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Committed to Protecting Your Information
At WiseChoice, we understand that when you provide us with sensitive information, you want to know it is secure. We are dedicated to ensuring the safety and the integrity of your personal information. Here's how:
- We always transmit your personal and financial information using state of the art encryption, every time.
- We store your information in a facility with 24/7 security, requiring a biometric scan for access.
- Our employees pass rigorous background checks as a condition of employment. All of them.
- Our website has received the DigiCert security seal -- the same company that certifies the FBI.
- We do not sell your information to any third parties, period.
Website Privacy Policy
Contents of Privacy Policy.
In this Privacy Policy, you will find the following:
In this Privacy Policy, you will find the following:
- 1. Use of Personal Data
- 2. Information Collection and Use
- 3. Information Sharing
- 4. Cookies
- 5. How We Use Non-personally Identifiable Information
- 6. Log Files
- 7. Third Party Websites
- 8. Note to Parents and Children under 13
- 9. Security
- 10. Site and Service Updates
- 11. Correcting/Updating Personal Information
- 12. Notification of Changes
- 13. Contact Us
1. Use of Personal Data
WiseChoice Brands, LLC (“WiseChoice,” “us,” or “we” ), is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other users of the WiseChoice website (the “Site” and/or the “Service” ). This Privacy Policy applies to users or individuals (“you” ) who use the Site and the Service. It provides you with information concerning our privacy policy and helps you understand how we handle personal information about you which we may collect. This Privacy Policy applies to our current customers, former customers, new and registered users and applicants.
We created this Website Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy” ) to give you confidence as you visit and use the Site and use the Services, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy. This Privacy Policy is applicable only to the Site and the Service, and not to any other websites (whether or not owned by or affiliated with us) that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. We are not a “financial institution” under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. We present this Privacy Policy to you to show our commitment to protecting your information.
This Privacy Policy is a binding agreement. By accessing or using the Internet site located at www.wisechoice.com (the “Site” or “Website”) or any services provided to you in connection with the Site (the “Service”), you agree to abide by these practices set forth in the Privacy Policy, as well as the terms and conditions set forth in the Terms of Use, as they may be amended by Us from time to time in our sole discretion. Your continued use of any portion of the Site following posting of the updated Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Use indicates that you have accepted the changes. Please read them carefully. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms, do not access or use the Site or the Service.
2. Information Collection and Use
This Policy uses the term “nonpublic personal information.” This term refers to information that we may collect from you in connection with your use of the Site and the Service. “Nonpublic personal information” means personal information about you which identifies you, and that is not available from public sources, such as your name, social security number, address, e-mail address, telephone number, cell phone number, age, gender, date of birth, credit card information, banking information, photographs, video materials, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. It may also include information related to your eligibility for various features offered on the Site, including, but not limited to, colleges, universities, institutions, scholarships, financial aid, and/or awards, such as your interests and hobbies, educational and professional achievements and goals, authored essays and applications, religious preference, income level and financial situation. We collect nonpublic personal information about you to deliver full capabilities of the Service, including:
You can view or change the information you provide at any time by updating your profile or your “About The Student” section.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes: (1) to deliver match results to you; (2) to manage the college task flow process; (3) to deliver feedback to you on submitted information, such as essays, compatibility reports, e-mails, written requests, requests via telephone, text messages or through the Site, and other personalized guidance, tutorials or other products and services featured on the Site; (4) to fulfill your requests for products and services and to keep you informed via newsletters and other updates; (5) to contact you in connection with one of our surveys, registration procedures, forms, matching applications, scholarships, college application population, estimating financial aid, populating financial aid forms, such as Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), order confirmations, refund and renewal processing, tutorial requests, feedback requests, sweepstakes or contests; (6) to contact you when necessary; (7) to review Site usage and operations; (8) to address problems with the Site, our business or our products and services; and (9) to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business.
Please be advised that the Site may offer message boards, conversation pages, chat rooms, profile pages, and other public forums. Any nonpublic personal information or personally identifiable information that you provide in connection with your use of any public forum offered by the Site may be posted or otherwise disclosed to the public. Please exercise caution when utilizing these features, and keep the following tips in mind when accessing the Site:
This Policy uses the term “nonpublic personal information.” This term refers to information that we may collect from you in connection with your use of the Site and the Service. “Nonpublic personal information” means personal information about you which identifies you, and that is not available from public sources, such as your name, social security number, address, e-mail address, telephone number, cell phone number, age, gender, date of birth, credit card information, banking information, photographs, video materials, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. It may also include information related to your eligibility for various features offered on the Site, including, but not limited to, colleges, universities, institutions, scholarships, financial aid, and/or awards, such as your interests and hobbies, educational and professional achievements and goals, authored essays and applications, religious preference, income level and financial situation. We collect nonpublic personal information about you to deliver full capabilities of the Service, including:
Information provided by you such as, for example, information submitted during the registration process, the profile registration process, matching process, financial situation process, in the “About The Student” section, or via other online forms and/or other forms of registration, or when making a purchase from us.
You can view or change the information you provide at any time by updating your profile or your “About The Student” section.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes: (1) to deliver match results to you; (2) to manage the college task flow process; (3) to deliver feedback to you on submitted information, such as essays, compatibility reports, e-mails, written requests, requests via telephone, text messages or through the Site, and other personalized guidance, tutorials or other products and services featured on the Site; (4) to fulfill your requests for products and services and to keep you informed via newsletters and other updates; (5) to contact you in connection with one of our surveys, registration procedures, forms, matching applications, scholarships, college application population, estimating financial aid, populating financial aid forms, such as Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), order confirmations, refund and renewal processing, tutorial requests, feedback requests, sweepstakes or contests; (6) to contact you when necessary; (7) to review Site usage and operations; (8) to address problems with the Site, our business or our products and services; and (9) to protect the security or integrity of the Site and our business.
Please be advised that the Site may offer message boards, conversation pages, chat rooms, profile pages, and other public forums. Any nonpublic personal information or personally identifiable information that you provide in connection with your use of any public forum offered by the Site may be posted or otherwise disclosed to the public. Please exercise caution when utilizing these features, and keep the following tips in mind when accessing the Site:
| 1) | Never divulge nonpublic personal information when registering for an account nickname. Use a non-identifiable nickname or other words instead; |
| 2) | Never divulge nonpublic personal information when accessing public features of the Site, such as message boards, conversation pages, chat rooms, profile pages, and other public forums. |
| 3) | Do not post photos, videos or other materials about yourself, your family or your home or location in your registration profile or accessing public features of the Site. |
| 4) | Never divulge your user name and password to others. |
3. Information Sharing
We may disclose the information collected from and about you as follows: (1) to our service providers, to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us (i.e., credit card authorizations); (2) to fulfill your requests for products and services; (3) if we believe that there has been a violation of our Site Terms of Use or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (4) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; (5) in the event that our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your information may be one of the transferred assets; and (6) otherwise as required or permitted by law.
We may disclose the information collected from and about you as follows: (1) to our service providers, to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us (i.e., credit card authorizations); (2) to fulfill your requests for products and services; (3) if we believe that there has been a violation of our Site Terms of Use or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (4) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; (5) in the event that our company or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your information may be one of the transferred assets; and (6) otherwise as required or permitted by law.
4. Cookies
To enhance your online experience with us, many of our web pages use “cookies.” Cookies are text files placed on your hard disk by our web server to store your preferences. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Site are useful and which areas need improvement. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information and we do not store personally identifiable information in cookies.
We use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, and to improve the content and offerings on the Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at the Site or recall your specific information on subsequent visits (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Site). You can opt to have your browser reject cookies. If you do that, you may need to re-register with us every time you visit our Site in order to take advantage of all components of the Site and the Service. Please be advised that if you refuse cookies, you also assume all responsibility for any resulting loss of functionality.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., generic information that does not identify you personally) when you visit any of the pages on the Site, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Verizon or Comcast), the URL from which you access the Site and the URL you first visit after leaving the Site. In addition, we, or third-party service providers acting on our behalf, may use JavaScript (e.g., analytic software to determine how long you view each webpage, how often you view our website, which website directed you to us) to collect information about your browsing behavior on the Site, such as the areas or pages that you visit and the amount of time you spend viewing the Site.
To enhance your online experience with us, many of our web pages use “cookies.” Cookies are text files placed on your hard disk by our web server to store your preferences. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Site are useful and which areas need improvement. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information and we do not store personally identifiable information in cookies.
We use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, and to improve the content and offerings on the Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at the Site or recall your specific information on subsequent visits (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to the Site). You can opt to have your browser reject cookies. If you do that, you may need to re-register with us every time you visit our Site in order to take advantage of all components of the Site and the Service. Please be advised that if you refuse cookies, you also assume all responsibility for any resulting loss of functionality.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information (e.g., generic information that does not identify you personally) when you visit any of the pages on the Site, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Verizon or Comcast), the URL from which you access the Site and the URL you first visit after leaving the Site. In addition, we, or third-party service providers acting on our behalf, may use JavaScript (e.g., analytic software to determine how long you view each webpage, how often you view our website, which website directed you to us) to collect information about your browsing behavior on the Site, such as the areas or pages that you visit and the amount of time you spend viewing the Site.
5. How We Use Non-personally Identifiable Information
As explained above, we use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, to improve the content and offerings on the Site and to offer you products, programs, or services. In some instances, WiseChoice may advertise (e.g., banner ads or sponsored links on search engine results pages) its Services on the web via marketing partners that WiseChoice has a formal relationship with. In the event that you use one of our marketing partners to be directed to the Site, and you register for the Services, we must compensate that partner for its services. As a result, we may use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect from you (e.g., the date(s) you were directed to our Site and accessed the Services), along with the minimal amount of nonpublic personal information, such as your name, to compensate the partner for your referral. Again, please be assured that we will not disclose personal information that is not required for compensation. In addition, we sometimes use non-personally identifiable information to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze how our Site is used, as well as to offer you products, programs or services. We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information, including demographic information and Site traffic analysis with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
As explained above, we use cookies as a convenience feature to save you time, to understand how our Site is used, to improve the content and offerings on the Site and to offer you products, programs, or services. In some instances, WiseChoice may advertise (e.g., banner ads or sponsored links on search engine results pages) its Services on the web via marketing partners that WiseChoice has a formal relationship with. In the event that you use one of our marketing partners to be directed to the Site, and you register for the Services, we must compensate that partner for its services. As a result, we may use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect from you (e.g., the date(s) you were directed to our Site and accessed the Services), along with the minimal amount of nonpublic personal information, such as your name, to compensate the partner for your referral. Again, please be assured that we will not disclose personal information that is not required for compensation. In addition, we sometimes use non-personally identifiable information to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze how our Site is used, as well as to offer you products, programs or services. We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information, including demographic information and Site traffic analysis with our partners. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
6. Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement, prevent fraud, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement, prevent fraud, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
7. Third Party Websites
This policy is only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.
This policy is only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. If you choose to visit other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other websites, and it is your responsibility to review the Privacy Policy at those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.
8. Note to Parents and Children under 13
We are a general audience website, and do not target any of our content specifically at children under 13 years of age, nor do we knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information in that user's account.
We are a general audience website, and do not target any of our content specifically at children under 13 years of age, nor do we knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a Site user is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information in that user's account.
9. Security
WiseChoice has extensive security measures in place to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information. All information shared by you is securely transmitted to WiseChoice's servers via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) line to ensure it stays between you and us. All our servers are housed in a secure facility with 24/7 security that has been certified with a SAS 70 Type II Audit. In addition, we use a proactive Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to guard against unauthorized parties gaining access to our servers. Furthermore, access to nonpublic personal information about you is limited to those employees and third parties who work on our behalf and who need to know such information to provide products or services to you, and WiseChoice will exercise reasonable care in providing those employees and third parties who work on our behalf with information in a secure way.
WiseChoice has extensive security measures in place to maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your nonpublic personal information. All information shared by you is securely transmitted to WiseChoice's servers via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) line to ensure it stays between you and us. All our servers are housed in a secure facility with 24/7 security that has been certified with a SAS 70 Type II Audit. In addition, we use a proactive Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to guard against unauthorized parties gaining access to our servers. Furthermore, access to nonpublic personal information about you is limited to those employees and third parties who work on our behalf and who need to know such information to provide products or services to you, and WiseChoice will exercise reasonable care in providing those employees and third parties who work on our behalf with information in a secure way.
10. Site and Service Updates
Depending on your desired preferences as indicated during the registration process for accessing the Site, WiseChoice will send all new users a welcoming email and/or text message to verify their username and to explain the login process. We also send users Site and Service newsletters, updates, and other appropriate notifications via email or text message. Users are able to opt-out from Site and Service newsletters/updates and/or text messages by setting or changing their preferences under their profile on our website. We communicate via email and/or text messages with users to provide requested services and for issues relating to their profiles.
Depending on your desired preferences as indicated during the registration process for accessing the Site, WiseChoice will send all new users a welcoming email and/or text message to verify their username and to explain the login process. We also send users Site and Service newsletters, updates, and other appropriate notifications via email or text message. Users are able to opt-out from Site and Service newsletters/updates and/or text messages by setting or changing their preferences under their profile on our website. We communicate via email and/or text messages with users to provide requested services and for issues relating to their profiles.
11. Correcting/Updating Personal Information
If your nonpublic personal information changes, we will provide a way for you to correct or update your personal data. If you no longer desire to use our Service, we will provide a way to remove your personal data. These can be done by updating your profile on the website. Because we want to protect you from the loss, misuse and/or alteration of the information under our control, we have authorized only you to update your profile. Please respect this security measure and refrain from sharing your password information to another party. You are responsible for all use of the Site accessed through your username and password.
If your nonpublic personal information changes, we will provide a way for you to correct or update your personal data. If you no longer desire to use our Service, we will provide a way to remove your personal data. These can be done by updating your profile on the website. Because we want to protect you from the loss, misuse and/or alteration of the information under our control, we have authorized only you to update your profile. Please respect this security measure and refrain from sharing your password information to another party. You are responsible for all use of the Site accessed through your username and password.
12. Notification of Changes
WiseChoice reserves the right to modify, temporarily or permanently, any part of the Privacy Policy for any reason, at its sole discretion. You agree to review the Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any modifications. Your continued access or use of the Site and the Services after the modifications have become effective shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms.
WiseChoice reserves the right to modify, temporarily or permanently, any part of the Privacy Policy for any reason, at its sole discretion. You agree to review the Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any modifications. Your continued access or use of the Site and the Services after the modifications have become effective shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy and security policies and practices, please email us at privacy@wisechoice.com with “WiseChoice” in the subject line, or by mail at:
Date last revised: April 16, 2010.
Copyright WiseChoice Brands, LLC 2010. All rights reserved.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy and security policies and practices, please email us at privacy@wisechoice.com with “WiseChoice” in the subject line, or by mail at:
WiseChoice Brands, LLC
P.O. Box 25457
Alexandria, Virginia 22313
Date last revised: April 16, 2010.
Copyright WiseChoice Brands, LLC 2010. All rights reserved.
© 2010 WiseChoice Brands, LLC
