Privacy Policy
This privacy policy applies to the Web site only and does not cover information collected on any third-party sites to which this Web site links. This privacy policy is part of, and must be read in conjunction with, the Web site's Terms and Conditions. You can read the entire Terms and Conditions by clicking here. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions in their entirety, please do not use this Web site.
How does the Web site use information supplied by me?
Information collected from users of premium content: If you choose to subscribe to our E-mail newsletters, our online discussion forums, or our premium online content you may be asked to supply certain personally identifying information such as name, postal address, email address or telephone number. This information is retained by College Prowler in order to provide you with the products or services you have requested, including additional information from College Prowler about College Prowler, its affiliates, or selected outside companies whose products or services we feel may be of use to you. Any information from selected outside companies will be transmitted by College Prowler so that such companies will not have access either to your E-mail address or to your other personally identifying information.
Information collected from College Prowler scholarship applicants: When submitting an application for the scholarship contest, applicants may opt-in to receive student related offers from College Prowler and our trusted business partners. The choice is entirely optional and has no impact on the applicant's submission to the scholarship contest. If a scholarship applicant indicates an interest in receiving offers from College Prowler inc. and its trusted business partners, College Prowler reserves the right to use your personal information and may sell or share it with selected outside companies. If you express interest in particular schools or affiliates, College Prowler Inc. may sell or transfer your personal information to those schools or affiliates accordingly.
Information collected from College Prowler account registrants: Information collected in the registration process may include, among other things, name, address, e-mail address, phone number, age, citizenship, details of academic and work history, preferences about the students future and other information entered into the student account. All information entered is voluntary and it is solely up to the student whether he or she furnishes such information. If a student does provide such information, he or she is consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you express interest in particular schools or affiliates, College Prowler Inc. may sell or transfer your personal information to those schools or affiliates accordingly. Visitors to Collegeprowler.com will not be able to view the personal contact information of any College Prowler users. Personal contact information includes a user’s full name, email address, mailing address, and phone number. Only the account user is able to edit and update the information provided in his or her account. We may, on occasion, email our users to send notifications related to features on the site. It is our intention to give access to your account only to the authorized Representatives you designate but we cannot guarantee that others will not, without our consent, access this data. You may opt out of any future usage of your Collegeprowler.com account from our database at any time; however, a Representative may have saved a copy of your account before it was deleted. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of Collegeprowler.com accounts in this situation.
Information collected automatically: When you visit and interact with the Web site certain information may be collected automatically, including but not limited to, your computer's IP address, your browser type, and web pages visited. Please also see our discussion of the use of cookies and other technologies below.
Information sharing: The information that you provide to us and general information collected about your visit to our site may be shared with our suppliers or service providers who assist us in maintaining and managing our newsletters, our archives, our premium online content, our online discussion forums, and other activities on the Web site. In addition, we contract with certain third parties to help manage and optimize our Web site business. These companies may use web beacons and cookies to help us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Such suppliers or service providers may use the information provided only in the course of providing services to College Prowler and they may not contact you or use the information for other purposes. If you would like more information about this practice, you can e-mail support@collegeprowler.com.
While your individual information is protected as discussed above, College Prowler reserves the right to use such individual information to create aggregated, anonymous data about users in order to develop statistics about activity on and visitors to the Web site. In addition, College Prowler may disclose personal information if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Web site; or (4) protect the personal safety, property, or rights of our users or the public.
If, at some point after giving College Prowler your personally identifying information, you do not wish to continue to receive additional information from College Prowler about College Prowler, its affiliates, or selected outside companies, in general, you may opt out by E-mailing support@collegeprowler.com and put the words "remove my name" in the subject line of your E-mail; in the case of our E-mail newsletters, you may opt out by clicking on the "opt out" link at the end of each E-mail.
What are "cookies" and "pixel tags" and how do you use them?
Cookies are pieces of information that are placed by a Web site in a storage place on your computer. Cookies do not contain information that is, in itself, personally identifying. Cookies are placed on your computer in a limited way to help deliver advertisements, to calculate unique site visitors, and to track usage throughout our site. Other uses include placement of cookies to make the login process more convenient for users of our E-mail newsletters, our archives, our premium online content, and our online discussion forums.
We participate in cookie based advertising networks. These networks may use cookies to collect anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not permit these companies to collect any personally identifying information (name, address, email address or telephone number) about you. Click these links to learn more about business practices and privacy policies of these companies, including how to decline participation in these programs. http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html; and http://www.tynt.com/support/opt-inout.
Pixel tags - tiny graphic images – are used to help us analyze your online behavior. Pixel tags also allow us to send you email in a format you can read and let us know when you have opened an email message from us. We may use pixel tags to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with our sites and services. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.
Collegeprowler.com uses ClickTale web analytics service. ClickTale may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, scrolling activity as well as text you type in Collegeprowler.com. Collegeprowler.com does not use ClickTale to collect any personally identifiable information entered in College Prowler. ClickTale does not track your browsing habits across web sites which do not use ClickTale services. For more information see Privacy Policy for Information Collected by the ClickTale Web Analytics Service. We are using the information collected by ClickTale service to help improve the functionality and usability of Collegeprowler.com. You can choose to disable the Service at http://www.clicktale.net/disable.html.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
No one under the age of 13 should provide any personal information. In general, College Prowler does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If in limited circumstances we do knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, we will do so only with verified parental consent prior to collection. In the event that we learn that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete this information from our database as quickly as possible. If you believe the Web site has any information about anyone under 13, please contact us at support@collegeprowler.com.