Our Privacy Policy
At www-college.org 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.
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-college.org. Www-college.org is not a law firm.
WWW-COLLEGE.ORG will not
represent you to provide child support services unless
we accept your case and have entered into a written
agreement. We will not represent you just because you
have transmitted information to us or even because we
may have given you an answer to a question.
The legal principles
discussed at this site may vary for each individual case
or from state to state. Should you have legal questions,
WWW-COLLEGE.ORG recommends you consult an attorney.
WWW-COLLEGE.ORG does
everything technically possible to protect information
transmitted via the Internet. However, please remember
that transmissions on the Internet are not always
confidential. You are transmitting confidential
information at your own risk.
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-college.org.
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 AND WHY?
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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E-mail
Opt-out Options: Each
marketing e-mail We send includes instructions and
an opt-out link.
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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.
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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-college.org
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 AND WEB BUGS
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 WEB SITES?
Our Web site may contain links to non-www-college.org
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
United States of America or in any other country in
which We or Our agents maintain facilities. By using Our
Web site, you consent to any transfer of Information
outside of your country, should We find it necessary.
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-college.org.
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