Privacy Policy
Coalition for College (“we” or “us”) understands that your privacy is important to you and is committed to being transparent about its practices and the technologies it uses. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and security of personal information about our current and prospective users and customers.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website (“Website”), or any other website of ours linking to this Privacy Policy (“Services”). We have developed this Privacy Policy so that you can understand the way we collect, use, and share information collected through this Website or in connection with it. Please carefully read and familiarize yourself with our Privacy Policy, which exists in concert with our Cookie Policy.
BY VISITING THE WEBSITE OR USING THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SHALL BE PROCESSED AND TREATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
HOW AND WHY DO WE OBTAIN INFORMATION?
We take great care to protect personal information about you and when we use it, we do so with respect for your privacy. In addition to any purpose for which we notify you before collecting personal data, we use the information we collect to:
provide, personalize, maintain, and improve our Services;
maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Services and users;
provide customer support;
set up and manage your user account;
help us improve our Website and deliver content and functionality;
market and/or advertise our Services to our users and prospective users and the public;
market or advertise third-party goods or services to our users, prospective users, and the public;
communicate with our users for marketing and non-marketing purposes;
inform decisions concerning the marketing and promotion of our Services and Website;
analyze the Website’s use for trend monitoring and promotional and marketing purposes;
respond to inquiries and comments;
provide you with support via your preferred communication channels;
keep our Website safe and secure; and
comply with our legal requirements and obligations.
WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Information You Provide – When you use our Website or sign up for access to our Services or online resources, download documents or complete online forms from our Website, we may ask you for certain personal information. Without limitation, you may be asked to provide personal information such as: name, e-mail address, address and certain demographic or school or student information. You may also voluntarily share other information such as feedback or opinions by emailing us at info@coalitionforcollege.org.
Financial Information – When placing an order or carrying out a transaction on the Website, you may be asked for financial information such as credit card details. When you visit or access our Website, unless otherwise specified, we generally process any payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means via external payment service providers. In general, and unless where otherwise stated, users are requested to provide their payment details and personal information directly to such payment service providers. We are not involved in the collection and processing of such information. Instead, we only receive a notification by the relevant payment service provider as to whether payment has been successfully completed.
Log Information – When you visit or access our Website, our servers automatically record certain information. This may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or account.
Cookies and Web Beacons – When you visit or access our Website, we use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends. Web pages may also contain electronic images (called a “single-pixel GIF” or “web beacon”) that allow a website to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. We may use web beacons to track the effectiveness of an email or advertising or marketing campaign and to transfer an individual’s unique user identification and associate your updated information into our databases. In addition to cookies, this Website may use other types of session identifiers, scripts, server logs, tracking images, information and correspondence, web analytics, or other browser detection technology to provide users with a more optimized, personalized, and pleasant Website experience. Additionally, “third-party cookies” may originate from other websites and/or web or social media services whose services we utilize or for which we have implemented “plug-ins” (e.g., Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook). Please see our Cookie Policy for more detailed information regarding our policies, treatment of, and use of cookies and web beacons.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE NOT COLLECT?
We do not need or want to collect any sensitive personal information through the Website. Similarly, minors under the age of 18 should not provide any personal information to us through the Website without parental consent. We do not sell personal information to third parties, and do not share personal information with third parties, except with users’ consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) there must be verifiable parental consent to collect, use, or disclose personal information from Children under the age of 13. If you are over the age of 13 but under the age of 16 and reside in the European Union, your parent or legal guardian may need to expressly consent to your using our Websites or services. Please direct them to our parental consent form.
HOW DO WE SHARE INFORMATION?
Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and Members – We may share information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and Coalition members where it is necessary to meet the purpose for which you have submitted your personal data and if necessary for the provision of services, account administration, and/or sales, marketing and support. We take steps to ensure that our companies and vendors utilize appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural controls and safeguards, as this, this privacy notice and applicable local law when handling personal data.
Third-Parties – We may partner with third-parties to provide various products and services for which you have signed up. We may also share information to third-party contractors and providers that perform certain functions on behalf of us, without limitation such as sending email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data and processing credit card payments or financial information, marketing and advertising services, and cloud hosting services. These third-parties only have access to such information as necessary to perform their functions and may not use it for any purpose other than to provide services to us. We take reasonable steps to ensure that these third parties are obligated to protect your information on our behalf. It is our policy to never sell or trade personal information without your prior consent.
Legal – We, like all companies and organizations, are required to respond to lawful requests from law enforcement bodies to access our premises and systems for purposes relating to national security. This will be strictly limited to the data relevant to the scope of a request and to data subjects covered by the legal jurisdiction of requests. We may share information directly relevant to investigating and handling a criminal or civil lawsuit or to take action to prevent fraud, abuse or other violations of our Website and terms for our Services.
HOW DO WE SAFEGUARD INFORMATION?
We consider the protection of personal information to be a foundation of customer trust and a sound business practice. We employ physical, electronic, and procedural controls and safeguards and we regularly adapt these controls to respond to changing requirements and advances in technology. We use and employ commercially reasonable efforts to employ security measures designed to protect your personal information from loss, destruction, or access by unauthorized persons.
Our safeguarding efforts include, but are not limited to monitoring of our systems and technology to ensure they comply with our data security policies and providing training and awareness programs on security and privacy to make sure our employees understand the importance and means by which they must protect your personal information.
HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN INFORMATION?
We will retain your information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. This means that we retain different categories of data for different periods of time depending on the category of user to whom the data relates, the type of data, and the purposes for which we collected the data. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include, but is not limited to the following. We consider how long is the data needed to provide you with our products or services or to operate our business. We further consider if you have an account with us. If so, we will keep the information while your account is active or for as long as needed to provide the services to you. We also consider if we are subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation to retain your data. Examples can include mandatory data retention laws in the applicable jurisdiction, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or data that must be retained for the purposes of contract or litigation.
HOW MAY INFORMATION BE ACCESSED AND CONTROLLED?
We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy settings for your browser and/or devices. We allow you to request access to copies of your information and data, change or update your account, delete your account, or that we restrict our processing of your personal data. You may request deletion of your account at any time. In certain instances, we provide mechanisms for you to electronically access and update your personal information by logging into your user account. For questions on Cookies or for direction on how to limit or restrict cookies, please see our Cookie Policy. In most circumstances, you have the following rights concerning your personal information and/or data.
Right Of Access – The right to know whether data concerning you is being processed and if so, the right to gain access to it with a few exceptions.
Right To Rectification – The right to ensure data held about you is accurate, and if it is not, to have it corrected.
Right To Erasure Or Right To Be Forgotten – The right to be forgotten or have information erased, provided we do not have an overriding legal basis to retain your personal information.
Right To Restrict Processing – The right to limit how your personal information is processed, provided we do not have an overriding legal basis to continue processing.
Right To Be Informed – We have a responsibility to provide you with the information contained in this privacy notice and to answer questions if you ask for more detail about anything contained here. For California residents, please note that we do not sell your personal information with third-parties for the third-parties’ direct marketing purposes, so are not required to provide further disclosures of such activity.
Right To Data Portability – The right to obtain a copy of the personal data you provided to us, in a format you can easily take away and load onto another device.
Right To Object – The right to withdraw consent or object to processing when processing is based upon consent or legitimate interest as the lawful basis, with some exceptions.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may occasionally update this policy. Use of our services after an update constitutes consent to the updated notice to the extent permitted by law. If we make significant changes, we will notify users in advance of the changes through our Website or through other means, such as email. We encourage users to periodically review this notice for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@coalitionforcollege.org.
Cookie Policy
Coalition for College (“we” or “us”) understands that your privacy is important to you and is committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other tracking technologies (“Cookies”) may be stored on, and accessed from, your device when you use or visit our website. This Cookie Policy further describes what information Cookies gather, how we use or may use the information collected, and how to “disable” cookies should you wish to do so. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
BY CONTINUING TO BROWSE OR USE OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE THAT WE CAN STORE AND ACCESS COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COOKIE POLICY.
IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, BY CLICKING “ACCEPT” YOU EXPLICITLY AGREED TO COOKIES AND THAT WE CAN STORE AND ACCESS COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COOKIE POLICY.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE THAT WE CAN STORE AND ACCESS COOKIES AND OTHER TRACK TECHNOLOGIES AS DESCRIBED IN THIS COOKIE POLICY PLEASE SEE THE BELOW SECTION ENTITLED “HOW DO I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT TO COOKIES?” AND/OR EMAIL US AT INFO@COALITIONFORCOLLEGE.ORG.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A Cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our website, to the extent that you agree. Cookies are intended to make navigating websites faster and easier by “remembering” you, either for the duration of your visit or for repeat visits. Different cookies do different things, and some are essential to the operation of a website while others are not. Types of Cookies include:
Strictly Necessary Cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of a website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of a website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/Performance Cookies – These are cookies that are used to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around a website when they are using it. These cookies help improve the way a website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality Cookies – These are cookies that are used to recognize you when you return to a website, enabling personalized content for you and remembering your preferences.
Targeting Cookies – These cookies that are used record your visits to a website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is used to make a website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
First-Party Cookies – These are cookies that belong to a website and that a website places on your device.
Third-Party Cookies - These are cookies that another party places on your device through a website
Persistent Cookies – These are cookies that are used to improve your experience of using a website.
Session Cookies – These are cookies that are temporary and that are deleted from your device when your browser closes.
For more detailed guidance explaining what cookies are and how to control or delete them, we recommend that you visit www.aboutcookies.org and/or www.youronlinechoices.eu.
FOR WHAT PURPOSES DO WE USE COOKIES?
We may use Cookies for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary/Technical – These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our website so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access website content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our website.
Analytical/Performance – These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how our website is used and how it is performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with our website, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies and Facebook Pixel.
Functionality – In order to provide you with a great experience when using this website, we provide you with the functionality to set your preferences for how the website runs when you use it. We use Cookies to remember your preferences, and we set Cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
These Cookies let us operate our website in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits to our website. For instance, we will recognize your username and remember how you customized our website, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
More specifically, we use Cookies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our website. We also use Cookies to control access to certain content on our website, protect the website, and to process any requests that you make of us. From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use Cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages. When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, we use Cookies to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third-Party – These Cookies collect information about your activities on our website and other websites to provide you with targeted advertising or marketing or to optimize your experience with our Website and content. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on our website for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our website. We may also use Cookies to target our advertising or marketing messages based, for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
Account Management – If you create an account with us, we will use Cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. We use Cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page.
Subscription Services – This website may offer newsletter or email subscription services. We use Cookies to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
HOW DO I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT TO COOKIES?
You can refuse or delete cookies. If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the settings of your browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For example, you may delete Cookies after having visited our website; browse our website using your browser’s anonymous usage setting; and/or set your browser’s security controls so that all or certain Cookies are blocked.
You may also request that we delete any personal information that we store at info@coalitionforcollege.org. For further information about disabling cookies, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org.
Please, however, be aware that disabling Cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling Cookies may and will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this Website. In any event, the data collected by or through Cookies will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the identified purpose.
WILL THIS COOKIE POLICY BE UPDATED?
We reserve the right change this Cookie Policy at any time. Any changes will become effective as soon as they are posted. Your continued use of our website constitutes your agreement to all such changes.
HOW DO I CONTACT YOU?
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: info@coalitionforcollege.org.