University Decisions Privacy Policy
Purpose of this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how this website treats personally identifiable
information that is collected about you when you visit the web site to
which this policy is linked.
What is Personally Identifiable Information
"Personally identifiable information" is information that we can use to
identify you as an individual. Personally identifiable information includes
your name, address, telephone number and any other information that is
connected with you personally.
Information This Privacy Policy Does Not Apply To
This privacy policy does not apply to information collected about you
by anyone except VERGO Marketing, Inc. and its affiliate website or affiliate
partners and only applies to the web sites to which this policy is linked.
Any information you provide when you visit web sites other than those
covered by this policy (including other web sites affiliated with VERGO
Marketing, Inc.) or when you purchase any products or services, or enter
contests, that may be linked to or advertised on our web site by companies
other than VERGO Marketing, Inc. is subject to the privacy policies posted
on those sites. However, please do be aware that from time to time we
make our subscriber lists available to companies that sell goods and services
that we believe would interest our readers.
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
VERGO Marketing, Inc. generally collects personally identifiable information
with your specific knowledge and consent. For instance, when you enter
a sweepstakes or contest, complete a survey, participate in a reader panel,
request information from colleges and universities, register for those
portions of our sites that may require registration, make a purchase,
request back issues, subscribe to our magazines or subscribe to our newsletters
and other electronic services you will be asked to provide information
such as your e-mail address, name, phone number and shipping address.
Information such as your age, gender, hobbies or interests may also be
requested. If you entered a contest on our website, we may use your e-mail
address to send you a confirmation notice and your mailing address to
send you information. Similarly, if you enter online contests, we will
use this information to notify you if you are a winner. We might also
send out e-mails to users and contest entrants to announce special offers,
services and announcements from our sites and/or our advertisers. If you
provide personal information for use in any of our social networking channels
or tools (which may include services such as text messaging and instant
messaging and the like), we will use that information in the manner contemplated
by the particular networking channel.
We may also use any personal information you send for marketing and promotional
purposes and we may combine information we receive online with outside
records to enhance our ability to market products or provide services
that we believe may be of interest to you. Additionally, we may share
your personal information with third parties who may choose to contact
you to promote their own goods and services. If you want us to stop sharing
your email address with third parties in this way, click here and let
us know at optout@vergomarketing.com, if you do not wish us to share information
with companies who would otherwise contact you at your mailing address,
you may notify us in writing by sending a notice to VERGO Marketing, Inc,
4014 N. Goldwater Blvd, Ste 204, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 or contacting us
at optout@vergomarketing.com, you may elect to stop receiving email messages
from VERGO Marketing, Inc., by notifying us at optout@vergomarketing.com.
In addition, we may use information you provide us through emails, Q &
A and contest entry forms for future press releases. In the unlikely event
that we believe that the security of your personal information in our
possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify
you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor
to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, to the
extent we have your e-mail address, we may notify you by e-mail. In addition
to the foregoing, VERGO Marketing, Inc. may share or disclose personally
identifiable information about you to other companies or individuals when:
- We utilize third party service providers to provide products, services
or functions
(such as sending emails or fulfilling subscriptions), and ask these service
providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality of your personally
identifiable information and not to use your personally identifiable information
for any reason except to carry out the purpose(s) for which we hired them.
- You have entered a contest or sweepstakes sponsored by a third party,
in which case the information may be shared with that third party for
their use in their discretion, including direct marketing (Some of our
contests and sweeps will ask you at the time of entry whether you would
like your personal information to be shared with the sponsor. Other contests
will not give you that option and in that event, if you do not want your
information to be shared, you should not enter the contest).
- We must comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal or regulatory
process.
- We have reason to believe that someone may be causing injury to or interference
with our rights or the rights of our users, or general public, or using
our services in violation of a legal or personal right.
Cookies
VERGO Marketing, Inc. (or third party service providers on our behalf)
may set and access cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small amount
of data (often including a unique identifier), that is sent to your browser
from a web site’s computers and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
VERGO Marketing, Inc. uses cookies to understand site usage and to improve
the content and offerings on our site.
We may use cookies to control the display of ads, to track usage patterns
on the sites, to deliver editorial content, to record requests for subscriptions
and to personalize information. Our cookies may contain personally identifiable
information and such cookies may be shared with others to the same extent
indicated above.
VERGO Marketing, Inc. (or third party service providers on our behalf)
may also use cookies to collect aggregate information about web site users
on an anonymous basis. We may share aggregate demographic and usage information
with our prospective and actual business partners, advertisers and other
third parties for any business purpose. Some of our advertisers may serve
you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers.
If you don't want cookies, most Web browsers include an option that allows
you to not accept them. However, if you set your browser to refuse cookies,
some portions of our sites may not function efficiently.
IP Address
Your Internet Protocol ("IP") address is usually associated with the place
from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider,
your company or your university. Our server may also record the referring
page that linked you to us (e.g., another Web site or a search engine);
the pages you visit on the website, the Web site you visit after this
Web Site; the ads you see; the ads you click on; other information about
the type of Web browser, computer, platform, related software and settings
you are using; any search terms you have entered on this Web Site or a
referral site; and other Web usage activity and data logged by our Web
servers. We may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our
servers, gather broad demographic information and administer our website.
We may also link this information with your personal information when
we feel that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our rules and
policies or terms of service or to protect our Sites, customers or others.
Wireless Addresses
If the email address you provide to us is a wireless email address, you
agree to receive messages at such address from VERGO Marketing, Inc, entities
affiliated with the Magazine. You understand that your wireless carrier's
standard rates apply to these messages. You represent that you are the
owner or authorized user of the wireless device on which messages will
be received and that you are authorized to approve the applicable charges.
Short Message Service and Wireless Internet
We may make available services through which you can receive messages
on your phone or wireless device via short message service ("SMS Service")
or via wireless internet ("WAP Services"). If you subscribe to one of
our SMS or WAP Services, you thereby agree to receive SMS or WAP Service
at the address you provide for such purposes. Such messages may come from
VERGO Marketing, Inc., or from third parties who we believe may have goods
or services of interest to you (unless you have elected not to receive
such messages at the time you subscribe)
You understand that your wireless carrier's standard rates apply to these
messages, and that you may opt-out of receiving them by notifying us at.optout@vergomarketing.com.
You represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the wireless
device you use to sign up for the SMS or WAP Service and that you are
authorized to approve the applicable charges. To use the SMS or WAP Service,
you must reside in the United States. You must register and provide all
required Personal Information, which may include, for example, your name,
SMS or WAP address, wireless carrier and, if fees are applicable to the
SMS or WAP Service you subscribe to, billing information (either your
credit card information or mobile service carrier information if applicable
fees will be billed through your carrier). We may also obtain the date,
time and content of your messages in the course of your use of the SMS
or WAP Service. We will use the information we obtain in connection with
our SMS or WAP Service in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If fees
are charged to your wireless account invoice, we may provide your carrier
with your applicable information in connection herewith. Your wireless
carrier and other service providers may also collect data about your wireless
device usage and their practices are governed by their own policies.
You acknowledge and agree that the SMS or WAP Services are provided via
wireless systems which use radios (and other means) to transmit communications
over complex networks. We do not guarantee that your use of the SMS or
WAP Service will be private or secure and we are not liable to you for
any lack of privacy or security you may experience. You are fully responsible
for taking precautions and providing security measures best suited for
your situation and intended use of the SMS or WAP Service. We may also
access the content of your account and wireless account with your carrier
for the purpose of identifying and resolving technical problems and service-related
complaints.
By signing up for the SMS or WAP Service, you consent to receiving, from
time to time, further messages which may include news, promotions and
offers from us, our affiliates and partners and unless and until you have
opted-out of these activities by notifying us at optout@vergomarketing.com.
Please follow the instructions provided for you by third parties to unsubscribe
from their messages.
Advertising Disclosure
We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our
website and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information
about your visits to this website and the sites upon which we advertise,
to serve our ads to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to
you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser.
In addition, we may use Web beacons, provided by our third-party advertising
company, to help manage our online advertising. These Web beacons enable
our third-party ad serving company to recognize a browser's cookie when
a browser visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring users to
our website. To learn more about our third-party ad-serving company, cookies,
and how to "opt-out" please click here.
Kids And Parents
The sites covered by this policy are not intended for use by children,
especially those under age 13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide
any personal information or use our public discussion areas, forums and
chats. To subscribe to newsletters and to participate in other activities
where personal information is divulged on our teen oriented sites, you
must be 13 or older. If your children disclose information about themselves
in our public discussion areas, they may get unsolicited messages from
other parties. Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so. If you're
worried about your children's activities or their privacy on our site,
we encourage you to e-mail Debbie@vergomarketing.com.
Blogs, Video and other user-generated Postings
If you elect to post material to any blogs, forums, or other community
boards that may be offered on our sites, or if you elect to upload any
photographs, audio or video, you will be solely responsible for all content,
messages, text, files, images, graphics, photos, audio clips, sounds,
video or other materials (the "Postings"). You agree and warrant that
any Postings you post to the sites will be true and accurate, will not
defame any person or invade any person’s privacy and will not infringe
the proprietary rights of any person. You agree not to furnish any Postings
to which you do not own the rights. By furnishing Postings, you give VERGO
Marketing, Inc. the right to use such Postings in any manner and in any
media now known or hereafter invented, including, without limitation,
the right to combine your Postings with Postings of third parties in varied
combinations. You also acknowledge that visitors to the sites may post
comments about your Postings which may be derogatory and that VERGo Marketing,
Inc. has no obligation to monitor or delete any such postings.
Please be aware that VERGO Marketing, Inc. does not and cannot monitor
all of the Postings made to the sites and therefore VERGO Marketing, Inc.
will not be responsible for the content of any Postings. However, VERGO
Marketing, Inc. does reserve the right to delete or edit any material
in any Posting that is offensive, obscene, harassing, offensive or otherwise
objectionable and not in keeping with the community standards of VERGO
Marketing, Inc. affiliated websites . If VERGO Marketing, Inc. elects
to edit any Postings, it nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the
content of the Postings. Under no circumstances will VERGO Marketing,
Inc. be liable for any inaccuracy or defect in any Postings. We also expect
our users to adhere to certain rules of the road. Therefore, you agree
not to post, email, or otherwise make available Postings:
- That are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory,
pornographic, libelous, or invasive of another's privacy, or harmful to
minors in any way.
- That harass, degrade, intimidate or are hateful toward an individual or
group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation,
race, ethnicity, age, or disability.
- That include personal or identifying information about another person
without that person's explicit consent.
- That are false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, mis-informative, constitute
"bait and switch" or impersonation of any person or entity.
- Contain your own or a third party's advertising, branding or promotional
content.
- That infringe any proprietary rights, including copyright or Postings
that you do not have a right to make available.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the VERGO Marketing,
Inc. affiliated sites.
Because VERGO Marketing, Inc. does not monitor the Postings, you agree
to use and rely on them at your own risk. VERGO Marketing, Inc. cannot
make any representation or warranty about the material contained in the
Postings. VERGO Marketing, Inc. likewise assumes no responsibility for
any contact you may have with other users of our sites, either online
or offline. If you elect to meet in person with someone you may meet on
our sites, you do so at your own risk and under no circumstances will
VERGO Marketing, Inc. be liable for any activity or injury that may occur.
Copyright
Everything you see or read on the VERGO Marketing, Inc. site is owned
by us or used with permission. You may not copy, use, or retransmit anything
from or for our site without our permission. Any commercial or promotional
distribution, publishing or exploitation of the site, or any content,
code, data or materials on the site is strictly prohibited. You are not
allowed to post or distribute any material you do not own or which you
do not have permission to use. You are also prohibited from engaging in
any conduct that interferes with the technological operation of the site
or that tampers with any copyright protection mechanisms applicable to
content on any sites. Ignoring this policy may result in copyright, trademark,
or other intellectual property rights violations.
Disclaimers
VERGO Marketing, Inc. is not responsible for the conduct, whether online
or offline, of any user of the sites. VERGO Marketing, Inc. takes reasonable
steps to protect the security and integrity of all personal information
you provide to the sites; however, due to the inherent nature of the Internet,
we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the
Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will
be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers. VERGO Marketing,
Inc. assumes no liability for any error, omission, interruption, deletion,
defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure,
theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any
user Posting. VERGO Marketing, Inc. is not responsible for any problems
or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online
systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of
any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on
the Internet or on any of the sites or combination thereof, including
any injury or damage to users or to any person's computer related to or
resulting from participation in any activities on the sites or downloading
materials. We make no warranties the services will be timely, secure,
uninterrupted, or error-free. You understand that if you download any
material, you do so at your sole risk. Under no circumstances shall VERGO
Marketing, Inc. be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal
injury or death, resulting from use of the sites, any content posted on
or through the sites, or conduct of any users of the sites, whether online
or offline. We can, whenever we want, edit or delete any content displayed
on the sites. You use the sites at your own risk. Everything you see on
our sites is provided to you "as is." The sites are provided "AS-IS" and
as available and VERGO Marketing, Inc. expressly disclaims any warranty
of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. VERGO Marketing,
Inc. cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use
of the sites.
Limitation on Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL VERGO Marketing, Inc. BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD
PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL
OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE
OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF VERGO Marketing, Inc. HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY
CONTAINED HEREIN.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold VERGO Marketing, Inc., its subsidiaries,
affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees
harmless from any loss or liability arising out of your use of the sites
or from any claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made
by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the sites in violation
of these terms of service and/or any breach of your representations, warranties
and obligations set forth above and/or if any content that you post in
Postings on the sites or through the sites causes VERGO Marketing, Inc.
to be liable to another.
Changes to Privacy Policy and Notice
VERGO Marketing, Inc. may change this policy from time to time in its
discretion. Your continued use of our sites indicates your consent to
this privacy policy and any amended versions of it.
This policy was last updated on 12-21-2009.