Privacy Policy (June 29th, 2008) - TalkOfCampus
At TalkOfCampus.com (the “Site”) we acknowledge that privacy is very important. We have outlined the steps we take to safeguard your personal information. We hope this will bring clarity to your decisions about sharing personal information.
Personal information shared in TalkOfCampus:
When you register as a member of TalkOfCampus.com, you may share personal information, such as you age, gender, profession, interests and hobbies. You may also include other contents, such as name of institution / organization / company. Our servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use some of our services, which includes the IP address, the URL, and the date and time of access, among a few others. Under no circumstances will we alter your personal information and the data you have entered unless we have to delete an account because of non compliance of terms and conditions.
Applications:
We may use personal information to provide the services you have requested, which may include services that display advertising and customized content. We may also use personal information to research, analyze and improve our services and technology. We may share personal information with third parties under limited circumstances, like when complying with legal processes, preventing fraud and protecting other users, and ensuring security of our network and services. When you use TalkOfCampus.com, you name and e-mail address will be identified in the process. We may also use your name and e-mail to notify you about our services.
Choices:
You may decline / refuse to provide your personal information to us wherever reasonably possible. This may or may not hinder the services that our site offers. You are enabled to edit / delete / correct your own personal information upon request. You can make changes to the information you provide wherever reasonably possible. You can terminate your account at any time. If you terminate your account, your profile, posts and messages may be removed from the site and deleted from the servers. However, even after you delete your account, residual copies of your profile information may remain on the backup media.
Information security:
We take appropriate measures to protect the users against unauthorized access, alteration or destruction of the data / information you have provided. Our security measures include scrutinizing the user access and the processes carried out by the users. We restrict the access to personal information only to authorized TalkOfCampus.com employees and agents who need to know the personal information to in order to process, develop and improve our services. These individuals are strictly bound to confidentiality obligations and are subject to termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
User communication in TalkOfCampus.com:
When you send messages or any form of communication to TalkOfCampus.com, we may retain those communications in order to respond to your request and inquiries and improve our services
Links:
We may present links in a format that can allow us to keep track if the links have been followed. We use this information to improve our technology, content and advertising.
Other sites:
We do not exercise control over other sites displayed by the users or displayed as search results under any circumstance.