COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

1. When You Register

During the process of registering on the Site (or co-registering for our services on one of our affiliate’s or marketing partner’s websites), you may be required to provide certain personal information, such as your name, maiden name (if applicable), mailing address, e-mail address, password, and a community affiliation (such as with a school, college, workplace or military assignment). Please keep in mind that, although most of your personal information will not be viewable by other members, once you are registered, your name, community affiliations and years attended will be displayed on the Site and you will no longer be anonymous to us or to other individuals who access the Site. In addition, because this information is publicly displayed on the Site, it may appear in the results of searches conducted on Internet search engines while you are a member of the Site and potentially for some time period after your membership is terminated, depending upon the search engine’s indexing practices. We may also publicly display your general geographic location, based upon the zip code that you provide to us, as another means of assisting members in finding each other. However, you have the option of opting out of having your general geographic location publicly displayed by accessing your "My Profile " page on the Site and changing your preferences.

2. When You "Surf" the Site

Log Files

Like most standard website servers, we use and maintain the information that we obtain from your browser on our server logs. This information can include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider ("ISP"), and other data. We may use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may associate this information with your Personal Information to resolve technical issues and support security for our users.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored in a browser-related file on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and are read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We link cookies to your unique registration number and use them to enhance and personalize your experience on the Site, including helping authenticate you when you use the Site, remembering your preferences and registration information, and customizing the content provided to you on the Site. For example, storing a cookie on your computer allows you to login without typing the registered e-mail address or member ID number and password. We also use cookies to deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests. If you do not want these cookies stored on your computer you can reject cookies by modifying your browser setting accordingly (each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences). However, if you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to access services that we offer that require you to "login" or "sign in". Please also note that certain types of emails available through the Site may automatically log you into the Site and/or set new cookies when you click on the links in the emails and that you may need to manually remove such cookies if you do not want them to be set on your computer. See section titled "Third Party Ad Servers" below for additional information about cookies.


3. When You Use the Message Center

We have developed a Message Center that uses a "double-blind" e-mail system, which hides the email addresses to protect the privacy of both the sender and receiver. When using the Message Center, it is up to you to choose when you are comfortable disclosing your e-mail address, or any other contact information, to others. My School Reunited respects the privacy of member communications sent through the Message Center and does not read or disclose those communications unless we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of My School Reunited Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law enforcement.

4. When You Use Message Boards and Group Photo Albums

Information submitted to message boards and group photo albums is displayed and can be viewed by all members, so please exercise care in deciding what information you wish to disclose. Information posted in private groups is viewable by only those who are invited to participate by the owner of the group. Please note however that, although private, these communications and postings are subject to the same disclosures as stated above in "When You Use the Message Center". To protect the privacy of our members, My School Reunited does not allow the public posting of personal contact information. We have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor any activity and content associated with the public and private forums and interactive areas on the Site.

5. When You Use The Referral Services

If you elect to use any of our referral services for informing a friend about our Site or any portion thereof, you will be asked to provide your friend's name and e-mail address. We will then automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail (usually including your name and email address) inviting them to visit the Site. We ask for this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the success of our referral program.

6. When You Build a Personal Profile

My School Reunited has created tools to enable our members to not only see what their old friends have been up to, but also find new friends with common interests. You can use these tools to build a personal profile to share as much information about yourself as you wish.  Except as otherwise noted when you use a specific profile tool, all information that you add to your profile is publicly viewable by other members of the Site and may be included in the Site "search" tool. For this reason, please use care in providing information that you may not want to publicly disclose. To protect the privacy of our members, My School Reunited does not allow the public posting of personal contact information.

7. When You View Other Members’ Profiles

My School Reunited gives you the ability to find other members by browsing the class lists or using the search functionality on the Site. When you find other members, you can view their personal profiles to find out more about them based on the information they have decided to share on the Site. Every time that you visit another member’s profile, your name and the date of your visit may be viewable by that member as someone who visited that member’s profile unless you opt out of having your name automatically left on other members’ profiles, which you can do by accessing your "My Profile " page on the Site and changing your preferences. If you opt out of automatically having your name left on other members’ profiles, you will still have the ability to leave your name on specific members’ profiles on an individual basis.

8. When You or Third Parties Contact Us

If you contact My School Reunited by phone, email or letter, we may keep a record of such correspondence. Thus, if you report an issue with the Site, we may collect such information in a file specific to you.  Moreover, if you contact us through our feedback area, we require your name and email address in order to send you a reply. Additionally, if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may keep the information in a file specific to you.

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

1. Confidentiality

My School Reunited only shares Your Information with others when we have your permission or under the types of circumstances described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we limit access to Your Information to only those employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to services to you or to do their jobs.

2. Third Party Advertising

The advertisements that appear on the Site are generally delivered through Google Inc. are are designed to reveal the most relevant and useful ads based on the content provided on that page. The display of the Google, Inc. ads is voluntary and does help offset the costs of maintaining each site. The Google, Inc. ad function can be turned off entirely by the School using their School Key.

3. Legal Matters; Protection of Rights, Property and Interests; Safety

We may, without your consent, access and disclose Your Information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about you or your account: as may be permitted or required by law, regulation, rule or court order; pursuant to requests from governmental, regulatory or administrative agencies or law enforcement authorities; or to prevent, investigate, identify persons or organizations potentially involved in, or take any action regarding suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Service, or activity that appears to us to be illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Additionally, we may disclose Your Information in situations that we believe to be emergencies involving potential threats to the physical safety or any person or property if we believe that Your Information in any way relates to that threat.

CHANGING, CORRECTING OR REMOVING YOUR INFORMATION

My School Reunited provides you with ways in which you can update Your Information. To make changes to your information, please login to the Site where you registered and go to your "My Profile " area. Here you may change such information as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, password and email preferences information.

If you wish to have your membership removed from the Site for any reason return to the site you registered at and use the Contact Us form there to make your request. Most removal requests are addressed within a few hours for actively monitored sites.

THE SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We have instituted physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to store and maintain Your Information in a secure environment You may also be required to use a password to access certain pages on the Site where certain types of Your Information can be changed or deleted. It is therefore important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password, emails which we may send you and to your computer. You take full responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. Furthermore, while we have implemented safeguards, you should be aware that Internet security technology rapidly changes. We cannot guarantee that the safeguards we employ today can protect Your Information from the threats of tomorrow. You should also be aware that despite our efforts, factors beyond our control may result in disclosure of Your Information. Accordingly, we are not in a position to guarantee that Your Information will be secure under all circumstances.

A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE PRIVACY OF MINORS

In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and fair information practices, we will not knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to become members.  If we later learn that a child under the age of 13 is a member, then that child’s membership will be terminated. We collect, use and disclose information about minors aged 13 to 17 in the same manner as we do for adults.  My School Reunited believes that it is especially important to protect children’s privacy online and encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to participate and monitor their Internet activity.  If you are under 13, we require that you get your parent’s permission before disclosing any information about yourself to anyone on the Site. We do not filter advertisements or other content that children may receive, such that they could receive content and materials that are inappropriate for children. 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

My School Reunited may update this policy from time to time as our information practices are modified or changed. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email (sent to the primary e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the Site for a period of not less than thirty (30) days prior to the change. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.