HeyCampus.com Privacy Policy


Last Updated: May 20, 2011

About HeyCampus.com
HeyCampus.com is an online service exclusively for college students to interact with other students, make new friends, browse their profile, share news, send and receive messages and poke, sell or buy old/new stuff, find an apt or just a roommate, discuss topics in various forums, bookmark and come back to any page and lots more......

Information Collected by HeyCampus.com
When you visit HeyCampus, you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and website use information collected by us as you interact with our website.

When you register with HeyCampus, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your date of birth, your gender, your current college.

When you visit the site, HeyCampus logs non-personally-identifiable information such as IP address, browser type, etc. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website.

You can change the privacy settings to control who is allowed to view your personal details (including, email address, phone, activity feed, etc) in your profile page. Please also see the section “Posting Information for Public Viewing”.

When you visit any (personal or dating) profile, your username may be stored and viewable by the profile owner (whose profile you viewed).

HeyCampus may use member’s primary contact email address to send updates or news about the site.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
HeyCampus members can invite friends to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. HeyCampus.com do not store these email addresses.

Use of Cookies
HeyCampus.com uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information. HeyCampus do not link the information stored in cookies to any personally identifiable information (e.g. email, phone) you submit while on our site. Please note that you must enable cookies in order to (authenticate you and) use most functions on the site.

Links
HeyCampus.com might contain links to sites (in sections such as forums, item listings, etc). HeyCampus.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.

Posting Information for public viewing
Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information (phone, email, etc) in sections such as forums, items / apartment listings, etc, that information can be accessed by anyone (even if they are not logged in) and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information
HeyCampus.com users may update or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and clicking on "My Personal Profile". However if you had send communications (e.g. sent messages to others), you cannot remove them, unless the recipient(s) deletes them. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not generally be available to others, unless they have previously (already) saved a copy of that information in their disk storage.

Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by HeyCampus.com or one of our Web advertising partners. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies or a “1 x 1 gif images” which helps the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an ad. 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 privacy statement covers the use of cookies by HeyCampus.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security
HeyCampus.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. HeyCampus.com use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database and restrict access to member information only to people who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. You post user content on the site at your own risk. Please note that HeyCampus cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

In addition, HeyCampus cannot control the actions of other users with whom you may choose to share your information and hence cannot and do not guarantee that any content / details you post on the site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. You understand and acknowledge that copies of user content may remain viewable, even after removal, in cached and archived pages or if other sites or users have copied or stored your user content.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information that HeyCampus.com Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, HeyCampus will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by HeyCampus.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the HeyCampus.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the site.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site (on this page), so that the users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A user is bound by any minor changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please contact us at: [email protected]