Privacy Policy

Introduction:

The website or online service, and portions of other webpages or online content through which you have accessed this Privacy Policy (collectively,  “Site”), is owned and operated by Preppy.org (hereafter referred to as “we,” “us,” “our” or “Preppy”). This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit our Site, including the collection and use of personal information you provide. It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of, your access to, and how to update and correct your personal information.

Futhermore, this Privacy Policy applies to Preppy.org, and all other websites and applications that link to this Privacy Policy (“Services”).  It should be noted that other privacy policies may apply to some of our offerings.  Please see the Privacy Policy Scope section below.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, because by visiting or using this Site, you agree to its terms.

I. Information that We Collect

  1. Personal Information:

Depending on the Services you are visiting or using, we may collect various types of information from you, including information that can personally identify you.  This information includes, but is not limited to: name, age, date of birth, drivers license or photo ID, postal address, email address, telephone number, SMS or text message address, other wireless device address, instant messaging address, demographic information, education information (including but not limited to level of education, desired level of educational program, and areas of interest), course and learning progress information (including but not limited to what courses you enroll in, and courses, lessons, videos, or topics you’ve successfully completed), current occupation, military status, governmental loan status, and other information that would allow online or offline contact with you as an individual.  In addition, if you request an academic transcript be mailed to an educational institution based on the Services or courses you’ve completed on the Site, we may collect a partial government or state id number.  This is required to be printed on the transcript as a means for your educational institution to identify you.  This information includes the last 4 digits of your social security number, or the last 4 digits of the provided government identification for international students. (collectively, “Personal Information”).

2. Non-Personal Information:  We also collect Usage Information (as defined below) and other information from you that does not personally identify you or allow us or others to contact you individually online or offline (“Non-Personally Identifiable Information” or “Non-PII”). We may combine Non-PII with other information in a way that allows you to be identified or personally contacted. If this happens, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information.

II. How We Collect Information:

  1. Information Provided by You.

Information may be collected when you:(1) inquire about our services or products; (2) obtain our services or products;  (3) fill out any of the forms or fields provided on the Services or communicate with us via email or chat; (4) register as a user or sign-up for any of our newsletters, materials or services through the Site; (5) create a profile to access the Site or utilize Services; (6) provide reviews or participate in our online surveys or questionnaires; (7) input information into our online forums or study sessions as part of Services; (8) participate in any marketing initiatives, including contests, scholarship offers, grants, events, or promotions; (9) request a transcript from us; and (10) post to the Services or provide user-generated content or submissions to us, including without limitation media files, photos, videos, documents or other information, and contributions to a blog, forum or community feature that we make available on the Services (“User Contributions”).

  1. Information from Other Sources.

Information about you may be collected from other services that we may provide, our affiliates, third-party or public sources (such as from public forums, social networks, and blogs), other users of the Services, and our business partners.

  1. Automatic Information Collection.

The Site and our service providers use automatic data collection technologies to collect and store Usage Information (as defined below). We use this information to evaluate how our visitors use and navigate the Site on an aggregate basis, including but not limited to the number and frequency of visitors to each Site, courses and lessons initiated and/or completed, and the length of their visits. Automatically collected information may be combined with other information  collected about you. This is done to help improve offered Services, to improve marketing and data analytics, as well as to improve overall site functionality.  Third-party advertising companies and ad networks may also use automatic data collection technologies to collect Usage Information for purposes of providing interest based ads, offers or promotions. See the Automatic Information Collected Technologies and Usage Information and the Third-Party Advertisers and Interest-Based Ads sections for more information.

III. How We Use the Information that We Collect

Information, including Personal Information, may be used to:

  • Provide products and services requested by you;
  • Provide customer support, including responding to your requests and questions and troubleshooting and resolving problems or complaints, and for any other purposes that we deem appropriate;
  • Confirm and verify the information you provide to us;
  • Communicate with you;
  • Confirm your identity and eligibility to use the Services;
  • Create and manage your account, as applicable;
  • Conduct research and analysis to create and improve the Services and other products and services that we may offer;
  • Understand and anticipate your use of or interest in, our products, services, and content, and the products, services, and content offered by others;
  • Develop and display products, services, and content tailored to your interests on the Services and other online properties;
  • Gauge the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming, and other activities;
  • Offer you personalized information and products, services, promotions, contests, grants, or scholarships of ours, our affiliates, or our third-party business partners that may be of interest to you;
  • Operate our business and operations;
  • We use the information we automatically collect (such as contact information, IP address and basic browser and system details) to help us optimize our sites and the services we offer on the Sites and may offer in the future;
  • Protect the security and integrity of the Services;
  • Fulfill our obligations and enforce our rights arising from this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Use and any other applicable agreements and policies;
  • Use or post User Contributions as permitted in our Terms of Use; and
  • Fulfill any other purposes for which you provide your information and for any other purpose as described to you at the time your information is collected or for which your consent is given.

IV. Our Sharing Practices

Information, including your Personal Information, may be disclosed or shared as follows:

  1. With our affiliated companies (i.e., companies that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us) for internal business support, cross marketing purposes, or as a result of requests made by you.
  2. With our unaffiliated third-party business partners, service providers, and vendors for purposes of assisting us in providing the products and/or services you request through the Services or to provide us with support for our internal and business operations, such as customer service, data processing, data storage, research, analytics, web hosting, marketing, providing suggestions and strategies to improve our business processes and the services we provide, and delivery of promotional or transactional materials.  Your personal information may be provided to companies that provide services to assist with our business activities like offering customer service. Unaffiliated third parties are authorized to use your Personal Information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
  3. With other non-affiliated companies, parties, or organizations (with whom we maintain business relationships) when you engage in certain activities through the Services or services that are sponsored or provided by an unaffiliated third party, including, but not limited to requesting or purchasing products or services offered by these third parties, electing to receive information or communications from them, or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes, games, scholarships, or other programs sponsored or provided by these third parties, in whole or in part.
  4. With partner educational organizations (with whom we maintain business relationships) when you enroll in a course or educational program to register you as a student, provide access to a learning management system, provide educational services, communicate progress and support, and including but not limited to fulfilling the overall education for the services you’ve purchased.

You should be aware that any information submitted to a third party available on or through the Site, any information obtained during your visit to that third party’s website, and any information you give to the third party will be subject to that third party’s privacy policy. To reiterate, third parties made available on this site have separate policy practices for which Preppy has no responsibility or liability.

  1. With any person who, in our reasonable judgment, is authorized to receive your information, such as your agent, attorney, parent, or legal guardian, or any federal or state agency that shall make the request.
  2. We will disclose collected information in the instance disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law; when disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or other similar legal process served on our Site or in connection with Services; to enforce or apply applicable terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our company, our affiliates, our other customers or users of the Site or Services, or others.
  3. With an educational institution upon your instruction and at your initiation.

Please be aware that we cannot ensure that Personal Information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Policy. We will try to protect your privacy and use best efforts to do so, however, nothing in this privacy policy should be construed as a promise or to establish the expectation that Personal Information or private communications will always remain private.

Furthermore, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to interfere with our ability to transfer all or part of our business, equity interests, or assets (including the Services) to an affiliate or non-affiliated third party at any time, for any purpose, without any limitation, and without notice or any compensation to you, whatsoever.

V. User Contributions

The Services may contain public areas, forums, message boards, chat rooms, group study sessions or features that allow you to provide your User Contributions to be published or displayed or transmitted to other users of the Services. Your User Contributions are posted on the Services and transmitted to others at your own risk. For this reason, we recommend that you do not include any sensitive or personally identifiable information about yourself or others in your User Contributions for these areas of the Services. Please see our Terms of Use for more information regarding User Contributions.

Automatic Information Collection Technologies and Usage Information

We and our service providers automatically collect “Usage Information” from or about you, such as information about your computer or mobile device, IP address, web browser, computer or device platform, related software and settings you are using, browsing actions and patterns, the referring page that linked you to us and the website you visit after using the Services, and other usage activity on the Services. Collection of Usage Information helps us to improve the Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to, among other things: (1) estimate our audience size and usage patterns; (2) store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual interests; (3) speed up your searches; and (4) recognize you when you return to the Services.

We and certain third parties, such as but not limited to advertising service providers, may use certain technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different services.

The automatic collection technologies we and our service providers may use for this automatic information collection include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small data file that is sent to your browser or related software and stored on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. Generally, cookies can track what you look at and where you travel on websites and what transactions you make. They can also store Personal Information about you, including your username and password. A “session cookie” expires immediately when you end your browsing session with the particular website. A “persistent cookie” stores information on your hard drive so when you end your browsing session and return to the same website later, the cookie information is still available. The Services may use both types of cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Services and any emails we send to you may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened our emails and for other related website analytics (e.g., recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

For more information about managing your privacy settings regarding automatic collection of Usage Information, see the Your Choices about How We Use and Disclose Your Information section.

VI. Supplementation of Information

If applicable to the Services you are using, in order to provide accurate services to you, we may on occasion supplement the Personal Information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.

VII.  Address, Email and Phone Number Verification

If applicable to the Services you are using, we work with service providers to verify your address, email and phone number, in order to verify the validity of your information, if applicable.

VIII.  Customer Testimonials

We may post customer testimonials to the Site, which may contain personally identifiable information like a video along with their first and last name. We do obtain the customer’s consent via email or via other means prior to posting the testimonial to post their name and video along with their testimonial.

IX. Third-Party Advertisers and Interest-Based Ads

With the exception of certain of our webpages, services or features that may collect sensitive Personal Information such as government/state identification, we may permit third-party advertising companies or ad networks to display third-party advertisements on our websites and/or automatically collect Usage Information from our websites for purposes of determining your preferences and delivering interest-based advertising and content to you on the Services or other online properties, including those operated by third parties. Those ads may include ads for our products or services or for other companies’ products or services.

These third-party advertisers may combine the Usage Information with Personal Information you directly submit to them or that they receive from other sources, or the Usage Information they collect may include information that could allow someone to specifically contact you online without necessarily knowing your identity. We do not have access to or control over the automatic collection technologies that these third-party advertisers may use, and the information practices of these third-party advertisers are subject to these parties’ respective privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.

If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave the Site you are visiting and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot and do not accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot and do not guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as this Site. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third party website that is linked to this Site, you should read that site’s privacy statement before providing any personally identifiable information.

X. Third-Party Content

The Services and all electronic communications sent in connection with the Services, may contain links, videos, images, or other content provided by third parties. We do not necessarily endorse these websites, products, services, or practices. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the privacy and security practices of these third parties. We recommend that you review the privacy and security policies of these third parties to determine how they handle information they may collect from or about you once you are on the third party site.

The Services may also allow you to engage with social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, Google Plus, and Twitter widgets, when you are logged into those services. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on the Services, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Your interactions with these features and the information from or about you collected by them are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.

XI. Special Notice to California Residents — Your California Privacy Rights

California’s Shine the Light law provides California residents with the right to receive disclosures about any sharing of their personal information with other companies.

If you are a California resident and you provided your personal information to Preppy, then, once each calendar year, you may submit a written request for information about the information we shared, if any, with other companies for their use in direct marketing. To submit your written request, please send a written request to:

Preppy

Attn: Legal Department
800 N. Rainbow Blvd, Suite 208
Las Vegas, NV 89107

with “Request for California Privacy” in the letter subject line.

You must include sufficient detail for us to locate your file; at a minimum, your name, email address, and postal address.

Within 30 days of receiving your request, we will send you a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties.

We reserve our right not to respond to requests sent more than once in a calendar year, or requests submitted to an address other than the one posted in this notice. Please note that the California Shine the Light law does not cover all information sharing. Our disclosure only includes information covered by the law.

XII. Your Choices About Use and Disclosure of Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. Below are some ways that you can control over your information:

  • Promotional Emails or other Electronic Communications. You may opt out of promotional emails or other electronic communications from us, including but not limited to our e-newsletters, by contacting us at help@Preppy.org or by following the unsubscribe process found at the bottom of the promotional email or other electronic communication. Note that even if you opt-out, you may still receive transactional or account-related emails from us (e.g., emails related to the completion of your registration, correction of user data, course or lesson completion, submission confirmation, password reset requests, reminder emails that you have requested, and any other similar communications essential to your transactions on or made through the Services).
  • Telephone Calls and Texts. You may opt out of promotional telephone calls and text messages by texting  “STOP.”
  • Automatic Information Collection Technologies and Advertising. Our systems currently recognize “do not track” signals from your browser. Your browser can be set to not accept new cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or can disable cookies altogether.  Please be aware, if you disable or refuse cookies some parts of the Services may be inaccessible or not function properly.

XIII. Accessing and Correcting Your Information

The appropriate method(s) for accessing your information, if any, will depend on which of our websites and services you have visited or used. Depending on the website and service, you may have the ability to view or edit some of your information online, by logging into the Services and visiting your account profile or settings page. You may also contact us at help@Preppy.org to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us; however, we may ask you to verify your identity and provide other details to help us to respond to your request.  We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

We cannot delete your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. Once your user account is deleted, it cannot be recovered. We cannot accommodate  requests to change or delete information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirements, would contravene enforcement of our agreements, would be contrary to our Terms of Use or any other applicable agreement between you and us, or cause the information to be incorrect. After deletion of your user account, your Personal Information may remain on our archived database and records.

To request removal of your personal information from our blog, forum, or other user submitted content area, contact us at info@Preppy.org. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.  If you delete or request the deletion of your User Contributions from the Services, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied, stored, or reposted to another website by other users of the Services.

Any updates you make or request to be made to your Personal Information will be applied in our own records but will not be updated in the records of the educational institutions or other third parties to which we have already shared your information. If you would like to make updates to the information that has been shared with educational institutions and other third parties, you will need to contact them separately.

XIV. Security

We strive to use reasonable security measures to protect your information collected through the Services. However, no method of transmission or electronic storage is 100% effective, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. Therefore, your use of the Services is at your own risk and we do not promise or guarantee, and you should not expect, that your information will always and absolutely remain private and secure. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on or concerning the Services. You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse.

In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your Personal Information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we would endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, if we have your email address, we may notify you by email. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.

XV.  The Services Are Not for Children Under Age 13

The Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.  In the event we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child younger than 13 years old, we will endeavor to delete that information and terminate the child’s account (if any).  If you believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at via one of the methods listed at the bottom of this statement.

XVI.  Children Under Age 17

All persons under the age 17 must ask for and receive their parents’ or guardians’ permission before sending any information about themselves to us or to anyone online or over the Internet.  Parents or guardians of persons under age 17 must send us an email indicating their approval of the child’s participation in any of the services/resources that require collection of personal information on our website.

XVII.  Parents/Guardians

Any information collected by Preppy.org from children is used only for the sole purpose of delivering the requested service/materials.  If you have a question, or would like to review or delete your child’s personally identifiable information, contact us via one of the methods listed at the bottom of this statement.

XVIII.  International Users

The site was created by and is controlled, operated and administered by Preppy.org or its agents from offices within the United States of America utilizing servers located in the United States of America. We make no representation that materials at this Site are appropriate or available for transmission to or from, or use in, locations outside of the jurisdiction(s) stated above and accessing any Site from any jurisdiction where such Site’s contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use the Site or export the materials in violation of import or export laws and regulations. If you access a Site from a location outside of the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws.  If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the personal data you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. Whenever you submit any personal data to us, you consent to this transfer.

XIX.  Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. This Privacy Policy will reflect the date it was last updated or amended. If we make any material amendments, we will notify you by posting a notice of the updated or amended Privacy Policy on the Services. All amendments will take effect immediately upon our posting of the updated Privacy Policy on the Services. Under certain circumstances, we may also elect to notify you of changes or updates to our Privacy Policy by additional means, such as posting a notice on the homepage of the Services or sending you an email. Please check this Privacy Policy each time you use the Services to ensure you are aware of any changes in our practices. Your continued use of the Services will indicate your acceptance of the changes to the Privacy Policy.

XX. Contacting Us

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our information practices, or wish to make a request regarding your information, please contact us at any of the following:

  • Preppy Attn: Legal Department, 800 N. Rainbow, Suite 208, Las Vegas, NV 89107 or
  • Contact us by email at help@Preppy.org .

XXI. Privacy Policy Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the collection of information in association with any of the Preppy websites and online services that link to this Privacy Policy. Some of our services or offerings may be governed by alternative or additional privacy policies.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to our products, services, and offerings for which a separate privacy policy or privacy terms apply. Those products, services, and offerings may include contests, contest entries, contest awards, scholarship applications, and scholarship awards. See the official rules, terms and privacy policy (if applicable) that apply to the specific product or service being offered.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to Other Preppy websites or online services (if any) that do not link to this Privacy Policy; third-party websites or features to which this Site may link; and information collected by any non-affiliated third party, even if related to this Site or our services or products.

Last Updated on Nov 17, 2021

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