The Story To College, Inc. (“Story To College”) website (“Site”) is a Site on the internet where high school students, parents, and schools access tools and strategies for completing successful college application essays and interviews.
Story To College encourages high school students, their parents, teachers and schools to use and enjoy our website to learn about the college admission process and to communicate with us. Students and parents should take care to safeguard their privacy when using the internet including on our website. Our information collection practices are described below. Before entering information on any website including our Site, students and parents should discuss safe practices and restrictions regarding the online release of personal information to anyone they don't know.
I. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
At Story To College, it's our policy to create website content that requires minimal collection of information from our visitors. Generally, Story To College limits our collection of information to what is known as non-personally identifiable information (e.g. screen name, high school and year of graduation, gender, state, zip code and country of residence). This information is collected so students can participate in activities (e.g. chat with instructors, download exercises, post stories and messages) without giving unnecessary personal information. From time to time, however, we may request limited personally identifiable information (e.g. your email address and/or email address of parent or third party), as explained below, in order to offer online activities, measure the success of our programs, and to improve your overall learning experience with Story To College. Story To College does not condition your participation in any of our online activities on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the activity. As explained below, we also collect from students 18 years of age and older, and parents of students under 18, additional types of information (e.g., credit card and billing information) when they purchase products and offerings at our Site.
II. INFORMATION USE
We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:
- To fulfill your requests for products and services;
- To provide you with targeted offers, Site content, and advertising on the Site;
- To contact you with information and promotional materials;
- To contact you about courses and other services you have enrolled in and registered for;
- To review Site and product usage and operations;
- To address problems with the Site, our business, products or services; and
- To protect the security or integrity of the Site, and our users and business.
III. CUSTOMER SERVICE
Story To College customers may email us their questions about our services and our Site. Please email specific questions info@StoryToCollege.com. We may ask for additional non-personal information to better help us respond to customer service questions. We do not sell, transfer or share this email address with third parties.
IV. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Story To College also uses or may use personally identifiable information that Site visitors provide for such purposes as sending email messages and responding to their questions regarding our products and services. Story To College currently does not disclose to third parties personally identifiable information you provide, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, including, from time to time, transferring, disclosing or sharing such information with third parties engaged by us specifically to handle and deliver certain online activities (e.g. course registration). Such third parties have access only to personal information necessary to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. In the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to Story To College are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information submitted to us may be transferred to the acquiring entity. We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies, to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our website, users and others.
V. OPT OUT
You may opt out of receiving future communications from us by sending an email to info@StoryToCollege.com.
VI. INFORMATION RECEIVED BY STORY TO COLLEGE
The Story To College website utilizes third party service providers for registrations and related services. These third parties may collect personal information in connection with such services about users or customers and share such information with us.
We use the personal information we receive internally within Story To College, and we do not sell, transfer or share this personally identifiable information with third parties; except as otherwise expressly provided herein including from time to time, transferring, disclosing or sharing such information with third parties engaged by us specifically to handle and manage certain analysis of the data or other functions. Such third parties have access only to personal information needed to perform their functions, may not use such personally identifiable information for other purposes and have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of any information they receive from us.
We are always looking for ways to improve your experience with Story To College. In order to accomplish this goal, we may at times solicit additional personally identifiable information from third party marketing organizations. This information, in addition to the information you have already provided, will help us to offer new Story To College products and services.
Additionally, we may use the personal information you disclose to provide you with our marketing materials, and to contact Site users who have asked that Story To College contact them directly about such things as sales and special offers.
VII. COOKIES AND LOG DATA
Unique identifiers such as cookies (which may be html files, Flash files, or other technology), web beacons, or similar technologies (collectively referred to as "Tracking Technologies") are used to help tailor our content, allow users to move between associated websites without logging into each site, and other purposes related to our management of Story To College and this Site. Cookies are small text files stored locally on your computer that help store user preferences. "Web beacons" or "clear gifs" are small pieces of code placed on websites used to collect advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses.
We may use Tracking Technologies to understand Site and Internet usage and to improve or customize the content, offerings or advertisements on the Story To College Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience on the Site (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Site), save your password in password-protected areas, save your online settings, and enable you to use shopping carts on the Site. We also may use cookies to help us offer you products, programs or services that may be of interest to you and to deliver relevant advertising. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to the use of Tracking Technologies as set forth in this policy.
In many internet browsers, you can choose to delete, disable, turn off or reject most Tracking Technologies through the "Internet Options" sub-option of the "Tools" menu option of your browser or otherwise as directed by your browser's support feature. Additional information on deleting, disabling, rejecting or turning off Tracking Technologies may be available through your browser's support feature. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information.
For more information about Flash cookies and how to remove them from your computer, please visit http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html or http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html.
Please know that certain areas and features of the Story To College Site can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content.
Log data collected on web servers supplies us with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our Site. We use such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the "log data" collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities. Third-party advertising and other service providers may also collect aggregate log data independently from us.
VIII. MINORS AND PARENTAL ACCESS
At Story To College we want to ensure that high school students have a safe online learning experience. Towards that end this Site is solely for the use of students, age 13 and older, as well as their parents, and schools. If you are under age 13, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before using this Site.
IX. SECURITY
Story To College has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected in the future is secure, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as electronic security systems and password protections which guard against unauthorized access.
X. LINKS
Story To College may from time to time provide links to other websites that may have their own information collection practices. These other websites are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from ours. We encourage visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.
XI. QUESTIONS/CONCERNS
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding Story to College’s privacy policy and/or practices, please email us at info@StoryToCollege.com.
This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change. We will notify you of material changes by posting them at our Site. We encourage you to check back and review this policy, from time to time, so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
XII. COPYRIGHT POLICY
We take protection of copyrights, both our own and others, very seriously. If you believe that the Site contains elements that infringe your copyrights in your work, please contact info@StoryToCollege.com.
Please make sure you review the Terms of Use governing use of this Site.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 16, 2011.