Your California Privacy Rights
California has passed legislation requiring certain specific disclosures be
made available to California residents who use the Internet and provide information
that may be used for marketing purposes. That legislation requires any business
that discloses a customer’s personal information (as defined by the act)
to any third party for direct marketing purposes to provide the customer a
method for obtaining the names, addresses and certain other specified details
of anyone who might have received that personal information.
If you are a California resident you may request this information from The School Finder
a division of Inkle Media, LLC. by writing to The School Finder, 4255 E. Charleston Blvd, Suite 186,
Las Vegas, NV 89104, Attn: California Privacy Rights or by sending an
e-mail to privacy@theschoolfinder.com.
The School Finder is not obligated to respond to more than one such request from you
per calendar year.
Company Practices Regarding Your Privacy
We at The School Finder and our affiliated companies worldwide are committed to
respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for appropriate protection
and management of any information you share with us by using our web sites.
The School Finder has established the following Online Privacy Policy so that you
can understand the care with which we intend to treat your information. This
policy describes the overall privacy practices of The School Finder regarding
information we collect on our network of web sites and through our other
Internet advertising mediums, including but not limited to email, newsletters,
and leave-behinds. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that
The School Finder does not own or control, or to people that The School Finder does not
employ.
Information Collected by The School Finder
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
The School Finder collects various types of information from you to better meet
your needs and to provide you with a more relevant user experience. Some of this
information is collected automatically through cookies (a small text file placed
on your computer) or other Internet tracking technologies. The type of information
your browser or Internet session may automatically provide us with can include
the browser you are using, your Internet domain, the operating system on your
computer, your IP address and the URL you saw just before coming to the The School Finder
site, the pages of the site you visited and the URL of the page you visited
upon leaving the site.
The School Finder may also contract with reputable third-party advertising
companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may also use cookies
or other measures to collect your non-personally identifiable information.
Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
In addition, at some of the The School Finder web sites, we collect information
that you may choose to provide to us when requesting additional information from
us or from one or more of our clients. Examples of personally identifiable data
that you may provide to us include name, address, and email address. If you
provide personally identifiable data to us, you may later elect to have your
information deleted from our files, or kept from being used for purposes other
than for the service requested, by following the opt-out procedures set forth below.
How Collected Information is Used
The non-personally identifiable information that The School Finder collects is
used for marketing and sales efforts to better target advertisements and other
content in an effort to create a more personally relevant experience. The
information is also used to predict responses to advertisements, and to help
determine which ads perform best and which content is most appropriate for
different individuals.
If you elect to provide The School Finder with personally identifiable information,
we may utilize such information for marketing purposes, and this use may result
in follow-up communications from The School Finder and from our clients. In addition,
that information may be combined with information collected from other sources to
assist with targeting ads to your preferences and behaviors, and for other
The School Finder sales and marketing efforts.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
All personally identifiable information you provide is maintained in confidence
by The School Finder. There are instances, however, in which your personally
identifiable and non-personally identifiable information is shared with third
parties, as described below.
Your non-personally identifiable data may be shared with third-party partners
of The School Finder on an anonymous basis.
When you request information from The School Finder or one or more of our clients,
we may transfer that information within The School Finder or route your information
to our client(s), across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other
countries or jurisdictions around the world, so that they may provide the
information on their product or service that you requested.
We may also disclose information to an affiliate or third party who provides
substantially similar services as the original service about which you requested
more information. In such situations, we will provide you with an opportunity to
opt-out of such sharing. Please be aware that The School Finder is very careful in
selecting companies with whom it does business.
In addition to the above situations where your information may be shared with
others, there is also the possibility that The School Finder, or part(s) of the
company, may one day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. In the
event of such transaction, the acquiring (or merging) company will have access
to all collected personally identifiable information.
Finally, The School Finder may share your information as necessary to comply with
a court order or to cooperate with government and law enforcement officials.
Security
Wherever your personally identifiable information may be held within The School Finder
or on its behalf, we intend to take reasonable and appropriate steps to
protect the information you shared with us from unauthorized access or disclosure.
Please note that while The School Finder will make every reasonable effort to protect
your information, no transmission of data over the Internet is 100% secure.
Choice
Non-Personally Identifiable
Consumer Information – Use of Cookies & Opting-Out
Some of our web sites utilize cookies to collect information about your website
activities and to recall the personal information you previously shared with us.
Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept
them and how to remove them.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may
choose to block cookies with your browser. Blocking cookies may result in a lower
quality experience for you while you are visiting The School Finder web sites.
Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information – Opting-Out
You may choose whether or not to provide personally identifiable information
to The School Finder. If you choose to provide such information to The School Finder,
you have the right to tell us not to make some of the uses of such information
described herein or may have such information deleted in its entirety. If you no
longer wish to receive our newsletters, surveys or promotional communications via
email, you may opt-out without charge by
clicking here
and following the instructions to unsubscribe. To have your personal information
completely removed from our databases without charge, simply contact us at
privacy@theschoolfinder.com
and provide the name of the service for which information
was provided, your full name, mailing address, phone number and email address so
that we may identify you in the opt-out process. Once we receive your instruction,
we will promptly take corrective action.
Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide us with personally identifiable information,
The School Finder wishes to maintain the accuracy of this information. Where we
collect personally identifiable information from you on the Web, our goal is to
provide a means of contacting The School Finder should you need to update or correct
that information. If for any reason those means are unavailable or inaccessible,
you may send updates and corrections about your personally identifiable
information to privacy@theschoolfinder.com
and we will make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in the information
that we hold as soon as practicable.
Children’s Privacy
In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),
http://www.chatterbean.com/ is not
structured to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personally
identifiable information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.
Refer a Friend
Some of the The School Finder web sites offer you the opportunity to easily notify
a friend of the offer or information promoted on the site. If you choose to use
our referral service to tell a friend about an The School Finder site, we will ask
you for your friend’s personally identifiable information, including name and
email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting
him or her to visit the site. The School Finder stores this information for the sole
purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral
program.
Your friend may contact us at
privacy@theschoolfinder.com
to request that we remove this information from our database. Our one-time email
to your friend will inform him or her of this fact.
Commitment
Protecting your privacy online is an evolving area, and the The School Finder web
sites are constantly changing to meet these demands.
If you have any comments or questions regarding our Online Privacy Policy,
please contact us at
privacy@theschoolfinder.com.
While we cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the
best of our abilities as soon as practicable after you bring it to our attention.
Your Consent
By using this web site, you consent to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and
to the processing by The School Finder of personally identifiable information for the
purposes given above. Should the Online Privacy Policy change, we intend to take
every reasonable step to ensure that these changes are brought to your attention
by posting all changes prominently on our web site for a reasonable period of time
and by amending this privacy policy.
Thank you for visiting our web site. We hope you have a
pleasant experience while you are here.
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