The Studentawards Inc. privacy policy statement demonstrates our deep commitment to your privacy rights. Since we gather certain types of information about our users, we want the user to fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement describes what information we gather, the purpose for which we gather it, how we use it, disclose it, and how to correct or change it.

1. INFORMATION STUDENTAWARDS INC. GATHERS AND TRACKS

Usage Tracking
Studentawards Inc. tracks information related to overall user traffic patterns throughout our site in order to make decisions regarding content and services.

Log Files
Log files are used to track and monitor traffic patterns on our site for maintenance purposes, to enhance usability and to improve overall user experience and site performance.

Registration
In order to use the free Studentawards Forum, users are required to complete an online registration form. Studentawards Inc. collects that information for the purpose of informing students, parents, educators and others about opportunities to obtain awards, scholarships, bursaries and other funding and useful goods and services related to schools and education generally. To register, the user is asked to supply a valid email address, password, and username. Studentawards Inc. may also collect personal information such as address, gender, and interests.

The Studentawards Forum gives you the opportunity to create a public profile. The public profile may contain personal information including address, gender, web sites, and interests. All the information that you enter in your public profile with the exception of your email address, will be visible to the public. Studentawards Inc. strongly recommends that you only enter information on your public profile that you are comfortable sharing with the public at large. You may edit or delete information in your profile at any time by clicking on “My Profile” located on the navigation bar on top of the each Studentawards Forum page.

Participants in the Studentawards Forum are expected to comply with the rules and regulations. We cannot control third parties’ use of information that you choose to provide to the public in the Forum. Studentawards Inc. cautions you against giving out personally identifiable information (names and addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) to strangers online, which may be used for illegal or harmful purposes.

Email Messages
Studentawards Inc. periodically provides opportunities for our sponsors to send email messages to our users that are considered by Studentawards Inc. to be relevant and of interest to the students, parents or educators who use our service. No personally identifiable information is released by Studentawards Inc. to our sponsors without the user's consent. Email messages may also invite users to take advantage of various promotions, complete surveys, etc. that also allow our services to be provided free of charge.

User Feedback/Inquiries
Users have the ability to contact Studentawards Inc. and provide us with their comments and feedback. Studentawards Inc. does not retain personal information included in feedback or inquiries for any purpose other than to respond to the user or to use their quotes or comments on our website when given explicit permission to do so.

Cookies
Studentawards Inc. minimizes the use of cookies to only those necessary to properly route users within our site as well as to track aggregate traffic coming to the site. Cookies add a convenience feature to help the user save time. They are primarily used to help personalize the users' experience on the site. Refusing cookies will not affect the core functions of the service, but may affect the user's ability to use the “Auto Login” feature on the login page as well as view offers from Studentawards Inc. and our partners.

Outside Links
This site contains links to other sites. Users will be taken to a separate site if they click on one of these links. Studentawards Inc. encourages you to review the privacy statements of the web sites you choose to link to from the Studentawards Forum so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. Studentawards Inc. is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on any other web site a user visits.

Other Circumstances
From time to time, Studentawards Inc. may sponsor sweepstakes, contests or other events that require the collection, processing, and storage of individual contact and demographic information to be used for the event. Studentawards Inc. may also co-sponsor these events along with other companies in which case the user's individual contact and demographic information will not be released to third-party or non-participating organizations without the user's consent. Studentawards Inc. will request that co-sponsors of such events uphold the privacy and appropriate use of the registrant’s information.

2. USE OF INFORMATION

There are cases where Studentawards Inc. asks for personal information such as name, email address. Studentawards Inc. uses this information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience on our web site and to provide interactive or personalized elements or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. Studentawards Inc. also uses this information to shape our recommendations to sponsors and scholarship providers regarding offers that might be of interest to our members.

We also use information, which users voluntarily provide, in order to send out electronic newsletters and mailings. Studentawards Inc. assumes that users who have registered with the Studentawards Forum wish to receive newsletters and emails regarding scholarships: if you do not wish to receive these items, we ask that you delete your profile from our database. To do so, click here.

Studentawards Inc. is able to offer its free services, in part, based of the willingness of our users to be reached by our sponsors. Furthermore, Studentawards Inc. may use your personal information to send you periodic communications, solicit your feedback, and/or provide you with special offers. By allowing Studentawards Inc. to make some of the information they supply to us available to our sponsors, users will receive free information on products and services that may be of interest to them. Sponsors include, but are not limited to, universities, colleges, scholarship providers, financial institutions, market researchers and computer, telecommunication and travel companies. These sponsors typically market products and services that may be of interest to our student members, and they typically include an accompanying offer to purchase. Studentawards Inc. also creates reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for our sponsors; however, these reports do not include any personally identifiable information. This information allows our sponsors to promote more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Studentawards Inc. does not control the practices of our advertisers, sponsors or third party marketers.

3. SHARING OF INFORMATION

Studentawards Inc. uses the information described above to tailor our content and help our advertisers and third party marketers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our services free. We share personally identifiable information with our advertisers and third party marketers only with user consent. Studentawards Inc. collects and shares anonymous demographic information about our users with advertisers, business partners, sponsors and other third parties. This data is used to customize Studentawards Inc. content and advertising to deliver a better experience for our users and in no way personally identifies the user.

Studentawards Inc. also participates in affiliate networks and various co-marketing alliances to promote our site. For this purpose, we receive and share information in order to analyze site traffic and pattern information so we can evaluate the effectiveness of these programs.

4. CORRECT/UPDATE POLICY
Studentawards Inc. offers users the ability to correct or change the information posted in their profiles. Users simply need to login and click on "My Profile" on the top navigation bar. Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems or who have any questions about how our services work can contact us at info.forum@studentawards.com.

5. DELETE/DEACTIVATE PROCEDURE

Users may unsubscribe to delete their Studentawards Forum user profile in its entirety by clicking here.


6. CHANGES TO POLICY

Studentawards Inc. will review all of its policies from time to time and may amend or change this Privacy Policy at anytime without notice: you are encouraged to visit our web site periodically to review our current Policy.


7. PASSWORD

In order to login to the Studentawards Forum and post messages on the Forum, you are required to have a combination of password and email address. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential. Do not share it. These unique identifiers are used to protect your personal information and ensure the security of your profile. It is important that you remember your login information.

If you forget your password, we have a password reset feature on the login page. Enter the email address you registered with and we will email you a new password. It is recommended that you login and change your password as soon as possible. It is important that you remember your login information.


8. SECURITY POLICY

Studentawards Inc. has created security guidelines and this privacy policy to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information collected from our web site. Access to personally identifiable information is only provided to authorize Studentawards Inc. employees via password. Studentawards Inc. employees are made aware of our security guidelines during our employee orientation process. Our security guidelines are reviewed from time to time to ensure that the confidentiality of personally identifiable information is protected by the appropriate measures.

The security of personal information is a high priority at studentawards.com. We maintain this Web site and all associated data with technical, administrative and physical safeguards to protect against loss, unauthorized access, misuse, modification and improper disclosure. We use timed-tokens to further enhance user security. All underlying machines and firewalls at network access points have restricted access. While no computer system can ever be fully protected against every possible hazard, we provide reasonable and appropriate security controls to protect our Web site and its information.

Studentawards Inc. maintains all files containing personally identifiable information in company owned computer systems, housed in a secure location.