SCHOOL SCOUT PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: September 20, 2011
School Scout, Inc. ("School Scout" or "we") considers the protection of personal privacy to be one of our priorities. This privacy policy and general release ("Policy") gives you specific information on how we protect your privacy, how we treat personal information, and the choices you have. By agreeing to the terms of this Policy, you agree that your contact information, including your phone number, email address, and mailing address, will be used to communicate with you or send you information about our services. If you do not provide us with this information, you may not have full access to the services offered by School Scout or our website.
We protect against threats and unauthorized access of personal information. We will not share your confidential information with third parties who do not provide support for the School Scout website or who are not connected with processing a transaction involving School Scout Services, unless such disclosure is necessary.
When you visit the School Scout website, we automatically track information.
This Policy applies to the School Scout website and other services owned or provided by us, together referred to as "School Scout Services." This Policy applies only to sites owned and services provided by School Scout, not to any third parties including our vendors and suppliers or any third party platforms or advertising links. As a condition to participation in School Scout Services, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy and the use of your identity for lawful purposes. Additional terms and conditions which govern your participation in School Scout Services are governed by the Terms of Use and School Scout Licensing Agreement.
The Policy is accessible through the School Scout website from a link entitled "Privacy Policy" at the bottom of the www.schoolscout.com home page. You acknowledge that this Policy may change over time. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to revise this Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Policy, we will post the revised policy on www.schoolscout.com. Any changes are effective immediately upon posting to the School Scout website. As we may make changes at any time without notifying you, we suggest that you periodically consult this Policy. Please note that our rights to use your personally identifiable information will be based on the privacy policy in effect at the time the information is collected. Your continued use of the School Scout Services constitutes your agreement to all such terms and conditions of the Policy and revised versions of such Policy.
Information Collection and Use
We may gather data that indicates your activity in connection with School Scout Services. This data does not identify you as an individual user, and it is used to measure the amount of input.
Below are more details about the personal information we may gather from you and how we may use it.
Use of Cookies. When you enter the School Scout website, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user.
Future Business Transactions. By submitting your personal information to School Scout, you agree that in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or the sale of an individual website owned by School Scout, we may transfer your information to a third party as a part of such merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale, or other future business transaction.
Legal Authorities. We may also disclose confidential information to legal authorities in cases when we reasonably believe that it is necessary to identify someone who may be violating our policies or any other terms of use, or who may be a threat to School Scout or third party rights, property, or personal safety. We may disclose confidential information to comply with valid legal process such as a duly issued search warrant, subpoena or court order.
Information Storage and Security
School Scout takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your confidential information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. No computer system or information can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard. However, School Scout is committed to providing reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our website and all confidential information against foreseeable hazards.
Notwithstanding these security measures, please be aware that when you submit confidential information to our website, the information may travel over many systems that are not under School Scout's control. We take the protection of user data seriously and to that end take reasonable safeguards to prevent interception of any confidential information.
Accessing, Correcting and Updating Your Information
You have the ability to review, change and correct the personally identifiable information you provide us. Once you register on our website, you can access, correct or update your account or other personal information. You may also request that we remove from our databases the information you provided when you registered with School Scout by contacting us via www.schoolscout.com. When you register or access our website, you may opt out of receiving future email communications from us.
Modifications to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be amended by School Scout at any time without notice, and such modifications will be available for your review under the "Privacy Policy" link on the School Scout website.
Your Acceptance by Electronic Signature
You hereby agree to the use of electronic communication and signature in order to provide confidential and personal information to School Scout, to receive notices, policies and records of searches initiated or completed through our web site. Furthermore, you hereby waive any rights or requirements under any laws or regulations in any jurisdiction which require an original (non-electronic) signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, to the extent permitted under applicable mandatory law.
YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS POLICY AND RELEASE AND THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS POLICY AND UNDERSTAND THE RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN. BY CLICKING ON THE ACCEPT BUTTON AND/OR CONTINUING TO USE SCHOOL SCOUT SERVICES, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HEREIN.