Our Privacy Policy
At www-colleges.info we take your privacy seriously. This document outlines the type of information we receive, how we handle it and what we do to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. This privacy policy may be updated at anytime.
Before you submit any information to Our Web site, please read this Privacy Policy for an explanation of how We will handle your information. By using any part of Our Web site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use Our Web site.
This
web site is provided for information purposes only.
It is intended only to help you understand some of your options of colleges,
courses and education related products and services. Any advice we provide is
not intended as legal advice and should not be relied upon as legal advice.
Nothing transmitted from this web site establishes an attorney-client
relationship between you and Www-colleges.info. Www-colleges.info is not a law
firm.
WHAT
IS OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU?
We are sensitive to your privacy concerns, and are committed to letting you
know what Information is being collected on Our Web site, how the Information
is being used and what choices you have regarding the collection and use of the
Information. Please take a moment to review this Privacy Policy and contact Us with any questions at privacy@www-colleges.info.
PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at
any time. You agree to this Privacy Policy, and any changes to the same, by
visiting this Web site. Therefore, We encourage you to
review this Web site from time to time to review changes to Our Privacy Policy.
WHAT
TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We gather personally identifiable information that you expressly provide when
you enter information into a form on Our Web site including, without
limitation, your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other unique
personal identifiers (e.g., date of birth) (Personal Information). If you
choose not to provide the requested Personal Information, We may not be able to
offer you personalized services that require such information.
We also collect anonymous information, which includes any information that is not tied to your Personal Information, such as your IP address (Anonymous Information). You are not required to register on Our Web site in order for Us to collect Anonymous Information about you. In addition, We may receive information about you from other sources including, but not limited to, service providers for tracking and marketing purposes (Source Information). Source Information may consist of referral data or the Web site you were previously visiting prior to visiting Our Web site; and information related to the browser and/or platform you are using to access Our Web site. Personal Information, Anonymous Information, and Source Information are collectively referred hereinafter as Information.
In addition to the Information that you provide to Us or that We obtain about you, We will also collect certain information arising out of your use of Our Web site, or augment the data We collect with other information from other online or offline sources. We use “cookies" and the Information to enhance your experience and present you with personalized offers. Likewise, We may use third-party advertising companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on Our Web site. Such third-party companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. To learn more about cookies, please see the section below titled Cookies and Web Bugs.
We collect Information about you to (a) provide products, programs, and services that you have requested; (b) operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by Us and Our affiliated companies, successors, and assigns; (c) personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; (d) communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; (e) conduct research about your use of the features, offerings and content from Us, Our parent or sister companies and partners; (f) provide product improvement; (g) pre-populate forms; (h) provide you with advertising targeted to your preferences; and (i) help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you. We also reserve the right to collect and reuse Information about you for marketing purposes.
We reserve the right to collect Information about you and store it in connection with other online or offline information We may possess or obtain about you. Such information may include, without limitation, information about the different sites that you visit on the Internet, the time and frequency at which you visit them, and the content that you transmit or post on other Web sites. Information collected online may be merged with other sources, including offline sources; and information collected online may be stored with information collected form other sources, including offline sources.
WITH
WHOM WILL THE INFORMATION BE SHARED?
We may share Information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies
or for particular purposes including, without limitation, the purposes
described below. In all cases, you may opt-out of sharing your Information with
such providers by choosing not to use or register for that service or content.
Please see Offering You Choices-Marketing Options below for information on how
to opt-out of sharing your Information.
· Service Requests - If you submit a request for a service on Our Web site, We will share Information about you contained in the request form with Our business partners to process and fulfill your request. Our business partners may contact you by telephone, e-mail, or mail based on the Information you provided to Us, even if you have opted into the National Do Not Call List administered by the Federal Trade Commission, any state equivalent Do Not Call List, or the Do Not Call List of a specific company. If one of Our business partners contacts you by telephone and you wish not to be contacted again by that business partner with respect to your inquiry, then you should specifically make a request to that partner not to contact you again.
· Subsidiaries, Parent, or Sister Companies: We may share Information about you with Our subsidiaries, sister companies, parent company, successors, and assigns unless you opt-out of sharing Information with such parties. Please see Offering You Choices-Marketing Options below for information on how to opt-out of sharing your Information.
· Non-Affiliated Companies: We do not share Information with any non-affiliated third party except: (1) in select circumstances when Our business partner refers you to Us and you give Us permission to share specific Information, such as your name and email address, with such business partner on your order form, or (2) when Our business partner provides a product or service that We feel may be of interest to you.
· Required by Law: We may also share Information about you as permitted or required by law including, without limitation, inquires by law enforcement or to comply with Federal laws including, without limitation, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 ("CAN-SPAM Act of 2003").
OFFERING
YOU CHOICES - MARKETING OPTIONS
You have choices when it comes to learning about new
offers or services. If you do not wish to receive offers of products or
services from Us, Our sister companies, or partners, here are the methods you
may employ to opt-out:
· E-mail Opt-out Options: Each marketing e-mail We send includes instructions and an opt-out link.
·
Refusing Cookies: Subject to the section below pertaining to cookies and web bugs, you
have the ability to prohibit being served an advertisement based on cookie
technology. We utilize reputable third-party vendors to serve advertisements.
If however, you are not comfortable with cookies, you can adjust the settings
within your browser to further prohibit being served a cookie. Please see the
browser’s instructions to perform this
task.
The National Advertising Initiative (NAI) has developed an opt-out tool with
the express purpose of allowing consumers to "opt-out" of the
targeted advertising delivered by its member networks. You can visit the NAI
opt-out page and opt-out of this cookie tracking. Please visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
· Other Options: If you would like to opt-out of Our promotional marketing, and would like to contact Us, please send Us an e-mail at privacy@www-colleges.info
Please note that suppressed contact information will not be used for any other purpose except to ensure compliance with your opt-out request and to comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and any other applicable state and/or Federal laws regarding your choices when it comes to commercial marketing.
COOKIES
A cookie is a small piece of information that many Web
sites use to help make shopping online easier. The information is stored on
your computer’s hard drive and provides a number
of conveniences for you. We may set and access cookies on your computer to
provide you with customized content and to assist in providing the services
that you have requested. Most cookies are "session cookies," which
automatically delete themselves from your hard drive after each session. Like
many Web sites, We may automatically track information
based upon your behavior on Our Web sites. We may combine information that We obtain through the use of cookies with Personal
Information, other aggregate or anonymous data, including a unique ID We may
assign you. As described above, We use this information for research purposes
to better understand, protect and service Our
customers. The information We track may include such information as browser
type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type,
date/time stamp, IP address and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer
Our Web sites, track user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use.
If you want to prevent a third-party advertising network from setting and/or reading cookies on your computer, you may wish to alter the cookie settings within your browser. Please review the instructions for your browser on how this is performed. Please see Offering You Choices-Marketing Options above for information on how to opt-out of sharing your Information.
DOES
THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLY TO OTHER
Our Web site may contain links to non-www-colleges.info Web sites. We believe
such other Web sites share a similar commitment to consumer privacy and urge
you to review their privacy policy when visiting their Web sites. We are not
responsible for the privacy policies of other Web sites.
HOW
DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect your
Information. We protect Information about you over the Internet by using a
secure web server, which allows web browser programs (such as Netscape, Firefox
or Microsoft Internet Explorer) to interact with Our
web server via an encrypted session. We employ a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
connection that provides an encrypted connection between your computer and Us. The 128 bit encrypted connection scrambles ordinary text
or data into cyphertext to safeguard sensitive information during its journey
across the Internet. The information is decrypted, or put back into a readable
format, when it reaches its intended destination. Depending on which browser
you use, you will know you are in secured area by "https" or a lock
appearing in the lower right hand corner of your browser window. When you visit
Our Web site, you may move in and out of secured areas.
TRANSFERABILITY
OF INFORMATION
Information collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy by Us may be stored and processed within the
In the event that We are acquired or merge with another company, or upon a sale of all or portion of Our assets, Information about you will be among the assets transferred to the new company. The new company may handle such Information in accordance with its own policies and procedures and not in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
A
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING PEOPLE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
Individuals under the age of eighteen (18) should not send any Information to
Us. Each time you access Our Web site or provide Information about yourself or
anyone else, you are representing to Us that you are eighteen (18) years or
older.
CONTACTING
If you have questions about Our Privacy Policy, please
contact privacy@www-colleges.info.