Date of last revision: January 23, 2011
This policy contains nine sections, and you can jump to each by selecting the links below:
1. Introduction
2. Information We Receive
3. Sharing information on Helloassignment
4. Information You Share With Third Parties
5. How We Use Your Information
6. How We Share Information
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information
8. How We Protect Information
9. Other Terms
1. Introduction:
Questions. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, contact our privacy team through our email : queries@helloassignment.com
Scope. This privacy policy covers all of Helloassignment. It does not, however, apply to entities that Helloassignment does not own or control, such as applications and websites using Platform. By using or accessing Helloassignment, you agree to our privacy practices outlined here.
2. Information We Receive:
Information you provide to us:
Information About Yourself. When you sign up for Helloassignment you provide us with your name, email, gender, and birth date. During the registration process we give you the opportunity to connect with classmates and professors. You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you.
Content. One of the primary reasons people use Helloassignment is to share content with others. Examples include when you upload a document or file, share a link, create an event , make a comment.
Information we collect when you interact with Helloassignment:
Site activity information. We keep track of some of the actions you take on Helloassignment, such as creating a photo , uploading a file, creating an event.
Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Helloassignment from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.
Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make Helloassignment easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and Helloassignment. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back to Helloassignment. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use Helloassignment.
3. Sharing information on Helloassignment:
This section explains how your privacy settings work, and how your information is shared on Helloassignment.
Name and Profile Picture. Helloassignment is designed to make it easy for you to find and connect with classmates. For this reason, your name and profile picture do not have privacy settings. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you should delete it (or not add one).
Contact Information. Your contact information settings control (available when customizing your privacy settings) who can contact you on Helloassignment, and who can see your contact information such as your email and phone number(s). Remember that none of this information is required except for your email address, and you do not have to share your email address with anyone.
Posts by Me. The content you share and the actions you take will show up on your class home pages. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others.
Gender and Birth Date. In addition to name and email address, we require you to provide your gender and birth date during the registration process. We ask for your date of birth to verify that you are 13 or older, and so that we can better limit your access to content and advertisements that are not age appropriate. Because your date of birth and gender are required, you cannot delete them.
Other. Here are some other things to remember:
4. Information You Share With Third Parties.
Advertisements. Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on Helloassignment use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. You may opt-out of the placement of cookies by many of these advertisers here. You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks. Helloassignment does not share personally identifiable information with advertisers unless we get your permission.
Links. When you click on links on Helloassignment you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.
5. How We Use Your Information:
We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:
To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities, and to enforce our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.
To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. You may opt out of all communications except essential updates on your account notifications page. We may include content you see on Helloassignment in the emails we send to you.
To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected.
To serve social ads. We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant information we have about you and your class profile to make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends. For example, if you connect with your favorite band’s page, we may display your name and profile photo next to an advertisement for that page that is displayed to your friends. We only share the personally identifiable information visible in the social ad with the friend who can see the ad.
Downloadable Software. Certain downloadable software applications and applets that we may offer, such as our browser toolbars and photo uploaders, transmit data to us. We may not make a formal disclosure if we believe our collection of and use of the information is the obvious purpose of the application, such as the fact that we receive photos when you use our photo uploader. If we believe it is not obvious that we are collecting or using such information, we will make a disclosure to you the first time you provide the information to us so that you can decide whether you want to use that feature.
6. How We Share Information:
To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service. But we only do so in such a way that no individual user can be identified or linked to any specific action or information.
To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about Helloassignment, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.
To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of Helloassignment to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser.
To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the classifieds service in the Helloassignment Marketplace. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service. However, we will identify the partner and present the joint service provider’s privacy policy to you before you use that service.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.
Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
7. How You Can Change or Remove Information:
Editing your profile. You may change or remove your profile information at any time by going to your profile page and clicking Settings. Information will be updated immediately.
Deactivating or deleting your account. If you want to stop using your account you may deactivate it or delete it. When you deactivate an account, no user will be able to see it, but it will not be deleted. We save your profile information (connections, photos, etc.) in case you later decide to reactivate your account. Many users deactivate their accounts for temporary reasons and in doing so are asking us to maintain their information until they return to Helloassignment. You will still have the ability to reactivate your account and restore your profile in its entirety. When you delete an account, it is permanently deleted from Helloassignment. You should only delete your account if you are certain you never want to reactivate it. You may deactivate your account on your account settings page or delete your account.
Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. However, your name will no longer be associated with that information on Helloassignment. (For example, if you post something to another user’s profile and then you delete your account, that post may remain, but be attributed to an “Anonymous Helloassignment User.”) Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your information, they may retain your information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies. But they will no longer be able to access the information through our Platform after you disconnect from them.
Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.
8. Other Terms:
Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy pursuant to the procedures outlined in the Helloassignment Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here and on the Helloassignment Site Governance Page. If the changes are material, we will provide you additional, prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances. You can make sure that you receive notice directly by liking the Helloassignment Site Governance Page.