Privacy Policy

About Us

At Coins for College, accessible from coinsforcollege.org, we prioritize the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information collected and recorded by Coins for College and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website concerning the information they share and/or collect on Coins for College. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or through channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

We will make it clear why we need your personal information and for what purpose when we ask you to provide it.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you send us, and any other information you choose to provide.

When you register for an account, we may ask for your contact information, including your name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect to:

Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, updates, marketing, and promotional purposes.
Send you emails
Detect and prevent fraud

Log Files

Coins for College follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of their hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes IP addresses, browser type, ISP, date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like other websites, Coins for College uses 'cookies'. These cookies store information, such as visitors' preferences and the pages on the website accessed or visited. This information is used to optimize users' experiences by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Our Advertising Partners

Some advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners include Google. Each of our advertising partners has its own Privacy Policy for their user data policies. For easier access, we have provided links to their Privacy Policies below.

Google

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Coins for College.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Coins for College, sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content you see on websites you visit. Please note that Coins for College has no access to or control over these cookies used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Coins for College's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. We advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of third-party ad servers for more detailed information, including their practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your browser's options. For more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, please find it at the browsers' respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data collected about them.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that has been collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data not sell their personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You can request copies of your personal data. We may charge a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You can request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete any information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You can request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You can object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You can request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their children's online activity.

Coins for College does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe your child provided this kind of information on our website, we encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will make our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA“)

Coins for College strictly adheres to COPPA guidelines to protect children's privacy on its platform. COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.