onedegree created its website to make it easy for alumni, friends and family of your university to share information with each other. onedegree understands you may not want everyone in the world to have the information you share on its website, so it has given you the tools to control how you want this to be. onedegree’s default privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and to the university community at large.
Safe Use of onedegree.com
For information for users about staying safe on onedegree.com, see the onedegree User Conduct Rules.
Privacy Policy Provisions
onedegree's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how it collects and uses the personal information you decide to share and to help you make informed decisions when using onedegree.com and its directly associated domains.
By using or accessing onedegree’s website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The Information onedegree Collects
When you register with and use onedegree.com, you provide onedegree with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by it and website use information collected by it as you interact with the onedegree website.
Registration with onedegree.com requires that you provide certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that optimizes the utility of the onedegree website for you.
When you log on to its website, onedegree collects your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all onedegree.com visitors. In addition, onedegree stores certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. onedegree uses session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. onedegree also uses a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to onedegree.com. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use onedegree.com, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events and transmit information through various channels. onedegree collects this information so that it can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, onedegree retains this information so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see the choices you have made when interacting on onedegree.com. When you update information, onedegree typically keeps a copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content (as defined in the onedegree Terms of Use) on the onedegree website at your own risk. Although onedegree allows you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. onedegree cannot control the actions of others of its users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, onedegree cannot and does not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. onedegree also is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures made or taken on its website. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other onedegree.com users have copied or stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on onedegree.com is a violation of the onedegree Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@onedegree.com.
If you choose to use onedegree’s invitation service to tell a friend about onedegree.com, you will be asked for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. onedegree will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the website. onedegree will store this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of its referral program. Your friend may contact onedegree at info@onedegree.com to request that it remove this information from the onedegree database.
onedegree may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of onedegree.com through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using onedegree.com, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
User Age Limitation
onedegree does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not attempt to register to use onedegree.com or to send any information about yourself to onedegree. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on onedegree. In the event that onedegree learns that it has received personal information from a person under age 18, it will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that onedegree might have any information from or about a person under age 18, please contact it at info@onedegree.com .
Use of Information Obtained by onedegree
When you register to use onedegree.com, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people with a similar interest in your university on onedegree. onedegree may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by onedegree that it thinks you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by onedegree primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your account), other onedegree.com users may be able to supplement your profile.
Profile information you submit to onedegree will be available to other users of onedegree.com who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., alumni, school groups and events, fans, etc.). Your name, network name, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the onedegree networks for your university and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so that people whom you have allowed to have access to your personal information and interests can find you and send an inquiry to you. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you which you have acknowledged through your privacy settings.
onedegree may send you service-related announcements from time to time as part of the general operation of its website. For instance, if another registered user sends you a message or inquiry about your interest in some school event or program, you may receive an email alerting you that this has happened. onedegree may also send you such things as website or network operational announcements, Points Award Program messages and promotional messages relating to your school and its community.
onedegree may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. It does this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network are interested in particular university program or project and for personalizing advertisements and promotions. For example, if you put a favorite extracurricular activity or interest in your profile, onedegree might include you to view an advertisement highlighting an event or equipment relating to that activity or interest. But onedegree does not identify you specifically to the advertiser. onedegree also anonymously supplies generic information about its users collectively, such as education levels, income range, age, marital status, etc., to advertisers for the purpose of allowing them to decide whether to advertise their products or services on onedegree.com. This is a necessary part of onedegree’s business activities, since it derives revenue from them that allows it to maintain and improve onedegree.com.
onedegree may use information about you that it collects from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services and other users of onedegree.com to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, onedegree generally allows you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo tag links).
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
Using onedegree.com is about sharing information with others—people in your networks who share your love of your school and, even if not on campus, still want to fully participate in its activities and community—while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. onedegree allows you to choose the information you provide to other alumni, friends and family of your school through onedegree.com. onedegree’s network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. onedegree shares your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where it believes such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer a service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
- Unlike most sites on the Web, onedegree prohibits access to personal information that you have restricted by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). onedegree takes action to block access by these engines to personal information beyond your name, profile picture, and limited data about your profile (e.g., your preferred university and related interests).
- onedegree may provide information to service providers to help it bring you the services it offers. Specifically, it may use third parties to facilitate its business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about onedegree or your university, to remove repetitive information from its user lists, to process redemption requests under onedegree’s Points Program for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, onedegree’s service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where onedegree utilizes third parties for the processing of any personal information, onedegree implements reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the purposes specified by onedegree.
- onedegree may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. onedegree will not reveal information unless onedegree has a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, onedegree may share account or other information when it believes it is necessary to comply with law, to protect its own interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through onedegree.com or using the onedegree name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
- onedegree may offer redemption items or services under the onedegree Points Program jointly with other companies. onedegree alerts you when another company is involved in these activities.
- Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, onedegree may receive some information even if you are logged out from onedegree.com, or that pertains to non-onedegree users, from such sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where onedegree receives information about users that are not logged in, or on non-onedegree users, onedegree does not attempt to associate it with individual onedegree accounts and will discard it.
- If the ownership of all or substantially all of onedegree’s business, or individual business units owned by onedegree, were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the website and services provided by onedegree can continue. In any such transfer, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in onedegree’s pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you useonedegree, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., fellow classmates, alumni, sports fans, etc.), such as personal information, comments, messages or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items , this information may become publicly available.
Links
onedegree.com may contain links to other websites. It is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. onedegree encourage its users, when they leave onedegree.com, to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by onedegree.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on onedegree.com are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. onedegree does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on onedegree.com unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by onedegree only and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on onedegree.com is readily available through its profile editing tools. Website users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging onto their profile page. Changed information will be updated immediately. onedegree provides an electronic form on its Help page to request deletion of a user’s onedegree registration and profile, which, when filed with onedegree, will be complied with promptly. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to continuing users of onedegree.com.
When you make use of the communication features of onedegree.com to share information with other individuals on the website (e.g., sending a personal email to another onedegree.com user), you generally cannot withdraw or delete such communications after they are sent.
Security
onedegree takes appropriate precautions to protect its users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as your password), onedegree encrypts that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, onedegree requests that you do not send private information to it by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security ofonedegree.com, please contact onedegree at privacy@onedegree.com
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of onedegree.com, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy and User Conduct Rules as well as onedegree’s Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. onedegree reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, user Conduct Rules and Points Program at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If onedegree makes such changes, it will post them and will indicate at the top of the appropriate web page the policy's new effective date. If onedegree makes material changes to this policy, it will notify you here, by email, or through notice on its home page. onedegree encourages you to refer to these documents on an ongoing basis so that you will understand the terms and conditions covering the use of onedegree.com and onedegree’s services. Unless stated otherwise, onedegree’s current Privacy Policy applies to all information that it has about you and your account.
Contacting onedegree
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact onedegree at privacy@onedegree.com . You may also contact onedegree by mail at info@onedegree.com.