Information Collection and Use
Information Collection
CampusTours Inc. is the sole owner of the information collected on CampusTours.com, CampusToursProductions.com and CollegeViewbooks.com.
In general, CampusTours does not collect specific information on individual visitors,
rather the site collects generic information about visitor sessions in order
to study general demographic trends. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
However, visitors who wish to request information from colleges and universities may submit their personal information through the CollegeViewbooks utility in order to receive viewbooks and applications from universities that the students select. In the course of the CollegeViewbooks questionairre, students are asked for the following information, and this information is supplied to the colleges that the student chooses.
Information Collected During CollegeViewbooks Registration
The following fields are collected from visitors who register for CollegeViewbooks: name, address, email, zipcode, age, phone, date of birth, intended college major, type of applicant (freshman or transfer), type of application requested (regular decision, early admission, early action), semester that the student is applying, name of high school, high school city, high school state and the student's current grade level in high school [transfer applicants are required to list the college they are currently attending and their current year in college]. This information is gathered and sent electronically to the institutions the student selects in order to request that admissions information be sent to the students' home. CampusTours Inc. provides this information to the selected college[s] and universitie[s] at the visitor's behest, and is not responsible for the use or misuse of this information by the individual educational institutions to whom the student chooses to transmit their request[s]. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), CampusTours does not allow students who are under the age of thirteen (13) to register for CollegeViewbooks. Students under thirteen (13) years of age are required to have a parent or guardian complete the CollegeViewbooks form to request viewbooks and applications from colleges.
Recruit Me! Program
As part of the registration process for CollegeViewbooks.com, students are given the option of joining the CampusTours Recruit Me! program in which their personal information (name, address, phone, email, high school, grade level, intended major, year of college application) is shared with selected colleges and universities. CampusTours will share this information only with select universities and educational organizations, and these universities may contact students to attempt to recruit them or obtain further information regarding student status. Students who participate in this service agree to allow their information to be shared with select colleges and universities as a means of increasing their likelihood of gaining entry to a college or university. This service in no way guarantees that students will be recruited, only that their information will be shared with participating institutions.
Information Use
CampusTours provides virtual campus tours of colleges and universities,
and may, in certain instances, share broad demographic data about our visitors
with advertisers and college partners. CampusTours will never share your personal information without your explicit consent. For instance, students, by filling out the CollegeViewbooks registration and questionairre, are explicitly requesting that CampusTours send their personal information to the institutions they have selected for the purpose of receiving admissions information and forms from those institutions. Students who complete the CollegeViewbooks registartion also have the option of being added to the CampusTours Newsletter list, although they may opt out at any time (see Opt-Out below).
CampusTours does not offer activites on the Web site that allow users (children or otherwise) to disclose their information publicly.
Parental Rights
Parents may review their children's personal information, have it deleted, and refuse to allow the further collection or use of the child's information. In order to make such a request, please contact CampusTours directly at (207) 753-0136.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs,
and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored
information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing
preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the users personally
identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the
site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user’s visit to
our Web site, and to direct pertinent marketing promotions to them. Your
profile is shared with our partners in aggregate form only.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information
about the user. CampusTours does not use cookies, however, some of our
business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However,
we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission
for them to set cookies for advertising.
Third Party Advertising
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our Web advertising
partner. Information about users’ visit to this site, such as number
of times they have viewed an ad (but not user name, address, or other personal
information), is used to serve ads to users on this site.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet
protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP),
referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks
to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the
aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Communications from the Site
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information
such as name and email address. Also, all users who use the CollegeViewbooks College Information Request Utility have the option of requesting the CampusTours Newsletter. Out of respect for our users privacy we
provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the Opt-out section.
Sharing
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose
personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief
that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding,
a court order or legal process served on our Web site.
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.
This is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertisers
CampusTours shares Web site usage information about users with a reputable
third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements
on this site and other sites. For example, our advertisers use cookies
and clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie
when a user visits this site. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.
CampusTours also shares visitors' personal information with colleges from whom the visitor explicity requests information. CampusTours will not share your personal information with other colleges without your direct approval.
Content Providers
We partner with colleges and universities to provide access to their virtual
tours, interactive maps, campus WebCams, college videos, virtual reality
presentations, pictures and other multimedia content. Colleges do not have
access to personal information on CampusTours users at any time. However,
CampusTours provides links for users to request information from these institutions,
and once a user decides to submit information to a particular college or
university, their personal information is no longer covered by this privacy
statement and becomes property of the colleges they contacted.
Business Transitions
In the event CampusTours goes through a business transition, such as a merger,
being acquired by another company, or selling a portion of its assets, users’
personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred.
Users will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days
prior to a change of ownership or control of their personal information.
If as a result of the business transition, the users’ personally identifiable
information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time
of collection they will be given choice consistent with our notification
of changes section.
Opt-Out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their
information used for purposes not directly related to our site by emailing us at OptOut@CampusTours.com. Users' information cannot be used for purposes not directly related to our site unless explicity agreed to by the user.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications
may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe
in the subject line in the email or email us at OptOut@CampusTours.com.
Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice
as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside
party.
Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we, CampusTours
Inc, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read
the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally
identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by this Web site. Whenever a user clicks a link to a college on
CampusTours, the user is being transferred to pages controlled by that college
or university, and any personal information that is collected by these sites
is not within the purview of this privacy statement.
Surveys
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or
contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary
and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving
the use and satisfaction of this site. Users’ personally identifiable
information is not shared with third parties unless we give prior notice
and choice. Though we may use an intermediary to conduct these surveys or
contests, they may not use users’ personally identifiable information
for any secondary purposes.
Tell-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about
our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. CampusTours
will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit
the site. CampusTours does not store this information.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to
this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate
so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information
in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable
information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection
we will notify users via email. Users will have a choice as to whether or
not we use their information in this different manner. However, if users
have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated
their account, then they will not be contacted, nor will their personal
information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material
changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already
stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our Web site
notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will
also email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying
them of the changes in our privacy practices.
Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy,
please contact us at:
CampusTours Inc.
110 Jacques Road
Auburn, ME 04210
Phone: 207.753.0136
Fax: 207.753.0137
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