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| Last Updated on March 18, 2008 |
Innovation Ads is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization
whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices.
This privacy policy covers www.FreeScholarshipGuide.com (the “Website”).
Because the Website wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information
practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact Innovation Ads Customer Service at imweb@innovationads.com.
If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not
been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at
http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns. |
We respect your privacy, security and user experience while visiting the Website -
above all else. It is our sincere hope that your experience will be pleasant at www.FreeScholarshipGuide.com, and
that the information we provide will be complete, accurate and very helpful to you and your family.
By registering with FreeScholarshipGuide.com, you will get a free Directory to over 4,000
Scholarships, a chance to win a $10,000 Scholarship, access to our searchable scholarship
database and free information on hundreds of certificate, undergraduate, graduate and continuing
education programs online and offline. It is very important that all of the personal information
you provide while registering is complete and valid and that you keep it up-to-date. Your phone
number, postal address and email address must all be accurate in order to claim the $10,000
Scholarship, in the event that you win.
After registering, you will receive a personal Confirmation email from our CEO. Be sure to save
this email and mark www.FreeScholarshipGuide.com as a recognized sender in your email account
in order to make sure emails from us reach your Inbox, and do not get caught in a Bulk Mail
folder or accidentally deleted. If you are selected as a potential winner, you will receive an
Official Notice email from the same email address used for our newsletters and Entry Confirmation
email. Responding to the Official Notice email is the first step in claiming your Scholarship.
These service related emails are not promotional in nature; therefore, there is no option to opt
out of receiving these necessary communications. |
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This Privacy Policy covers how
we treat the information that we collect when you visit the Website. If you
do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not use this Website.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own
or control. For example, our Website may contain links to other third party
websites (such as those of our marketing partners or advertisers), which may
have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for
the activities that take place on such websites. Please refer to those sites'
own privacy policies to learn how they collect and use information about you.
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| We do not direct our Website to,
nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the
age of thirteen (13). If we learn that we have inadvertently received
personal information from a child under the age of thirteen (13), we will
promptly delete that information from our database. Please contact us if you
believe we have received this type of information. See “How to Contact Us”
section below. |
- Registration for Scholarship Contest and for Downloading the Directory of Scholarship Websites:
- Non-Personal
Information - When you visit our Website, our server logs collect
non-personal information from you, including your IP address and the
URL of the last site you viewed.
- Personal
Information – When you register for our Scholarship Contest or to
download the Directory of Scholarship Websites, we collect personal
information from you, including your email address, name, postal
address, phone number, gender, date of birth and scholarship purpose.
We do not request collect sensitive personal information such as your
credit card number, bank account information or social security number in
order to register for the Scholarship Contest or to download the
Directory of Scholarship Websites; however, when you choose to complete
an advertising form in the registration process for one of our
advertisers this sensitive information may be requested by the
advertiser and therefore collected by FreeScholarshipGuide.com for the
sole purpose of providing this information to the advertiser. FreeScholarshipGuide.com
does not store or use this information for any other purpose. During
this process we ensure that this information is encrypted in transit
using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Please see the Security
section below for additional information.
- Purchasing
Hardcopy of Directory of Scholarship Websites:
- When you click
on the “Buy Now” link on our Homepage or in our FAQ section in order to
purchase a hardcopy of the Directory, you are directed to a secure
PayPal® website. On that site, you must either use your
existing PayPal account or register with PayPal. During this process,
all personal information you provide, including any credit card or bank
account information, is submitted directly to PayPal. FreeScholarshipGuide.com
does not collect or receive this information, other than your name and
postal address, as described below. For information on how PayPal
collects, uses and discloses your personal information, please visit: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside.
- After you have
made your payment, PayPal will email your name and postal address to us
to confirm your purchase and so that we may fulfill your order.
- Submitting
Information during the Registration Process:
- After
registering on our homepage you will need to complete our registration
process to qualify for the Scholarship Contest and/or to download the
Directory of Scholarship Websites. During the registration process you
will be directed through a number of third party websites displaying
advertisements for Universities, Education Programs and other Special
Offers that may be of interest to you.
- If you select “Yes” on any of these
advertisements or choose to complete the forms provided, you will be
asked to submit personal information. On behalf of certain advertisers,
we will request sensitive personal information such as your credit card
number or social security number. In all cases, when you click on the
Submit button we will securely transfer your personal information to
the third-party advertiser you selected. We will not use the
information that you submit for transfer to a third-party advertiser
for our own purposes; nor will we retain or disclose it. You may be
prompted by some advertisers to answer additional questions. These
pages may be “co-branded” or “framed.” This means that they may appear
to be part of our Website because they have a FreeScholarshipGuide.com
look and feel, but they are, in fact, part of the advertiser’s site.
All framed pages contain the following disclaimer at the bottom of the
page: “*By submitting the form above I
agree to provide this information to the advertiser and to be contacted
by this advertiser directly.” On these framed pages, we do not
collect any of the additional information you submit; the advertiser
does, and it does not share this information with us. The advertiser
uses your information to deliver additional information to you about
its particular product or service and perhaps for other purposes. Its
collection and use of your information is subject to its own privacy
policy.
- In the last step of the
registration process, you will be directed to a third-party page that
has the look and feel of FreeScholarshipGuide.com but is hosted by a
third-party advertiser. These pages generally do not request that you
submit personal information. If they do, the information is collected
directly by the third-party advertiser, which does not share the
information with us. The advertiser’s collection and use of your
information is subject to its own privacy policy.
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- Use of
Cookies and Web Beacons:
- Cookies - We use cookies to: (1) display the most appropriate advertising, based
on your interests and activities, as expressed during your
registration; (2) estimate our audience size; (3) measure our
audience's traffic patterns; and (4) to pre-populate your personal information
on third-party forms. We also use these cookies in order to save you
time completing advertising forms in which you express an interest. You
are always free to decline cookies, but by doing so you may not be able
to use certain features of our Website or take full advantage of our
offerings. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject
all cookies, erase cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. Each
browser is different, so check the Help menu of your browser to learn
how to change your cookie preferences.
- Third-Party Cookies - To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you,
we have relationships with other companies that we allow to place third
parties' ads on our Website. These companies may set and access their
own cookies on your computer. This means that, as a result of your
visit to our Website, these companies may collect non-personally
identifiable information from you, such as your domain type, your IP
address and clicking behavior. These cookies are not connected to any
of your personal information. These companies’ collection and use of
your information are subject to their own privacy policies.
- Web Beacons - We may use web beacons on the Website,
in our advertisements on other sites and in e-mails. A web beacon is
an electronic image that can be used to recognize a cookie on your
computer when you view a web page or email. Web beacons allow us to
recognize users by accessing our cookies. They help us measure
the effectiveness of our site, our advertising and our email campaigns
in various ways, for example, by counting the number of individuals who
visit our site from a particular advertisement, as well as by telling
us when a web page is viewed and a description of the page where the
web beacon is placed. Web beacons also help us count the number of
individuals who open or act upon an email message. The information we
collect may include personal information. We may also combine the
information that we collect through web beacons with other personal
information we have collected from you, such as your registration
information. We use this information to respond to your questions (for
example, if you do not remember registering on the Website or don’t
know how we received your email address). We also use this information
to prevent fraud by members of our affiliate program and others. We
will not share any personal information collected through our web
beacons with any third party, except for service providers who act on
our behalf and who are contractually prohibited from any other use or
disclosure of the information. You
can make some web beacons unusable by rejecting cookies.
- Third-Party Web Beacons - Members of our affiliate program may use
web beacons to help us track the number of individuals the affiliate
has directed to the Website. The web beacons used by our affiliate
program members do not collect any personal information.
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Registration for the Scholarship Contest and/or to Download the Directory of Scholarship Websites:
- We may use the
information we collect for any of the following purposes: (1) to
administer sweepstakes and promotions on our Website and to notify
winners; (2) to improve the content of our Website, (3) to customize
the content and/or layout of our pages for each individual visitor, (4)
to notify you about updates to our Website, (5) to conduct research,
(6) to fulfill your requests for products and services, (7) to send you
information and promotional materials and offers from us as well as
from our affiliates, marketing partners, advertisers and other third
parties, (8) to contact you when necessary, (9) to help address
problems with our Website or marketing services, (10) to administer our
Website, (11) to help us better understand visitors’ use of our
Website, (12) to protect the security or integrity of our Website, (13)
to deliver targeted display advertisements and offers to you, and (14)
to enable our marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties
to communicate with site visitors when you have agreed to be contacted
by them directly.
- Purchasing
Hardcopy of Directory of Scholarship Websites:
- As explained
above, after you have made your payment through Paypal, Paypal will
email your Name and Postal Address to FreeScholarshipGuide.com to
confirm your purchase. We use this information ONLY to create address
labels and to mail you the Directory of Scholarship Websites. After the
Directory is mailed to you, the email containing your Name and Postal
Address is permanently deleted. We do not maintain or use this personal
information in any way, other than to mail you the Directory.
- Submitting
Information during the Registration Process:
- As described
above under "Information Collection," some advertisers' pages may
be “co-branded” or “framed.” Although these pages have a FreeScholarshipGuide.com
look and feel, FreeScholarshipGuide.com does not host these pages, and
the information you submit on these pages is subject to the third-party
advertiser’s own privacy policy. Any information you submit during the
Registration Process after you leave our homepage is submitted by you
directly to the third party advertiser and is used only by that
advertiser, with your permission, to contact you or to provide you with
additional information on the product or service in which you indicated
an interest. FreeScholarshipGuide.com does not collect, receive or use
this information for any reason.
- The web pages in our registration
process are "Co-Branded Sites" operated by third parties who are
trusted business partners of FreeScholarshipGuide.com. We have
partnered with these companies in order to make their offerings
available to you. Although these pages have a FreeScholarshipGuide.com
look and feel, FreeScholarshipGuide.com does not host these pages, and
the information you submit on these pages is subject to the third
parties’ own privacy statements.
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| The security of your personal information is
important to us. When you enter a credit card number and/or social security
number on our advertisers' pages or on our registration or order forms, we ensure
that information is encrypted in transit using secure socket layer technology
(SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html.
We follow generally accepted industry standards
to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission
and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or
method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we
strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. |
| We may use personal information to provide the services you've requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider's standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. You may opt-out and remove your SMS information by sending "STOP", "END", "QUIT" to the SMS text message you have received. If you remove your SMS information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you. |
Data obtained from you in connection with this SMS service may include your name, address, cell phone number, your provider's name, and the date, time, and content of your messages. In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider's standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. We will not be liable for any delays in the receipt of any SMS messages, as delivery is subject to effective transmission from your network operator. SMS message services are provided on an AS IS basis.
We may use personal information to provide the services you've requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our technologies and services. We may share aggregated and non personal information with third parties outside of Freescholarshipguide.com. When we use third parties to assist us in processing your personal information, we require that they comply with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We may also share information with third parties in limited circumstances, including when complying with legal process, preventing fraud or imminent harm, and ensuring the security of our network and services.
You may remove your information from our database. If you remove your information from our database it will no longer be used by us for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by us or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you. You may remove your information by sending your request in writing via email to privacy@freescholarshipguide.com or by sending "STOP", "END", "QUIT" to the SMS text message you have received.
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We share the information we collect from and
about you as follows:
- We share your information with our employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries and service providers, if the disclosure will enable any of these entities to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us. For example, our service providers may use your personal information to deliver scholarship information, newsletters and special offers to you via email or postal mail. These third parties are not permitted to use your information for any secondary purpose.
- With your consent, we share your information with third parties for their use in marketing their own and/or their clients’ products and services to you. For example, when you first register on the Website, we will ask you whether you would like to receive marketing communications from third parties.
- We will disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- We will disclose your information if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety or rights of any person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
- We will transfer your information if all or part of our company or our operations are acquired by or merged with another company. In this instance, we will notify you as detailed in the “Changes to this Privacy Policy” section below.
- When you register with freescholarshipguide and you leave the box check stating yes I want to receive information and offers from email-freescholarshipguide.com, you explicitly authorize us to share your information with Datran Media to contact you via email.
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If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter
and promotional communications, you may opt out of receiving them by clicking here, by following
the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing
us at imweb@innovationads.com.
See the section below on "Access to Personally Identifiable Information" for
additional information on how to unsubscribe from receiving these mailings.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any
third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an
informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that
party. If you wish to change the way a marketing
partner contacts you, you must contact the marketing partner directly. |
| If you choose to use our
referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your
friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a
one-time email inviting him or her to visit our site. FreeScholarshipGuide.com
does not store this information. |
| If your contact information
changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update,
delete or deactivate it by emailing Customer Support at imweb@innovationads.com, or
by contacting us by telephone or postal mail using the contact information
listed below. You can also opt out and remove your information from our
database online by clicking
here. Any personal information we provide to a marketing partner
is subject to that marketing partner's own privacy policy. If you wish to
change the way a marketing partner contacts you, you must contact the
marketing partner directly. |
| Under California law, site
visitors who are residents of California may request certain information
regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for direct
marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to imweb@innovationads.com or write to us at Innovation Ads, 233 Broadway, 21st Floor, New York, NY 10279. |
If you have any questions regarding
our privacy policy, please contact us at:
Innovation Ads
233 Broadway, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10279
(P) 212-509-5218 x202
imweb@innovationads.com |
| If we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes to this privacy policy, the homepage, and
other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please
review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage. |
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