COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy
Welcome to our website, owned and produced by College News and Research, Inc. This PRIVACY POLICY is a contract between you and College News and Research, INC or its associated companies.  When you visit our websites you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this PRIVACY POLICY.  This PRIVACY POLICY explains how we handle any personally identifiable information that we collect from visitors to our websites. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy then you are not authorized to visit our website.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: For information regarding your California Privacy Rights, please click HERE.

INDEX

1A. What Information We Collect
1B. How We Use It
2. Agents
3. Right to Sell/License Data
4. Cookies
5. Copyright
6. Access Links
7. Disclosures
8. Security
9. Reporting and Data Analysis
10. Links to Other Sites
11. Updates/Changes to the Privacy Policy
12. Changing Your Status - Unsubscribe 12. We Do Not Intend to Collect Data from Minors
13. Special Policy Related to the Handling of Social Security Numbers
14. Changing Your Status – CNR Unsubscribe

What Information We Collect/How We Use It
We store and use the information you give us in accordance with the terms of this Policy. Our registration form requests that you provide certain contact and profile information (like, for example, your name, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number). Some of the requested information is required in order to receive College News and Research, INC. Services; other information is optional. The required information is indicated as such on the registration pages of the College News and Research, INC. Web Site. Depending on the specific COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Services for which a user registers, certain category specific information will be requested. We use this additional data to personalize your College News and Research, INC. experience. By obtaining and using this information, we can provide you with prompt, relevant and individualized service according to your preferences and interests.

Other than the information we require in order to provide one or more College News and Research, INC. Services to you, you do not have to provide any further information. But your election to withhold certain information will limit the value of the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. experience for you.

In addition, we might receive information about you from outside sources and add it to your COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. membership information. We do this to improve personalization of our services (for example, providing better newsletter content, advertising or special offers that we think will interest you). If you do not want us to relate your personally identifiable information to anybody other than the schools you are interested in, you may choose to have your information removed from our database by clicking HERE.

We also collect information such as the identification of the server your computer is logged onto and whether you opened an College News and Research, INC. e-mail delivered to you. We may also compare our customer list to lists received from other companies, in an effort to avoid sending identical messages to our members. You can add and modify any of the information you have provided by following the instructions set forth below.

We use all of this information in the following ways:

1. To provide you with personalized information via electronic delivery and/or direct mail;
2. To send you targeted advertising via electronic delivery and/or direct mail;
3. To contact you for feedback and surveys via electronic delivery and/or direct mail;
4. To send you general and administrative information about your College News and Research, INC. membership via electronic delivery and/or direct mail; and
5. To provide your contact information to College News and Research, INC. marketing partners to allow them to send you special offers via electronic delivery and direct mail. This most often occurs when you request that we do so such as when completing an online survey.

Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include sending direct and electronic mail, removing duplicate information from customer lists, analyzing data, and providing marketing analysis. These agents have access to member personal information as needed to perform their functions for College News and Research, INC., but we do not permit them to use it for other purposes.

Right to Sell/License Data: COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. may sell and/or license the personal information that you provide to us to third party businesses. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference, data enhancement, suppression and validation, email marketing, and telemarketing. n addition to the information you provide us or that we obtain about you, we will also collect certain information arising out of your use of our web site, or augment the data we collect with other information from other online or offline sources.  We may share information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies or for particular purposes including, without limitation, (1) in select circumstances when our business partner refers you to us and you give us permission to share specific information, such as your name and email address, with such business partner on your order form, or (2) when our business partner provides a product or service that we fell may be of interest to you. We reserve the right to collect information about you and store it in connection with other online or offline information we may possess or obtain about you.

Cookies. We may use cookies to, among other things, save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the College News and Research, INC. Web Site. Many Web browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You may change your browser settings to either reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is about to be placed on your computer. Please note, however, that rejecting cookies while visiting the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Web Site may result in certain parts of the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Web Site not operating correctly or as efficiently as if they were allowed. For example, if you are an College News and Research, INC. member, you may need to enter your username and password each time you visit the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Web Site.

Copyright:   Copyright on this College News and Research, INC. WEBSITE and all materials included in it are owned by or licensed to College News and Research, INC. and all rights are reserved. You must abide by all copyright notices and restrictions contained on the College News and Research, INC. Site.

You may not copy, distribute, enter into a database, display, perform, create derivative works of, transmit, or otherwise use any materials from the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Site (including computer programs or other code) (“Site Materials”), except that you may download one machine-readable copy of the Site Materials only for personal, non-commercial use, and only if you do not alter the text or remove any trademark, copyright, or other notice displayed on the Site Materials.

You may NOT link to the home page of the College News and Research, INC Site UNLESS you first contact us and ask for permission.

You may not frame the content of the College News and Research, INC. WEBSITE. You may not use metatags or any other “hidden text” that incorporates the our Trademarks or our name without our express written consent.

Access Links. In some instances we may include certain links in our e-mails that will allow us to monitor whether you access specific content or advertisements contained in that e-mail. When you click on one of these links, we will record that click and certain activities on the Web page associated with that link. We may use this information for various purposes, such as to conduct internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior in and to our e-mail advertisements and content, and to better understand and serve you.

Disclosures. College News and Research, INC. may disclose information about you and your use of the College News and Research, INC. Web Site and the College News and Research, INC. Services if COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. believes such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with the law or legal process; (ii) to protect or defend the rights or property of College News and Research, INC. or others; (iii) to enforce the College News and Research, INC. Terms and Conditions or this Privacy Policy; and (iv) to respond to claims that the content(s) of a communication violates the rights of another. In addition College News and Research, INC. may share or transfer information about you and that you provide to College News and Research, INC., to one or more third party entities pursuant to a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion, or all of, the assets or stock of COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. or its affiliated entities, or as otherwise provided herein. College News and Research, INC. may also disclose information to allow third party business partners and affiliates deliver marketing offers to you; however we only make these types of disclosures if you request that we do so.

Security. The College News and Research, INC. Web Site has security measures in place intended to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our hardware infrastructure is housed in a controlled access facility that restricts access to authorized individuals with positive identification. Our network access to the infrastructure is protected by a firewall protection system. Information is backed up on a periodic basis to protect against accidental loss. However, we can not guarantee that communications between you and College News and Research, INC. will not be intercepted by others and that information stored on our servers will be free from unauthorized access. While we have taken reasonable precautions to protect this information, you should always use discretion in what information you send to us and not expect that such information will be absolutely free from intrusion.

Reports. We periodically prepare analyses and reports reflecting visitor and member use of the College News and Research, INC. Web Site and College News and Research, INC. Service for our internal use as well as for a limited number of our business partners. These reports include aggregate (non-personal) information about College News and Research, INC. members, and in certain instances, visitors to the College News and Research, INC. Web Site. The information in these reports will not identify you individually. Our business partners who have access to these reports will not be able to contact you from the information contained in the reports.

Links to Other Sites. The College News and Research, INC. Web Site, as well as the electronic messages sent as part of the COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Service, may contain links to other sites or services. COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such third party sites. If you have a question about the privacy policy of those other sites, please contact them directly.

Updates. College News and Research, INC. may revise this Policy at any time in the future to (i) improve or modify the College News and Research, INC. Service, (ii) reflect future developments in College News and Research, INC. data information gathering, storing and release practices, (iii) comply with applicable laws, and (iv) reflect changes in College News and Research, INC. business structure. You agree to this Privacy Policy and the changes by visiting the Web site. Accordingly, you should review these terms and policy from time to time to check for updates. Your continued use of the College News and Research, INC. website shall evidence your acceptance of any changes.

We Do Not Intend to Collect Data from Minors. You must be 18 years old or older (except in Alabama where you must be 19 years old or older) to access our websites. CNR also requires confirmation in an affirmative statement that you are of the proper age. No information collected from children is knowingly used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside CNR. If you discover that your child, or any child, has provided his or her personal information to an CNR website and we are unaware that the child is under the age of 18, please notify CNR immediately and we will endeavor to immediately eradicate said information from our database

Special Policy Related to the Handling of Social Security Numbers. With respect to your Social Security Number, CNR. has instituted various practices to prevent the disclosure of your Social Security Number. First, CNR only carries out the collection of SSNs when it is reasonably necessary for the proper administration of lawful business. CNR will secure your information by eliminating the public display of SSNs and by protecting SSNs with security safeguards. In order to eradicate the public display of your SSN, CNR will not put SSNs on documents that are widely seen by others, send documents with SSNs on them through the mail, nor send SSNs by email unless the connection is secure or the SSNs is encrypted. CNR will limit access to records containing your SSN only to those who need to see the numbers for the performance of their duties. CNR will not store records containing SSNs on computers or other electronic devices that are not secured against unauthorized access, and will protect records containing SSNs during storage by encrypting the numbers in electronic records or storing records in other media (including back-ups) in locked cabinets and/or locked rooms within our facility which require key access, security card access and code access. The security safeguards are carried out through written policies we have developed for protecting the confidentiality of SSNs, including, but not limited to, adopting a “clean desk/work area” policy requiring our employees to properly secure records containing SSNs, prohibiting employees from leaving voice mail messages containing SSNs, and discarding or destroying records in any medium using a method that protects their confidentiality (i.e. shredding). Lastly, CNR will provide training for our employees on their responsibility in handling SSNs. CNR will fulfill these duties in order to ensure the safety of this personal information.

CNR UNSUBSCRIBE: College News and Research, INC. and all of its affiliated companies have provided you with a convenient method to unsubscribe from our mailing list from anywhere in our website. On every page of every website owned or operated by College News and Research, INC., there is a link at the bottom of the page called, “CNR Unsubscribe” which allows you to simultaneously demand the placement of your email address on our suppression list which will have the effect of removing your information from our active database. Our active database means the list of persons to whom we are actively marketing. The process will not only remove you from the email list for this website, but for all other websites owned and operated by College News and Research, INC. So, if you want to change your status to have all of your personally identifiable information removed from our active database, please go to the “Unsubscribe” link and click on the link and enter your email address. At the current time, we are not able to offer users the direct ability to delete their information from our database, but we will be happy to delete such information after we receive a request to that effect. Please be advised that by requesting that your data be removed from our database, you will be unsubscribed from the College News and Research, INC. Service and you forfeit your eligibility to participate in any College News and Research, INC. promotions.

If you do not accept the terms of this Policy, we ask that you not register with COLLEGE NEWS AND RESEARCH, INC. Your registration with College News and Research, INC. constitutes your acceptance of these terms and privacy policy.

Last Revised: MARCH 31, 2009