We care about the privacy of our users and respect the sensitivity of personal information collected by the Site in order to provide various features and services. By using the Site or the Service, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States. The following policy governs the use of personal information provided by users of the Site. By accessing and/or using the Site, you are agreeing to be subject to, and abide by, the following policies. To the extent that the Site contains links to third party websites, we cannot and do not make any representations or guarantees regarding the privacy practices or policies of such third party websites. As such, users should review the privacy policies of any third party websites that are linked to the Site.
User Information, Usage, and Security
As a user of the Site, you may provide various personal information upon creation of your user profile, including your name, email address, schools, majors, gender, birth date, and other related information. The Site also collects information regarding user’s access to, and activity on the Site, including the user’s browser type, browser cookies, IP address, and the frequency and duration of visits to various parts of the Site. The Site utilizes session cookies to indicate when a user is logged in as well as persistent cookies that store your Login ID for convenient login to the Site. Users can disable this persistent cookie via their internet browser.
Course Cracker users can set up personal profiles, make friends, post classified ads, refer friends to the Site, form study groups, upload and download documents, and perform various searches for people, classified ads, documents, and videos. Course Cracker maintains this information in order to optimize the user experience and provide related services and features. The Site may utilize user names and emails to send email notifications about new features/services, new messages, or friend requests. Users have the choice of opting out of receiving such email notifications, but the Site reserves the right to email users about various issues relating to a user’s account. Moreover, the Site allows users to search for other users based on name, school, major, and other criteria. Search results may include certain basic information such as a user’s name, major, city and school. This basic information may be viewed by other users and third party search engines regardless of privacy settings (i.e. even though the information is not viewable by other users). User Content is transmitted/uploaded to the Site at the user’s own risk and there is no guarantee that User Content will not be viewed by unauthorized parties. Users can utilize the Site’s privacy settings to limit the parties who have access to various information, such as user profile information and user documents. However, such security measures are not invulnerable or fool-proof and users should beware that information upload to, or transmitted on the Site, may become publicly accessible. Even after information has been deleted or removed, cached or archived copies of the information may continue to exist and may be accessed. Users should report any improper use of information.
Users can edit their profile if they wish to add, delete or change aspects of their profile (e.g. upload or delete documents, change personal information, etc.) and any such changes will take effect almost immediately. Deleted information may continue to exist in the form of backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will be generally not viewable by other users. However, once a user transmits information to another user (e.g. sending a message to another user), they will not be able to recall or remove such information.
User account information is stored on a secured server behind a firewall. Sensitive information such as user passwords is encrypted using industry-standard secure socket layer technology (SSL). However, information transmitted via email and instant messaging are not secure. As a result, it is recommended that sensitive/private information not be transmitted to the Site, to other users, or to third parties via email or instant messaging.
Third Party Information Disclosure and Advertising
Information posted or uploaded by a user to the Site (including personal profile information, comments, messages, photos, videos, classified listings or other information) may be shared with other users in accordance with the user-selected privacy settings, if any. Users share information with other users or third parties at their own risk and should be aware that such information may become publicly accessible.
Under limited circumstances, certain information in a user’s profile may be shared with third parties, without revealing the user’s identity, to gather information regarding user preferences and to provide more relevant services, advertisements, and enhance the user’s online experience. However, the Site will not provide user contact information to third parties without user consent. As a general policy, the Site will only share information with third parties where it is deemed reasonably necessary to providing and/or enhancing the Site’s services, as required by law, or with consent of the user. In some cases, we may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in order to comply with applicable laws. Such disclosures to third parties (including companies, courts, litigants, lawyers, or law enforcement) will be made when there is a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary in order to comply with the law, prevent fraud or misuse, or to otherwise protect the Site’s integrity and interests.
We may provide information to third party service providers and advertisers in order to facilitate various services and features (including remote server hosting services, instant messaging, or advertising). When using these services, the internet protocol (“IP”) address of the computer you are using to access the website may be disclosed to those third-party companies, and we may use user information from a user’s public profile (such as age and gender) to display relevant ads to you. Third Party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or other instruments, in order to customize and monitor their advertising. We do not have any control over third party cookies or related instruments. These service providers may be given limited access to user information as reasonably necessary.
