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Privacy Policy

Road To College has a firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following statement explains our policy in regard to the collection and use of any personal information you may give us as you use the Road To College website located at www.roadtocollege.com (the “Web Site”) or any other part of Road To College (collectively the “Service”). Your continued use of the Web Site or the Service evidences your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time to comply with any applicable state or federal regulations, to utilize new technologies or to improve your experience. If we change the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and to whom we will disclose it. This policy was last changed and posted on our Web Site on September 1, 2003.

Information we collect
In order to participate in the Service, you understand and agree that you may be asked to provide Personal Identifying Information as part of the registration process and at other points in using the Service, and that we will store information that you provide. This information may include the following: E-mail, Password, First Name, Last Name. In addition, we collect information about our users that cannot be used to personally identify you. This information may include the web site’s Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We collect this non-personal information to help diagnose problems with our server and the Web Site, to administer and improve the Service and to understand the special interests and individual habits of our users so that we can personalize the services we make available to you.

How we use the information
Our primary goal in collecting Personal Identifying Information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience that will help you get the most from the Web Site and our Services. In the course of our business we may share your Personal Identifying Information in aggregated form to provide statistical user data about our subscribers to advertisers, potential advertisers, content licensors or other third parties who we believe can provide services or products that are useful to you. Unless you opt out, we may use your Personal Identifying Information to contact you about any of our other products or services. In addition, at various points in using the Web Site or the Service we may use your Personal Identifying Information so that we can perform tasks you request in the Service, such as fulfill orders or make non-guaranteed estimations of your admission candidacy.

Use of Cookies
Cookies are small data text files that are sent from a server computer to your computer during a browsing session. The cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used by web sites to simulate a continuous connection to that web site. In order to make our Web Site more responsive to the needs of our users, we use cookies to assign your Internet browser a unique random number, a sort of anonymous user ID that is stored in a file on your computer. Our Web Site uses cookies in order to make sure that the content delivered to you is specific to your interests and demographics. In this way, we can tailor our Web Site to your needs, to deliver a better, more personalized service, and to track the pages on our Web Site visited by our users. This unique identification number automatically identifies your browser to our computers whenever you interact on the Web Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but contain an option for you to turn off the cookies acceptance if you prefer. If you turn off your cookies acceptance, you may not be able to gain full access to all the services provided on the Web Site.

Links to Third Parties
The Web Site contains links to other web sites. By clicking on any of these links, you are leaving the Web Site. We have no control over the information collected from or about you by any third party after you have left the Web Site. This Privacy Policy does not cover the data collection and use practices of any third party that is linked to the Web Site. We assume no liability and are not responsible for any practices of such third party web sites, including their privacy practices or content.

Required Disclosure
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on us. In addition, we may disclose your personal information to law enforcement authorities investigating suspected illegal activity or to its legal advisors in connection with a suspected violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.

Security
We use industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Nonetheless, due to the inherent dangers of the Internet we cannot guarantee the protection of such information against loss, misuse or alteration.

A special notice to parents of children under the age of 13
In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and fair information practices, children under the age of 13, are not allowed to register as users of our Service and we do not knowingly collect any personal identifying information from children.

Delete/Deactivate
You may remove information from our database, elect not to receive future communications from third parties, elect not receive information from us about our new product or special offers, and/or choose to no longer receive the Service by sending an e-mail stating your removal requests to newsletter@roadtocollege.com. This email must include the user’s full name, address and contact information in the request in order to allow us to verify the users identity.

Modify
You may modify information previously provided by changing the information in the forms within the Web Site. To contact the Website if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Service, or your dealings with this Website, please contact:

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