Privacy Policy

College Broadband, Inc. (CBB, “we,” or “us”) provides services, products, information, and community offerings through www.collegebroadband.com. CBB maintains the www.collegebroadband.com site. It is designed to provide access to information, goods, and services that facilitate the transition from high school to college and optimize the educational experience of K-12 students. CBB recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy rights of our users. Any information shared between users and CBB via www.collegebroadband.com is securely managed and safeguarded in accordance with all applicable laws and the policies and guidelines set forth below.

Changes to Privacy Statement

These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving. From time to time, we may need to change our privacy statement because of changes in the law, in technology, in CBB's business, or in our attempts to serve your needs better. We will use every effort to communicate in a timely manner any changes to our privacy statement in the manner described in the www.collegebroadband.com Web Site Terms and Conditions. Below we explain how we may collect personal information, what we do with it, and how we protect it.

Information that CBB gathers via www.collegebroadband.com

As of now, CBB gathers two kinds of personal information via www.collegebroadband.com: (1) your email address if you choose to sign up for CBB’s free email newsletter, and (2) information required for payment if you choose to make a purchase in the Web site’s “E-Store.” If you choose not to provide the required information in either case, we will not be able to provide access to such areas and/or special services, or complete such transactions.

Information gathered through traffic monitoring

Like many other Web sites, www.collegebroadband.com is equipped with a program that monitors traffic by automatically recording every visitor's host, domain name, pages visited, length of user sessions, browser type and/or IP address. This program tracks the number of times the site is hit, how many visitors come to the site, which parts of the site they frequent, and the length of time of each visit. This information does not contain personally identifiable details and is used to evaluate areas of interest and to improve the www.collegebroadband.com site and may be provided to third parties by CBB or its affiliates.

Information gathered through obtaining services and making purchases

CBB collects via www.collegebroadband.com your email address if you wish to subscribe to the email newsletter and/or identifying and financial information necessary to complete a purchase through the Web site’s “E-Store,” all of which the user provides voluntarily. A user's email address and other personally identifiable information collected from product orders or email newsletter registration are used only as described in this Privacy Policy and for the purposes of offering you goods and services that, in the opinion of CBB and its affiliates, may facilitate the transition from high school to college and/or optimize a K-12 student’s educational experience. By providing such information, the user consents to www.collegebroadband.com's Privacy Policy, including the uses of the information described in this Policy.

Sharing of Information

CBB will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

• CBB never sells, shares, rents or otherwise transfers information that it gathers from visitors who make purchases in the CBB “E-Store.”
  
• If you sign up for the email newsletter, CBB may share your email address with third parties who have products, services, and opportunities relevant to college-bound K-12 students and their parents, including but not limited to colleges, universities, scholarship sponsors, data aggregators, marketers (possibly in the form of list rental), and other organizations.
• CBB may also share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal details that could identify any individual user.
  
• Third Party Service Providers: From time to time, CBB may decide that it is more efficient to use third parties to perform specific services, such as sending newsletters to CBB's users. If we use a third party to provide specific services (such as sending newsletters to our users on our behalf), then information (such as contact information) may be shared with that party to the extent necessary for the third party to provide these services. These third party service providers are only allowed to use personally identifiable information for the purpose of providing the specific services requested by CBB. The third party services covered by this paragraph do not include links from our site to third party sites (those links are governed by a more specific provision, “Links to Other Sites,” below).
  
• Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures: While CBB strives to protect the personal information of our users, CBB will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file placed on a user's computer hard drive when a user visits a Web site. The cookie gives the user a unique, random ID, and this ID enables our site to readily recognize each visitor on a subsequent visit to the site. For example, a cookie may indicate the preferences selected by a visitor on a prior visit, and facilitate more efficient browsing on subsequent visits by using such preferences to customize the content and/or layout of our site for the visitor. CBB may use cookies in this fashion on www.collegebroadband.com. Visitors are free to change their web browsers to prevent the acceptance of cookies. Accessing certain areas of the Web site, however, may require you to enable cookies. Cookies on the www.collegebroadband.com Web site do not contain personally identifiable information collected by www.collegebroadband.com.

How we use the information we collect

Listed below are some of the ways in which your information may be used:

• To improve CBB's and its affiliates' products and services;
  
• To customize the content and/or layout of our site for each individual visitor;
  
• To notify visitors about updates, products, services, and/or special offers from CBB or its affiliates, colleges, scholarship programs, selected vendors, or suppliers;
  
• To assist our suppliers and selected vendors in targeting updates, new products, services, and/or special offers to you through www.collegebroadband.com;
  
• To ask for your participation in brief surveys;
  
• To generate aggregate statistical studies and conduct and report research related to the college admission process and K-12 education;
  
• To complete any purchases or other transactions you may make at the site (which will include providing your information to relevant suppliers or selected vendors so that they can complete your purchase or transaction);
  
• To identify, develop, and offer products and services that help in the transition from high school to college, optimize the educational experience of K-12 students, or to obtain such products and services from suppliers and selected vendors;
  
• To share with contractors who assist CBB with programming and technical aspects of hosting and Web site operation. All contractors subscribe to CBB's confidentiality and privacy conditions.

Respect for your privacy

We respect your privacy! Except as described above, or as otherwise provided or permitted by law, your information collected by CBB via www.collegebroadband.com will not be sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise used.

Suppliers, Selected Vendors, and Linked Sites

CBB provides via www.collegebroadband.com, for the convenience of our users, the opportunity to link to Web sites of organizations not related to CBB. If you click on a hypertext link that takes you to a Web site outside of www.collegebroadband.com, we are not responsible for their privacy policies or information collection practices and uses. In addition, when you initiate a transaction with one of our suppliers or selected vendors through www.collegebroadband.com, the information you and we submit to the supplier or selected vendor for the transaction becomes subject to the supplier or selected vendor's privacy or information use policies. CBB is not responsible for the privacy or information use policies of its suppliers and selected vendors.

User opt-in choices

You will always have the ability to opt not to receive email or other means of communication from CBB. CBB respects your privacy and realizes that not everyone likes to receive special offers or information. Receiving the email newsletter is based on a voluntary, opt-in registration process that automatically authorizes us to transmit email to you. If at any time after you have signed up for the email newsletter you wish to unsubscribe, you may do so via the subscribe/unsubscribe link, which appears in the left navigation on every page of the www.collegebroadband.com Web site. If you receive other communications as a result of a purchase in the www.collegebroadband.com “E-Store” and would prefer not to in the future, you may remove your name from CBB's lists by sending a letter via postal mail to College Broadband, Inc., P.O. Box 20724, New York, NY 10023-1488. Again, please remember, once we have provided information to our suppliers or selected vendors due to transactions initiated by you, we are not responsible for their use of the information, and you should consult their respective privacy and information use policies.

Contact

If you have questions or would like to be deactivated from www.collegebroadband.com's lists, you may write to us at College Broadband, Inc., P.O. Box 20724, New York, New York 10023-1488. CBB will use reasonable efforts to help you.

For more information about protecting your privacy online, we recommend that you visit www.networkadvertising.org, www.netcoalition.com, and www.privacyalliance.org.

Security

The importance of security for all personal information associated with our users is of utmost concern to us. You must have a secure browser—one that supports secure transmission of data across the Internet—to purchase items at www.collegebroadband.com. For more information, use your browser's help feature.

We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your computer to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted, we use industry standard, secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. If for any reason you need to speak with somebody in person regarding this Privacy Policy or any other aspect of this Web site, please call our New York office at (212) 369-1567.