Privacy Policy Introduction
Information, services, products, and offerings are provided by The College Informant through thecollegeinformant.com. thecollegeinformant.com site is maintained by The College Informant. It is designed to provide access to information, products, and services that facilitate the transition from high school to higher education, make your higher education experience more cost efficient, and to facilitate communication between users and thecollegeinformant.com. thecollegeinformant.com respects each individual’s right to personal privacy. Any information shared between users and thecollegeinformant.com is securely managed and safeguarded in accordance with all applicable law and the policies and guidelines set forth below. This statement applies solely to information collected at thecollegeinformant.com Web site.
Changes to Privacy Statement
These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving. From time to time, thecollegeinformant.com may need to change our privacy statement because of changes in the law, in technology, in thecollegeinformant.com’s organization, or in our attempts to serve your needs better. We will use every effort to communicate in a timely manner any changes to our privacy statement. Below we explain how we may collect personal information, what we do with it, and how we protect it.
Information Collection
The choice of how much personally identifiable information you disclose to us is completely at your discretion. It is not mandatory for you to answer any question, but please realize that in order to serve you better, you will need to provide certain information to access some areas of our site, obtain or register for special services, or complete transactions initiated by you. If you choose not to provide information, we may not be able to permit access to such areas, provide those special services, or complete such transactions.
Information Gathered through Traffic Monitoring
Like many other Web sites, thecollegeinformant.com is equipped with a program that monitors traffic by automatically recording every visitor’s host, domain name, pages visited, length of user sessions, browser type and/or IP address. This program tracks the number of times the site is hit, how many visitors come to the site, which parts of the site they frequent, and the length of time of each visit. This information does not contain personally identifiable information and is used to evaluate areas of interest and to improve thecollegeinformant.com site. We do not employ cookies.
Information Gathered through Registration
thecollegeinformant.com collects full name, email address, telephone number, and other personally identifiable information that is voluntarily provided by the user. A user’s email address and other personally identifiable information collected are used only as described in this Privacy Policy and for the purposes of offering services that, in the opinion of thecollegeinformant.com, may facilitate the transition from high school to college or make your college experience more cost efficient. Any and all personally identifiable information that is collected is maintained by thecollegeinformant.com in accordance with all applicable laws. By providing such information, the user consents to thecollegeinformant’s Privacy Policy, including the uses of the information described in this Policy.
Information Usage
The information collected by thecollegeinformant.com will be used for the purpose of providing access to information, goods, and services that facilitate the transition from high school to college and make your college experience more cost efficient. Users who provide information will be contacted by email, telephone, fax, or mail. Registered users will receive additional announcements from us about services. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. We share personally identifiable information with third parties in order to complete our services. We do not sell the information we collect to any third parties. If our policy on information collection or uses changes, we will immediately advise the general public on the home page of the Web site. Registered users will be notified by email within fifteen days of the change.
What We Will Not Use the Information For
We respect your privacy. Except as described above, or as otherwise provided or permitted by law, your information collected by thecollegeinformant.com will not be sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise used.
thecollegeinformant.com Linked Sites; Affiliates and Selected Vendors
thecollegeinformant.com provides, for the convenience of our users, the opportunity to link to Web sites of organizations not related to thecollegeinformant.com. If you click on a hypertext link that takes you to a Website outside of thecollegeinformant.com, we are not responsible for their privacy policies or information collection practices and uses. In addition, when you initiate a transaction with one of our affiliates or selected vendors through thecollegeinformant.com, the information you submit to the affiliate or selected vendor for the transaction becomes subject to the affiliate or selected vendor’s privacy or information use policies. thecollegeinformant.com is not responsible for the privacy or information use policies of its affiliates and selected vendors.
What choices does the user have?
You will always have the ability to opt not to receive email or other means of communication from thecollegeinformant.com. thecollegeinformant.com respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive special offers or information. If you receive such email or communications and would prefer not to in the future, you may remove your name from thecollegeinformant.com’s list by contacting us at informant@thecollegeinformant.com. Again, please remember, once you have provided information to our affiliates or selected vendors due to transactions initiated by you, we are not responsible for their use of the information, and you should consult their respective privacy and information use policies.
Access to Information
thecollegeinformant.com maintains the accuracy of our information by email, telephone, fax, or mail verification with the user who submitted the information. Users may request their own personal information and contact us about inaccuracies they may find. Requests to remove or update information must be made to thecollegeinformant.com by email, telephone, fax, or mail.
Problem Resolution
If problems arise, users may contact thecollegeinformant.com by email, telephone, fax, or mail. We are committed to resolving disputes within ninety days.
Content
Materials on this site are provided for general information and educational purposes only. Many of the materials are constantly being updated and should not be assume to be up-to-date. Please check dates and times with us directly by email, telephone, fax, or mail to avoid any confusion. None of the content on this website is provided as specific legal advice.
Security
The importance of security for all personal information associated with our users is of utmost concern to us. You must have a secure browser—one that supports secure transmission of data across the Internet—to register for services at thecollegeinformant.com. For more information, use your browser’s help feature. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Email: informant@thecollegeinformant.com
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