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| Your Privacy Studentloans.com is committed to preserving the individual privacy rights of all of the users of its websites. Studentloans.com strongly believes that it has a responsibility to protect from disclosure to unauthorized parties the personally identifying information of its website users. Therefore, Studentloans.com has adopted and implemented a privacy policy to protect the individually identifying account and personal information of its website users. Studentloans.com will not sell, trade, nor disclose the personally identifying information of its website users to any unauthorized third parties. Because of the many different relationships Studentloans.com has with the users of its websites, it is possible that disclosure of information provided by website users might be required in the delivery of Studentloans.com’ services to users in the following circumstances:
Additionally, Studentloans.com may use information provided by users for the following internal purposes: providing services to users, complying with local, state, or federal financial aid statutes and regulations, ensuring accurate contact and billing information for users, and analyzing the efficiency of its websites. Under Studentloans.com administration of the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), Studentloans.com requires the disclosure of Social Security numbers by applicants for loans under FFELP. The primary use of this information is to verify user identity, to determine user program eligibility and benefits, to permit the servicing of user financial aid, to certify user attendance and status at an approved higher educational institution, and in the event necessary, to locate users. The disclosure of a user’s Social Security number by a user is mandatory for the user to participate in the FFELP. The United States Department of Education has for several years required the disclosure of individuals’ Social Security numbers on applications and other FFELP requisite documents pursuant to published regulations. Studentloans.com does not use “cookies” to enhance its website users’ experiences on the Studentloans.com Websites. A cookie is a small file that transfers to users’ computer hard drives. Most web browsers are initially set to accept cookies. Additionally, some web browsers may be set to prompt users before it accepts a cookie. Studentloans.com will not knowingly collect or retain information submitted to it by children under the age of thirteen. If, Studentloans.com learns that it unknowingly collected personally identifying information from children under 13 years of age, it will immediately take all reasonable measures to delete the information from its computer systems. Users should be aware that other websites to which a user links from the Studentloans.com website may contain privacy policies, statements, promises, or provisions that differ from the Studentloans.com Website Privacy Policy and as such users are encouraged to review the applicable privacy policy of any site other than the Studentloans.com website. Users are encouraged to fully review the privacy statements of other websites to determine whether or not the user’s use of the site comports with the user’s desire to maintain the privacy of his/her personally identifying information. Studentloans.com will closely monitor and restrict its employees’ access to user account and personal information to only instances of business necessity. To be removed from a Studentloans.com mailing
list, users should send an email to: remove@Studentloans.com
from the email account that they originally signed up with and include
the word "REMOVE" in the subject line. Studentloans.com will take all reasonable steps to assure that information about users is accurate, complete, and timely for the intended purposes. Studentloans.com will take every measure to establish appropriate processes or mechanisms so that inaccuracies or errors in users’ information may be timely corrected by the user. Studentloans.com will try to make these processes and mechanisms as simple and easy to use as possible while providing assurances that the erroneous and inaccurate information has been corrected. The information contained on the Studentloans.com website is subject to change without prior advance notice. When users browse the Studentloans.com website and have not registered as a user for any of Studentloans.com’ online services, the browsing is anonymous. Anonymous browsing includes reading pages and downloading certain information. Personal information such as name, address, phone number, and email address are not collected from anonymous browsers. Securing users’ personal information is very important to Studentloans.com. Therefore, Studentloans.com and it's affiliates have implemented several security measures to protect users’ personally identifying information from loss, misuse, or alteration. When users send confidential personal information to our affiliates via the Studentloans.com website, a secure session is established using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. During a secure SSL session, data passed back and forth between the user’s computer and our affiliates' servers is secured through the use of public key cryptography. The user’s computer exchanges key information with our affiliates' computers to create a Private conversation that only the user’s computer and the affiliate system may understand. To benefit from SSL technology, users must use a browser with SSL capabilities. Please note that while using the Studentloans.com website, users will be notified when entering a secure session and when leaving a secure session, unless the setting is turned off on the user’s browser. After leaving a secure session any information transmitted to Studentloans.com is not secure. For security purposes, Studentloans.com uses special software
programs to monitor traffic on its website and to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise to cause damage
to the Studentloans.com website. These programs do not collect personally identifying
information about you but they do collect information that will enable
Studentloans.com to identify someone attempting to tamper with its website. Studentloans.com
has a zero tolerance policy for the misuse, misappropriation, unauthorized
access, tampering, damage, destruction, or unlawful utilization of its
websites and computer systems and will seek the maximum enforcement of
state, federal, and international criminal laws against any individual
engaging in such activity. Additionally, Studentloans.com will seek the maximum
amount of civil damages available under the law in such instances of the
unauthorized misuse of its websites and computer systems. Changes to Studentloans.com’ Privacy Policy The Studentloans.com Website Privacy Policy may be modified
when necessary to conform to federal, state, local, and international
laws and regulations, and at other times to conform with technological
changes, court decisions, and changes in agency policy. Changes to the
Studentloans.com Website Privacy Policy will be notated here when made so that you
may be fully informed about the privacy protections afforded to you by
Studentloans.com enabling you to make an informed decision concerning your use of
the Studentloans.com website. It is recommended that you check the Studentloans.com Website
Privacy Policy each time that you visit the Studentloans.com website. Should you have any questions, concerns or desire
additional information concerning the Studentloans.com Website Privacy
Policy please contact Studentloans.com by one of the following methods: 1 - Studentloans.com is a servicing agent, lender, marketing agent and secondary market of student loans. As such, Studentloans.com has very different relationships with the users of its websites. It is important to note that Studentloans.com may be required, dependent upon its relationship with website users, to share information about the users with authorized third parties. NOTICE: Transmissions to and from this site may not be confidential and your communications may, therefore, be read or intercepted by others. This site contains encryption methods that are not supported by all browsers. If you are not using a browser such as Netscape 4.7 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may be unable to view all of the information and materials contained on this site.
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