Help Me Afford College is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology
that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy
applies to the Help Me Afford College Web site and governs data collection and usage.
By using the Help Me Afford College website, you consent to the data practices described
in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Help Me Afford College collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail
address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Help Me Afford College also
collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as
your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically
collected by Help Me Afford College. This information can include: your IP address,
browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This
information is used by Help Me Afford College for the operation of the service, to
maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use
of the Help Me Afford College Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information
or personally sensitive data through Help Me Afford College public message boards,
this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Help Me Afford College
does not read any of your private online communications.
Help Me Afford College encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites
you choose to link to from Help Me Afford College so that you can understand how those
Web sites collect, use and share your information. Help Me Afford College is not responsible
for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Help Me Afford College
and Help Me Afford College family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Help Me Afford College collects and uses your personal information to operate the Help Me Afford College
Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Help Me Afford College also uses
your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services
available from Help Me Afford College and its affiliates. Help Me Afford College may also
contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services
or of potential new services that may be offered.
Help Me Afford College does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Help Me Afford College may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business
partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases,
your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone
number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Help Me Afford College
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send
you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All
such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to
provide these services to Help Me Afford College, and they are required to maintain
the confidentiality of your information.
Help Me Afford College does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such
as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Help Me Afford College keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within
Help Me Afford College, in order to determine what Help Me Afford College services are
the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising
within Help Me Afford College to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested
in a particular subject area.
Help Me Afford College Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice,
only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process
served on Help Me Afford College or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or
property of Help Me Afford College; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect
the personal safety of users of Help Me Afford College, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Help Me Afford College Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online
experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page
server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the
domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save
you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned
to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Help Me Afford College pages, or
register with Help Me Afford College site or services, a cookie helps Help Me Afford College
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses,
and so on. When you return to the same Help Me Afford College Web site, the information
you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Help Me Afford College
features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of the Help Me Afford College services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Help Me Afford College secures your personal information from unauthorized access,
use or disclosure. Help Me Afford College secures the personally identifiable information
you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit
card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use
of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Help Me Afford College will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect
company and customer feedback. Help Me Afford College encourages you to periodically
review this Statement to be informed of how Help Me Afford College is protecting your
information.
Contact Information
Help Me Afford College welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.
If you believe that Help Me Afford College has not adhered to this Statement, please
contact Help Me Afford College at support@smbcreativegroup.com.
We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.