Online Privacy Statement - Making It Count Programs

At Making It Count, we share your concerns about privacy. Since an essential function of this site is providing helpful information to students, parents and educators, we want you to understand what types of information we are collecting and what may happen to that information. Our privacy policy covers these areas:

What types of information are collected by Making It Count
How this information is used by Making It Count
Who this information may be shared with by Making It Count
What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Making It Count's control
How you can update any of your information
What other provisions apply to your use of this site

How to Contact Us -- If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:

Support Services
Making It Count
10296 Springfield Pike, Suite #500
Cincinnati, OH 45215
Telephone: (513) 772-1188
Fax: (513) 772-2583
privacy@makingitcount.com

1. Collection of Information
Information may be collected from our users at several different points during your visit to Making It Count.

Registration -- A user must register to receive information such as e-newsletters, information from our partners, etc. During registration, a user may provide certain categories of information, such as name, address, email address, a password, date of birth, gender, and country of citizenship. In addition, a user may choose to provide other categories of information, such as career objectives, hobbies and other interests. Making It Count encourages its users to provide all of these fields of information so that users may maximize the effectiveness of the website.

Optional Information -- At various other points during your visit to Making It Count, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. For example, you may wish to participate in a survey or a contest. Participation in surveys or contests or the use of other services which require the input of additional information is completely voluntary on your part, and 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 Making It Count by methods such as completing the registration form, Making It Count collects information about how you interact with our site. Making It Count 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 Making It Count by name, and Making It Count does not link your IP address to your personally identifiable information.

Collection of Information from Children -- Making It Count abides by federal and state regulations regarding youth privacy. As such, Making It Count will not knowingly collect any personal information from or allow the registration of young people under the age of 13.

2. Use of Information
Making It Count uses your information in order to customize our site to your interests and enhance your overall experience at our site. Making It Count tries to recognize you using various methods, including having you log in with your email address and your password. Once Making It Count recognizes you, pages, advertisements and other content is customized for you so that you can see what interests you the most. In addition, as described above, Making It Count 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 personal information which can identify any individual user.

Contacting You by Email -- Making It Count may use your contact information periodically in order to send you email regarding updates at the Making It Count site, such as new Making It Count opportunities and additional listings which may be of interest to you. The frequency of these messages will vary depending upon your profile, including the subjects you have indicated an interest in. In addition, we may send you free informational newsletters or notices relating to topics that may be of special interest to you, including financial aid, admissions tips, job opportunities and job advice. Finally, if you specifically provide Making It Count with permission at the time of registration, you may also receive commercial emails. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to opt-out of receiving newsletters and/or commercial emails whenever such messages are sent by Making It Count, as described below. Email 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.

3. Sharing of Information
Making It Count will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

This privacy policy applies specifically to those registering on the Making It Count website. When high school students opt-in during the feedback form completion process in our live presentations their information is subject to a separate privacy policy.

During the registration process, and at certain points thereafter in connection with specific offers, Making It Count asks you whether information about you may be sent to third parties who have products, services and opportunities that may be useful to you. Making It Count understands how important your information is to you. Therefore, Making It Count does not share any information that can be tied to you without your permission. If you opt-in, Making It Count may make the information you supply available to colleges and leading companies, so you'll receive free information on college financing and admissions, offers and promotions designed just for students, coupons from campus bookstores, freebies and more.
Making It Count discloses information to companies and individuals we employ to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include third parties hosting our servers, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. These companies and individuals will have access to your personal information as necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share that information with any other third party.
Making It Count discloses information if legally required to do so, if requested to do so by a governmental entity or if Making It Count believes in good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (b) protect our rights or property or our affiliated companies; (c) prevent a crime or protect national security; or (d) protect the personal safety of users or the public.
Making It Count discloses and transfers information to its current affiliates and may disclose such information to a third party who acquires all or a substantial portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation or purchase of all or a substantial portion of our assets. In addition, in the event Making It Count becomes the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding, whether voluntary or involuntary, Making It Count or our trustee in bankruptcy may sell, license or otherwise dispose of such information in a transaction approved by the bankruptcy court.

Regardless of your decision regarding the sharing of your personal information, Making It Count may share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information which can identify any individual user.

4. Security
Making It Count has implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. You are the only user authorized to update your profile, unless you provide your password information to another party. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

Making It Count 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 Making It Count.

If you have any questions about security issues at our site, please send an email to privacy@makingitcount.com, and we will try to answer your questions.

5. How You Can Update Your Information
You can update your personal information by clicking here, or by following the instructions included in any email message you receive from Making It Count. Users who are experiencing problems with updating their information should contact us at privacy@makingitcount.com, and we will try to resolve your problems.

6. Other Provisions
Acceptance of Terms/Changes to Privacy Policy -- Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy. Making It Count reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.

Disclaimer -- Making It Count provides information on many topics. Some of this information is created by Making It Count, and some of it is created by third parties. While our site strives to provide accurate expert advice, commentary and other information, Making It Count does not make any warranty regarding the accuracy, reliability or use of any information provided on this site, including award information, award deadlines, calculators and other tools.

Other -- In the event that Making It Count sells, assigns or transfers some or all of its business to a successor or acquirer, Making It Count 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 Making It Count 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 -- Making It Count users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our programs. You may opt-out from receiving specified types of communications from Making It Count by contacting us at privacy@makingitcount.com. Making It Count will only communicate with you according to your instructions. If you have any questions relating to opting-out, please contact us at privacy@makingitcount.com, and we will try to answer your questions.

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Your privacy is important to Making It Count. If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at privacy@makingitcount.com or via the other contact information listed above.

Update effective August 2005.