Company Practices Regarding Your Privacy
We at 10,000Scholarship.com and our affiliated companies
worldwide are committed to respecting your online privacy
and recognize your need for appropriate protection and management
of any information you share with us by using our web sites.
10,000Scholarship.com has established the following Online
Privacy Policy so that you can understand the care with which
we intend to treat your information. This policy describes
the overall privacy practices of 10,000Scholarship.com regarding
information we collect on our network of web sites and through
our other Internet advertising mediums, including but not
limited to email, newsletters, and leave-behinds. This policy
does not apply to the practices of companies that 10,000Scholarship.com
does not own or control, or to people that 10,000Scholarship.com
does not employ.
Information Collected by 10,000Scholarship.com
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information
10,000Scholarship.com collects various types of information
from you to better meet your needs and to provide you with
a more relevant user experience. Some of this information
is collected automatically through cookies (a small text file
placed on your computer) or other Internet tracking technologies.
The type of information your browser or Internet session may
automatically provide us with can include the browser you
are using, your Internet domain, the operating system on your
computer, your IP address and the URL you saw just before
coming to the 10,000Scholarship.com site, the pages of the
site you visited and the URL of the page you visited upon
leaving the site. 10,000Scholarship.com may also contract
with reputable third-party advertising companies to serve
ads on our behalf. These companies may also use cookies or
other measures to collect your non-personally identifiable
information.
Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information
In addition, at some of the 10,000Scholarship.com web sites,
we collect information that you may choose to provide to us
when requesting additional information from us or from one
or more of our clients. Examples of personally identifiable
data that you may provide to us include name, address, and
email address. If you provide personally identifiable data
to us, you may later elect to have your information deleted
from our files, or kept from being used for purposes other
than for the service requested, by following the opt-out procedures
set forth below.
How Collected Information is Used
The non-personally identifiable information that 10,000Scholarship.com
collects is used for marketing and sales efforts to better
target advertisements and other content in an effort to create
a more personally relevant experience. The information is
also used to predict responses to advertisements, and to help
determine which ads perform best and which content is most
appropriate for different individuals. If you elect to provide
10,000Scholarship.com with personally identifiable information,
we may utilize such information for marketing purposes, and
this use may result in follow-up communications from 10,000Scholarship.com
and from our clients. In addition, that information may be
combined with information collected from other sources to
assist with targeting ads to your preferences and behaviors,
and for other 10,000Scholarship.com sales and marketing efforts.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
All personally identifiable information you provide is maintained
in confidence by 10,000Scholarship.com. There are instances,
however, in which your personally identifiable and non-personally
identifiable information is shared with third parties, as
described below. Your non-personally identifiable data may
be shared with third-party partners of 10,000Scholarship.com
on an anonymous basis. When you request information from 10,000Scholarship.com
or one or more of our clients, we may transfer that information
within 10,000Scholarship.com or route your information to
our client(s), across borders and from your country or jurisdiction
to other countries or jurisdictions around the world, so that
they may provide the information on their product or service
that you requested. We may also disclose information to a
third party who provides substantially similar services as
the original service about which you requested more information.
In such situations, we will provide you with an opportunity
to opt-out of such sharing. Please be aware that 10,000Scholarship.com
is very careful in selecting companies with whom it does business.
In addition to the above situations where your information
may be shared with others, there is also the possibility that
10,000Scholarship.com, or part(s) of the company, may one
day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. In the
event of such transaction, the acquiring (or merging) company
will have access to all collected personally identifiable
information. Finally, 10,000Scholarship.com may share your
information as necessary to comply with a court order or to
cooperate with government and law enforcement officials.
Security
Wherever your personally identifiable information may be held
within 10,000Scholarship.com or on its behalf, we intend
to take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the information
you shared with us from unauthorized access or disclosure.
Please note that while 10,000Scholarship.com will make every
reasonable effort to protect your information, no transmission
of data over the Internet is 100% secure.
Choice
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information - Use of Cookies & Opting-Out
Some of our web sites utilize cookies to collect information
about your website activities and to recall the personal information
you previously shared with us. Most browsers allow you to
control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and
how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you
if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies
with your browser. Blocking cookies may result in a lower
quality experience for you while you are visiting 10,000Scholarship.com
web sites.
Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information - Opting-Out
You may choose whether or not to provide personally identifiable
information to 10,000Scholarship.com. If you choose to provide
such information to 10,000Scholarship.com, you have the right
to tell us not to make some of the uses of such information
described herein or may have such information deleted in its
entirety. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters,
surveys or promotional communications via email, you may opt-out
by clicking at the bottom of any newsletter and following
the instructions to unsubscribe. To have your personal information
completely removed from our databases, simply contact us at
privacy@10000scholarship.com
and provide the name of the service for which information
was provided, your full name, mailing address, phone number
and email address so that we may identify you in the opt-out
process. Once we receive your instruction, we will promptly
take corrective action.
Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with personally identifiable
information, 10,000Scholarship.com wishes to maintain the
accuracy of this information. Where we collect personally
identifiable information from you on the Web, our goal is
to provide a means of contacting 10,000Scholarship.com should
you need to update or correct that information. If for any
reason those means are unavailable or inaccessible, you may
send updates and corrections about your personally identifiable
information to privacy@10000Scholarship.com
and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes
in the information that we hold as soon as practicable.
Refer a Friend
Some of 10,000Scholarship.com's web sites offer you the opportunity
to easily notify a friend of the offer or information promoted
on the site. If you choose to use our referral service to
tell a friend about a 10,000Scholarship.com site, we will
ask you for your friend's personally identifiable information,
including name and email address. We will automatically send
your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit
the site. 10,000Scholarship.com stores this information for
the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking
the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact
us at privacy@10,000Scholarship.com
to request that we remove this information from our database.
Our one-time email to your friend will inform him or her of
this fact.
Commitment
Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and 10,000Scholarship.com's
web sites are constantly changing to meet these demands. If
you have any comments or questions regarding our Online Privacy
Policy, please contact us at privacy@10000Scholarship.com.
While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address
any issue to the best of our abilities as soon as practicable
after you bring it to our attention.
Your Consent
By using this web site, you consent to the terms of our Online
Privacy Policy and to 10,000Scholarship.com's processing
of personally identifiable information for the purposes given
above. Should the Online Privacy Policy change, we intend
to take every reasonable step to ensure that these changes
are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently
on our web site for a reasonable period of time and by amending
this privacy policy.
Contacting Us
For more information, or if you have questions or concerns
regarding 10,000Scholarship.com's Privacy Policy, you may
email us at privacy@10000Scholarship.com
or you can send correspondence to the following address:
Privacy
10,000Scholarship.com, Inc.
120 Bradley Rd.
Madison CT 06443
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