WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS:
This Privacy Policy covers how FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com
treats the personal information that we collect when you visit
FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com (our Website). If you do not agree
to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this
Website. USE OF THIS WEBSITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE
TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY. This Privacy Policy does not
apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control.
For example, our Website may contain links to other third party
websites (such as those of our marketing partners or advertisers),
which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We
are not responsible for the activities that take place on such
websites. Please refer to those sites own privacy policies to
learn how they collect and use information about you.
SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN:
We do not direct our Website to, nor do we knowingly collect
any personal information from, children under the age of thirteen.
If we learn that we have inadvertently received personal information
from a child under the age of thirteen, we will promptly delete
that information from our database. FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com
requests that children thirteen through seventeen do not submit
or post information to the website without a parent or guardian's
consent. FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com may collect information,
including personally identifying information, from users between
the ages of thirteen though seventeen, and with the permission
of their parent or guardian this information may be used for
marketing and promotional purposes by FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com
and may be shared with prescreened third parties.
INFORMATION COLLECTION NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION:
When you visit our Website, our server logs collect non-personal
information from you, including your browser type, IP address,
and cookie information. We may also collect information about
your browsing behavior, including the pages that you visit.
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We collect personal information, including but not limited to
your email address, name, address, zip code, phone number, gender,
date of birth and personal interests, when you register with
our Website, enter promotions or sweepstakes, request information
on products and services, including those that are advertised
on our Website, complete surveys, post messages to a bulletin
board on our site, communicate with us via email, and make postings
on our site, including any chat areas on our site.
COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS:
We may use cookies to: (1) access your registration preferences
so that we can provide you with better and more personalized
content; (2) display the most appropriate advertising, based
on your interests and activities; (3) estimate our audience
size; and (4) measure our audiences traffic patterns. You are
always free to decline cookies, but by doing so you may not
be able to use certain features of our Website or take full
advantage of our offerings. You can configure your browser to
accept all cookies, reject all cookies, erase cookies or notify
you when a cookie is set. Each browser is different, so check
the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change
your cookie preferences.
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you, we
have relationships with other companies that we allow to place
third parties ads on our Website. These companies may set and
access their own cookies on your computer. This means that,
as a result of your visit to our Website, these companies may
collect information from you, such as your domain type, your
IP address and clicking behavior. These companies collection
and use of your information is subject to their own privacy
policies.
We may use web beacons (an HTML image tag that serves as a pixel)
to transfer some or all of the personal and non-personal information
that we collect from registrants to third-party advertisers
in cases where registrants have expressed interest (such as
by clicking on a link for more information) in advertisements
on our Website. Third parties may also use web beacons in email
to registrants or on our Website, for example, by serving a
third-party survey using web beacons framed by one of our pages.
INFORMATION USE:
We may use the information we collect for any of the following
purposes: (1) to improve the content of our Website, (2) to
customize the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual
visitor, (3) to notify you about updates to our Website, (4)
to conduct research, (5) to fulfill your requests for products
and services, (6) to send you information and promotional materials
and offers from us as well as from our affiliates, marketing
partners, advertisers and other third parties, (7) to contact
you when necessary, (8) to help address problems with our Website
or marketing services, (9) to administer our Website, (10) to
help us better understand visitors' use of our Website, (11)
to protect the security or integrity of our Website, (12) to
deliver targeted display advertisements and offers to you, and
(13) to enable our marketing partners, advertisers and other
third parties to communicate with site visitors.
INFORMATION SHARING:
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you
with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide
information, products or services you have requested, when we
have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
(1) We provide your personal information to our trusted marketing
and business partners, advertisers and other third parties who
may communicate with you about offers from us and others.
(2) We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process,
or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against
legal claims.
(3) We believe it is necessary to share information in order
to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities,
suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the
physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use,
or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
(4) We may transfer information about you if all or part of
our company or our operations are acquired by or merged with
another company.
(5) We may disclose your personal information to our employees,
independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants,
business associates, service providers and suppliers, if the
disclosure will enable any of these entities to perform a business,
professional or technical support function for us.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
In no event shall FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com, its parent or
subsidiary companies or its affiliates or suppliers be liable
for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential
or other damages arising out of or in any way connected with
the use of this service or with the delay or inability to use
this service, or for any information, software, products, and
services advertised in or obtained through the service, FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com’s
removal or deletion of any materials or records submitted or
posted on its site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the
service, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or
otherwise, even if FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com or any of its
subsidiary companies, affiliates or suppliers has been advised
of the possibility of damages. This waiver applies, without
limitation, to any damages or injury arising from any failure
of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect,
delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, file corruption,
communication-line failure, network or system outage, theft,
destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of
any record. You specifically acknowledge and agree that FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com,
its parent or subsidiary companies, affiliates or suppliers
shall not be liable for any defamatory, offensive or illegal
conduct of any user of the service. Some States do not allow
the exclusion or limitation of incidental damages, so the above
limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. This warranty
gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other
rights which vary from State to State.
INDEMNIFICATION:
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com,
its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees
and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, suits
or proceedings, as well as any and all losses, liabilities,
damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys
fees) arising out of or accruing from: (a) any material posted
or otherwise provided by you that infringes any copyright, trademark,
trade secret, trade dress, patent or other intellectual property
right of any person or defames any person or violates their
rights of publicity or privacy; (b) any misrepresentation made
by you in connection with your use of the service; (c) any non-compliance
by you with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy;
and (d) claims brought by persons or entities other than the
parties to this Privacy Policy arising from or related to your
access and use of the service, including the information obtained
though the service.
CHANGING CONTACT PREFERENCES:
We and our marketing partners may contact you by email, postal
mail and telephone concerning products and services we think
may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to be contacted
by us, or you wish to correct or update your contact information,
please send us an email at admin@FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com
or visit us at www.FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com and provide
your full name and the email address, postal address and/or
telephone number at which you no longer wish to be contacted.
Any personal information we provide to a marketing partner is
subject to that marketing partners own Privacy Policy. If you
wish to change the way a marketing partner contacts you, you
must contact the marketing partner directly.
CHILD ONLINE PROTECTION ACT NOTIFICATION:
Pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 230(d) as amended, FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com
hereby notifies you that parental control protections (such
as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially
available that may assist you in limiting access to material
that is harmful to minors. Information identifying current providers
of such protections is available at the Electronic Frontier.
MISCELLANEOUS:
This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without giving
effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Although you acknowledge
that we will have the ability to enforce our rights in any court
of competent jurisdiction, you hereby consent to the exclusive
jurisdiction and venue of courts in Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.,
regarding any and all disputes relating to this Privacy Policy
or your use of the service. You acknowledge and agree that the
warranty disclaimers and liability and remedy limitations in
this Privacy Policy are material terms of this Privacy Policy
and that they have been taken into account in the decision of
FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com to provide the service hereunder.
You may not assign any of your rights, obligations or privileges
hereunder without the prior written consent of FindCollegeDegreesOnline.com.
Any assignment of the foregoing other than as provided for in
this subsection shall be null and void. If any provision of
this Privacy Policy shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason
unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable
from this Privacy Policy, shall be enforced to the fullest extent
allowed by law as to effect the intention of the parties, and
shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining
provisions. This Privacy Policy and any posted operating rules
constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect
to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all prior or contemporaneous
communications and proposals, whether oral or written, between
the parties with respect to the subject matter. No waiver of
any provision or any right granted hereunder will be effective
unless set forth in a written instrument signed by the waiving
party. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder
shall be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default.
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or
exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the service
or access to the service. The title and subtitles used in this
Privacy Policy are used for convenience only and are not to
be considered in construing or interpreting this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY:
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the
amended terms on our Website. All revisions shall automatically
be effective 5 days after they are posted.
Last revision date: July 12, 2011
QUESTIONS?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please email
marketing@themediacrew.com