Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand
how this site collects, uses and safeguards the personal information
you provide to the National Student Loan Alliance, Inc. (NSLA).
No Use of Our Site by Persons Under 13
No person under 13 should disclose information on this site. You
can learn more about children's privacy online by visiting www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy.
NSLA very much hopes none of you started incurring student loan
debt at the tender age of 13.
Information We Collect and How We Use it
When you visit this site, you may be providing NSLA with two types
of information: personal information that you actively choose to
disclose ("Active Information") and information that we
collect -- in a way not visible to you -- on an aggregate, anonymous
basis, while you and others are browsing our site ("Passive
Information").
Active Information You Disclose
If you actively disclose information by contacting NSLA via email,
snailmail, or the telephone, NSLA may retain this information and
use it to contact you in return. Basically, if you tell us something
directly, we're allowed to remember and use it.
Passive Information Collected
Our site does not currently use the standard technology called "cookies"
to collect information about how this site is used. But it might
in the future.
Passive Information gathered can include the date and time of visits,
the site pages viewed, time spent at this site, and the sites you
visited just before and just after our site. Passive Information
is collected on an aggregate basis, that is, without any connection
to your personal information. The result is that you remain anonymous.
If you did not want to transmit "cookie" information about
yourself, you could turn off the cookie function in your web browser.
We would use Passive Information to gather information about NSLA
website users so that we could enhance and design this site to make
it more user-friendly. Cookies would help NSLA find out how many
people visit our site, when, and how they use it. We would do not
connect any of this information to your other personal information.
NSLA Does Not Sell Your Information
At this time, NSLA does not sell, rent, or give to any third party
organizations the contact information you provide us. NSLA does
not intend to do so in the future, either. We do not now sell --
and we do not plan to sell -- your name to the junk mail companies
and other organizations. If we ever change our minds, we will provide
you a way to opt out. Either way, please be nice and do not spam
or hack us.
What is a Cookie?
If we were collecting Passive Information, we'd do it using cookies.
Cookies are a feature of web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape
Navigator, etc.) software; they let web servers to recognize the
computer used to access a website. Cookies are small pieces of data
that the user's web browser stores on a site, in order to simplify
later interactions with the site by the same user. Cookies can also
be used to streamline the user's interaction with certain web pages.
This makes it easier for the user to move from site to site and
perform certain tasks on the Internet, especially buying things.
Sharing Information with the Government and As Required by Law
Under some circumstances, a provision of law, a court, or a government
agency can make NSLA disclose both the Active and Passive Information
you have provided to us. There comes a point when we have to tell
Uncle Sam what he wants to know.
How Do We Secure Active Information and Passive Information?
We secure the personal Active and Passive information you submitted
to NSLA by using reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access
to it, disclosure of it, accidental loss of it, or accidental destruction
of it. Communications you have with NSLA through email or snailmail
might not be secure, unless NSLA advises you that security measures
are in place before you send the information. When you communicate
with NSLA, you assume the risks of doing so. NSLA requests that
you please do not send or post sensitive information through these
means. You should assume that every communication by email and snailmail
is insecure, unless NSLA tells you very specifically that it is
secured. For your own safety, it's a good idea to use this approach
with all internet companies.
You Can Choose Stop Receiving Information from Us and Change
Your Information
If you want to stop receiving information from NSLA or if you want
to delete or correct your information, please send NSLA an email
to staff@nationalstudentloanalliance.org.
We reserve the right to revise this policy at this discretion.
Please check back as we grow; this policy may be changed from time
to time without notifying to you.
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