Top-Colleges.com Privacy Policy
NOTICE: PRIVACY POLICY UPDATED, EFFECTIVE: 06/28/2011
Top Colleges LLC Respects Your Privacy
This Privacy Policy details Top Colleges LLC's treatment of
personally identifiable information (PII) that it collects when you provide PII
directly to us through this website.
Top Colleges LLC reserves the right to modify this privacy
policy from time to time. Changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this
website and the effective date of the policy will be modified to reflect the
effective date of the most recent version. If a material change to our PII
practices occurs in the future, we will only use PII collected from the time of
the policy change forward for these new purposes unless we have your consent.
Types of Information We Collect or Maintain About Consumers
Personally Identifiable Information
PII is information that allows Top Colleges LLC to identify and
communicate with an individual consumer. Through the use of this, Top Colleges
LLC may collect or maintain the following PII about consumers:
- First and Last Name
- Physical Address
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Fax Number
- Annual Income
- Any other PII the user submits during
the course of normal correspondence with Top Colleges LLC or its
third-party companies
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
Non-personally identifiable information is information collected
by Top Colleges LLC in the normal course of operating its business that does
not reveal the specific identity of the consumer. This data records a
consumer's activity either on the Top Colleges LLC website or within a Top
Colleges LLC-initiated email. Types of non-personally identifiable information
collected include:
- IP Address
- Consumer click-stream data;
- Consumer email-open data;
- Aggregate click-stream data provided to
Top Colleges LLC by third-party companies.
Children's Privacy
Top Colleges LLC places the highest value on the privacy of
children. Top Colleges LLC does not knowingly accept PII from children under
the age of 13.
How We Use Consumer PII
Consumer PII collected on this site.
Top Colleges LLC will not sell, rent, or lease PII collected on
this site to unaffiliated companies except as detailed in this policy.
Affiliated companies are companies under common ownership.
Top Colleges LLC will use consumer PII collected on this site to
contact the consumer in response to consumer-initiated inquiries, to provide
services requested by the consumer, to inform consumers of other companies'
products or services, to alert consumers to changes in services or features,
and to provide consumers with requested information regarding Top Colleges LLC
or our services. Top Colleges LLC may share this PII with service providers who
assist us with our marketing efforts, but those service providers will not use
this PII for their own marketing purposes and are prohibited by contract from
sharing this PII with any party other than Top Colleges LLC or its parent
company.
Top Colleges LLC will also share PII with third parties when
necessary to complete a consumer-initiated transaction; these third parties may
contact the consumer directly in an effort to provide the goods or services
requested by the consumer. For example, when you fill out a form requesting
information from a particular educational institution, we will share this
information with that educational institution. For information on how these
third parties will treat your PII after it is provided to them, please see that
third party’s privacy policy.
Top Colleges LLC may use data-enhancement providers to augment
data provided to us by consumers on this site. Data-enhancement providers will
not use the data for any purpose other than to provide the enhancement
information to Top Colleges LLC, and are prohibited by contract from sharing
that PII with any party other than Top Colleges LLC. Top Colleges LLC may, in
order to provide the highest level of service, use data collected through
affiliated organizations to enhance the data we collect on this site.
Top Colleges LLC may share data with any company that is under
common ownership or is legally affiliated with Top Colleges LLC, including but
not limited to Datran Media. These companies will adhere to the terms of this
privacy policy and will not share your information with any unaffiliated third
party, except in the limited circumstances detailed in this policy.
Top Colleges LLC may also share PII in the following limited
circumstances: (1) upon receipt of a properly authorized and authenticated
governmental request for information; (2) in response to a subpoena or a court
order, (3) to comply with relevant laws; (4) in response to an investigation of
fraud regarding a specific consumer, or (5) in an effort to safeguard the
person or property of a Top Colleges LLC employee or a third party.
Finally, Top Colleges LLC may, in the future, decide to sell,
merge or otherwise reorganize its business. Top Colleges LLC reserves the right
to transfer and disclose PII in this circumstance, but data collected by Top
Colleges LLC will be governed by the same privacy policy that existed prior to
any change in business conditions unless you consent to the new privacy policy.
European Union Residents
For PII collected from consumers inside the European Union, Top
Colleges LLC will not manage that consumer data unless that consumer first
requested, pursuant to clear and conspicuous notice, to receive such types of
marketing communications. Moreover, the EU recipient must be given clear and
conspicuous notice that the data is going to be shared with third parties for
marketing purposes, and that notice must be given prior to receipt of the
recipient's permission.
Cookies
Top Colleges LLC may employ both first-party and third-party
"cookies" to help customize your access to the website, and for the
delivery of targeted advertisements. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your
hard drive containing activity-based information about you. Cookies have many
benefits to enhance your experience at our website and to facilitate the
receipt of targeted advertisements. The cookie is not associated with your
personally identifiable information.
One of our third-party cookie partners is Datran Media (for
information on Datran Media's cookie program, please visit http://www.datranmedia.com/aperture).
To opt out of Datran Media's cookie-based marketing program, click
here.
We use cookies to track, monitor and target the interests of our
users to further enhance the experience on our website, and for subsequent
advertising and/or delivery purposes. To find out more about cookies, please
visit http://www.cookiecentral.com/.
To disable and reject cookies generally, click here.
In addition, for the purpose of formatting and delivering future
campaigns, Top Colleges LLC may employ pixel tags (also known as clear gifs) to
track: 1) the pages that our users visit on affiliate and/or partner websites;
and 2) user opens of, and clicks on, our targeted email advertising. We reserve
the right to employ user source information, including applicable category and
interest(s), for the marketing of targeted e-mail messages. This source
information may be shared with our third party marketing partners. Top Colleges
LLC reserves the right to retain cookie and pixel tag data indefinitely.
Group and Aggregate Data
Top Colleges LLC reserves the right to provide aggregate or
group data about Top Colleges LLC users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group
data is data that describes the demographics, usage, or characteristics of Top
Colleges LLC participants as a group, without disclosing PII.
Right to Contact Via Telephone
In addition, by registering at the website, you agree that such
act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Amended
Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR §310 et seq.), as amended from time to time
(the “Rule”). Notwithstanding that your telephone number may be listed on the
Federal Trade Commission's Do-Not-Call List, we reserve the right to contact
you via telemarketing in accordance with the Rule.
Security
We endeavor to safeguard and protect our users' information.
When users submit information at the website, such information is protected
both online and offline. The servers in which we store PII are kept in a secure
physical environment. Top Colleges LLC has security measures in place to
protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information under
our control. Please be advised that, although we take reasonable technological
precautions to protect your data, no data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, Top Colleges LLC cannot warrant that
your information will be absolutely secure. Any transmission of data at or
through our website is at your own risk. However, access to your information is
strictly limited, and not accessible to the public.
Access:
Consumers wishing to review PII collected by Top Colleges LLC on
this site should write to Top Colleges LLC Privacy Department, 908 Audelia,
Suite 200-179, Richardson, TX 75081. Top Colleges LLC may take reasonable steps
to confirm the identity of the consumer in an effort to prevent identity theft.
Consumers wishing to review PII list managed by Top Colleges LLC
but collected on a third-party site pursuant to the third-party's privacy
policy should contact the third-party company responsible for the collection of
the consumer's PII.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California
residents who have provided PII to Top Colleges LLC to request certain
information regarding Top Colleges LLC's disclosure of PII to third parties for
their direct marketing purposes. Within thirty days of receiving such a
request, we will provide a list of the categories of PII disclosed to third
parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately
preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third
parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We
reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the
address specified in this section.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please
contact us at info@top-colleges.com
or in writing at:
Top Colleges LLC
Customer Service Department
908 Audelia, Suite 200-179
Richardson, TX 75081
