Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the SchoolSoup.com website (the "Site"). Your privacy is important to SchoolSoup.com. This Privacy Policy outlines the type of information we collect from you and how we use and disclose your personal information.

Collection of Personal Information

SchoolSoup.com collects personal information about you in order to provide you with information about scholarships and financial aid (our "Services"). We collect your personal information upon registration and the only information you are required to provide is your email address, name and physical address.

If you choose to conduct a scholarship search with us, we will ask you to provide your gender, your birth date, your zip code and whether or not you currently reside in the United States of America.

You have the option of providing information about your nationality, year in school, GPA, organizations to which you and your parents belong, your expected college major and other information that will help us filter scholarships to match your personal profile. It is optional for you to provide additional information but we encourage you to provide such information so that we can provide a more personalized experience for you on our Site.

SchoolSoup.com also collects anonymous information about visitors to the Site. This information is used internally to perform traffic analysis.

Use of Your Information and Consent

Schoolsoup.com only collects personal information about you with your specific knowledge. If you register, you are asked to provide an email address and a physical address for contact purposes and you have the option of providing telephone numbers as additional contact information. You are consenting to receive phone calls from publisher, its affiliates, and its partners for contact via telephone, (with special opportunities and offers") and thereby, the user waives their right to file a claim with the FTC or any other agency in regards to these contacts or calls. When you provide us with your personal information, you consent and agree to our use and disclosure of your personal information for the following purposes:

Disclosure of Your Information

Any personal information provided by you will only be disclosed with your consent.

Upon registration, you will be provided with the option of providing your consent to share your personal information with our third party partners in order to provide you with offers which may be relevant to you. If you do not want any of your personal information shared by SchoolSoup.com with our third party partners, please deselect the relevant boxes to remove your consent.

Amending Personal Information

At any time, you may make corrections or updates to the personal information that you provide us. You may make changes to your personal contact information online.  To make changes online, simply visit the SchoolSoup.com home page and Login. Once you have logged in, you will be directed to your account settings or you can access them by clicking on the “Account Setting” link at the top of the page. 

Security of Personal Information

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to and disclosure of your personal information. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

Use of Website Tracking and Cookies

An Internet Protocol ("IP") address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are on the Internet. SchoolSoup.com collects IP addresses for the purposes of helping us diagnose problems with our computers, for administrative purposes, to report aggregated information, and to audit the use of our Site.

Although, we do not link personal information to your IP address, by using this Site, you acknowledge that we may use IP addresses to identify you if we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use or to protect our Service, Site, visitors, or others.

Cookies

SchoolSoup.com may from time to time elect to use cookies on the Site. Cookies are small pieces of information that a website you visit sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are stored in a file on your computer's hard drive and are used to make your use of website simpler for you by saving your preferences. SchoolSoup.com uses these preferences to make our Site more intuitive to use when you return to the Site. Cookies do not identify you personally unless you have chosen to provide personal information to us. You can set your internet browser to not accept cookies, however, doing so may eliminate some of the services provided on the Site and on other websites as well. Some of our third party partners may also elect to use cookies. SchoolSoup.com has no control over cookies used by third parties on the Site.

Surveys

From time to time we may offer contests or surveys on our Site where we will ask users for personal information. Participation in these types of activities will be strictly voluntary and you will have the choice to provide this information or to not participate.

Links

SchoolSoup.com may contain links to other sites, including schools, universities, colleges, scholarship sponsors and third party advertisers, whose information practices may be different than ours. In all cases, when you go to a website linked to SchoolSoup.com, any personal information you provide will be governed by the privacy policy of that site and not SchoolSoup.com. If you have concerns about how your personal information will be used, please review that site's privacy policy prior to providing any personal information.

E-mail Communications

We collect and store your email address from any communications that you may send to SchoolSoup.com by clicking on any of the email links. We may use your email address to communicate with you, if your email indicates that a response to your inquiry is requested or to address a concern or complaint you may have.

Whom can I contact for further information?

If you wish to contact us to:

Email: [email protected]

We assure you that we will do our best to remedy any problem or complaint you may have.

Changes to this Policy

SchoolSoup.com may be required to revise this Privacy Policy from time to time and you agree that SchoolSoup.com may do so at any time, by updating this posting. SchoolSoup.com may revise this Privacy Policy by means of a notice on the Site or electronically provide you with notice. We will also update the "Last Updated" date at the top of the Privacy Policy and note the modified provisions with a "Last Updated" date. You agree that such changes will take effect after the revised Privacy Policy is posted on the Site. By continuing to access or use the Site after we have posted a modification or have provided you with notice of a modification, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the revised terms. You should visit this page periodically to review this Privacy Policy.

Possible Future Uses of Information

In the unlikely event that another company acquires the assets of SchoolSoup.com; your personal information would be among the transferred assets.