privacy policy

The goal of College Life DC is to create an online community of, by and for college students, connecting them with resources to enrich their collegiate experience. College Life DC understands that your online privacy is important and seeks to ensure your online safety. This privacy policy applies solely to CollegeLifeDC.com and does not apply to any third-parties, and only concerns personal information that College Life DC gathers.

By using CollegeLifeDC.com, you agree to this privacy policy. The information that we collect:

College Life DC only asks for information that is germane to the purposes of CollegeLifeDC.com. The following information is provided by the user:

1. For the purpose of registration
   In order to use CollegeLifeDC.com and engage in the online community, a registration that includes your legal name (first and last), sex, and birthday must be completed.
2. Member profiles
   As a user-generated online community, CollegeLifeDC.com allows members to provide additional information as part of their profile. This information may include, but is not limited to college info, hometown, about me, etc.
3. Automatic information
   When you browse the web site or engage in our online community, some information is transferred automatically (such as cookies and IP addresses) from your computer and is received by College Life DC.
4. Submissions and Contributions
   Submissions in the form of photographs, reviews, comments, feedback, etc. are recorded and may be displayed publicly.
   

Links
CollegeLifeDC.com displays links to third-party web sites. In accordance with our privacy policy, personal information is not disclosed to these third parties. It is important to read the privacy policies of the web sites to which you are redirected after you leave CollegeLifeDC.com.

Information Security
In order to access and contribute to the community via your account, each user account is protected by a password. Be sure to keep this password safe and logout of the web site after you have finished your session.
When you contribute to the community and add information to your profile (such as uploading your photo to your profile), it may be possible for these third parties to identify you and associate you with your account.
College Life DC cannot control the use of personal posts and messages to other members of the site. For instance, another user could make your posts, or portions of your posts, available for display to the public.
Site users post content at their own risk. User content is defined as any information you submit to College Life. There are no consummate security systems that can absolutely protect your data. In addition, we do not have the ability to control the actions of fellow site users. We maintain no responsibility for any circumvention of the security and privacy measures or any damages that result from such circumvention. Also, we cannot guarantee that your email address as collected for the purpose of login will be safeguarded for all purposes.

Modifications to this privacy policy
College Life DC reserves to right to, at any time, amend this privacy policy. If this is done, a new updated version will be posted on this page.

Questions about the privacy policy
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our privacy policy, feel free to contact us.

Effective Date
This policy is effective as of August 11, 2008.