Privacy Policy Statement

TuitionU.com knows privacy is serious matter and keeping our member information secure is an important part of our business. Although it is necessary that we collect certain information from users wishing to use the advanced TuitionU.com features we are not in the business of selling user information to others and will only share information as described below. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our Web site. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically. We respect each site visitor's right to personal privacy. 

What this Privacy Policy Covers
This privacy policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information that TuitionU.com collects when you are on any TuitionU.com site and when you use TuitionU.com services. This policy also covers TuitionU.com's treatment of any personally identifiable information that TuitionU.com business partners share with TuitionU.com as well as what happens to personal information in the unlikely event that TuitionU.com sells or transfers its business assets. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that TuitionU.com does not own or control, or to people that TuitionU.com does not employ or manage.

Information Collection and Use
TuitionU.com is the sole owner of any information collected on the site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this privacy statement. 

Creating a TuitionU.com member ID
TuitionU.com enables members to create Member IDs, which allows them to control their personal information and whether it should be made public or private. This also allows members to identify themselves with their contributions to any TuitionU.coM Web site and to manage their TuitionU.com subscriptions. During registration, a member is required to provide his or her contact information (such as name, e-mail address, state, country, and zip code), as well as some basis demographic information.  This helps TuitionU.com to provide a more personalized experience on our site. Once you register with TuitionU.com and sign in, you are no longer anonymous to TuitionU.com administrators. 

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies that TuitionU.com creates do not store any personally identifiable information. Some of our business partners may use cookies within our network. However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. TuitionU.com uses cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our visitors and the services they select. We also use cookies for security purposes to protect our visitors. For example, if a visitor is logged on and the site is unused for more than 10 minutes, cookies permit TuitionU.com to automatically log the visitor off.

Log Files
To plan resource requirements and measure the success of certain site features, TuitionU.com uses IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the network, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. 

Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers to measure the success of services and campaigns. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

Affiliates
We may disclose information (including personally identifiable information) about you to our Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Affiliates" means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with TuitionU.com, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information about you that we provide to our Affiliates will be treated by those Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Partners
We may disclose information (including personally identifiable information) about you to a Partner through which you are linked. Any information relating to you that we provide to such Partners will be used and disclosed by such Partners in accordance with such Partners' privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our Partners or their web sites.

Links
TuitionU.com websites contain links to other Education related sites. Please be aware that TuitionU.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by TuitionU.com websites.

Alerts
If a user wishes to subscribe to any TuitionU.com alerts, we ask for the user's e-mail address. The user will be notified of receipt through a confirmation e-mail message. E-mail addresses provided by users for alert subscriptions will not be sold or provided to third parties, except as provided in this Privacy Policy.  TuitionU.com periodically sends service updates and topic-relevant content through its alerts. These infrequent but useful updates keep TuitionU.com alerts subscribers up-to-date with important information related to the topics to which they are subscribed.

Use of Personally Identifiable Information
TuitionU.com has entered into and intends to continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to limited personally identifiable information on a need to know basis in order to evaluate visitors for service eligibility. Our privacy policy does not cover the collection or use of this information by such vendors.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time, TuitionU.com will request information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary; the user has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age, etc.). Contact information will only be used to notify the winners to award prizes and to send survey results to participants. Survey information may be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use of and satisfaction with this site.

Recommend this TuitionU.com to a Friend
If a user elects to use the TuitionU.com referral service for informing a friend about our Web site, we ask for the friend's name and e-mail address. TuitionU.com will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the site. TuitionU.com uses this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail.

Disclosure by Necessity
We will disclose personally identifiable information in order to comply with a court order, subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose personally identifiable information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our visitors. Information is subject to disclosure to address a claim that you are violating the terms of any agreement pertaining to your use of your use of any TuitionU.com website or products or services, or rights of any third party. Information is also subject to disclosure if we believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring an action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering (either intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, your rights or property, other users of our website, products or services, or anyone else. As we continue to develop our business, we or our Affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company, or be bought by another company. In such transactions, personal information (including personally identifiable information) may be one of the transferred assets. Your information (including personally identifiable information) may be stored and processed in any country in which we maintain facilities or conduct operations. By using our website, products and services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.  In the event your account becomes inactive your information may remain in our databases, computers, and archives, and may not be expunged.

Security
TuitionU.com takes every precaution to protect our users' privacy. When users submit sensitive information via any TuitionU.com Web site, your information is protected both online and offline. Your TuitionU.com Member information is password-protected for your privacy and security. Access to any user information, not just personally identifiable information, is heavily restricted within our company. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our system administrators) are granted access to personally identifiable information. It is our policy that ALL TuitionU.com employees be kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. In addition, the servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security of TuitionU.com Web sites, please contact Support@TuitionU.com  to request further information.

Site and Service Updates
We may send registered users of TuitionU.com occasional e-mail announcements regarding changes or updates to our services. Users may request removal at any time from our list for any future updates.

Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as employment type or e-mail address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. To correct/update personal information, please contact Support@TuitionU.com with details of the requested change.

Personally Identifiable Information
We treat your personally identifiable information carefully. We may use personally identifiable information in order to offer services and functionality that are a part of our business. Your personally identifiable information will only be made available to other companies in the following circumstances:

• We have your explicit consent to share such information.
• We may employ companies to act as our agent to perform specific services on our behalf. For instance, we may employ a company to distribute and manage e-mail messages on our behalf, such as in the case of newsletters and/or advertisements. These companies agree to keep user information confidential and to use it only to perform service(s) we have employed them to perform on our behalf. Your information will not be shared or sold by these agents under any circumstances.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will make these changes available from our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we are authorized to use their information. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Terms of Service
We may also use and disclose information (including personally identifiable information) about you as stated in our Terms of Service.

If you have any further questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact TuitionU.com support via the contact information on http://www.tuitionu.com/.

BY USING TUITIONU.COM'S SERVICE OR PARTNER SERVICES YOU SIGNIFY YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU SHOULD NOT USE TUITIONU.COM OR ANY AFFILIATED WEBSITES. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF TUITIONU.COM's SERVICE OR ANY PARTNER AREA FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL MEAN THAT YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.