Overview
College Mobile Deals is committed to
protecting the privacy of visitors and our members. College Mobile Deals has
established this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through
our services and how that information is used.
In this policy, "College Mobile
Deals" refers to College Mobile Deals staff, board members, interns,
volunteers, consultants and cooperating attorneys, all of whom are bound by law
or contract to keep information they receive as part of their assistance to College
Mobile Deals confidential.
College Mobile Deals does not share
information without prior consent except as compelled by law (as described in
the “Information Sharing” section below).
Information Gathered by College
Mobile Deals' Site and Services
When you sign up for a College
Mobile Deals account, other College Mobile Deals services, or promotions that
require registration, we ask you for personal information, such as your name,
mobile number, email address, account password, and other personal information
that you decide to provide. We may combine the information you submit under
your account with information from other College Mobile Deals services or third
parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the
quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity
to opt-out of combining such information.
When you use College Mobile Deals
services, we may place a text file called a "cookie" in the web
browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal
information. The cookie enables us to maintain a better web site user
experience. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can
reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. Some College Mobile Deals features and services may not function properly
if your cookies are disabled.
When you use College Mobile Deals
services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends
whenever you visit a website or send a message. These server logs may include
information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, mobile phone
number, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and
one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
When you send email or other
communication to College Mobile Deals, we may retain those communications in
order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our
services.
We offer some of our services in
connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those
sites may be sent to College Mobile Deals in order to deliver the service. We
process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites
may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy
policies.
College Mobile Deals' Use of
Information
In general, College Mobile Deals
uses the information provided by you to deliver content you have requested or
to provide relevant offers from third parties. We use your information to
process and manage your membership.
If you invite another person to join
College Mobile Deals, we will ask for that person's name and contact
information. We use this information to contact and, if necessary, remind that
person that he or she has been invited to join College Mobile Deals.
We may run surveys, contests, or
similar activities through our site or services. Such information will be used
for the purposes for which it was collected.
We may use information collected to
review the technical performance of our sites and services.
Third-Party Service Providers
From time to time, College Mobile
Deals may work with third-party consultants or other service providers who may
have access to personally-identifiable information. In such cases, we will
restrict their use of this information in accordance with their assigned tasks
and subject to the limitations of this privacy policy.
College Mobile Deals' sites and
services provide links or contact information to a wide variety of
third-parties. College Mobile Deals is not responsible for, and does not have
any control over, the privacy practices or the content of such third parties.
We encourage visitors and members to read the privacy policies of any website
visited.
Information Sharing
College Mobile Deals does not share
any of your personal information that would result in its inappropriate use. College
Mobile Deals does not share any of your personal information without your
knowledge and consent. College Mobile Deals only shares personal information
with other companies or individuals outside of College Mobile Deals in the
following, limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the
sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our subsidiaries,
affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the
purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that
these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions
and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate
confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to
(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including
investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect
against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of College Mobile
Deals, its members or the public as required or permitted by law.
- If College Mobile Deals becomes involved in a merger,
acquisition or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will
provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes
subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties
certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of
members who received a particular message, for example, or how many members
responded to a particular offer. Such information does not identify you
individually.
Please contact us at the address
below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal
data.
Updating Your Information
You may choose to correct, update,
or delete the membership information you have submitted to College Mobile Deals
through our web interface or other interfaces provided. In the event that you
are not able to modify or remove information using existing College Mobile
Deals facilities, please contact us at the e-mail address tim@collegemobiledeals.com.
We will make every reasonable effort to update or remove data as requested and
free of charge. We may not be able to fulfill requests that require a
disproportionate amount of technical effort.
Changes to Our Policies
College Mobile Deals' Privacy Policy
may change from time to time. However, any revised privacy policy will be
consistent with College Mobile Deals' mission and basic set of services. If we
make any substantive changes to our policies, we will post notice of changes on
this page.
Security
College Mobile Deals employs
industry standard security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control. Member information submitted through the
registration processes is encrypted through a Secured Socket Layer (SSL) connection,
which protects the information in transit.
Although we make good faith efforts
to store information collected by College Mobile Deals in a secure operating
environment, we cannot guarantee complete security. Information collected by College
Mobile Deals will be maintained for a length of time appropriate to our needs.
Because email and instant messaging
are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send
private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have
any questions about the security of College Mobile Deals' web site, please
contact us at tim@collegemobiledeals.com.
Enforcement
College Mobile Deals regularly
reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any
questions or concerns regarding this Policy or College Mobile Deals' treatment
of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to
us at Privacy Matters, c/o College Mobile Deals, LLC, 2211 E. Highland Suite
260, Phoenix, AZ 85016, USA. When we receive formal written complaints at this
address, it is College Mobile Deals’ policy to contact the user regarding his
or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities,
including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints
regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between College
Mobile Deals and an individual.
Updated on November 19, 2009