Last revised: August 23rd, 2010

CollegeConvo Inc (Heretofore referred to as "COLLEGECONVO.COM") has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected and used. COLLEGECONVO.COM reserves the right to change this policy at any point in time. COLLEGECONVO.COM will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting a news story under the News/Press portion of the COLLEGECONVO.COM site.

Information Collection

COLLEGECONVO.COM collects user submitted information such as name, email address, and age to validate users and to send notifications to those users concerning the COLLEGECONVO.COM service. COLLEGECONVO.COM also collects other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, level of education, school information and occupation in order to aid users in finding and communicating with each other.

COLLEGECONVO.COM also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, cumulative user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to administer the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to offer more appropriate services along with advertisements to members. User IP addresses are also recorded for security and monitoring reasons.

User Profile information including, but not limited to, pictures and User IDs are displayed to people in order to make user interaction possible in the COLLEGECONVO.COM social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purpose of encouraging new friends to join COLLEGECONVO.COM, to send announcements related to the service, and for advertisement purposes. With the exception of inviting friends and notifications, a perspective user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's public or personal network. Users within public and personal networks communicate on COLLEGECONVO.COM with each other through the use of COLLEGECONVO.COM services. A user’s email address will be disclosed through their profile unless the user selects to hide their email address by selecting the option under ‘Preferences’ during their registration process.  A user may also change this preference after registration by editing their profile.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or other news concerning the service.  These emails may contain advertisements for products or services.  Users may choose not to receive email of this type by selecting the ‘No’ option under ‘Preferences’ for the newsletter.  A user may also change this preference after registration by editing their profile.

From time to time, COLLEGECONVO.COM or an advertiser may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on COLLEGECONVO.COM. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address, home address or phone number to answer questions in order to participate. COLLEGECONVO.COM reserves the right to transfer a user’s personal information to advertisers who offer services or products that may be of interest to the user.

A user posts User Content (as defined in the COLLEGECONVO.COM Terms of Use) on COLLEGECONVO.COM at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are flawless or impenetrable. We are not be responsible for nor can control the actions of other Users with whom you may elect to share your information, images, or video with. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on COLLEGECONVO.COM will not be seen by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for penetration or circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on COLLEGECONVO.COM. Users understand, agree and accept that, even after deletion, copies of User Content may remain accessible in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any wrongful acquisition or misuse of information provided on COLLEGECONVO.COM is a violation of the COLLEGECONVO.COM Terms of Use and should be reported to us via our contact us form.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about anything on our site, we will ask you for your friend's email address and name. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit and join COLLEGECONVO.COM. COLLEGECONVO.COM may store this information to send this one-time email, to register and to track the acceptance rate and overall success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the visitor's hard drive containing information about the visitor. Advertisers of COLLEGECONVO.COM may require cookies to track statistical demographics including data about users, products and locations, but at no time are these linked to any personal identification. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set; each browser is unique, be sure to check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to set your cookie preferences; however, you must enable cookies from COLLEGECONVO.COM in order to utilize many functions on the site. Please note that COLLEGECONVO.COM allows third party advertisers with advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the COLLEGECONVO.COM Privacy Policy.

Log Files

COLLEGECONVO.COM keeps log files on broad demographic fields to analyze trends, track user movements, and gather basic data for demographic research. This is not attached in anyway to visitor's personal identification.

Sharing

Except as otherwise expressed in this privacy statement, COLLEGECONVO.COM will not reveal personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: to comply to state or federal laws or any other legal requirements by governing agencies; or to answer to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal procedure received by COLLEGECONVO.COM, whether or not the law deems it mandatory to answer; to enforce the COLLEGECONVO.COM Terms of Use Agreement or to safeguard COLLEGECONVO.COM’s rights or the rights of members of the public and users of the service.

Links

Links that take users to other sites not affiliated with COLLEGECONVO.COM have their own privacy statements. We are not responsible for privacy policies of other websites linked to and from COLLEGECONVO.COM. Please be sure to fully read the privacy statement of each website linked to and from COLLEGECONVO.COM for information and data use for visitor's personal identification. Our privacy statement applies solely to COLLEGECONVO.COM.

Revisions to Policy

Visitors and members should check back to this page and review the date at the top for revisions to the privacy policy. If a visitor or user decides that our policy change does not meet their expectations, they can choose at anytime not to utilize our website.