Email: help@hmi.edu Privacy Request Form
14. State-Specific Privacy Rights
Residents of certain states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state privacy laws. Depending on your state and whether a particular law applies to Hawaii Medical College, these rights may include the right to know or access the personal information we collect, receive a copy of personal information in a portable format, correct inaccurate personal information, delete personal information, opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling, limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, and not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.
15. California Privacy Notice
This section applies to California residents where applicable. Depending on our organizational activities, applicable law, and the volume and type of personal information processed, certain California privacy laws may or may not apply to Hawaii Medical College in a particular year. Even where we may not be legally required to honor every request under the California Consumer Privacy Act or California Privacy Rights Act, we strive to provide reasonable privacy choices as a best practice.
Categories of Personal Information We May Collect
In the past 12 months, we may have collected identifiers, customer/student/applicant records, commercial or transaction information where applicable, education-related information where applicable, internet or electronic network activity, geolocation information, audio/electronic/visual or similar information, professional or employment-related information where applicable, and inferences or preferences.
Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from you directly, parents or guardians where applicable, your communications with us, website forms, admissions or enrollment forms, event registration forms, payment transactions, website cookies, analytics and similar technologies, email and communication platforms, publicly available sources, and service providers.
Business or Organizational Purposes
We may collect, use, or share personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including responding to inquiries, processing admissions, enrollment, financial aid, or student support requests, providing programs or services, sending communications, student support, career services, alumni communications, recruiting, outreach, marketing, analytics, security, compliance, and organizational operations.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money. However, our use of certain cookies, pixels, analytics tools, advertising platforms, or marketing technologies may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California privacy law.
Sensitive Personal Information
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those reasonably necessary to fulfill programs or services, process admissions, enrollment, financial aid, or payments, comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud, protect security, support safety, or support organizational operations.
Children’s Personal Information
We do not knowingly sell or share personal information of individuals under the age of 16.
California Financial Incentive Notice
We do not currently offer a loyalty, rewards, or financial incentive program that provides benefits in exchange for the collection, sale, sharing, or retention of personal information. If we offer a promotion, giveaway, event incentive, scholarship-related promotion, or similar program that may be considered a financial incentive under applicable privacy laws, we will provide additional terms or notice at the time of participation.
16. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through our website without appropriate parental or guardian consent. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, please contact us at help@hmi.edu.
17. Third-Party Websites and Services
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, admissions platforms, student portals, payment platforms, event platforms, social media platforms, job or career platforms, or other third-party services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites or services.
18. Business Transfers
We may disclose or transfer personal information in connection with an organizational or business transaction, such as a merger, consolidation, restructuring, financing, transfer of assets, transfer of records, or similar event.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, programs, services, technology, legal requirements, or organizational operations. When we update this Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date above. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice where appropriate.
20. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your privacy choices, please contact us:
Hawaii Medical College
Email: help@hmi.edu
Website: https://hmi.edu/
Privacy Request Form
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
