College Signatures Privacy Policy

This Policy was last updated on August 1, 2017.

We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to being transparent with how we use your information. This website (www.collegesignatures.com) , mobile applications that we may issue, including Job Posting Information and any of our services and sites directing you to this Privacy Policy are controlled by College Signatures™© (collectively “we”, “us”, “our”, and the “Website”). Our Privacy Policy explains:

What information we collect and why we collect it.

How we use that information.

The notice to you and choices we offer, including how to access and update information.

By visiting Collegesignatures.com, website, mobile application and services, you acknowledge and consent to the practices, terms, and conditions described in this Privacy Policy and the College Signatures™©Terms of Use (http://collegesignatures.com/about-us/terms-of-service), and that any and all disputes, including, without limitation, those disputes arising over privacy, between you and Collegesignatures.com, its parent company(ies), subsidiary(ies), affiliated companies, principles, owners, board members, employees, contributors, advertisers, sponsors, affiliates, partners, and any of their licensees, successors, and assignees, will be subject to terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms of Use, as applicable. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to know more about what information we collect and store, please contact us at: privacy@collegesignatures.com

Information we collect

We collect information to offer better services to our users and improve our business. We collect information in two ways:

Information you give us or information provided through a social network. For example, some of our services require you to sign up for an account, provide information for a contest or award, or link an account through a social network. Examples of the information we collect may include email, name, phone number, address, or credit card information.

We work with social networks including, but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn. We have access to information you directly provide and information through those social networking services based on your privacy settings on those networks.

Information we get from your use of our services. We may collect usage information when you visit different parts of our site or use our applications. We may also automatically collect certain technical information such as device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, device type, unique device identifiers, and mobile information if you use a mobile device to access the site).

How we use information we collect

We use the information we collect from all our services and from third parties to provide, maintain, protect and improve our services, to develop new services and offerings and to protect us and our users.

When you contact us, we may keep a record of your communication as well as the other information in this Privacy Policy to help solve any issues you might be facing. We may use your email address to inform you about our services, such as letting you know about upcoming changes or improvements.

To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you, to tailor Offers and Program Benefits provided to you based on your preferences and Transaction Information, to offer location customization, and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Website or our Offers, Program Benefits and other goods and services.

For marketing and promotional purposes. For example, from time to time we may use your information, such as your e-mail address, to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, provided you have opted-in to receiving such communications. We also may use the information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our Offers, Program Benefits, and other goods and services on third-party websites.

To administer contests, sweepstakes and competitions that may be offered through the Website.

To better understand how users access and use our Website, Offers, Program Benefits and other services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve our Website, Offers, Program Benefits and other services and respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes.

Please keep in mind that comments sections, forums, and other similar areas of our services are public. Any information posted in those areas is viewable and usable by anyone that has access.

We will contact you to ask for your consent before using information for any other purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies

Cookies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts are used by College Signatures™© and our advertising / marketing partners, affiliates, or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies to remember users’ settings (e.g. geographic location) and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. To manage Flash cookies, please click here: https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

The use of cookies on our website is governed by our Cookie Policy.

Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting

We and our service providers, marketing partners, and affiliates may use advertisements on our Website, to assist us in displaying advertisements on third-party websites, and to evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website combined with information about your visits on other third-party Sites to gain information about goods and services that may be of interest to you, to choose what ads to display to you, and to track the effectiveness of ads. Third party ad network providers, advertisers, and/or traffic measurement services may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIF), Flash LSOs and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you. These third-party cookies and other technologies are governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. We may provide these third-party advertisers with information about your usage of our Website and our services, as well as aggregate or non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our Website and users of our service. However, we do not share your personal information (such as name and email) with these advertisers.

You may opt-out of many third-party ad networks, including those operated by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). For more information regarding this practice by NAI members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including how to opt-out of third-party ad networks operated by NAI members, please visit the NAI opt-out page.

Opting out of one or more NAI member networks only means that those NAI members no longer will deliver targeted content or ads to you. It does not mean you will no longer receive any ads on our Website or other websites. For example, you may continue to receive advertisements on our Website based on the particular page that you are viewing on our Website. Also, if your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit this opt-out page, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your NAI opt-out will no longer be effective.

Please visit the links below to opt-out of cookies from over 50+ major third-party behavioral advertising providers:

– Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

– European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

– http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

– Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Log information

When you use our services or view content provided by us, we may automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This information may include:

Details of how you used our service, such as your navigation paths and search queries.

Mobile related information if you access our website using your mobile device.

Internet protocol address.

Device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.

Cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, mobile device, or your account.

Browser type, operating system, and other technical information.

We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you. We do this to improve marketing, analytics, and the products and services we offer you.

Mobile Analytics

We use mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our mobile software on your phone. This software may record information such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded from.

Push Notifications

We send you push notifications from time-to-time in order to update you about any content, events or promotions that may interest you. If you no longer wish to receive these types of communications, you may turn them off at the app or OS level. To ensure you receive proper notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device such as operating system and user/device identification information.

Geo-Locations

If you have provided permission through your mobile device to allow us to collect location information through the App, College Signatures™© may obtain your physical location information from technologies like GPS, Wi-Fi, or cell tower proximity. The App may use the Geo-location features of the App (GPS or network-based) and Geo-location information that is collected through the App to provide you information regarding College Signatures™©, events and promotional offers in or near your area or current location. You are able to withdraw your permission for College Signatures™© to acquire physical location information from your mobile device through your mobile device settings, although College Signatures™© does not control this process. If you have questions about how to disable your mobile device’s location services, we recommend you contact your mobile device service provider or the mobile device manufacturer.

Access and Choice

You have the right to remove your personal information from our databases. To do this, please delete your College Signatures™© account. If you have any problems or questions, please let us know by contacting us at support@collegesignatures.com and we will assist you. We will respond to your request access within 30 calendar days. You may access or correct your personal information that appears on our main site, log into collegesignatures.com to view and modify your information or reach out to support@collegesignatures.com for other correction requests.

Where you have provided us with the appropriate permissions, or where we are legally entitled to do so, we will provide you with marketing materials by email.

You can opt out of receiving these emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the marketing email, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page or by contacting us at support@collegesignatures.com.

Upon request we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third-party, any of your personal information. To request this information please contact us at support@collegesignatures.com. We will respond to your request within a reasonable time-frame.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services.

We will also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

SURVEYS & CONTESTS

From time-to-time our Website may request information from you via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary. Contact information will be used to administer your participation in a contest, notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be collected and used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of the Website and services.

Information we share

We do not share personal information with companies, outside organizations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances apply:

With your consent. We will share personal information with companies, outside organizations or individuals if we have your consent to do so. By continuing to use our website and providing personal information through our website, you consent to us sharing your personal information with third parties for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. We may also seek your additional consent for purposes subsequently notified to you.

For external processing. We provide personal information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

For legal reasons. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We will share personal information with companies, outside organizations or individuals if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our users or the public as required or permitted by law.

In case of a sale or asset transfer. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition or other transaction involving the sale of some or all of our assets, user information, including personal information collected from you through your use of our services, could be included in the transferred assets. Should such an event occur, we will use reasonable means to notify you, either through email and/or a prominent notice on our website.

In anonymous form for business purposes. We may share anonymous, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners such as businesses which we have a relationship with, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information to show trends about the general use of our services.

Please note that third-party recipients of your personal information may be located in United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Frames

Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our site. Please be aware that you may be providing your personal information to these third parties and not to www.collegesignatures.com

Comments Section / Forum

Our website offers publicly accessible comments section or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your personal information from our comments section or community forum, contact us at privacy@collegesignatures.com

In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

Social Media Widgets

Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share this button. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and Widgets are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.

Single Sign-On

You can log in to our site using such sign-in services such as but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Linkedin, and Twitter. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate your profile.

Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about what you are reading on this site to your profile page to share with others within your network.

Information security

We work hard to protect our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of information we hold however no website is entirely secure. You should protect the account information in your possession as well. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at privacy@collegesignatures.com.

Do Not Track

Our services do not respond to do not track signals. Each browser and device work differently and there is no consensus across the industry relating to these signals.

Links to 3rd Party Sites

Our website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of College Signatures™©. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.

Third-Party Sites

Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you on this site. We also do not control the privacy policies and your privacy settings on third-party sites, including social networks.

You should be aware that when you leave our website, whether via a link on our website or otherwise, and enter a third-party website, you do so subject to that website’s terms and conditions and privacy policy. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of these third-party websites. We will not be held responsible for the practices or the content of such other websites or services and we exclude all liability for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your use of the links on our website and/or your access of third-party websites.

Children Under 18

College Signatures™ © takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of children. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13. Our websites are general audience sites.

Our Services are Located in the United States

Our website and associated services are hosted in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, your information will be processed and stored in the United States and by using our website or providing us with personal information, you consent to such processing and storage.

Enforcement and Dispute Resolution

We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints at privacy@collegesignatures.com, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow-up.

HOW WE ENSURE THE SECURITY OF YOUR DATA

We have implemented commercially reasonable precautions to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security.

You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, phone, and computer by, among other things, signing off after using a shared computer, choosing a robust password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, and keeping your log-in and password private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.

HOW TO CONTACT US

You may address all communications to our e-mail customer_service@collegesignatures.com. Please include your name, address and phone number or e-mail in all communications and state clearly the nature of your request.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our customers who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Requests must be submitted to the following e-mail address: privacy@collegesignatures.com SUBJ: California Privacy. Within 30 days of receiving such a request, we will provide a California Privacy Disclosure, which will include a list of certain categories of personal information disclosed during the preceding calendar year to 3rd parties for their direct marketing purposes, along with the names and addresses of the 3rd 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 paragraph.

If you choose to visit collegesignatures.com, your visit, any subsequent visit, and any dispute over privacy or any other matter related to the Website is subject to the terms of this Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use, which include, among other things, your consent to limitations on any damages you may be entitled to, your agreement to waive any right to a trial you may have and your agreement to arbitrate any disputes, and application of the laws of the State of California. If you have any concern about this Privacy Notice and/or the privacy of your personal information at collegesignatures.com, please contact us with a thorough description of your concern, and we will try to address it.

Our business changes constantly, and our Website, this Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use are subject to change as well. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but we are not obligated to do so, and you should check our Website frequently to see any changes to any of our policies that may affect you. Unless we specifically state otherwise, the Privacy Notice applies to all personal information that we may have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of personally identifiable information collected in the past without attempting to notify those affected customers.