ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY
Admissionfacts is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all our users. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected online through our Web site, which includes all of the online data collection and usage by Admissionfacts. Please read the complete Admissionfacts Online Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.
What We Do with Collected Information
Use of Cookies
Use of Web Beacons
Controlling Your Personal Information
Security of Your Personal Information
Children's Privacy
Changes in Corporate Structure
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 newslette or answering a survey.
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, surveys and other updates to our users. 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 scholarships to users on behalf of our scholarship providers about a particular scholarship that may be of interest to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission.
We may, at times, produce reports for scholarship providers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic, age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with scholarship providers to provide scholarships that are most relevant to our users. We will never include any personal information of our users in these reports.
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 student 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.
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.
We may also place a cookie on your browser so that this and other Web Sites owned by Admissionfacts.com will recognize you as a unique, anonymous user.
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. 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.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Users can also unsubscribe from any newsletters or opt out of emailings at any time by clicking on "unsubscribe" links in each of our newsletters or emails.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Admissionfacts.com 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.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Admissionfacts.com has a system in place to effectively screen its users to ensure compliance with this Privacy Policy and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet.
Admissionfacts.com will NOT:
Collect online contact information from a user under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent, which includes an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity.
Collect personally identifiable offline contact information from users under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.
If you have any questions regarding the privacy and safety of students on our site, please visit us at our Contact Page .
CHANGES IN CORPORATE STRUCTURE
In developing our business, we might sell certain assets or the company, or parts of it, may be 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 Seattle Washington , in the United States. All matters relating to this site is governed by the laws of the State of Washington in the United States.
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 contact page
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