Privacy Policy
What is Assessment Center
The Princeton Review takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy applies
to all of our customers, whether you buy our services or products online or
offline. It also applies to visitors to our free websites.
The Princeton Review takes strong measures to protect your privacy. First, we
only ask you to provide information that we need in order to deliver the
service you have requested. Second, we don't share the information you have
given us without your permission to do so.
Overall
Services that Require Personal
Information
We will request personally identifiable information from you when you purchase
some of our products, including online and offline courses, and when using some
of our Web-based services. We will request information that we need in order
for you to participate in the service (things like your name and address, for
example) or pay for the service (credit card information, for example).
The Princeton Review offers several opportunities to receive products or
information on- and off-line, either directly from us or from our partners. You
indicate your wish to receive this information by checking a box on a form;
unless you ask for it, nothing will be sent to you and nothing will be shared
with third parties.
To fulfill these requests we often need more information from you than when you
only purchase a product or service from us. Records of these transactions will
be kept for customer service purposes only. The additional information we ask for
will vary depending on what it is you're requesting, but generally includes
your mailing address, year of graduation, and, in the case of requests passed
on to colleges, information that you choose to provide regarding your academic
and extracurricular activities and interests. This information, which does NOT
include personally identifiable information, is then passed on to the third
party to fulfill your request; they may have their own privacy policies that
differ from ours.
We will not share your personally identifiable information with any third
party, unless we need to in order to provide you the service you have purchased
or you give us permission to share.
We may track data on our customers in aggregate form. Such aggregated data does
not uniquely identify you. We may share this aggregated data with others.
Schools
We work with schools and institutions to provide programs such as test
preparation and college counseling. Your school, district, or state may arrange
for you to participate in these programs and may purchase products on your
behalf. We may share personally identifiable information that you provide to us
through your participation in these school programs with your school, district,
state department of education, and your parents.
COPPA Compliance
The Princeton Review is in complete accordance with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Except for K-12 students who participate in our
Assessment Center or ECOS product, we do not accept personally identifiable
information online from children under the age of 13. (For more information on Assessment Center or ECOS, please see below.) If we become aware that our records contain
such information, we will delete it.
Marketing Lists
From time to time, we obtain lists of people who may be interested in our
products and services from third-party marketing list suppliers. We use these
lists to send direct marketing promotions by mail or by email. We do our best
to only obtain these lists from suppliers who have opt-in policies for
third-party marketing, but we are not responsible for the conduct and policies
of these suppliers. Please note that even if you are a registered customer of
ours and have asked us not to use the information you provided to us to send
you promotional material, a third-party marketing list supplier could still
provide us with your name and address, in which case you will receive the
promotional material sent by us to others on the supplier's list. If you have
received a promotion from us and do not wish to receive future promotions,
please contact us at: privacy@review.com.
Live Courses
Subscriptions Many of our course students are given supplemental
materials to help them prepare for their test. For example, if you become a
student of The Princeton Review, we may provide you with magazine and/or
newspaper subscriptions,* at no additional charge, as an additional benefit. If
you would rather not receive supplemental materials, you will need to contact
us and ask us to remove your name from our supplemental materials lists.
Offline course students should contact your local office. Online students should
email support.online@mail.review.com
or call 888.755.7737.
For classes sold directly to students or their parents:
TIME: All SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT and MCAT classroom, tutoring and online
course students for six months (students in school-based courses are not
eligible for this offer)
The Wall Street Journal: All GMAT, GRE, MCAT and LSAT classroom, tutoring and
online course students for one year
BusinessWeek: All GMAT course and tutoring students for one year
On the Internet
Anonymous Areas
Some areas of our websites are accessible without registration of any kind.
This is true of many of the basic content areas. Other areas require
registration.
Services that Require Registration Some of our most useful services are
personalized: different visitors get different results based on information
they provide. Examples include but are not limited to Assessment Center, Advanced School Search, Online Tests, Online Course Demos, School Match, the Tuition
Cost Calculator, and any surveys or contests in which you may choose to
participate. Registration for these services is required to facilitate
customization of your individual results.
In addition to providing personalized results, registration is important for
sending you specific information related to your service, and for allowing you
to access stored information, and in the event that you opt-in, provide third
party access to you.
How are cookies used?
We also use a software technology called "cookies" to create a
personalized Web experience. Cookies cannot be used to find your name, e-mail
address, or anything that is uniquely identifying about you unless you provide
that information. We use cookies for those applications to which we referred
earlier that require us to keep track of information to customize results. If
you don't have your browser set to accept cookies, certain areas of PrincetonReview.com,
ECOS, and Assessment Center.com will not function. We also allow you to choose
to use a cookie to save your username and password so that you do not have to
log in to the website each time you visit. We do not recommend this in multi-user
environments such as school computer labs.
Partner Privacy Policies
When you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to third-party
websites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we
support the protection of privacy on the Internet, The Princeton Review cannot
be responsible for the actions of third parties. We encourage you to read the
posted privacy statement whenever interacting with any website you visit. Assessment
Center.com and ECOS do not display third party banner ads on the site, although
there may be resource links to third party content.
Passive Collection of Data
Like most sites, we maintain logs of site usage in order to evaluate our
visitors' interest level in areas of the website, which and how many pages they
look at, how long they stay on the site, and what Web browsers are used. This
data is tracked in aggregate form, not at an individual user level, and is not
uniquely identifying. The aggregate level data may be shared with 3rd parties
and the public.
Cautions
Please note, if you do not logout once registered for services that require
registration, your personal information could be viewed by other users with
access to your computer.
Please note, if you choose to participate in our online discussion forums, your
posts will be publicly accessible, as will the username and e-mail address you
use.
Specific Privacy Issues for PrincetonReview.com
Registration:
When registering on PrincetonReview.com you will need to provide an email
address and password. You need to choose a secret password to keep the personal
information you entered on PrincetonReview.com private. In addition, we request
your mailing address for certain services so that we can send you the
information you request via mail, or in the event you opt-in, provide third
party access to you.
If a user elects to use our system to inform a friend or parent/guardian about
our site, particularly the Word Du Jour feature or Lender's Center, we ask them
for the friend's name and email address. The Princeton Review will
automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site.
The Princeton Review stores this information for the sole purpose of sending
this one-time email. The friend may contact The Princeton Review at webmaster@review.com to request the
removal of this information from our database.
Changing Personal Information:
You may unsubscribe to Word du Jour simply by going to the WDJ subscription
page and updating your subscription (if you are not logged in, you will be
prompted to log in first).
If you want to change any of the personal information that you completed when
you registered or opt-out of any of the opt-ins that you selected, sign-in to
your personal My Review and click "Account Profile".
Online Requests for Products, Services, and Information
We provide information in aggregate about users to schools and lenders:
Internally, we track users who have taken the above actions on the
PrincetonReview.com website. If you have opted in to be contacted by a 3rd
party, then the actions above could be used by us to direct targeted e-mail to
you. Our colleges, universities and lenders use a Princeton Review internal
e-mailing system to send information that may be of interest to you, only if
you have opted in. These 3rd parties do not receive personally identifiable
information, like your name or email address. However, if you respond to an
e-mail from a college, university or lender, then your response will provide
them with personal information about you. To opt-out of any online service on
PrincetonReview.com, simply sign-in to your personal My Review and click
"Account Profile" and opt-out of any service you wish.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
Doubleclick, the company that serves our banner advertisements for
PrincetonReview.com, uses a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web
Beacons/Web Bugs) that helps inform them about what content is active. Clear
gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies,
and are used to track the online movements of Web user. Clear gifs are
invisible on the page and very small, about the size of the period at the end
of this sentence.
Clear Gifs can "work with" existing cookies on a computer if they are
both from the same website or advertising company. That means, for example,
that if a person visited "www.companyX.com", which uses an
advertising company's clear gif, the website would read the clear gif's
identifier and the advertising company's cookie ID number, to show the past
online behavior for that computer. The information would then go back to the
advertising company. To learn more about Doubleclick's use of clear gifs,
please go to: www.doubleclick.com.
In addition, we use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails, to let us know which
emails the recipients have opened. This allows us to know how well customers
respond to certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing
campaigns. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, simply sign-in to your
personal My Review and click "Account Profile" and opt-out of any
service you wish.
Privacy Issues for asc.princetonreview.com
We know that privacy is very important to you, especially where your children
are concerned and we want you to know that we put children's privacy first. We
make you three promises:
Complete Compliance with COPPA:
Assessment Center is in complete accordance with the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998. For Assessment Center, we work with all of our
clients to ensure that COPPA rules are being followed in conjunction with the creation
of student accounts. A printable consent form is built into Assessment Center to help teachers secure parental consent when applicable. Parents will always
have access to all personal information we have about their children, including
all their child's work at the site.
Parent Access to Assessment Center
Assessment Center is designed to be a student-appropriate and
kid-friendly site. Our site is highly interactive and designed to provide a
different experience for every user. In order to make this possible, we collect
the information and provide the services listed below.
Students register by giving us their full name and gender, and they have the
option of giving us their e-mail address. They then pick a password. This
information is then combined with the identifying information we have received
from their school and the student's teacher, grade, and subject matter. This
information is only available to the student, the student's school, the parent,
and us. We use this information to provide a personalized interactive
environment for each student and to give the teachers and school, district or
state administrators the information necessary to track each student's progress
and make effective use of Assessment Center.
Each student has a unique user name, which is the student's screen name and the
Students are publicly identified at the site only by their user name.
As a service to its users, Assessment Center provides Assessment Center e-mail services within our closed environment. Each of our users-students, parents,
administrators, and teachers is given ability in their Assessment Center account to communicate with another Assessment Center user. As with all e-mail accounts,
children may disclose personal information about themselves to their Assessment Center e-mail correspondents. All users should practice safe computing, and
parents should advise their children not to give out any personal information
without parental consent. Schools and districts have the ability to disable the
Assessment Center email system.
Parents have their own Assessment Center user accounts. Registration is similar
to that for students, with parents providing their names, address, gender, and
e-mail. Through these accounts they can view and update information about their
children, and send and receive e-mail.
Parents are welcome to review their children's personal information. They can
also change or delete their children's optional personal information.
NOTE: Assessment Center.com reserves the right to terminate service for a
student if a parent wishes to delete information that is necessary to our
operations, such as First Name, Last Name, Grade, and Gender.
We do not condition a child's participation in an activity on the child's
disclosure of more personal information than is reasonably necessary to
participate in that activity.
Sharing of Information:
The privacy of individual user data for school administrators, teachers,
parents, and students is always respected and protected. We will never
disclose, sell, or rent personal information that identifies any of our Assessment Center users without specific authorization to do so. Only the student, the
teacher, the school administration, and the parent(s) have access to this
information. Each school has agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this
information. The Princeton Review retains the right to release aggregate
performance information provided this information is not personally
identifiable by district, school or individual students and teachers.
Miscellaneous
Privacy Certifications
The Princeton Review is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. This license
applies to the privacy practices for The Princeton Review website (available
via www.review.com, www.embark.com, and www.PrincetonReview.com).
TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build
users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair
information practices. Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your
privacy, hawse have agreed to disclose our information practices and have our
privacy practices for the Princeton Review website reviewed for compliance by
TRUSTe. By displaying the TRUSTe trustmark, The Princeton Review website, we
have agreed to notify you of:
1. What personally identifiable information of yours or third-party personal identification is collected from you through the website
2. The organization collecting the information
3. How the information is used
4. With whom the information may be shared
5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of the information
6. The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under The Princeton Review's control
7. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
If you have
questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact privacy@review.com. If you do not receive
acknowledgment of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily
addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
The Princeton Review also participates in the Council of Better Business
Bureaus' BBBOnLine Privacy Program, and complies with all the BBBOnLine Privacy
standards. Further information about this program is available at www.bbbonline.org.
Notification of Changes
If we make any material changes in our privacy practices, we will post a
prominent notice on our websites notifying users of the change. In some cases
where we post a notice we will also email users, who have opted to receive
communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
In any case, if we are going to use your personally identifiable information in
a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify
you. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in
this different manner. However, if you have opted out of all communication with
The Princeton Review, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be
contacted, nor will your personal information be used in this new manner.
Other Online Privacy Resources
A number of organizations are very actively involved in educating Internet
users about privacy issues and are pushing for legislation to preserve your
online privacy rights. For more information about data privacy and cookies, you
should check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we cannot guaranty your
privacy. Further, we may need to disclose personal information when required by
law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply
with a judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us or a
law enforcement request.
Contact Us:
The Princeton Review
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New York, NY 10013
E-mail us at : privacy@princetonreview.com