PRIVACY POLICY

MANAGING COLLEGE COST INC.

Managing College Cost Inc. recognizes that your privacy is important. To demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and to explain the types of information we obtain about visitors to our website, how that information is obtained and used, and how visitors can restrict its use or disclosure, we have created the Privacy Policy below. The following discusses our information gathering and dissemination practices at Managing College Cost Inc.

USAGE PRACTICES OF INFORMATION RECEIVED

All personal information obtained by Managing College Cost Inc. about individual visitors to our website is information supplied voluntarily by that visitor. Our website's personal profile questionnaire requires users to volunteer contact information such as name, year in school, parent, or counselor.  We ask if we may make that information available to our select list of sponsors, which are reputable, leading companies and organizations that provide products and services of interest to students and parents. Our users choose whether to opt-in or opt-out of sharing their information with these partners.

When Managing College Cost Inc. shares your personal information with a third party as described in this Privacy Policy, your personal information will become permanently subject to the information use and sharing practices of the third party.   That third party will not be restricted by this Privacy Policy ,with respect to its use and further sharing of your personal information.  If you agree to receive communications from our sponsor partners and later change your mind, you may need to contact those companies directly. Any updates you wish to make to the information they possess must also be forwarded to the company communicating with you at that point in time.

Managing College Cost Inc. is committed to safeguarding users' privacy on our website. We require our employees to protect our users and visitors by keeping their profile information private, and expect our marketing partners to do the same. You can feel confident that your user profile will be protected when you visit Managingcollegecost.com. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of all user information under our control.

INFORMATION AND EMAIL PRACTICES

Managing College Cost Inc. understands the importance of protecting personally-identifiable information. We will not share, sell, rent or otherwise transfer this information without the user's permission, and then only in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy. Our website provides users the opportunity to unsubscribe (opt-out) from receiving email messages from Managing College Cost Inc. and its Sponsor partners, or from having their personal information shared with our Sponsor partners.  We may communicate with our users through email to respond to visitors’ emails, to send information that a user has requested, or to inform users of changes. In the event a user contacts Managing College Cost Inc. directly via email, they will not be subject to receive any communication other than a response to that email such as promotional materials, unless the user specifically requests additional information.

PASSIVE INFORMATION

To gauge the effectiveness of our website, we collect generic information about our visitors that is not individually-identifiable. Our web servers automatically recognize a visitor's IP address, the web page from which a visitor enters our website, which pages a visitor visits, and how much time a visitor spends on each page. This information does not reveal a visitor's identity. We aggregate this information and use it to help diagnose problems with our web server, to administer to our website, or to evaluate and improve our website’s functions and resources. We use cookies to tell our server that a visitor has initiated a user session; however, they do not contain individually-identifiable information. Some of our business partners, such as advertisers, use cookies on our site, but we have no access to, nor control over, these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Managing College Cost Inc. only and does not cover the use of cookies by our business partners.

We may share statistical and demographic information about our website's visitors with our marketing partners. This information is only provided in the aggregate, meaning that the information is about our website's visitors as a group and not about individually-identifiable visitors.

We follow generally-accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100 percent secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially-acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

LINKS

Managingcollegecost.com contains text and banner links to other websites. Managing College Cost Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

In April 2000, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) was passed to regulate the gathering of personal data online from children under the age of 13. Managing College Cost Inc.  abides by COPPA, and works diligently to ensure compliance with the law. As such, managingcollegecost.com will not knowingly collect any personally-identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

CHANGES NOTIFICATIONS

If we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have the option to decide whether we may use your information in this manner. In addition, if we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our website notifying users of the change. In cases where we post notice of changes, we may also email users who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of those changes to our privacy practices.