Privacy Statement for RatemyCollegeDorm.com
RatemyCollegeDorm.com, recognized as the
number one Web site for rating your dorm
rooms respects the privacy of visitors to
our site. RatemyCollegeDorm.com.com is a
unit of College Butler Inc, a leading provider
of services, Web sites, and products for
college students.
Please read this Privacy Policy so that
you can understand how we seek to enforce
our firm commitment to privacy. Questions
regarding this statement should be directed
to web@RatemyCollegeDorm.com.
We invite you to explore RatemyCollegeDorm.com.com
and its affiliated Web sites, including
www.RatemyTeamMember.com and www.College-Butler.com.
Information On This Site
The information gathered by RatemyCollegeDorm.com
falls into two categories: (1) information
voluntarily supplied by visitors to our
Web sites when they register or initiate
transactions, and (2) tracking information
gathered as visitors navigate through our
sites. Third party providers featured on
or linked to from our websites, such as
vendors of products and services offered
through our sites, may be gathering the
same kinds of information.
To help make our sites more responsive to
the needs of our visitors, help you navigate
between sections, tailor content to your
needs, and measure traffic within our sites,
our Web servers automatically collect limited
information about your computer's connection
to the Internet, including your IP address,
when you visit our sites. They also invoke
a standard feature of browser software,
called a "cookie," to assign each
visitor a unique, random number, a sort
of user ID, which resides on your computer.
The cookie helps give us an idea of which
parts of our site users are visiting and
doesn't actually identify the visitor, just
the computer that a visitor uses to access
our site.
Unless you voluntarily identify yourself
(through registration, for example), we
won't know who you are, even if we assign
a cookie to your computer. The only personal
information a cookie can contain is information
you supply. Our cookies can't read unrelated
data from your computer. Our advertisers
and the third parties that provide products
or services through our sites may also assign
their own cookies to your browser, but we
don't control their cookies or their processes,
and they do not regularly share information
they gather with us.
To make use of certain features on our
Web sites, visitors need to register and
to provide certain information as part of
the registration process. We may also ask
for information from those who buy products
or services or conduct other transactions
on our Web sites. We may ask, for example,
for your name, e-mail address, street address,
sex, age, city or town, zip code (and for
those who seek to purchase a product or
service, credit card number), and we sometimes
request information on your interest in
other topics.
The information you supply may help us
to offer you more personalized features,
to tailor our sites to your interests and
make them more useful to you, and to process
e-commerce transactions.
The more we know about our visitors, the
more value we can potentially offer them.
Supplying such information is entirely voluntary.
But if you don't supply the information
we require, we may be unable to provide
you with services we make available to other
visitors to our sites. For example, while
we allow anyone to read postings in our
Bulletin Board / Forums without registration,
asking a question or furnishing an answer
requires registration, which enables visitors
to modify their own posts. And we can't
send you targeted e-mail alerting you to
a relevant new service we're offering, or
articles on topics of interest to you if
you don't tell us what you're interested
in and give us your e-mail address. Similarly,
we can't notify you that you've been lucky
enough to win a prize in a promotional contest
if we don't know how to contact you. Such
personal information is gathered by us only
with our users’ knowledge and active
permission and participation.
Our online surveys and contests ask visitors
for contact information (like their e-mail
addresses) and demographic information (like
zip code, age, or income level). Demographic
and profile data collected at our site may
be shared with advertisers on an aggregate
basis.
We also use customer contact information
from the various registration forms, opt
in features and service features to send
the user information about our site, our
company and our affiliates. Users may opt-out
of receiving routine future mailings; see
the choice/opt-out section below
As this privacy policy reaffirms, we strive
to protect confidentiality for our visitors.
We do reserve the right to use customer
contact and other information when we deem
it necessary or appropriate to comply with
applicable laws, rules, or lawful orders
of courts and governmental agencies, to
enforce compliance with the terms and conditions
for use of our sites, or to protect third
parties from what we regard as threats of
serious harm.
Links to Other Sites
This site contains links to thousands of
other sites. The establishment of a link
does not mean that RatemyCollegeDorm.com.com
has approved of a site, is endorsing a site,
has reviewed its content, or is in any manner
recommending a visit. RatemyCollegeDorm.com
is not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of linked Web sites.
Third Party Features
Certain features of and portions on our
site are also the result of special relationships,
such as our forum. These firms share varying
amounts of information with us. You are
encouraged to review the privacy policies
of such providers before providing information
to them.
Advertising and Cookies
RatemyCollegeDorm.com displays advertising
on the Web site and we also work with several
unaffiliated companies that serve ads when
you visit portions of our website. These
ads may contain cookies. Cookies received
with such banner or other ads are collected
by our advertisers and/or ad companies,
and we do not have access to such information.
These companies may use that information
(not including your name, address, e-mail
address, telephone number, or credit card
number) about your visits to this and other
Web sites in order to provide advertisements
on this site and about other sites and goods
and services that they think may be of interest
to you.
To find out more about their practices,
how these sites have told us they manage
the privacy of information in conjunction
with serving ads on our site, and to know
your choices about not having this information
used by such companies, please visit their
Web sites.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message
boards, and/or news groups available to
its users. Please remember that any information
that is disclosed in these areas becomes
public information and you should exercise
caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information. We do reserve the right to
delete any postings at any time.
Security
This site has numerous security measures
in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our
control. The measures include passwords,
linkages to secure servers, encryption,
backup tapes, and conventional locks and
alarm systems. However we cannot guarantee
that the measures in place have been, are
now, or will remain adequate.
Children's Guidelines
This Web site is directed at adults, not
children, and we do not seek to collect
from children online contact information,
or distribute to third parties any personally
identifiable information from children,
or entice children by the prospect of a
special game, prize or other activity, to
divulge information to us. We won't knowingly
allow anyone under 13 to register with any
of our sites or to provide any other personally
identifying information without written
approval of a parent or guardian.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity
to opt-out of receiving communications from
us and sites associated with us at the point
where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users various options for
removing postings and other information,
and to discontinue receiving future communications
from us. For example, the Forums have provisions
for visitors to edit or remove postings
they have made, and our Newsletters have
linkages or return addresses for recipients
to direct that they unsubscribe. For specifics
concerning a matter impacting you, you can
send e-mail to web@RatemyCollegeDorm.com.
Revisions / Corrections / Updates
We reserve the right to change our privacy
policy from time to time. If we do change
our privacy policy in the future, we'll
post the changes when they take effect.
This site gives users options for changing
and modifying information previously provided,
often at the feature on which you registered.
For specifics concerning a matter impacting
you, you can send email to web@RatemyCollegeDorm.com.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy
statement, which is effective January 1,
2006, the practices of this site, or your
dealings with this Web site, you can contact
steve@RatemyCollegeDorm.com.
