Introduction

Your privacy and security are important to YourSchoolMate and its parent company - Business IT Labs. Because YourSchoolMate (YSM) gathers certain types of information about its users, YSM feels you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information YSM gathers and how it is used. This policy applies to all users of all of the YSM products including, but not limited to, FundMate, CommunityMate and WebsiteMate. This can include registered users, visitors and vistors that make a donation or payment using FundMate. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to YSM via the contact us page.

YSM may amend this policy at any time by posting an updated version to the website. Under no circumstances, however, would YSM change the privacy policy in a way that would permit distribution of your personal information to third persons without your approval.

1. Capture and Use of Information

Registration and User Provided Content
If you register to use one of the YSM products, certain information about your organization and you (email, phone, name, address, etc.) will be required. In some cases, credit card billing information is also collected for payment but not retained permanently. The information YSM collects is used to improve the content of the products and the quality of our service and is not shared with or sold to other organizations for commercial purposes. The only exception to this is when it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Terms of Service, or as otherwise required by law. Your contact information may also be used to contact you when necessary for customer service reasons. Financial information that is collected is used only to bill you for products and services that you specifically request or to process FundMate contributions like donations and fee payments.

Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer. Generally, cookies work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of the YSM site. YSM cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. YSM may use cookies to help deliver content specific information specific to your organization or your interests. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. Not accepting cookies may disable certain features of YourSchoolMate or make usage less efficient.

IP Address
Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique number called an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. YSM reserves the right to use and disclose such information to identify a user if YSM reasonably determines that it is necessary to protect the YSM site, other users of these sites, or to comply with legal requirements. YSM may also use your IP address to assist in diagnosing problems with our servers.

2. Additional Use of Information

All of the information YSM collects, both what you tell us and what is collected through the use of cookies, is used to personalize your account, to customize YSM services, to collect payment, and for YSM customer service to contact you when necessary. YSM may use information collected from you to tell you about products or services that may be of interest to you. It is YSM's policy not to distribute to third parties any personally identifying information about you without your consent. In many cases, information will be released or made available to users but only in a way that does not disclose the personal information of any particular user.

3. General Privacy Information

YSM provides public content (such as message boards, organization web pages, etc.) to its users through many features. When you disclose personal information in such public forums, that information can be collected and used by others in various ways, including by sending unsolicited messages. You are solely responsible for any postings you make on public forums on YSM, and for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. YSM takes reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information processed is accurate, complete, and current, but YSM still depends on its users to update or correct their personal or organization information whenever necessary. Further, the YSM web site may contain links to partners, advertisers and 3rd party Internet sites and services that may collect data in connection with registrations, promotions, e-commerce, etc. YSM may also be linked to by, and in some cases framed by, certain partner web sites. Each of the web sites (linked from YSM or linking to YSM) have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of YSM and YSM has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

4. Privacy of Children

The YSM suite of products is directed toward organizations that support young people. YSM prohibits children 13 years and younger from registering and using it's product services. Within the FundMate product, the administrators of the organization (those that setup up the fund activities) will have access to student names and any optional comments entered by donors and payors that make credit card payments for donations and fees. You and the other administrators of your organization are responsible for ensuring that only authorized people have access to the student names and comments. YSM prohibits users from uploading any type of content that discloses private information about other individuals, especially those 13 and under.

5. Security

YSM has established and maintains reasonable security procedures to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personally identifiable information. YSM uses a variety of industry-standard security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Personal information collected on YSM is stored in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public. All credit card and registration information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. YSM's technology team conducts frequent site-security audits.

6. Protecting Yourself

You can help to protect your information by safeguarding your YSM user ID and password, using caution and discretion when posting information on public areas of the YSM web site, and by learning more about privacy from web sites that specialize in internet security and privacy.