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GradShare Privacy Policy
The GradShareTM service is offered by ProQuest, LLC. We respect the privacy of our users and are committed to protecting it.
This privacy policy applies to the GradShare.com website (www.gradshare.com) and any subdomains (collectively, the "Site"). Our service may provide direct links to various websites. This privacy policy does not describe the practices of such linked websites. Before disclosing personal information to any other linked website, you should read the privacy statement associated with that website. For example, you choose to link your GradShare account with Facebook Connect, information you post to the Site could also be posted on Facebook, and vice versa.
The GradShareTM service may collect certain personal information on registered, anonymous and unregistered users. Specifically, we may collect: user email addresses as part of the registration process; user IP addresses; information regarding user school affiliation; information regarding user usage of the GradShareTM service.Unless required by law, we will not share user personal information, except with their consent or in aggregate or anonymous form, with third parties.
The GradShareTM service may make use of "cookies" (data sent from the GradShareTM service that is stored on a user’s hard drive) in order to enhance your user experience and in some cases to track information about our usage. Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include the date and time of visits to our Site, the pages viewed, time spent at our Site, and the websites visited just before and just after our Site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis and is not associated with your personal information.
The GradShareTM service offers users the opportunity to register in order to post content on the Site. At any time you can modify your account setting by "visiting the account information area" where you will have the opportunity to access and revise certain of your personally identifiable information. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our databases. Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information (which might include your user name) 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. The GradShareTM service is designed for adult learners. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from users under the age of 13.
The GradShareTM service will only use information in keeping with this privacy policy. Please note that this Privacy Policy may be modified at the sole discretion of ProQuest LLC at any time and without notice.
If you have questions, please contact us via email at support@gradshare.com
[Revised January 12, 2010]
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