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CampusDiscovery.com,
a division of Goal Financial, LLC (“us” or “we”), is committed to
respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other users
of the CampusDiscovery.com website (the “Site”). This Privacy Notice
applies to users or individuals who use the Site (“you”) and is to provide
you with information concerning each of our privacy policies and to help
you understand how we handle personal information about you which we may
collect and disclose. This Privacy Notice applies to our current customers,
former customers, new and registered users and applicants.
We created this
Website Privacy Notice (the “Privacy Notice”) to give you confidence as you
visit and use the Site, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair
information practices and the protection of privacy. This Privacy Notice is
only applicable to the Site, and not any other websites that you may be
able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and
use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy.
PLEASE NOTE: OUR
ONLINE INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE PRACTICES MAY DIFFER FROM OUR
PRACTICES REGARDING INFORMATION OBTAINED OFFLINE OR FROM OTHER WEBSITES OR
BUSINESSES OWNED OR MAINTAINED BY GOAL FINANCIAL, LLC.
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Information Collection and Use
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This notice uses
the term “nonpublic personal information.” This means personal information
about you which identifies you, and that is not available from public
sources, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, age,
gender, date of birth, and information about your interests in and use of
various products, programs, and services. It may also include information
related to your eligibility for various contests, such as your interests
and hobbies, educational and professional goals, religious preference and
income level. We may collect nonpublic personal information about you from
various sources, including:
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Information
provided by you such as, for example, information submitted during the
registration process and,
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information
we receive from third parties, such as, a list vendor, an address update service or
other public or private data sources.
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Thus,
information we obtain through the Site may be intermingled with and used in
conjunction with information about you obtained through sources other than
the Site, including both offline and online sources.
We may use the
information we collect from you for any of the following purposes: (1) to
deliver contest results to you; (2) to fulfill your requests for products
and services; (3) to contact you in connection with one of our surveys,
sweepstakes, or contests; (4) to provide you with targeted offers and
advertising on the Site; (5) to contact you with information and
promotional materials and offers from our company as well as from our subsidiaries,
affiliates, marketing partners, advertisers and other third parties; (6) to
contact you when necessary; (7) to review Site usage and operations; (8) to
address problems with the Site, our business or our products and services;
and (9) to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business
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Information Sharing
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We may disclose
the information collected from and about you as follows: (1) to fulfill
your requests for products and services, including your requests for
information about scholarship sources; (2) to our service providers, or to
our affiliates, to perform a business, professional or technical support
function for us; (3) if we believe that there has been a violation of our
Site Terms of Use or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (4) to
respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement
agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to
public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; (5) in
the event that our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired,
your information may be one of the transferred assets; and (6) otherwise as
required or permitted by law.
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Cookies
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To enhance your
online experience with us, many of our web pages use "cookies."
Cookies are text files placed on your hard disk by our web server to store
your preferences. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Site are useful
and which areas need improvement. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us
your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information and we do
not store personally identifiable information in cookies.
We use cookies as
a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used,
and to improve the content and offerings on the Site. For example, we may
use cookies to personalize your experience at the Site or recall your
specific information on subsequent visits (e.g., to recognize you by name
when you return to the Site). We also may use cookies to offer you
products, programs or services. You can opt to have your browser reject
cookies. If you do that, you may need to re-register with us every time you
visit our Site in order to participate in certain promotions. You should
also know that companies that advertise on the Site (and their agents)
might use their own cookies. This policy does not cover how these companies
use their cookies. We do not have access to or control over information
collected by outside advertisers on our site.
We also may
collect certain non-personally identifiable information (i.e., generic
information that does not identify you personally) when you visit any of
the pages on the Site, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g.,
Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g.,
Windows XP or Mac OS), IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on
the Internet), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g.,
America Online or EarthLink), the URL from which you access the Site and
the URL you first visit after leaving the Site. In addition, we, or
third-party service providers acting on our behalf, may use JavaScript to
collect information about your browsing behavior on the Site, such as the
areas or pages that you visit and the amount of time you spend viewing the
Site.
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How We Use Non-Personally
Identifiable Info
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As explained
above, we use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to
understand how our Site is used, to improve the content and offerings on
the Site and to offer you products, programs, or services. If you are
referred to the Site from one of our marketing partners, we may combine the
non-personally identifiable information we collect from you with your
personal information however; we will use the combined information only to
compensate the marketing partner for your referral, and we will not
disclose it. In addition, we sometimes use non-personally identifiable
information to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also
may use this information in the aggregate to analyze how our Site is used,
as well as to offer you products, programs or services. Sometimes we share
aggregate, non-personally identifiable information with others, including
affiliated companies and non-affiliated companies.
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Log Files
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We use IP
addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses
are not linked to personally identifiable information.
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Sharing
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We may share
aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This
is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual
person.
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Third Party Websites
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This Policy is
only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites that you may be
able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and
use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. If you
choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy
practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility
to review the privacy policies at those websites to confirm that you
understand and agree with their policies.
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Note to Parents and Children
under 13
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We are a general
audience website, and do not target any of our content specifically at
children under 13 years of age. Nor do we knowingly collect personal
information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn or have reason
to suspect that a Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any
personal information in that user's account.
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Security
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Access to
nonpublic personal information about you is limited to those employees and
third parties who work on our behalf, who need to know such information to
provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information.
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Your California Privacy Rights
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If you are a California resident,
you have the right to request a list of the third parties with which we
have shared your personal information for those parties' own direct
marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. To request the list,
please email us at privacy@goalfinancial.net or by mailing us at the address below.
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Notification of Changes
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We may change this
privacy policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide the
appropriate online notice to you on our website if the change is not
material. If the change is material, we will notify you in writing.
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Contact Us
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If you have any
questions regarding our privacy and security policies and practices, please
email us at privacy@goalfinancial.net or write us at:
Goal
Financial, LLC
1229 King Street Suite 300
Alexandria. VA 22314
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© Copyright Goal Financial, LLC 07/21/08. All rights reserved
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