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Last Changes to Privacy Policy: December 2019
After College University is strongly committed to letting you know how we may collect information and data from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites https://www.aftercollegeuniversity.org and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy is applicable to data and information we collect:
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Additional information
GENERAL USES
- Process your Personal Information for the purpose of rating policies with comparative underwriters or raters.
- Provide support, service and assistance for our products that you are covered by (including as provided by affiliated and unaffiliated third parties such as underwriters, carriers, benefit providers and third-party administrators).
- Communicate with you about your transactions with us (including product related announcements), your policy, claims and send you information about features and enhancements on our Website.
- Communicate with you about changes to our policies.
- Personalize content and experiences on our Website including providing you reports, recommendations and feedback based on your preferences.
- Disclose anonymized Personal Information to disclose statistics and other details regarding the use of our Website
- Optimize or improve our products, services, Website and operations.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal.
- Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of our products, services, and Website.
USE OF YOUR LOCATION INFORMATION
Specifically, we use your location information to:
- Personalize content on our Website including providing you with access to information about other reports, recommendations and feedback based on your feedback, if any.
- Optimize or improve our products, services, Website and operations.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal.
- Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of our products, services, and Website, and their patterns.