Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to the Site only. It does not apply to other websites we link since we gather certain types of information about our users. We want you to understand what information we collect about you, how we collect it, how that information is used, and how you can control our disclosure of it. You agree that your use of the Site signifies your consent to this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the Site if you disagree with this Privacy Policy.
We collect two types of information from you: I) information that you voluntarily provide to us (e.g., through a voluntary registration process, sign-ups or emails) and II) information derived through automated tracking mechanisms.
Voluntary Registration Information.
To fully access this Site, you must first complete the registration process, during which we will collect personal information about you. The information will include your name, address, email address and any other personal or detailed information about yourself that will be shown in your profile. We do not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically provide such information to us voluntarily, such as through our opt-in newsletter.
By registering with us (submitting your name, email address, and zip code), you consent to the use and method of disclosure as described in this Privacy Policy.
Voluntary Information for Services and Features.
We also collect personally identifiable information when you choose to use certain other features of the Site, including I) making purchases II) consenting to receive email or text messages about upcoming promotions or events, III) consenting to receive an email, IV) participating in our polls, V) commenting on anything throughout our Site, and others. When you use these additional features, we require you to provide your "Contact Information" and other personal information that may be required to complete a transaction, such as your phone number, billing and shipping addresses and credit card information. Occasionally, we may also request information such as your shopping preferences and demographics, which will help us better serve you and our others users in the future.
Cookies.
Our Site uses "cookies" and other tracking technologies. Cookies enable us to serve secure pages to our users without asking them to sign in repeatedly. Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. If a user's system is idle for a defined time, the cookie will expire, forcing the user to sign in again to continue their session. This prevents unauthorized access to the user's information while away from their computer.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser, but please note that if you do, you will need to re-enter your original user ID and password to gain access to certain parts of the Site.
Third-Party Cookies: When serving advertisements to this Site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
Find Financial Aid reserves the right to contact you regarding matters relevant to the underlying service provided and/or the information collected.
Your email will only be shared with our preferred mailing partner for the purpose of sending third-party promotional email communications. Your postal address may be shared with our direct mailing partners for the purpose of sending postal communications.
We may permit certain trusted third parties to track usage, analyze data such as the source address that a page request is coming from, your IP address or domain name, the date and time of the page request, the referring Web site (if any) and other parameters in the URL. This is collected to understand our Web site usage better and enhance the performance of services to maintain and operate the Site and certain features on the Site. We may use third parties to host the Site; operate various features available on the Site; send emails; analyze data; provide search results and links and assist in fulfilling your orders.
We use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, show your ads on sites across the Internet. We and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone's past visits to your website.
We may transfer personally identifiable information as an asset in connection with a proposed or actual merger or sale (including any transfers made as part of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving all or part of our business or as part of a corporate reorganization, stock sale or other change in control.
Find Financial Aid may disclose Contact Information in special cases where we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our terms and conditions of use or may be causing injury or interference with our rights, property, our customers or anyone who such activities could harm.
WE ARE NOT LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN FORUMS SUCH AS A BULLETIN BOARD, CHAT ROOM OR ANY OTHER PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE AREA OF THE SITE.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website for business and administrative purposes. We may also use or share with third parties for any purpose aggregated data that contains no personally identifiable information.
We may share information about you with our partners for cyber security, fraud or risk.
Additional Rights and Choices for California Residents.
Certain additional rights may be available to you if you reside in California. Please visit Your California Privacy Rights to learn more about your rights and how to exercise them.
We are committed to protecting the information we receive from you. We take appropriate security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information and data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures we have implemented reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.
Advertisements appearing on this Site may be delivered by Find Financial Aid or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. Doing this allows the advertising partners to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising partner to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be most interesting to you. Find Financial Aid does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertising servers of ad partners.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by Find Financial Aid and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
If any user receives an email from the Site and would prefer not to receive such communications in the future, [he or she] can do so by following the email instructions to opt-out. If you unsubscribe using the link in our emails, you will be unsubscribed immediately from our system, but you may still receive communications from us for up to five business days.
We do not solicit any personal information from children. If you are not 18 or older, you are not authorized to use the Site. Parents should be aware that there are parental control tools available online that can be used to prevent children from submitting information online without parental permission or from accessing material that is harmful to minors.
By consenting to the Terms and Conditions of the Site and hence the Privacy Policy, you consent that no data transmission over the Internet is entirely secure. We cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you provide to us, and you transmit such information to us at your own risk.