Privacy Policy
MyCollegeCalendar.org is strongly committed to protecting your privacy
and providing a safe online experience for all of our users. This
Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through MyCollegeCalendar.org's
Web site, which includes all of the MyCollegeCalendar.org College
Admissions Guide Sites and governs online data collection and usage
by MyCollegeCalendar.org. Please read the complete MyCollegeCalendar.org
Online Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.
College and Tracking of Personal Information
What We Do with Collected Information
Use of Cookies
Use of Web Beacons
Controlling Your Personal Information
Security of Your Personal Information
Changes in Corporate Structure
Visitors Outside the United States
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Contact Information
COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
So that we can provide you with the most efficient and enhanced
service, we request information about you. We collect personally
identifiable information such as names, email addresses and demographic
information such as age, gender and zip code. We also may collect
your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring
Web site address. This information is collected both during registration
on a site or in response to specific requests, for example when signing
up for a newsletter or answering
a survey. Information collected at one MyCollegeCalendar.org Web
site will be available within the MyCollegeCalendar.org family of
Web sites.
Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from
third parties not affiliated with MyCollegeCalendar.org. If you decide to accept
these offers, we will provide, with your consent, your information
to the third party. However, you should note that this Privacy Policy
does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties
not affiliated with MyCollegeCalendar.org. Any information users give to another
party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which
may differ from this Privacy Policy. MyCollegeCalendar.org is not responsible for
information given to other parties. Please review their privacy policies
prior to providing any information to third parties.
WHAT WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION
We use personal information so that we may display custom, personalized
content to our visitors and send newsletters, emails, features, promotional
material, surveys and other updates to our users. A user may, at
any time, opt out of receiving such information. We also use collected
information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any
problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what
part of our services are most popular with users.
We may extend offers to users on behalf of our partners about a
particular product or service that may be of interest to you, but
we will never give out your name or personal information at any time
without your permission. As result, although MyCollegeCalendar.org may receive a
fee from our partners for this service, MyCollegeCalendar.org sends all the offers
so that your personal information is never shared with any outside
third party.
We may, at times, produce reports for advertisers containing aggregate
information about our users such as demographic, age and online usage
information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers
to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users.
We will never include any personal information of our users in these
reports.
We allow users of our Web site to send articles or links by email
to other parties who may be interested in them. We do not retain
any email addresses (unless you are a member who already has voluntarily
provided your email address) of either the sender or recipient of
such articles or links after they are sent.
We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without
notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal
request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible
breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property;
to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfill your
requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.
You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information
online (whether through MyCollegeCalendar.org's services or any other service available
online), personal or otherwise, that information can be collected
and used by others. For example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin
boards, your e-mail or if you post personal information online, you
may receive unsolicited messages from others. MyCollegeCalendar.org has no control
over this use of your personal information.
USE OF COOKIES
Your browser offers so-called "cookies" which, if you
allow their use, store small amounts of data on your computer when
you visit a Web site. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable
information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you
personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features
you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according
to your preferences. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies
by modifying your browser and our Web sites are viewable even if
you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you
disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site,
as well as other Web sites, will not be available to you.
Some of the banner ads displayed in our Web sites are provided by
outside companies. These ads contain cookies. While we use cookies
in other parts of our Web sites, cookies received with banner ads
are collected by our advertisers and we do not have access to this
information. We use a reputable third party to serve some or all
of the advertisements that are placed within our sites and they may
use information (not including personally identifiable information)
about your visits to our sites and other sites to assist in serving
advertisements to you.
USE OF WEB BEACONS
Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web
beacons, which are also called single-pixel gifs. These images allow
us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded
services. We also may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages
or newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened
and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally
identifiable information but they are a technique we use to compile
aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect
only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time
and date of a page view, originating IP address, and a description
of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages
may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners
to help us determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal
information they may have provided to MyCollegeCalendar.org by visiting the Member
Center located on the MyCollegeCalendar.org homepage. Users can also unsubscribe
from any newsletters or opt out of various promotional emailings
at any time by visiting the Newsletters section in the Member Center
or clicking on "unsubscribe" links in each of our newsletters
or emails.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
MyCollegeCalendar.org employees are made aware of its privacy practices through
periodic communications and training. We limit access to private
and confidential data only to those employees with a specific need
to retrieve this information and we store data on multiple service
systems, in controlled, secure environments. To maintain our level
of security, we conduct both internal reviews and external audits
of our security measures and procedures on a regular basis.
CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the
company, or parts of it, may be sold, merged or otherwise transferred.
In such transactions, user information, whether personally identifiable
or otherwise, may be one of the transferred assets.
VISITORS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
Our Web site and the servers that make this site available worldwide
are located in the United States. All matters relating to these sites
are governed by the laws of the State of California in the United
States. Any information you provide will be transferred to the United
States. By visiting our sites and submitting information, you authorize
this transfer.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to
maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with
a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when
you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and understand our
current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in
how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information,
we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change.
We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal
information that have retroactive effect unless legally required
to do so.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy
practices, please visit us at http://www.mycollegecalendar.org/help/index.aspx
Or you can contact us by mail at:
Customer Care
MyCollegeCalendar.org
511 Avenue of the Americas #384
New York, NY 10011-8436
Updated January 2008
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