This privacy policy applies to the Web site only and does not cover information collected on any third-party sites to which this Web site links. This privacy policy is part of, and must be read in conjunction with, the Web site's Terms and Conditions. You can read the entire Terms and Conditions by clicking here. If you do not agree with the Terms and Conditions in their entirety, please do not use this Web site.

Web Site Users and Customers

College Prowler generally collects personally identifiable information such as a name, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, or credit card information with your specific knowledge and consent.

How does the Web site use information supplied by me?

Occasionally, visitors to our Web site may be asked to supply certain personally identifying information, which is then retained by College Prowler. For example, we ask you for certain information if you choose to subscribe to our E-mail newsletters, our online discussion forums, or our premium online content. If you choose to give us personally identifying information at such time, such information will be retained by us and used only to provide you with products or services you have requested, or with additional information from College Prowler about College Prowler, its affiliates, or selected outside companies whose products or services we feel may be of use to you. Any information from selected outside companies will be transmitted by College Prowler so that such companies will not have access either to your E-mail address or to your other personally identifying information. Moreover, we will not sell or rent this personally identifying information to any other company or organization.

If, at some point after giving College Prowler your personally identifying information, you do not wish to continue to receive additional information from College Prowler about College Prowler, its affiliates, or selected outside companies, in general, you may opt out by E-mailing support@collegeprowler.com and put the words "remove my name" in the subject line of your E-mail; in the case of our E-mail newsletters, you may opt out by clicking on the "opt out" link at the end of each E-mail.

From time to time, the personally identifying information that you provide to us may be shared with our suppliers or service providers who assist us in maintaining and managing our newsletters, our archives, our premium online content, our online discussion forums, and other activities on the Web site. Such suppliers or service providers may use your personally identifying information only in the course of providing services to College Prowler, but they may not use such information for other purposes.

While your individual information is protected as discussed above, College Prowler reserves the right to use such individual information to create aggregated, anonymous data about users in order to develop statistics about activity on and visitors to the Web site. In addition, College Prowler may disclose personal information if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to (1) comply with the law or with legal process; (2) protect and defend our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Web site; or (4) protect the personal safety, property, or rights of our users or the public.

From time to time, College Prowler is approached by third parties interested in contacting our readers, or people who have purchased a book through our site. Perhaps they are in a similar business or have a product to offer that would interest our subscribers. We may provide our mailing list of readers to such third parties if we believe our readers would be interested in hearing from them. Many of our readers find this a valuable and timesaving service. If you have bought a guide from us and want us to exclude your name from mailing lists provided to third parties, mail a letter to the address below, or E-mail us at the address below with your request. Please specify that you would like your name removed from the mailing list, and include your full name and address or the address label from your magazine. Mail your request to: College Prowler, Mailing List, Pittsburgh, PA. 15213 or send an E-mail to support@collegeprowler.com. Please allow six to eight weeks for your request to take effect.

What are "cookies" and "pixel tags" and how do you use them?

Cookies are pieces of information that are placed by a Web site in a storage place on your computer. Cookies do not contain information that is, in itself, personally identifying. Cookies are placed on your computer in a limited way to help deliver advertisements, to calculate unique site visitors, and to track usage throughout our site. Other uses include placement of cookies to make the login process more convenient for users of our E-mail newsletters, our archives, our premium online content, and our online discussion forums.

Pixel tags - tiny graphic images – are used to help us analyze your online behavior. Pixel tags also allow us to send you email in a format you can read and let us know when you have opened an email message from us. We may use pixel tags to collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with our sites and services. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.

We participate in cookie based advertising networks operated by Google and Blue Kai. These companies may use cookies to collect anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We do not permit these companies to collect any personally identifiable information (name, address, email address or telephone number) about you. Click these links to learn more about Google http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html, Blue Kai's http://www.bluekai.com/optout.html, and Tynt's http://www.tynt.com/support/opt-inout business practices and privacy policies, including how to decline participation in these programs.

In addition, we contract with certain third parties to help manage and optimize our Web site business. These companies may use Web beacons and cookies to help us learn things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors, which of our products most interest our customers, and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. If you would like more information about this practice, you can e-mail support@collegeprowler.com.

Account Registration Tools

When a student registers with Collegeprowler.com, he or she creates a unique account and establishes individualized privacy settings. Students must select opt-in settings in order to share their personal information with selected other parties that have been authorized by Collegeprowler.com. Users will select how and with whom they wish to share their information. Other students on Collegeprowler.com will not be able to view accounts other than their own. Only the account user is able to edit and update the information provided in his or her account. We may, on occasion, email our users to send notifications about new features on the site.

Accessibility of Profiles

It is our intention to give access to your account only to the authorized Representatives you designate but we cannot guarantee that others will not, without our consent, access this data. You may remove your Collegprowler.com account from our database at any time; however, a Representative may have saved a copy of your account before it was deleted. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of Collegeprowler.com accounts in this situation.

What Information is Collected

Information collected may include, among other things, name, address, e-mail address, phone number, age, citizenship, details of academic and work history, preferences about the students future and other information entered into the student account. All information entered is voluntary and it is solely up to the student whether he or she furnishes such information. If a student does provide such information, he or she is consenting to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Educational Institutions

We work with accredited colleges, universities, high schools and for profit and not for profit post-secondary educational institutions to provide targeted recruiting and outreach. Only those school representatives who have registered and been authenticated by Collegeprowler.com staff in accordance with our policies are allowed to participate. Authorized personnel from the educational institutions may also provide information on the schools, update admissions data and provide calendars or other information. The accuracy of this information is not guaranteed.

Educational institutions use Collegeprowler.com student data in their recruitment efforts, but the Website is not an application tool. All Collegeprowler.com users must still perform the institution appropriate application process as the Website does not replace the application process.

College Prowler Scholarship Applicants

If you chose to receive College Prowler tips and offers from our trusted business partners, College Prowler inc. has the right to use your personal information and may sell or transfer it with our trusted business partners. If after opting in you no longer wish to receive additional information from College Prowler, its affiliates, or trusted business partners you may opt out by E-mailing support@collegeprowler.com and put the words "remove my name" in the subject line of the E-mail; in the case of our E-mail newsletters, you may opt out by clicking on the "opt out" link at the end of each E-mail.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

No one under the age of 13 should provide any personal information. In general, College Prowler does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If in limited circumstances we do knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13, we will do so only with verified parental consent prior to collection. In the event that we learn that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete this information from our database as quickly as possible. If you believe the Web site has any information about anyone under 13, please contact us at support@collegeprowler.com.