Policy
MyHBCUInterview.com
Effective January 12th, 2018
Universal Tutoring, LLC (“UT”, “we”, or “us”) owns and operates the My HBCU Interview website (https://www.myhbcuinterview.com/) Please read this Privacy and Cookie Policy carefully.
UT PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY
THIS PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY APPLIES TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE MYHBCUINTERVIEW.COM.
BY DOWNLOADING OR USING ANY OF THE UT ONLINE SERVICES, INCLUDING USE of the My HBCU Interview website; YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE UT ONLINE SERVICES, INCLUDING use of the My HBCU Interview website.
We do collect information about you and we may share that information with third parties in certain circumstances, so please read on for more details about how we use personal information we collect about you when you use the My HBCU Interview website.
UT controls and operates its business and the UT Online Services, including the My HBCU Interview website from within the United States of America.
Our online privacy practices are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of North Carolina, which may differ from privacy laws in your state or home country.
By submitting your personal information to us through the use of the My HBCU Interview website you consent to the transfer of your personal information to any country and its use and disclosure in accordance with applicable U.S. Federal and State laws and with this Privacy Policy.
We may change our Privacy Policy, so please check this document from time to time. Your continued use of the My HBCU Interview website after we publish our changes, indicates your acceptance of any changed terms.
What Kind Of Information We Collect
While accessing the My HBCU Interview website from your electronic device UT may collect some information that identifies you or relates to you as an individual (“Personal Information”), such as your: Name; E-mail address; Device ID, including IP address; Geolocation; Financial account information and other payment information (that you submit to us for order processing); Additional personal information necessary for the administration of certain promotional events;
In addition, we may collect other types of data elements (“Other Information”) that do not reveal your identity or that do not relate directly to you or any other individual, such as: Browser and device information, including operating system; Demographic information and other information provided by you that we may combine with other users of the My HBCU Interview website; website usage data; Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies described in more detail later in this Privacy Policy.
In addition, when users request pages on the My HBCU Interview website servers automatically log the IP address of the particular user. The IP address is a unique number assigned to your computer in order to identify it whenever you are surfing the Web.
How We Use The Personal Information We Collect
We may use Personal Information about you for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed to you through the My HBCU Interview website.
For example, we may use Personal Information to: Communicate with you by mail, telephone, facsimile, e-mail, mobile alerts and SMS text messaging about UT and the My HBCU Interview website, to update you about changes to the My HBCU Interview website.; Communicate with you, including by e-mail, mobile alerts and SMS text messaging, in connection with our marketing efforts; Further our business purposes, such as to perform data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, to enhance, improve or modify the My HBCU Interview website to identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to operate and expand our business activities; and We may send “transactional or relationship” communications to you, such as notices that provide information about your existing account, using various electronic communication, including email and mobile communications.
How We May Disclose Personal Information We Collect
Your privacy is very important to us. We generally won’t disclose your Personal Information to anyone outside of UT, except in the following circumstances.
Service Providers
We may disclose your Personal Information to third-party service providers to provide us with services such as website hosting, professional services, including information technology services and related infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, auditing and other similar services.
To Perform Services You Request
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in order to perform services you request or functions you initiate, such as when you post information and materials on message boards and forums, including on our Facebook Page. When you post information in a public forum it becomes public information.
Corporate Transactions or Events
We may disclose your information to a third party in connection with a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings.
Other Legal Reasons
In addition, we may use or disclose your Personal Information as we deem necessary or appropriate:
(1) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (2) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (3) to comply with subpoenas and other legal processes; (4) to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain; (5) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of UT, you and others; and (6) to enforce our terms and conditions.
How We May Use And Disclose Other Information We Collect
Similarly, we generally use Other Information for any purpose not prohibited by law. In particular, we may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, sell, or otherwise disclose or use any and all Other Information, provided that such information does not personally identify you.
The Other Information that we collect generally will not personally identify you or be correlated to you individually for external purposes. Where we combine Other Information with Personal Information in a way that can identify you or be used to identify you personally, we will treat that information as Personal Information, subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy.
How We Protect Your Personal Information
UT has implemented reasonable safeguards designed to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of Personal Information provided or collected through the My HBCU Interview website.
Unfortunately, no system or online transmission of data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and you should always take appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Information, including ensuring that you have up-to-date antivirus software.
Our Policy on Cookies, Interest-Based Advertising and “Do Not Track”
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed in your computer browser directories to store your information about your use of the My HBCU Interview website, and your activities online (collectively, “Cookies”).
A Cookie will typically contain the name of the domain (internet location) from which the Cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the Cookie (i.e. when does it expire), and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
To find out more about Cookies, including how to see what Cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How We Use Cookies
We use Cookies so that we can improve your online experience - for example, by remembering you when you come back to visit us, and making the content you see more relevant to you. Your Control of Cookies If you do not wish to receive Cookies or wish to manage when you accept Cookies in general, you may set your browser to reject Cookies or to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your computer.
Although you are not required to accept our Cookies, if you set your browser to reject Cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features and functionality of the My HBCU Interview website.
The Help feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new Cookie, or how to disable Cookies altogether.
If you block or otherwise reject our Cookies, you may lose some of the functionality of our site.
Online Advertising
The My HBCU Interview website may also use Cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons and clear GIF files (collectively, ”Data Collection Technologies”) to help manage our online advertising program(s).
These Data Collection Technologies are provided by our ad management partners and other third parties. In addition, we and our ad management partners may use these Data Collection Technologies to track the actions of users of the My HBCU Interview website to measure statistics of our marketing efforts, and to deliver advertisements on the My HBCU Interview website that may be more relevant to individual consumers and that will improve the consumer experience on the My HBCU Interview website.
Please note that certain third parties that we do not control may use Data Collection Technologies on the My HBCU Interview websites.
When we use the term “Data Collection Technologies” we are referring to any technology that collects information about your use of the My HBCU Interview website, and potentially about your activities when you leave the Services and visit other sites on the Internet.
Social Networking And Third Party Sites
When you link to the My HBCU Interview website through any social networking or third party sites, applications or services, please remember that you are bound by the privacy policy of the social network or third-party site, application or service, and we do not control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites.
You should consult the privacy policy of such sites to determine the information practices of those sites.
Children’s Online Privacy
UT recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of children. We will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13).
When a user discloses personal information on the My HBCU Interview website, the user is representing to us that she or he is at least thirteen (13) years of age. If a child under the age of thirteen (13) has provided us with personally identifiable information through the My HBCU Interview website, we ask that a parent or guardian e-mail us at geteducated@myhbcuinterview.com, and we will delete the child’s information from our records.
International
This English-language Privacy Policy is UTs’ official statement of its privacy and cookie practices for the My HBCU Interview website. In case of any inconsistency between this English-language Privacy and Cookie Policy and its translation into another language, this English-language document prevails.
All dates and times listed within the My HBCU Interview website are subject to change without notification. UT and the My HBCU Interview website do not guarantee accuracy of any information.
UT and the My HBCU Interview website do not represent any Historically Black College(s) or Universities (HBCU).
The My HBCU Interview website aggregates interview experiences that are freely and willingly submitted to the My HBCU Interview website and made available to the public domain or general public from those students, supporters, and alumni from and of Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCU).
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy and cookie policy practices, you can email us directly at geteducated@myhbcuinterview.com.
All rights reserved. Last updated: January 2018
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