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Privacy Policy

At AchieveYourScholarship.com we are concerned about your privacy. Since an essential function of this site is performing customized scholarship and educational searches we want you to understand what types of information we are collecting and what may happen to that information. 

Collection of information

Information is collected from our users at several different points during your visit to AchieveYourScholarship.com

Registration - A user must register in order to qualify for the scholarship. During registration, a user is required to provide certain information, such as name, address, e-mail address, date of birth, and gender. In addition, a user may choose to provide custom information for specific offers. AchieveYourScholarship.com encourages its users to provide all of these fields of information so that users may maximize the effectiveness of the scholarship and offers presented following registration.

Optional Information - At various other points during your visit to AchieveYourScholarship.com, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. For example, you may choose to participate in a particular offer. Participation in these offers require the input of additional information and is completely voluntary on your part. Enrolling in these additional offers will have no bearing on registration and eligibility for the scholarship. You have the choice about whether to disclose the information necessary to use these features of our site.

Passive Collection of Information - In addition to the information which you actively provide to AchieveYourScholarship.com by methods such as completing the registration form, AchieveYourScholarship.com collects information about how you interact with our site. AchieveYourScholarship.com collects passive information for purposes such as testing and improving a user's experience at the site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties such as advertisers and content partners. The types of passive information collected by this site include, without limitation, your IP address, which type of browser you are using, where you go on our site, and how long you stay on any part of our site. Passive information does not identify you to AchieveYourScholarship.com by name, and AchieveYourScholarship.com does not link your IP address to your personally identifiable information.

Collection of Information from Children - AchieveYourScholarship.com abides by federal law and the guidelines set up by the Federal Trade Commission regarding youth privacy. As such, AchieveYourScholarship.com will not knowingly collect any personal information from or allow the registration of people under the age of 18.

Use of information

The information that you supply to AchieveYourScholarship.com enables us to notify you in the case of winning the scholarship drawing, as well as allowing third parties to reach you in the even of additional offer participation.

AchieveYourScholarship.com utilizes passive information to learn more about how you interact with our site. This passive information may be combined with your other information for purposes such as testing and improving your experience at our site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties such as advertisers and content partners. This aggregate passive information does not contain any personally identifiable information.

Contacting You by E-Mail - AchieveYourScholarship.com may use your contact information periodically in order to send you e-mail regarding updates at the AchieveYourScholarship.com and any mediaspike web site, such as new AchieveYourScholarship.com opportunities and additional listings which may be of interest to you. In addition, we may send you free informational newsletters or notices relating to topics which may be of special interest to you, including financial aid, admissions tips, job opportunities and job advice. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to opt-out of receiving newsletters and/or commercial e-mails whenever such messages are sent by AchieveYourScholarship.com, as described below. E-mail messages from third parties are not governed by the opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy, but all such third parties are strongly encouraged to include opt-out procedures in their messages to you.

Sharing of information

AchieveYourScholarship.com will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.
During the registration process, and at certain points thereafter in connection with specific offers, AchieveYourScholarship.com asks you whether information about you may be sent to third parties who have products, services and opportunities which may be useful to you. AchieveYourScholarship.com understands how important your information is to you. Therefore, AchieveYourScholarship.com does not share any information that can be tied to you without your permission. If you give your permission to allow third parties to contact you, personal information about you (such as your contact information and other information collected during your visit to AchieveYourScholarship.com) may be shared with colleges, universities, potential employers, recruiters/headhunters, data aggregators, marketers (possibly in the form of list rental), and other organizations. Regardless of your decision regarding the sharing of your personal information, we may share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information that can identify any individual user.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures - While AchieveYourScholarship.com strives to protect the personal information of our users, AchieveYourScholarship.com will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.

Security

AchieveYourScholarship.com has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information under our control. AchieveYourScholarship.com helps protect personally identifiable information by utilizing both online and offline security methods, including firewalls, passwords and restricted physical access to the places where your information is stored. Our staff is trained to comply with our security procedures, and our security procedures are regularly reviewed and revised, if necessary, by the Privacy Team at AchieveYourScholarship.com.

If you have any questions about security issues at our site, please send e-mail to and we will try to answer your questions.

Other provisions

Acceptance of Terms/Changes to Privacy Policy - Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy. AchieveYourScholarship.com reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.

Other - In the event that AchieveYourScholarship.com sells, assigns or transfers some or all of its business to a successor or acquirer, AchieveYourScholarship.com may sell, assign or transfer all of your information, regardless of your opt status, to such successor or acquirer.

Links to Other Sites - This site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that AchieveYourScholarship.com does not exercise control over the information, products, services or policies of third party companies accessible through our site. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every third party site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected by this site.

Choice/Opt-out - AchieveYourScholarship.com users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site. You may opt-out from receiving specified types of communications from AchieveYourScholarship.com by clicking here. AchieveYourScholarship.com will only communicate with you according to your instructions.

Your privacy is important to AchieveYourScholarship.com. If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at or via the other contact information listed above.
Update effective December 1, 2007.


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