OVERVIEW

Peer2Peer Tutors takes your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy applies to all of our customers, whether you buy our services or products online or offline. It also applies to visitors to our free websites.

Peer2Peer Tutors takes strong measures to protect your privacy. First, we only ask you to provide information that we need in order to deliver the service or information you have requested. Second, we don't share the information you have given us without your permission to do so.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect personally identifiable information from you when you purchase some of our products, including one-to-one tutoring sessions and essay critique, and when using some of our Web-based services. We will request information that we need in order for you to participate in the service (things like your name and address, for example) or pay for the service (credit card information, for example).

Peer2Peer Tutors offers several opportunities to receive products or information on- and off-line, either directly from us or from our partners. You can indicate your wish to receive such products and information by checking a box on a form; unless you ask for it, nothing will be sent to you and nothing will be shared with third parties.

If you request to receive information from us or others, we often need to collect more information from you than when you purchase a product or service from us. The additional information we ask for will vary depending on what it is you're requesting, but generally includes your mailing address, year of graduation, and other information that you choose to provide regarding your academic and extracurricular activities and interests. When you ask to receive information from or to be contacted by a third party, your information is passed on to the third party to fulfill your request; they may have their own privacy policies that differ from ours. The information we share may include any personally identifiable information we have about you, such as your name, address, academic record, and test scores.

We may track data on our customers in aggregate form. Such aggregated data does not uniquely identify you.

INTERNET SECURITY

Anonymous Areas

Some areas of our websites are accessible without registration of any kind. This is true of many of the basic content areas. Other areas require registration.

Services that Require Registration

Some of our most useful services are personalized: different visitors get different results based on information they provide. Examples include but are not limited to purchasing Tutoring Sessions and/or Essay Review. Registration for these services is required to facilitate customization of your individual results.

In addition to providing personalized results, registration is important for sending you specific information related to your service, and for allowing you to access stored information, and in the event that you opt-in, provide third party access to you.

How Are Cookies Used?

We also use a software technology called "cookies" to create a personalized Web experience. Cookies cannot be used to find your name, email address, or anything that is uniquely identifying about you unless you provide that information. We use cookies for those applications to which we referred earlier that require us to keep track of information to customize results. If you don't have your browser set to accept cookies, certain areas of www.peer2peertutors.com will not function. We also allow you to choose to use a cookie to save your username and password so that you do not have to log in to the website each time you visit. We do not recommend this in multi-user environments such as school computer labs.

Passive Collection of Data

Like most sites, we maintain logs of site usage in order to evaluate our visitors' interest level in areas of the website, which and how many pages they look at, how long they stay on the site, and what Web browsers are used. This data is tracked in aggregate form, not at an individual user level, and is not uniquely identifying. The aggregate level data may be shared with third parties and the public.

Cautions

Please note, if you do not logout once registered for services that require registration, your personal information could be viewed by other users with access to your computer.

Please note, if you choose to participate in our online discussion forums, your posts will be publicly accessible, as will the username and email address you use.

MISCELLANEOUS

Changes in Our Policy

We reserve the right to change or remove this Privacy Policy at our discretion. We will post any new policy here and we encourage you to visit this area frequently to stay informed.

Other Online Privacy Resources

A number of organizations are very actively involved in educating Internet users about privacy issues and are pushing for legislation to preserve your online privacy rights. For more information about data privacy and cookies, you should check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Disclaimer

Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we cannot guarantee your privacy. Further, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us or a law enforcement request.

Contact Us:

Peer2Peer Tutors
11257 S. Glen Road
Potomac, MD 20854
Email us at: privacy@peer2peertutors.com
Last revised: August 4, 2005