Your privacy is very important to us. At The College Curators, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.
- The College Curators operates the website thecollegecurators.com. It is The College Curators’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The College Curators collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The College Curators collects non-personally-identifying information to better understand how The College Curators’ visitors use its website. From time to time, The College Curators may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The College Curators also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The College Curators only discloses logged-in users and commenters IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The College Curators’ website choose to interact with The College Curators in ways that require The College Curators to gather personally identifiable information. The amount and type of information that The College Curators gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. For those who wish to receive The College Curators’ updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The College Curators collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The College Curators. The College Curators does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The College Curators discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifiable information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The College Curators’ behalf or to provide services available at The College Curators’ website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The College Curators’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The College Curators will not rent or sell any personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, The College Curators discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests or when The College Curators believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The College Curators, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The College Curators’ website and have supplied your email address, The College Curators may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The College Curators. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to clarify or respond to your request, or to support other users. The College Curators take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifiable information.
Third-Party Analytics Providers
We use third parties to help us operate and improve the Service. In doing so, we may share non-personally identifiable information with these third parties about users’ use of the Service. These third-party providers also use cookies. We use third-party analytics providers, such as Google Analytics, to provide us with general demographic and interest-level information about our users and to help improve the user experience. We do not control information collected by third parties and are not responsible for their use of that information.
Google Analytics uses cookies and pixels to collect demographic and interest-level information and usage information from users who visit the Service, including, but not limited to, information about the pages where users enter and exit the Service, the pages they view on the Service, time spent, browser, operating system, and IP address. Cookies and pixels allow Google to recognize a user when the user visits the Service and other websites. Google uses the information it collects from the Service and other websites to share with us and other website operators information about users, including, but not limited to, age range, gender, geographic regions, general interests, and details about devices used to visit websites and purchase items. We take reasonable measures to prevent the linking of information we receive from Google with any of your personally identifiable information. For more information regarding Google’s use of cookies and collection and use of information, see the Google Privacy Policy. To opt out of Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-Out Page to learn about opting out and installing the appropriate browser add-on.
Like millions of other website owners, I use Google Analytics on thecollegecurators.com.
Google Analytics is a piece of software that grabs data about my visitors (you). It’s something like an advanced server log.
What do we do with your data?
The tracking information helps us better understand the kinds of people who visit our site and what content they’re reading. This allows us to make better decisions about design, content, writing topics, etc. It allows us to better understand what quality content is for the users (you).
Occasionally, we compile aggregate statistics on the number of visitors to this site and the browsers they use. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting.
All of my activity falls within the bounds of the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The College Curators uses cookies to help The College Curators identify and track visitors, their usage of The College Curators website, and their website access preferences. The College Curators visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The College Curators website, with the drawback that certain features of The College Curators website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Pixels
“Pixels” are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that are used to track the online movements of web users. Unlike cookies, which are stored on a computer’s hard drive, pixels are small graphics that are about the size of the period at the end of the sentence and are embedded invisibly on web pages or in HTML-based emails. Our third-party analytics providers may place pixels on the site that track what other websites you visit (both before and after visiting the site). Our third-party analytics providers use information obtained from pixels to help us improve our business and the Service. We do not control the use of pixels by third parties.
Business Transfers
If The College Curators, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The College Curators goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of The College Curators may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
If ads appear on our website, they are delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time it sends you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements they believe will be most interesting to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The College Curators and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The College Curators may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and at The College Curators’ sole discretion. The College Curators encourages visitors to check this page frequently for any changes to its privacy policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about the privacy policy, please get in touch with us at [email protected].
