QUINSTREET, INC.
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LAST UPDATED: August 15, 2017 |
This website is owned and operated by QuinStreet, Inc. or a QuinStreet, Inc. subsidiary, division or line of business (collectively, "QuinStreet"). For a list of QuinStreet, Inc. subsidiaries, divisions or lines of business (the "QuinStreet Businesses"), please see the section entitled "QuinStreet Businesses" below. We are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through this website owned and controlled by us which display or link to this Privacy Policy (the "Site"). By using our Sites, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. 1. PERSONAL INFORMATIONa. Personal Information We Collect. We collect personally identifiable information that can identify you as an individual ("Personal Information"), such as:
In some cases, we may collect information, such as your age, weight, gender, education level, health conditions, insurance type, and whether you're a non-smoker, combined with your Personal Information. We will treat all such information as Personal Information as long as it is combined with Personal Information. We may also collect, from you, personal information about your contacts, such as their email address in order to share an article or other content. When you provide us with personal information about your contacts, we will only use this information for the reason for which it is provided. If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your information, and you would like to request that your personal information be removed from our database, please contact us at [email protected] b. How We Collect Personal Information. We collect Personal Information directly from you when you interact with us on the Site, for example, when you register for the Site or fill in an Internet form on our Site. We may also collect Personal Information from third parties, such as a credit reporting agency or social media website (Facebook, LinkedIn or others). We may associate the Personal Information you provide through the Site with Personal Information collected from the third party sources. We will use the combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy as long as it is combined. QuinStreet may also allow you to register and log into the Site using a social media account, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+. When you use your social media account to register or log into the Site, you are asking that social media service to send us certain information from those social media accounts, and you are authorizing us to collect, store, and use what they send us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Social media registration features may collect basic account information such as name, age, photo and other details you choose to share according to your social media account settings. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. You can unlink your social media accounts or control what they share from their privacy controls. c. How We Use Personal Information. We may use Personal Information:
d. How Personal Information is Disclosed We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy. Your Personal Information may be disclosed:
2. AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATIONa. How We Automatically Collect Information. We and our third party service providers may automatically collectinformation from you, including your MAC address, your computer type, screen resolution, OS version, and Internet browser. We also aggregate Personal Information in a manner such that the end-product does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site, for example, by using Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code. We and our partners may also collect information through the use of cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, or other similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, or for example to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status or to measure the effectiveness of e-mail communications. We may link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our Site. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our website or service. To manage Flash cookies, please click here: https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html 3. IP ADDRESSESYour "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). a. How We Log IP Addresses. An IP Address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Site, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice on the Internet and is done automatically by many web sites. b. How We Use and Disclose IP Addresses? We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating Site usage levels, helping diagnose server problems, geographic mapping and administering the Site. We may also use and disclose IP Addresses for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information. 4. THIRD PARTY SITESThis Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third party websites that are linked to from this Site. The inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates. If you submit personal information to any of those third party sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any site you visit. We may also utilize framing techniques that may make it appear that you are still on the Site when you are actually on a third party web site. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to this Site.If this Site includes any mapping features, those mapping features are powered by Google Inc., the use of which is also governed by Google’s privacy policy located at https://www.google.com/privacy.html, as amended by Google from time to time. 5. THIRD PARTY VENDORSWe also work with vendors and partners in operating and improving the Site. These vendors and other partners include advertisers (including both banner and text advertising), retargeters and web analytics companies, including Google Analytics (we have enabled, among others, Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting). These partners and vendors use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your online activity (e.g., the sites and pages you have visited at the Site and at times other third party sites) in order to: help manage ad campaigns, understand user interests and trends and deliver personalized content and advertising to you while you are on the Site or on other sites. You can opt out of some of our vendors’ use of cookies and other technologies, some of which may be on this Site, to tailor personalized content or advertising to you by visiting https://google.com/settings/ads, https://networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp, https://assets.invitemedia.com/opt-out.html and https://www.clicktale.net/disable.html. Please note that if you delete all cookies, the opt-out cookie may be deleted and you will need to perform the opt out again. For more information, see https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/faqs.asp#question_11.Please note that opting out of targeted/ personalized advertising does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads. At this time we do not respond to browser do not track signals. 6. SECURITYWe use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, or if you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and personal health information) on our forms, we encrypt that information once it is entered. 7. CHOICES AND ACCESSa. Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information. We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:
We will seek to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related messages from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot opt-out from receiving administrative messages. b. How you can access, change or suppress your Personal Information Upon request, QuinStreet will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, delete or otherwise limit our use, on a going-forward basis, of your Personal Information that has been previously provided to us, you may do so by contacting us at [email protected] and provide the name of the service for which information was provided, your full name, mailing address, phone number and email address so that we may identify you in the opt-out process. For your protection, we will only implement such requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular e-mail address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. 8. RETENTION PERIODWe will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law or as necessary to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. If you wish to request that we no longer use your information, please follow the instructions above. 9. USE OF SITE BY MINORSQuinStreet does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13). The Site is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide Personal Information through the Site. If we are made aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 years old, we will delete this information as soon as possible. 10. OPERATION OF OUR SERVICESOur Services are operated in the United States. If you are located in the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using our Services or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer. 11. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTSCalifornia has passed legislation requiring certain specific disclosures be made available to California residents who use the Internet and provide information that may be used for marketing purposes. That legislation requires any business that discloses a customer's personal information (as defined by the act) to any third party for direct marketing purposes to provide the customer a method for obtaining the names, addresses and certain other specified details of anyone who might have received that personal information. If you are a California resident you may request this information by writing to us at the address below. QuinStreet, Inc. is not obligated to respond to more than one such request from you per calendar year. 12. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICYWe may change this Privacy Policy. Please take a look at the “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here in this policy, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site. Your use of the Site following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy. 13. CONTACTING USIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at [email protected], or please write to the following address: Privacy
14. QUINSTREET BUSINESSESFor purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" or "your" means the person(s) using the Site or the products or services offered through the Site. "QuinStreet", "us" or "we" means, but is not limited to the following entities or business lines: QuinStreet, Inc. QuinStreet Media, Inc. QuinStreet Insurance Agency, Inc. GuideToLenders |