Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
(Effective February 2014)
Three-W U.S. Incorporated d/b/a Three-W International and its
affiliate companies (collectively, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects
your privacy and is committed to protecting personally identifiable
information you may provide us through our website
www.gostudyus.com and any derivate or affiliated website
(collectively, the “Website”). We have adopted this Privacy Policy
to explain what information may be collected in connection with our
Website, how we use this information and under what circumstances we
may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy
applies only to information we collect through our Website or
through other means and devices described below and does not apply
to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Use posted on our
Website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your
use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our
Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and
conditions.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Our Website typically collects two kinds of information about you:
(a) information that you provide that personally identifies you; and
(b) information that does not personally identify you that we
automatically collect when you visit our Website or that you provide
us.
(1) Personally Identifiable Information: Our definition of
“personally identifiable information” includes any information that
may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your
name, age, mail address, e-mail address, phone number, payment
information, if applicable, etc. As a general policy, we do not
automatically collect your personally identifiable information when
you visit our Website.
In certain circumstances, we may request, allow or otherwise provide
you an opportunity to submit your personally identifiable
information in connection with a feature, program, promotion or some
other aspect of our Website. For instance, you may: (a) provide your
name, address, email address or telephone number when registering
with our Website, or in connection with a service or contest entry;
(b) provide certain demographic information about yourself (e.g.,
age, gender, location, usage frequency, etc.) when participating in
a survey, poll or joining a club; or (c) post a general comment
and/or recommendation on our Website. Certain information may not be
personally identifiable when standing alone (e.g., your age), but
may become so when combined with other information (e.g., your age
and name). Whether or not you provide this information is your
choice; however, in many instances this type of information is
required to participate in the particular activity, realize a
benefit we may offer, or gain access to certain content on our
Website.
(2) Non-Personal Information: Our definition of “non-personal
information” is any information that does not personally identify
you. Non-personal information can include certain personally
identifiable information that has been de-identified; that is,
information that has been rendered anonymous. We obtain non-personal
information about you from information that you provide us, either
separately or together with your personally identifiable
information. We also automatically collect certain non-personal
information from you when you access our Website. This information
can include, among other things, IP addresses, the type of browser
you are using, the third party website from which your visit
originated, the operating system you are using, the name of your
Internet service provider, the search terms you use on our Website,
the specific web pages you visit, and the duration of your visits.
B. HOW WE USE & SHARE THE
INFORMATION COLLECTED
(1) Personally Identifiable Information: The personally identifiable
information you submit to us is generally used to respond to your
inquiries, to better serve you, or in other ways naturally
associated with the circumstances in which you provided the
information. We may also use this information to later contact you
for a variety of reasons, such as participating in a service,
customer service, providing you promotional information for our
services or products, to communicate with you about special offers,
new Website features or other information you have posted or shared
with us via our Website. We may share your personally identifiable
information with third parties such as our co-promotional partners
and others with whom we have marketing or other relationships. We
may also share your information with our business partners who
assist us by performing core services related to the operation of
our Website and/or by making certain Website functionality available
to our users. Those business partners will only use your information
to carry out their specific business obligations to us. Except as
provided in this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, or as set forth
when you submit the information, your personally identifiable
information will not be shared or sold to any third parties without
your prior approval. You may opt-out from receiving future
promotional information from us as set forth below. Whether or not
you opt-out is your choice; however, in many instances this type of
information is required to participate in the particular activity,
realize a benefit we may offer, or gain access to certain content on
our Website.
(2) Non-Personal Information: We use non-personal information in a
variety of ways, including to help analyze site traffic, understand
customer needs and trends, carry out targeted promotional
activities, and improve our services. We may use your non-personal
information by itself or aggregate it with information we have
obtained from others. We may share your non-personal information
with our business affiliates and third parties to achieve these
objectives and others, but remember that such information is
anonymous and does not personally identify you.
PROTECTING CHILDREN
We take special care to protect the safety of children in accordance
to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. While our
Website is a general audience site, it is not intended or directed
to anyone under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of
age online. If you are under the age of 13, you should use this Web
site only with the involvement of a parent or guardian and should
not submit any personal information to us.
SECURING YOUR INFORMATION
We have implemented security measures to protect against the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control,
including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt the
transmission of nonpublic personally identifiable financial and
transaction information over the Internet. We also utilize
additional security devices such as firewalls, security patches, and
anti-virus programs, to protect nonpublic personally identifiable
information. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to
protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you
disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the
theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally
identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your
“personally identifiable information” (as the term or similar terms
are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security
breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and
absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us
in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances;
provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take
necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore
reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate
needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal
investigation. From time to time we evaluate new technology for
protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our
information security systems.
At the same time, no data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to
protect your personal information to the best of our ability, we
cannot guarantee or warrant the security of information you transmit
to our websites.
OTHER USES & INFORMATION
(1) IP Addresses: An IP address is a number that is automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Internet. Web
servers (computers that “serve up” web pages) automatically identify
your computer by its IP address. When visitors request pages from
our Website, our servers typically log their IP addresses. We
collect IP addresses for purposes of system administration, to
report non-personal aggregate information to others, and to track
the use of our Website. IP addresses are considered non-personal
information and may also be shared as provided in this Privacy
Policy. It is not our practice to link IP addresses to anything
personally identifiable; that is, the visitor’s session will be
logged, but the visitor remains anonymous to us.
(2) Cookies, etc.: “Cookies” are small text files from a website
that are stored on your hard drive. These text files make using our
Website more convenient by, among other things, saving your
passwords and preferences for you. Cookies themselves do not
typically contain any personally identifiable information. We may
analyze the information derived from these cookies and other
technological tools we employ (such as clear gifs/web beacons) and
match this information with data provided by you or another party.
We may provide our analysis and certain non-personal information to
third parties (who may in turn use this information to provide
advertisements tailored to your interests), but this will not
involve disclosing any of your personally identifiable information.
Please note that advertisers that serve advertisements on our
Website and third-party content providers that serve content on our
Website may also use their own Cookies and other technological tools
which are subject to the advertisers’ or third-party content
providers’ privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy.
If you are concerned about the storage and use of Cookies, you may
be able to direct your internet browser to notify you and seek
approval whenever a Cookie is being sent to your hard drive. You may
also delete a Cookie manually from your hard drive through your
internet browser or other programs. Please note, however, that some
parts of our Website will not function properly or be available to
you if you refuse to accept a Cookie or choose to disable the
acceptance of Cookies.
(3) Email Communications: If you send us an email with questions or
comments, we may use your personally identifiable information to
respond to your questions or comments, and we may save your
questions or comments for future reference. For security reasons we
do not recommend that you send non-public personal information such
as passwords, social security numbers, or bank account information
to us by email. However, aside from our reply to such an email, it
is not our standard practice to send you emails unless you request a
particular service or sign up for a feature that involves email
communications, it relates to purchases you have made with us (e.g.,
service or product updates, customer support, etc.), we are sending
you information about our other products and services, or you
consented to being contacted by email for a particular purpose. In
certain instances, we may provide you with the option to set your
preferences for receiving email communications from us; that is, you
can agree to receive some communications but not others. You may
“opt out” of receiving future commercial email communications from
us by following the instructions at the bottom of most emails we
send, or as provided below; provided, however, we reserve the right
to send you transactional emails such as customer service
communications.
(4) Transfer of Assets: We may share your information with our
affiliated companies, in which case we will require them to honor
this policy. As we continue to develop our business, we may sell or
purchase assets. In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation,
change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganization,
or liquidation, we may transfer, sell, or assign to third parties
information concerning your relationship with us, including, without
limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and
other information concerning your relationship with us.
(5) Other: Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, we
reserve the right to use IP addresses to identify a visitor or
disclose any personally identifiable or non-personal information
about you if we believe that such action is necessary to: (a)
fulfill a government request; (b) conform with the requirements of
the law or legal process; (c) protect or defend our legal rights or
property, our Website, or other users; (d) respond to claims that
any posting or other content violates the rights of third parties;
(e) in an emergency, protect the health and safety of our Website’s
users or the general public; or (f) enforce compliance with our
Website rules.
(6) Your California Privacy Rights: Residents of the State of
California have the right to request from certain business with whom
the California resident has an established business relationship a
list of all third parties to which the business, during the
immediately preceding calendar year, has disclosed certain
personally identifiable information for direct marketing purposes.
We are only required to respond to a customer request once during
any calendar year. To obtain this information you should send a
request to our contact e-mail below with the subject heading
“California Privacy Rights.” In your request, please attest to the
fact that you are a California resident and provide a current
California address for our response. Please be aware that not all
information sharing is covered by the California Privacy Rights
Requirements and only information on covered sharing will be
included in our response.
OTHER SITES/LINKS
Our Website may link to or contain links to other third party
websites that we do not control or maintain, such as in connection
with purchasing products referenced on our Website and banner
advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices
employed by any third party website. We encourage you to note when
you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of all
third party websites before submitting any personally identifiable
information.
U.S. LAW
We are based, and this Website is hosted, in the United States of
America. If you are from Asia, the European Union or other regions
of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may
differ from U.S. law and you are visiting, accessing or otherwise
using the Website, please note that any personally identifiable
information that you provide to us will be transferred to the United
States. Any such personally identifiable information provided will
be processed and stored in the United States by us or a service
provider acting on our behalf. By providing personally identifiable
information to us, you hereby specifically and expressly consent to
such transfer and processing and the uses and disclosures set forth
herein.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
We generally keep this Privacy Policy posted on our Website and you
should review it frequently, as it may change from time to time
without notice. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the
posting of the revised Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to
monitor and review any updates to this Privacy Policy. Your
continued use of this Website, or online services provided by us,
after such posting, will be deemed your acceptance of these changes
to our Privacy Policy. WHEN YOU ACCESS OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO
THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR
TO ANY CHANGES WE MAY SUBSEQUENTLY MAKE, IMMEDIATELY STOP ACCESSING
OUR WEBSITE.
CONTACT AND OPT-OUT INFORMATION
You may contact us as at [provide contact e-mail ] if you: (a) have
questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) wish to make
corrections to any personally identifiable information you have
provided; (c) want to opt-out from receiving future commercial
correspondence, including emails from us; or (d) wish to withdraw
your consent to sharing your personally identifiable information
with others.
We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate,
make the requested change in our active databases as soon as
reasonably practicable. Please note that we may not be able to
fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain
benefits and features of our Website.
SOLE STATEMENT
This Privacy Policy as posted on this Website is the sole statement
of our Privacy Policy with respect to this Website, and no summary,
modification, restatement or other version thereof, or other privacy
statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or
revised policy to the Website.
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