Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on the Collegey website – www.collegey.com

Collegey respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. Our services require us to collect detailed personal information from you and in many cases to share your personal information with our partners including but not limited to impact partners, colleges, universities, counselors, scholarship administrators, marketing partners and advertisers. We want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision about sharing your information with us. This Privacy Policy explains our information collection and sharing practices, as well as the choices you can make to limit our sharing your information.

Within this Privacy Policy, we describe the following with respect to your personal information:

1. Types of Personal Information we collect and its Sources

2. How we use your Information

3. How we share your information

4. Your Privacy Rights and Choices (including Access, Deletion and Opt-Out)

5. Use Outside of the United States

6. Our Data Security Procedures

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy / Questions

1. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND ITS SOURCES

A. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE

Student Account Creation / Registration. When you create an account on Collegey Site, you are asked to provide certain information, such as name, address, phone number, e-mail address, password, date of birth and other academic and demographic variables relevant to the portfolio building, project completion, and the college selection/admission process. You may update this information at any time after your initial registration. If you are searching for higher education/scholarships, you may be asked to provide additional information that will help match you as a candidate for particular scholarships, including financial information, community involvement or disabilities.

Counselor Accounts. Counselors and certain student supporters ("Counselors") have the ability to create accounts on the Collegey website. If you create a Counselor account, we will collect your business contact information and it may be viewable by partners, students, colleges and universities that use Collegey website. You always have the ability to update your counselor information and can have your account removed by contacting us at team@collegey.com

Collection of Information from Children. Collegey website is intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under the age of 13. Collegey follows federal law and Federal Trade Commission guidelines regarding youth privacy and will not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are aware that a child under the age of 13 has created an account or provided us with personally identifiable information, please email us at team@collegey.com to have the account deleted.

Referrals. You may have received an invitation to register for the Collegey website because we received your information from a third party that believes you would benefit from using Collegey. Similarly, Collegey registrants can choose to let others know about Collegey through our referral feature by entering in a person's name, cell number and/or email address. If we received your cell number or email address through this channel, you may receive an invitation to register for Collegey website.

B. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

Cookies and Third-Party Ads. We use cookies and web server logs to collect information about how you use Collegey and to customize content and advertising that you may see on Collegey website. Information gathered through cookies and our web server logs may include the date and time of visits, your IP address, your device ID, the pages viewed, time spent at our Collegey Site, and the web sites visited just before and just after the Collegey Site. This information may be appended to your profile information to provide you with better service and information and may be shared with our partners, colleges, universities and other third parties as provided below. It also may be collected on an aggregate basis and shared with or collected by third-party advertisers to serve you with relevant advertisements on the Collegey website. If you would like more information about advertising-related data collection practices and to know your choices about not having this information used by these online advertising companies, see: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

Third Party Web Analytics Services. http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Collegey may also use third-party web analytics services on the Collegey website, such as those of Google Analytics. These service providers use cookies and web beacons to help us analyze how users use the Collegey Site. The information collected by the cookies and Web beacons (including your IP address) will be disclosed to these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Collegey Site and help Collegey understand usage patterns and related trends. For information about how Google uses the information, see Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.To learn about opting out of Google Analytics, you may visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

C. INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM THIRD PARTIES

We may from time-to-time collect information about you from other entities, such as social networks or other platforms you may have used. We may associate this information with your Collegey profile, portfolio, and other personal information we have collected about you.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to provide you with products and services and to operate, maintain, and enhance the Collegey Site. For example:

To Provide Our Services. We use the information we collect and receive to provide you with the products, services, or information that you request; to provide you with information about the Collegey Site or required notices; to deliver marketing communications, promotional materials, or advertisements that may be of interest to you; and to customize your experience when using the Collegey Site, among other things.

To Improve Our Services. We use the information we collect and receive to improve the Collegey site, for example by better tailoring content to user needs and preferences, such as by giving you more relevant projects information or scholarships or advertisements; by generating and analyzing statistics about your use of the Collegey Site; and by developing new products and services.

To Communicate with You. We use the information we collect and receive to communicate with you about the Collegey Site and relevant services and offers, to respond to you when you contact us, and to let you know about our policies and terms or provide other notices required by law. You may opt-out of receiving these offers at any time through your Collegey account or via the unsubscribe link contained in the email message or by informing the Collegey team at team@collegey.com.

To Maintain and Operate the Collegey Site. We use the information we collect and receive to protect our rights, to detect, prevent, respond to, and alert our peer companies of fraud; intellectual property infringement; violations of industry standards and our policies and terms, such as our Terms of Use; violations of law; or other misuse of the Collegey Site.

We also may use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We use and share the information you supply to Collegey in the following ways:

Per your Intentional Interaction with Various Third Parties. We may share all categories of your personal information with our partners, colleges, universities, scholarship providers and other parties related to the impact projects, college admissions and financial aid process when you take certain steps to intentionally interact with these third parties. For example, Collegey will share your information with colleges and universities when you intentionally interact with a particular partner, college or university in various ways, including mentioning their names, adding the school to your list, “liking” a school or calculating your chances to get into a school. If you apply for a scholarship that is offered by a third party through the Collegey site in which case, Collegey would share your information with the third-party provider. Collegey may be compensated for inquiries that are generated as a result of this intentional interaction.

Advertisers and other Marketing Partners. In addition to sharing your information as a result of your intentional interaction with third parties, Collegey may from time-to-time share your information with advertisers and other marketing partners who are interested in marketing to your unique demographic in exchange for fees or other consideration. This could include partners, colleges, universities, scholarship providers and other parties related to the college admissions and financial aid process, parties who sell products and services that may be of interest to you or other data aggregators that use the data for a variety of purposes. These third parties may share your personal information with other marketers or data aggregators. If you do not want us to sell your information as described in this paragraph, we encourage you to opt out of these sales of your information by emailing us at team@collegey.com with a subject line: Unsubscribe All Data. Also, if you are a California resident under 16 years of age, we will not sell your information as described in this paragraph unless you opt-in at the time you create a Collegey account or at the time you choose to allow us to sell your information. Surveys and Contests. Collegey Site may invite you to participate in surveys, fairs, competitions, contests and other promotions relevant to your portfolio building and/or college search process. If you participate, your personally identifiable information may be shared with third party marketing partners to process entries and send you promotional material. Please consult the official rules of any contest or sweepstakes you enter on the Collegey Site or its social media platform as specific data collection, usage, and information sharing practices may vary by contest and sweepstakes. Survey information will be used to monitor or improve the Collegey Site, but we will not share individual responses to a survey without your consent.

Inviting Counselors, Parents and CBOs. You can choose to allow Counselors, Community-based Organizations ("CBOs"), Parents or other trusted advisors (collectively, “Advisors”) to access your Collegey account. If you use this feature, you will either select a registered counselor or CBO or provide the relevant Advisor’s name and e-mail address so that Collegey can invite them to register on the Collegey Site, which will allow the Advisors to view your account and monitor your progress. By inviting these Advisors to monitor your progress, you are granting permission to Collegey to share all information in your profile with them.

De-Identified Information. We may share anonymized information that is not reasonably capable of being associated with you or your household for any purpose.

Advertisers and other Marketing Partners. In addition to sharing your information as a result of your intentional interaction with third parties, Collegey may from time-to-time share your information with advertisers and other marketing partners who are interested in marketing to your unique demographic in exchange for fees or other consideration. This could include colleges, universities, scholarship providers and other parties related to the college admissions and financial aid process, parties who sell products and services that may be of interest to you or other data aggregators that use the data for a variety of purposes. These third parties may share your personal information with other marketers or data aggregators. If you do not want us to sell your information as described in this paragraph, we encourage you to opt out of these sales of your information by emailing at team@collegey.com with Unsubscribe All Data. Also, if you are a California resident under 16 years of age, we will not sell your information as described in this paragraph unless you opt-in at the time you create a Collegey account or at the time you choose to allow us to sell your information.

Third Party Vendors Collegey uses third party vendors to perform operational functions related to the Collegey Site. Some of these vendors may have access to your personally identifiable information, but only as necessary to provide services to Collegey.

Links to Other Sites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Collegey Site. While Collegey Site may link to other third-party web sites, information you may provide on a linked site once you leave the Collegey Site is not controlled by Collegey and is not controlled by this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policy of any linked sites before providing your information to those sites.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures. Collegey will release your personal information if required by any law, for example, if we receive a subpoena or otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires us to release your information.

Sale or Merger. If Collegey sells any part of its business, Collegey may transfer your information to its successor, regardless of your opt-out status.

4. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Modifying Privacy Choices and Opt-outs. You may deactivate your account or opt-out of receiving certain types of communications. If you deactivate your account, we will retain your information in our active database, but will not use it to contact you or share with colleges or other third parties. Collegey will communicate with you only according to your listed preferences. In order to opt-out of third-party communications, you will need to contact the applicable third party. If you have any questions relating to opting-out, please contact us at team@collegey.com and we will do our best to answer your questions.

Updating Your Information. You can update your personal information by logging in your Collegey profile. Contact us at team@collegey.com if you have any problems updating your information.

Right to Access Your Information. You have the right to request the following from Collegey with respect to personal information collected about you:

categories and/or specific pieces of personal information collected,

categories of sources from which the personal information is collected,

purpose for which your personal information has been collected or sold,

categories of third parties with whom Collegey shares your information;

categories of your personal information Collegey has sold;

the categories of third parties to whom Collegey has sold your personal information; and

the categories of personal information Collegey has shared for business purposes.

You may submit such a request to Collegey no more than twice in any 12 month period by submitting a request to Prior to fulfilling your request, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity.

Right to Have Your Information Deleted. You may request that we delete all of your information by sending a request to team@collegey.comand using the subject line Delete My Account. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to fulfilling your request. Once confirmed, your account will be closed and we will discard your personally identifiable data, but we may retain certain data for internal business purposes as permitted by applicable law.

Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information. You have the right to opt-out of Collegey’s sale of your personal information to third parties. Email team@collegey.comto submit a request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Please note, however, that for purposes of this opt-out right, a “sale” does not include circumstances where Collegey may share your personal information with third parties (even where Collegey may receive payment for such sharing) where you use Collegey to intentionally interact with third parties via one or more deliberate interactions as otherwise described further in section 3 of this Privacy Policy. For example, as described above, you may use Collegey to interact with colleges, universities and other partners that are involved in the portfolio building endeavors or college discovery and admissions process and when you do so, Collegey may still share your information with those parties even where you have submitted an opt-out request. As noted above, if you are a California resident under the age of 16, Collegey will not sell your information unless you opt-in at the time you create a Collegey account or at the time you choose to allow us to sell your information.

Do Not Track ("DNT") Signals. Web browsers offer you an option to send "Do Not Track" signals to web sites you visit. Collegey Site may use third-party ad servers, retargeting services and web analytics systems, such as Google, to provide advertising on our sites, analyze aggregate web usage statistics and provide us the ability to display advertisements to you when you have left our site. Collegey does not currently support or respond to DNT Signals as it does not track you when you leave the Collegey site.

5. USE OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES

Collegey Site is operated in the United States and India. If you are located outside of the United States or India, any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States and India. By using the Collegey Site or by providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

6. OUR DATA SECURITY PROCEDURES

Collegey has reasonable security measures in place to keep the information you provide to us safe from unauthorized access. However, no method of information transfer over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information during its transmission or storage in our systems. We will assume that anyone who has the required login/password information for your account is you, so please keep this information confidential. Vendors and contractors who perform operational services for Collegey Site and have access to your personally identifiable information are required to keep the information confidential.

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

7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY / QUESTIONS

Changes to the Privacy Policy. Collegey may update this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to users other than posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. After posting such amended Privacy Policy, all information provided to us will be subject to the terms of the amended Privacy Policy. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes.

Questions? Your privacy is important to Collegey. If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at team@collegey.com

Alternatively, you may contact us at:

Chief Privacy Officer

Collegey

1525 S Sunset Drive

Tacoma, WA 98465