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Effective December 29, 2008
This CompareTutors privacy statement (this "Policy") covers the website www.CompareTutors.com
(the "Site") and is applicable to all information about you ("you") collected through
the Site ("Information").
CompareTutors, Inc. ("CompareTutors," "we," "us," or "our") discloses the Information
collection and usage practices applicable to the Site in this Policy. This Policy
describes the types of information that CompareTutors gathers from you and the other
people who visit the Site (the "Users") and how we may use that Information. By
providing any information, you agree to our use of that information consistent with
this Policy.
Please read this Policy carefully before providing us with any Information.
Personally Identifiable Information
All Users have the option of providing various types of personally identifiable
Information to us through the Site. For example, you may choose to provide us your
personally identifiable Information, including, but not limited to, your name, mailing
address, telephone number, email address, or age. We collect this personally identifiable
Information when you, at any point, manually enter it into any online form available
on the Site. We may store a cookie file on your hard drive so that our systems will
recognize you each time you visit the Site. In that way, we can save your preferences
from visit to visit and present you with a customized version of the Site without
requiring you to log into the Site every time you visit. We may store your personally
identifiable information in our systems for use in other ways as described in this
Policy.
In order for you to take full advantage of the Site, we encourage you to provide
your personally identifiable Information to us. Providing your personally identifiable
Information is, however, voluntary. You may choose not to provide us with your personally
identifiable Information by simply not entering it on the Site. While you will still
have access to the Site even if you do not provide us with your personally identifiable
Information, you should understand that you will not be able to use certain services
or features available through the Site that require you to enter your personally
identifiable Information in order to function.
If you do not input any of your personally identifiable Information, then the Information
we collect from you is limited. For example, we log your IP address in order to
help us to diagnose problems with our server, administer the Site and track usage
statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may be the same,
depending on whether you access the Site through an always-on type of Internet connection
(such as cable or DSL), or through a dial-up connection. Either way, it would be
very difficult for us to personally identify you through your IP address. If you
reached the Site by clicking on a link or ad from another web site, then we may
also log that Information. This helps us to maximize our Internet exposure and to
understand the interests of our Users. All of this Information is collected and
used only in aggregated form; that is, it is entered into our database, where we
can use it to generate overall anonymous reports on our Users.
Cookies
We may place a small file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie
may contain information that allows us to track your path through the Site and to
determine whether you have visited us before. The cookie itself never contains your
personally identifiable Information. However, if you provide us with personally
identifiable Information, the cookie may allow us to personally identify you if
you return to the site again. Our cookies cannot be used to read data from your
hard drive and cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other
websites. We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how Users use the
Site, and to help us to improve the Site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from
us by following the procedures for rejecting cookies specific to your web browser.
Although you may do so, you may find that your browser reacts strangely when visiting
not only the Site, but other web sites as well.
CompareTutors Policy Regarding Children Under the Age of 13
The Site is not intended for children under the age of 13, and CompareTutors does
not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable Information from children under
the age of 13.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use the Information you provide to us to help both of us! We may use the Information
we collect to:
- Share your Information with tutors and tutoring companies you select in order for
the company(ies) to contact you
- Make your next visit to the Site more personalized
- Contact you regarding administrative issues such as questions about your specific
request
- Compile anonymous statistical information for analysis
- Provide aggregated anonymous information to third parties
- Make telephone calls to you with information and offers
- Mail information and offers to you
- Email information and offers to you
CompareTutors does not sell or rent any personally identifiable information to any
third party other than our tutors and tutoring companies affiliates or any acquirer,
as discussed in this policy. We may aggregate personal information from all of our
users and provide that information in the aggregate to other parties, including
advertisers, for marketing and promotional purposes. However, if we do so, that
information will not be in a way that will allow any third party to identify you
personally.
Consent to the Use of Third Party Providers
Please understand that CompareTutors may contract with other third parties to provide
various services to CompareTutors relating to the Site on an outsourced basis rather
than performing the services itself. For example, we may contract with an email
provider to handle the distribution of email messages to Users of the Site. Likewise,
we may contract with a web site hosting provider to host the Site for us. By visiting
the Site, all Users consent to CompareTutors providing all Information (whether
or not personally identifiable) received or collected from those Users to such third
party providers for the purpose of enabling the third party provider to provide
these outsourced services to us. In addition, all Users consent to the collection,
maintenance, and processing of their Information (whether or not personally identifiable)
by CompareTutors and these third party providers. Third parties will protect your
information as CompareTutors would under the terms of this policy.
Opting Out
This privacy statement describes CompareTutors's potential uses of your information.
If you do not agree to our potential uses of your personally identifiable information
as we have described for you, you are not required to provide that information to
us. In addition, you may opt out of receiving advertising and promotional emails
from us simply by responding to the opt-out email link provided on all email communications
from CompareTutors. You are not able to opt out of receiving administrative emails
from us.
You also may cancel or correct your personal information at any time. You can do
this by e-mailing us at myinfo@CompareTutors.com with your User Name and the notice
"My Information" in the subject field of the e-mail. We will send you an e-mail
to confirm your request. After we receive confirmation from you, we will correct
or remove your information from the active database, but some information may remain
in our archives.
Surveys
From time to time our Site may request information from Users via website and/or
emailed surveys. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and the
User therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose personally identifiable Information.
The requested Information typically includes contact information (such as name and
shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). Survey Information
will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of
the Site. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or contests,
these intermediaries will not use the Users' personally identifiable Information
for any secondary purposes. You may opt out of receiving emailed surveys from us
simply by responding to the opt-out email link provided on all email communications
from us.
Other Web Sites; Links
Please be aware that CompareTutors's affiliated tutoring institutions, promotional
partners, advertisers, sponsors, and other third-party web sites accessible through
the Site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices.
CompareTutors is not responsible for any actions, content of web sites or privacy
policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies
of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through
linked web sites.
Disclosure of Your Information
As you might expect, CompareTutors must cooperate with legal authorities, and may
in some circumstances be required to disclose Information (including personally
identifiable Information) in response to requests from law enforcement authorities,
or in response to a subpoena or other legal process. We don't expect this to happen,
but if it does, we will provide only the Information required. We can also turn
over Information about you if we believe we must in order to prevent a violation
of the law, and by accepting this Policy, you consent to our right to do so, in
our sole discretion. You also consent to our disclosing Information about you in
the course of legal proceedings if we believe we are legally required to do so,
if we reasonably believe that doing so may mitigate our liability, or if doing so
will assist us in enforcing our legal rights.
At some point, CompareTutors may establish subsidiaries or other related companies,
or merge with or be acquired by another company. When that happens, then we may
disclose to them your Information, in which case we will request them to abide by
this Policy. We may also disclose some Information to a potential acquirer, although
such disclosure would be subject to normal and customary requirements.
If and when such a merger or acquisition takes place, we will notify you by publishing
a public announcement on our Site.
Of course, CompareTutors will take reasonable measures to secure the Information
Users provide to us, using industry-standard methods. All Information is protected
by password and accessible only to authorized CompareTutors personnel. However,
there is a remote possibility that Internet transmissions containing a User's personally
identifiable Information may be intercepted by others. There is no way for us to
ensure the privacy of User Information before it arrives at the Site or after it
leaves the Site.
This privacy policy is effective December 29, 2008. If we change this Policy, we
will post the amended Policy on the Site 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 Policy at any time, so please review the Site
frequently for any changes. Amendments to this Policy will be posted on the Site
and will be effective when posted. You will be deemed to have been made aware of,
will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted, the changes to any amended
or revised Policy by your continued use of our services or the Site. If we make
material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by email or by notice
posted on our website.
If you have questions specifically about this Policy, or to legal issues pertaining
to the practices of the Site or your use of the Site, please contact us.
Due to the high volume of inquiries we receive, we regret that we cannot respond
to individual inquiries asking for information about specific tutoring classes,
education programs, schools, how to register for tutoring, or how to secure free
tutoring via SES except as represented in the Site.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Electronic:
To opt out of e-mail communications, simply click the opt-out link contained at
the bottom of every e-mail we send.
To express or ask questions regarding privacy concerns: send an email to privacy@CompareTutors.com.
Mailing address
CompareTutors.com
111 Mitchell G. Drive
Tewksbury, MA 01876
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