Privacy Policy - This policy is effective as of January 13th, 2006
The Admissionchances.com Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about the personal information that we collect and use on this site. This policy is designed to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Admissionchances website located at www.admissionchances.com (the "Web Site").
Information We Collect:
- When you visit the Web Site, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that we collect and the Web Site use information collected by us on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
- When you register on the Web Site, you provide us with certain personal information such as your email address, your location, colleges you are applying to, and your academic statistics that includes, but is not limited to, SAT® scores, ACT® scores, extracurricular activities, awards, and grade-point average. We also collect any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
- Upon your entrance, the Web Site also automatically collects
information about your computer such as your IP address, browser type and setting, date and time of your request. This information is gathered for all users who use the Web Site. Moreover, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies", which is a piece of data stored on the user's computer, or the server that is tied to information about the user. We use session variables to confirm to track users who are logged in. These cookies terminate upon logging out or terminating the browser. We do not use cookies to collect private information from any user.
- Admissionchances may collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers and instant messaging services. This information is gathered regardless of your use of the Web Site.
Children Under Age 13:
-Admissionchances does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us -- including information like your name, or e-mail address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our Web Site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: info at admissionchances dot com.
Children Between the Ages 13 and 18:
- We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for
permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone
over the Internet.
Use of Information Obtained by Admissionchances:
-When you register on the Web Site, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information is displayed to users, or reviewers, only if you enable such function in your privacy settings of the Web Site. We may use your nickname and email address to send you notifications regarding the Web Site and, occasionally, new services that we think you may find valuable.
-When you sign up on our site, you grant Admissionchances the permission to use your information to generate statistics with the profiles you input. This shall remain completely anonymous, meaning that your email address or nickname will not be associated with your profile. No information regarding your academic profile will be available to any user of the Web Site who has not yet registered.
-We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our services. Your registration on the Web Site confirms that you acknowledge this fact.
-We, however, do not claim any responsibility for
any actions taken by other users who use the services on our site.
-Admissionchances users may modify or remove any of their
personal information at any time by logging into their account. We make good faith efforts to provide you access to your personal information upon request and to let you correct such data if it is inaccurate and delete it, when reasonably possible.
Information will be updated immediately.
How Third Parties May Use Your Information:
- We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship. The following are examples of how we may use your information.
-We may provide information to service providers to help bring you the services we offer.
We may use third parties to facilitate our business and our service providers may have access to your personal information for use in connection with these business activities.
-We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we may share your information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
-If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Web Site were to change, your user information would likely be transferred to the new owner.
-Admissionchances does not claim ANY responsibility for your actions as a result of clicking on any form of links of other web sites on Admissionchances. Admissionchances does not have access to or control of
the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers.
Thse third parties may also download cookies to your computer to track your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this manner, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using
your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which
advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising
network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of
most interest to you. This privacy statement solely covers Admissionchances, and Admissionchances only.
Security:
- Admissionchances takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. If you have any questions about the security, please log in and use the Feedback function to contact us.
When you sign up for our services, you acknowledge that you have understood the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please log in and use the Feedback function to contact us or contact use at info at admissionchances dot com.
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