Our Commitment to Privacy

Protecting your privacy and the personal information you provide us is a top priority for us. For this reason, we do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We want our users to fully understand what information we collect, how we use this information, and the steps we take to protect your personal information. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the policies and procedures we have put in place to achieve this goal. By visiting this site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

For the convenience of our visitors, this Website may contain links to a number of sites that we believe may offer useful information. The policies and procedures we described here do not apply to those sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, data collection, and distribution policies.

Our Users

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. You should be aware that this site is not intended for, or designed to attract children under the age of 13. HigherEdSpace.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. For children between the ages of 13 and 18 who are both enrolled in high school and interested in learning about their college education options, please ask your parents for permission before sending any information about yourself to anyone over the Internet. This site is intended for all adults over the age of 18.

Information Collection

Information you provide to us:
We collect any information you enter on our site or that you give us in any other way. In order to make use of our Website, you will be required to provide us with the following information: your name, email address, country and zip code. However, you may provide additional information in your profile, such as your mailing address, area of study, degrees obtained and schools attended. You can choose not to provide certain information, but you may not be able to take advantage of our services and features. If you make payment for our paid service, we use your address or billing information to bill you and provide associated support. AmeriCareers LLC offers some of its services that are same or similar in nature under different brand names using different websites including HigherEdSpace.com, OpenHigherEd.com, AcademicSpace.net, CoursePedia.com. These websites share the same central database. When you provide your information on one of these sites and make it accessible on that site, your information may also be accessible from other associated sites. Your login and password will be the same on all these sites since these sites are connected to the same database.

Information you provide to other users:
In using our Website, you will be free to provide your contact information and other information about yourself to other users of the Website. You are free to create a screen name, thereby preserving your anonymity in certain areas on our Website, with which to be identified to other Members. You understand that we will have no control over your information once you provide it to other users of this Website, and agree not to hold HigherEdSpace.com responsible for the manner in which such information will be used by the recipient of that information.

Your Usage of Our Site:
We automatically track certain information about you based upon your use of our site. We use this information to conduct internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve our users. This information is compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis. This information may include the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Cookies:
We use a cookie on the member login page. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. If you chose "Remember Me" during login, we use a cookie that stores your login to make it easier for you to login when you come back to our Website. If you do not want this convenience feature or if you use a public computer, do not choose "Remember Me". In addition, you can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser.

Information Sharing

As a member of our Website, you will control the level of visibility of your profile. You may select to have your profile hidden from all other users or visible only to a selected group of users; you may opt to receive information regarding job opportunities, course information, school admissions information, and our updates; you will also control the visibility of your email address, such that you will determine the groups of users that will have access to your email address.

HigherEdSpace.com offers a "Public Profile" feature which allows users to publish portions of their HigherEdSpace.com profile including your name to the public Internet. Your email address will not be shown on the Public Profile page. Users may opt-out of this feature, however HigherEdSpace.com does not warrant how third-party search engines will update their cache.

Our Use of Information

HigherEdSpace.com is an online service dedicated to helping students and higher education professionals more effectively connect with one another. The personally identifiable information you choose to provide on this Website is used to help you describe yourself to other users. Other information that does not personally identify you as an individual is collected by HigherEdSpace.com from the Website and is exclusively owned by HigherEdSpace.com. This information can be utilized by HigherEdSpace.com in such manner as HigherEdSpace.com, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

Occasionally we may use the information to notify you, either directly or through our agent(s) about changes to our website, new services, or special offers. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services.

Legal Disclaimer

We cooperate with law enforcement authorities, as well as with other third parties, to enforce laws, intellectual property rights, and to prevent fraud. In response to a verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose your personal information to them. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Security

The privacy and protection of your information is important to us. We therefore use practices that are consistent with standards in the industry to protect your privacy. Except where you provide information to other users either through your profile, our forum, blog, or comments, we do not make any personal information available to third parties without your permission. While we practice with industry standard protocols and technology to protect your personal information, you should understand that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure and that we cannot and will not be held accountable for potential lack of internet transmission security. You understand that any message or information you send to or from the Website may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission is via a secure server.

Your access to some services and content may be password protected. We advise that you do not disclose your password to anyone. In addition, we recommend you sign out of password-protected services at the end of your session. You are responsible for all actions taken with your login name and password and you are responsible to adhere to the Acceptable Use terms contained in our Terms of Service. Your user password should be held in strict confidence. If your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. We offer you the ability to review and change the information you submit to us by logging into the site and entering in the new information yourself. Once logged in as a registered user, you can change your Password, other personal, contact, and user preferences.

Changes to Privacy Policy

If our Privacy Policy or procedures change, we will immediately post those changes to our website. Any such changes will be effective immediately upon being posted, unless otherwise stated in the change.

Consent

By using our Website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

December 19, 2010