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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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