Privacy Policy Of Best College Quest

Best College Quest is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other Company website users at http://bestcollegequest.com/. We created this Privacy Policy to notify you of how your private information will be used due to submitting it to us.

This Policy only applies to the Website, including any sub-domains, and not to any other websites you may be able to access from the Website, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. When you register at Best College Quest [about us], the Personally Identifiable Information you provide us is used to provide the services you have registered for, deliver email notifications to you, and from time to time, validate your identity.

Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much information you provide to us, and to control how we use that Personally Identifiable Information as set forth below. To find out more, please read on.

The purpose of this Policy is to describe the information collection, use, and dissemination practices of the owners of Best College Quest, (collectively referred to from now on as ‘Company’ or ‘we’ or ‘us’) and all related websites owned or registered to Company and applies to Company’s collection, use, storage and disclosure of information by Company on its (a) web sites, including all its divisions, subsidiaries and related companies (collectively, the ‘Website’), (b) on various Third Party web sites, and (c) to Company’s other information collection, including the acquisition of customer information from third parties. The Company is not responsible for third-party websites or applications’ information collection or privacy practices.

Notice Concerning Children 

We are a general audience site and do not direct any content to children under 13. We understand and are committed to respecting the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information in that user’s account.

Information Collection, Use, and Dissemination Practices

Depending on the service you are accessing, you could be asked at various times to provide information such as your name, email address, contact phone number, or other information related to the services you are seeking. We request this information to deliver the services you are requesting and to allow us to provide our most vital value to you–a personalized online experience. Information collected online is often defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable:

  1. Anonymous Information refers to information that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. For instance, we may know that thousands of people have visited this Privacy Policy page, but we do not necessarily know their names, where they live, or their date of birth. What we collect from visits such as this constitutes anonymous information. Some of the individuals who access our services decline to use the personalization features available to them; therefore, those individuals are unknown to us, and the only data we collect about them is anonymous information.
  1. Personally Identifiable Information is information that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, email address, or phone number. While you can search and browse some sections of our website without registration, certain activities require registration. Registering with Best College Quest using the web form will also cause a cookie to be issued; this cookie allows the Company to ‘recognize’ you when you are on our site to enable us to personalize our service for you.

Anonymous Information

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We may link this automatically-collected data to certain Personally Identifiable Information. We may use third-party tracking services that use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate.

Personally Identifiable Information

In order to use the basic features of this Website, you must register and provide certain personal information. During registration, you must give contact information (such as your name, email address, mailing address, social security number, driver’s license and credit card information, and telephone or cell phone number). You may also provide us with information that, when combined with Personally Identifiable Information, provides us with a better idea of who you are, including but not limited to your gender, birthday, marital status, and education level. We use this information to connect you with the providers of services in which you have expressed interest. Depending on the services you have chosen to use, some or all of your Personally Identifiable Information may be used by Best College Quest to provide such services.

Personally Identifiable Information may also be provided to intermediaries and third parties (including affiliates and partners) who assist Best College Quest in providing you with the service upon your request. For example, if you register and desire to get education information, your personally identifiable information may be provided to one or more prospective schools. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, however, Best College Quest will not rent or sell your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties without your permission.

Best College Quest is the owner of the information collected. Any questions can be directed to:

Survey Information

The company may collect information from you when you voluntarily complete a Company survey, order form, or a registration page either online by using the internet, offline by providing this information through the mail, in person, or using a telephone. This information may be collected by surveys, order forms, or registration pages operated by third parties.

This method of collection is collectively known as a ‘Survey.’ In such Surveys, the Company or a third party may ask you to provide personally identifiable information, including your name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, social security number, employment information, personal and online interests, and such other information as may be requested from time to time.

The company may also collect such information concerning you from another source and uses that information in combination with information provided from the website. Completing any Survey is completely voluntary, and you are not obligated to provide Survey Information to Company or a third party.

Third-Party Information

The Company may collect information from you when you provide information to a third party and the Company subsequently acquires or uses the information provided by the third party. Such information may include but is not limited to, your name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, the industry of employment, personal and online interests, and such other information as you may have provided to the third party.

When acquiring this information, Company seeks assurances from the third party that you agreed to provide and have such information acquired by the Company. If you did not give express permission, or you would like to remove your permission, you may suppress all of your information by using our convenient unsubscribe link.

Other Methods of Collecting Personal Information

Other occasions when the Company obtains information from you include (1) your claiming a prize or seeking to redeem an offer by the Company or by a third party, (2) your requests for assistance through the Company’s customer service department, and (3) when you voluntarily subscribe to a Company service or newsletter.

Cookies, Web Beacons, And Other Information Collected Using Technology. 

The company currently uses cookie and web beacon technology to associate certain Internet-related information about you with information about you in its database. Additionally, the Company may use other new and evolving sources of information in the future.

  1. Cookies: ‘Cookies’ are a feature on your browser software. If enabled, we may write cookies that may store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of the pages of this Website. Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features appeal the most to you and what content you may have viewed on past visits. When you revisit this site, cookies can enable us to customize our content according to your preferences.

    We may use cookies to: keep track of the number of return visits to this Website; accumulate and report aggregate, statistical information on website usage; deliver specific content to you based on your interests or past viewing history; save your password for ease of access to our Web Site. You can disable cookies, although the Web Site may not function properly. Your browser preferences can be modified to accept or reject all cookies or request a notification when a cookie is set. You may read more about cookies at: http://cookiecentral.com. In order to use all of the features and functionality of the Company’s Website, you need to accept cookies.

    Notwithstanding any other provision in this policy, in visiting this site, a third-party advertiser (or its partners) may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. These cookies enable more customized ads, content, or services to be provided to you. To trigger these cookies, we may pass an encrypted or ‘hashed’ (non-human readable) identifier corresponding to your email address to a Web advertising partner, who may place a cookie on your computer. No personally identifiable information is on or is connected to, these cookies. To opt out of these cookies, please go to: http://www.privacychoice.org/companies or: http://www.aboutads.info/choices
  1. Web Beacons: A web beacon is a programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page, but it can also be used to transfer your unique user identification to a database and associate you with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows the Company to track certain websites you visit. Web beacons track online behavioral habits for marketing purposes to determine products or services you may be interested in. In addition to using web beacons on web pages, Company also uses web beacons in email messages sent to individuals listed in Company’s database.
  1. IP Addresses: The Company automatically tracks certain information based on your behavior on the site. We may use this information to research our user’s demographics, interests, and behavior to understand better, protect and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the Website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the Website or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.

    Your Internet Protocol (‘IP’) is a unique Internet ‘address’ which is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (‘ISP’). For local area networks (‘LAN’), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently assigned to a particular computer. IP addresses are automatically logged by web servers, collecting information about a user’s traffic patterns. While the IP address does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Web. Your IP address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using.

    Finally, other websites you visit have IP addresses, and we may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages.
  1. Computer Profiles: The company may also collect and accumulate other anonymous data to help us understand and analyze the Internet experience of our visitors. For instance, the Company may gather visitor data about referring domain names, the type of browsers used, operating system software, screen resolutions, color capabilities, browser plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords, and JavaScript enablement. When you provide us with Personal Identification Information, we are able to use such visitor data to identify you.
  1. Data Analysis: Data Analysis technology may be employed occasionally if used by a Client of the Company.
  1. New Technology: The use of technology on the Internet, including cookies and web beacons, is rapidly developing. As a result, Company strongly encourages individuals to revisit this policy for any updates regarding its use of new technology.

No Information was Collected from the Children

The Company has designed this policy in order to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (‘COPPA’). ‘Company will never knowingly collect any personal information about children under the age of 18. If the Company obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 18, that information will be immediately deleted from its database. Because it does not collect such information, Company has no such information to use or disclose to third parties.

Credit Card or Bank Information

The Company may, in certain instances, collect credit card numbers or banking numbers and related information when an individual places an order from Company. When credit card information or banking information is submitted to Company, such information is encrypted and protected with SSL encryption software. The company will use the credit card or banking information for purposes of processing and completing the requested transaction. The information will be disclosed to third parties only as necessary to complete the purchase transaction.

Use of Individual Information

General Use

The following paragraphs describe how the Company currently uses Personally Identifiable Information, but Company may change or broaden its use at any time. As noted below, the Company may update this policy from time to time. The company may use Personally Identifiable Information to provide promotional offers to individuals by means of email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, online banner advertising, and package stuffers, among other possible uses.

Email and Unsubscribe Policy

The company uses Personally Identifiable Information to provide other businesses with promotional offers by email to individuals. The company may maintain separate email lists for different purposes. If email recipients wish to end their email subscriptions from a particular list, they need to follow the instructions at the end of each email message to unsubscribe from the particular list. To unsubscribe from all Company’s email lists, please use our unsubscribe link. 

The company’s unsubscribe process impacts only the future delivery of electronic mailings disseminated by the Company on its own behalf. You may still receive electronic mailings sent on behalf of Third Parties and your personal information may still be shared with Third Parties for use in offline marketing and data appends, including email appends

You should also note that unsubscribing from the Company’s electronic mailings will not automatically unsubscribe the subscriber’s information from any Third Party business associates and licensees of the data. Since Third Party associates and licensee partners maintain separate databases from the Company, you will need to unsubscribe from each source individually, if desired. This allows you the freedom to pick and choose which subscriptions to maintain and which to discontinue.

Content of Email Messages

In certain commercial email messages sent by the Company, an Advertiser’s name will appear in the ‘From:’ line but hitting the ‘Reply’ button will cause a reply email to be sent to the Company. The ‘Subject:’ line of Company email messages will usually contain a line provided by the Advertiser to the Company.

Solicited Email

The company only sends emails to individuals who have agreed on the Website to receive email from the Company or to individuals who have agreed on a Third Party website to receive email from Third Parties. As such, Company does not send unsolicited email messages. 

Targeted Advertising

The company may use Personally Identifiable Information to target advertising to an individual. When an individual is using the Internet, the Company uses other information to associate an individual with that person’s Personally Identifiable Information, and the Company attempts to show advertising for products and services in which the person has expressed an interest in the Surveys, and otherwise. The company may, at its discretion, target advertising by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other means of communication to provide promotional offers. 

Telemarketing

The Company may use Personally Identifiable Information to advertise, directly or indirectly, to individuals using direct mail marketing or telemarketing using telephones and cell phones. You may have your telephone number or cell phone number listed on a state or federal do not call registry. By registering and using this Website, you are waiving your rights and privileges under these laws and expressly giving permission of the Company and any agent of Company the right to contact you by telephone or cell phone, and you agree that such act constitutes an inquiry and/or application for purposes of the Amended Telemarketing Sales Rule (16 CFR $ 310 et seq.), as amended from time to time (the ‘Rule’).

Further, if you are residing outside the United States, by registering and using this Website, you acknowledge that the processing of your individual information may involve the transfer of such Individual information from within or outside the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) to countries within or outside the EEA whose data protection regulation may not be as stringent as that within the European Union.

We may use individual information to provide the services you’ve requested, including services that display customized content and advertising. 

Wireless Addresses

If the e-mail address you provide to the Company is a wireless e-mail or text address, you agree to receive messages at such address from the Company or its business associates (unless and until you have elected not to receive such messages by following the instructions in the unsubscribe portion of this policy). 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

The company may make available a service through which you can receive messages on your wireless device via a short message service (‘SMS Service’). Data obtained from you in connection with this SMS service may include your name, address, cell phone number, your provider’s name, and the date, time, and content of your messages. You represent that you are 18 years of age and 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.

In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider’s standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. The company will not be liable for any delays in the receipt of any SMS messages, as delivery is subject to effective transmission from your network operator. SMS message services are provided on an AS-IS basis.

The company may also obtain the date, time, and content of your messages in the course of your use of the SMS Service. We will use the information we obtain in connection with our SMS 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 therewith. 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 Service is 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 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 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.

You may remove your information from Company’s database. If you remove your information from Company’s database it will no longer be used by the Company for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties, or used by the Company or third parties to send promotional correspondence to you. You may remove your information by sending ‘STOP,’ ‘END,’ or ‘QUIT’ to the SMS text message you have received.

Storage of Individual Information

Best College Quest operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewalls and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers. Notwithstanding such measures, Company cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent its computers from being illegally accessed, and the Individual Information on them stolen or altered.

Other Use of Personally Identifiable Information

The company may also use your Personally Identifiable Information in the following ways:

  1. Third-Party Offers: The company will share any and all Personally Identifiable Information with (and may make customer lists available to) companies or other entities not affiliated with the Company that has goods, services, and offers that might interest you. The company may occasionally provide your Personally Identifiable Information to these entities so that they may send you these offers.
  1. Marketing: The company will use your Personally Identifiable Information for any marketing and survey purpose on behalf of the Company and its affiliates, parent, and subsidiaries to send information to you about additional goods or services that may interest you. In addition, Company may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to third-party agents and independent contractors to help us conduct our marketing and survey efforts and to share with other companies about marketing efforts including but not limited to direct marketing. You may have no relationship with these other companies.
  1. Co-sponsored Offerings: The Company may provide an offering that is co-sponsored by another company. In those situations, the Personally Identifiable Information we obtain from you in connection with such an offering may be shared with our co-sponsor. In those situations, our co-sponsors will have the right to use your Personally Identifiable Information for their own purposes, per their policies. If you do not wish for the information we obtain from you to be shared with our co-sponsor, do not enter such contest, sweepstake, or other offering or otherwise provide us with any Personally Identifiable Information in connection with such contest, sweepstake, or other offerings. We are not responsible for how our co-sponsors may use your information.
  1. Service Providers: We may use third parties to help operate our Website and deliver products and services, and may share your Personally Identifiable Information with our affiliates, service providers, and other third parties that provide products or services for or through this Website or for our business (such as Website or database hosting companies, address list hosting companies, e-mail service providers, analytics companies, distribution companies, fulfillment companies, and other similar service providers that use such information on our behalf). Unless otherwise stated, these companies do not have any right to use the Personally Identifiable Information we provide to them beyond what is necessary for them to assist us. When you conduct e-commerce with one of the e-commerce affiliates or service providers to which the Web Site may be linked, certain Personally Identifiable Information such as your e-mail and home address may be collected by the service provider’s server and made available to us.
  1. Aggregate Statistics: We may disclose aggregate statistics regarding user behavior as a measure of interest in, and use of, our Web Site and e-mails to third parties in the form of aggregate data, such as overall patterns or demographic reports that do not describe or identify any individual user.
  1. Complying with Legal Process: The company reserves the right to use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information in response to subpoenas, court orders, warrants, or legal process, or to otherwise establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims or in the event you violate or breach an agreement with Company. The company will use and disclose your Personally Identifiable Information if we believe you will harm the property or rights of the Company, its owners, or those of the Company’s other customers.

    Finally, we will use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information if we believe it is necessary to share information to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Company’s other policies, or as otherwise required by law when responding to subpoenas, court orders and other legal processes.
  1. Order Fulfillment: The company will transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties when necessary to provide a product or service that you order from such third party while using Company’s Website or when responding to offers provided by Company.
  1. Data Summary: The company may sell or transfer non-individualized information, such as summary or aggregated anonymous information about all persons or sub-groups of persons.
  1. Third Parties: The Company may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties with whom they have a business relationship to secure the services and products you have requested or provide you with additional marketing materials from which you may choose other products or services.
  1. Business Transitions: In the event, Company goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets as well as in the event of a bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors or receivership, your Personally Identifiable Information may be disclosed and will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our website for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. The company further reserves the right to disclose, transfer or sell your personal information to companies affiliated with Company at Company’s sole discretion.

Privacy Practices Of Third Parties

Advertiser Cookies and Web Beacons

Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies who place advertisements on websites and on the internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about individuals. The Company does not control the use of such technology and the Company has no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information about you.

Links

The Company’s website and email messages may sometimes contain hypertext links to the websites of third parties. The company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Linked websites may contain links to websites maintained by third parties. Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only. The company does not operate or control in any respect any information, software, products, or services available on such third-party websites. The inclusion of a link to a website does not imply any endorsement of the services or the site, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.

Foreign Use of the Website

To the extent that you are accessing the website while domiciled outside of the United States, you acknowledge that the Personally Identifiable Information you are providing Company is collected and stored in the United States and therefore consent to the transfer of information to and storage of the information outside of your domiciled country and in the United States.

California User Consumer Rights

In accordance with California Civil Code Sec. 1789.3, California resident users are entitled to know that they may file grievances and complaints with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, 400 R Street, STE 1080, Sacramento, CA 95814; or by phone at 916-445-1254 or 800-952-5210; or by email to: dca@dca.ca.gov. For more information about protecting your privacy, you may wish to visit: http://www.ftc.gov 

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Contact

If you have any comments or questions regarding the Privacy Policy or wish to report any violation of this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by our Contact Form OR emailing us at [email address]