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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/aboutus/contactus.aspx
MyCollegeCalendar.org
1517 North Point #326
San Francisco, CA 94123
Updated June 2010
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