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Privacy Policy

Woodward Hines Education Foundation (“WHEF”, “We”, “Us”) is a non-profit corporation and the mission of Get2College is to provide best-in-class college planning services to Mississippi families and educators to help students get to college and be successful there.

What Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy applies to all information we collect about you, including information collected on our website, when you register or attend any of our webinars, workshops or other programs, when you communicate with us in person or via telephone, email or text, through your interaction with us on various social media channels and from third parties that partner with us to provide services to you.

Generally you control the amount of information you provide to us. If you are just visiting our website to find out more about our services we do not collect any personally identifiable information about you. However in order to obtain the services we offer you may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information to us.

Personally identifiable information we collect may include your name, mailing address, email, phone number, date of birth, high school, high school graduation date and race.

Personally identifiable information is information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s identity, either alone or when combined with other personal or identifying information that is linked or linkable to a specific individual. Personally identifiable information does not include anonymous or aggregate data that does not allow a third party to identify a specific individual.

Tracking Technologies and  Use of Cookies

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically. This information may include Internet protocol addresses, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our website (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the website.

We use cookies to remember your settings. This facilitates more efficient browsing on subsequent visits by using your preferences to customize the content and/or layout of our website. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you turn off your cookie settings, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website may be limited.

Cookies and other technologies such as: beacons, tags, and scripts are used by WHEF and our third-party service providers, or analytics or service providers in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We use information collected to provide you with services that are consistent with our mission. We also use information collected to evaluate and improve the services we offer, to respond to your inquiries, to personalize your experience while using our website and services, for research purposes and for marketing and promotional purposes.

We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers that help us provide services to you. For example, we may disclose your personal information to third parties that provide data storage and support features, customer communication and support, online hosting, and data analytics and research. All third-party service providers must agree to maintain the confidentiality of the personal information we disclose.

In the event of a merger, consolidation, reorganization or acquisition, we reserve the right to transfer all collected information to the successor organization.

In certain situations, we may be required to disclose your personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, to protect your safety or the safety of others, to investigate fraud, or to respond to a government request.

Opt-Out

If you supply us with your e-mail address, we may periodically send you electronic marketing or promotional communications. You may opt-out of future electronic marketing or promotional communications by using the opt-out form here.

If you opt out of receiving future electronic marketing or promotional communications from us, please note that you will still receive automatic system-generated emails, such as emails regarding a service you have requested or customer service related matters.

Security

The security of your personally identifiable information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can email us at info@get2college.org.

Children Under 13 Years of Age

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children under the age of 13.

Changes to this Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised policy on our website. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when posted unless indicated otherwise.

 

Revised 04/24/2018