Privacy Policy

thestudentpocketguide.com understands how important it is to maintain your privacy. That's why we put such a high importance on ensuring that your information is kept private. We DO NOT and WILL NOT rent, sell, trade or lend your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent.

Thestudentpocketguide.com is a social networking site that allows you to form personal and private networks to connect with people you know and their friends. Some personal information is collected to facilitate those connections. thestudentpocketguide.com believes you should be well-informed about our policies, so that you can make informed decisions about your personal information.

Thestudentpocketguide.com cares about your privacy. If you have any queries regarding this privacy policy, please let us know.

Information Gathering and Use by thestudentpocketguide.com

Thestudentpocketguide.com gathers submitted user information such as name, email address, and age to verify users and to send notifications to those users relating to the thestudentpocketguide.com service. Thestudentpocketguide.com also gathers other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation etc in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

Thestudentpocketguide.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information, such as IP address and browser type, from all members and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. Member IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

Member Profile information including members' photos and first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate interaction in the thestudentpocketguide.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for inviting new friends to join thestudentpocketguide.com, to add members to friends' networks, and to send messages related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and memos, a member's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a member's personal network. Members within a personal network communicate on thestudentpocketguide.com with each other through the thestudentpocketguide.com service, without disclosing their email addresses. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, thestudentpocketguide.com allows members to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where members may have attended or worked.

We may also use a member's email address to send updates, newsletters or news concerning the service.

From time to time, thestudentpocketguide.com or a partner may support a promotion, sweepstake or competition on thestudentpocketguide.com. Members may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Invitations and Other Correspondences to Non-members

Thestudentpocketguide.com members can invite friends to join the service by inviting them through emails via our programmed invitation system. Thestudentpocketguide.com accumulates the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend's list of the member inviting them, and also to send reminders of the invitations. Thestudentpocketguide.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations.

Use of Cookies

Thestudentpocketguide.com uses cookies to save visitors' preferences and to log session information, for purposes including guaranteeing that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies to thestudentpocketguide.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that thestudentpocketguide.com allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the thestudentpocketguide.com Privacy Policy.

Links

Thestudentpocketguide.com contains links to sites. Thestudentpocketguide.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only administers information collected on thestudentpocketguide.com

Chat Rooms, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classifieds and Public Forums

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to Message Boards, Classifieds or any other Public Forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

thestudentpocketguide.com users may amend or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile.

Third Party Advertising

Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by thestudentpocketguide.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by thestudentpocketguide.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security

Thestudentpocketguide.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Thestudentpocketguide.com takes preventive measures to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable procedures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we confine access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Illicit entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may jeopardise the security of member information at any time.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information thestudentpocketguide.com Collects

Except as described above, thestudentpocketguide.com will not provide third parties with personal information without a member's explicit permission unless required by law. Thestudentpocketguide.com reserves the right to move personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of thestudentpocketguide.com or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Amendments in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Amendments in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make amendments to our privacy policy. If we make amendments, we will post them on our site to make members aware of what the amendments are so members will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A Member is bound by any minor amendments to the policy when using the site after those amendments have been posted. If, however, we are going to use members' personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our Web site for 30 days.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any queries regarding this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us.