We are My Path Admissions Advisor, LLC (“MPAA,” “we,” “us,” “our”). We created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) because we know that you care about how information you provide to us is used and shared. This Privacy Policy relates to the information collection and use practices of MPAA in connection with our online services (the “Services”), which are made available to you through our website located at www.MyPathAdmissionsAdvisor.com (collectively, the “Sites”).
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are subject to various laws in the United States and internationally, and we are responsible as a “controller” of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
By visiting our Sites and/or using our Services, or by permitting your child to use our Services, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Use.
We do not collect any personal information from you that you don’t provide to us. When you sign up to be a user on our Sites, we may ask you for the following information (“Personal Information”):
● First and last name
● Email address(es)
● Phone number
● Gender
● Date of Birth
● Country, State/Province, and City of Residence
● Physical Address
● Countries of Citizenship
● College/Career Application Information (Degree type, enrollment year, application year, high school graduation year, academic information, current school, preferred courses, current grade, financial aid information, diploma information, academic interests, preferred college choices, and related information).
If you choose to purchase or subscribe to a feature or Service that requires a fee, you will be required to provide us with your payment information, including but not limited to bank account numbers, credit
card or debit card numbers, account details, ACH information, and similar data (“Payment Information”).
If you choose to subscribe to the Services, “Personal Information” may also include video and audio recordings of phone calls and videoconferences host ed by us between you and our employees and/or coaches (“Recordings”). These Recordings are maintained for safety and
quality assurance purposes and are deleted automatically within one (1) week of being recorded.
Like most websites, we may use automatic data collection technology when you visit the Sites to record information that identifies your computer, to track your use of our Site, and to collect certain basic information about you and your browsing habits. This includes:
● Your operating system
● IP addresses
● Browser type and language
● Referring and exit pages and URLs
● Date and time
● Amount of time spent on particular pages
● Sections of the website you visit
We collect this data using cookies and pixel tags. Cookies are small packets of data that a website stores on your computer’s hard drive so that your computer will “remember” information about your visit. You can reject cookies by following the directions provided in your Internet
provider’s “help” file. If you reject cookies, you may still visit the Sites, but may not be able to use some areas of the Sites and/or the Services.
We may use your Personal Information, Usage Information, and Payment Information to:
● Identify you when you sign in to your account.
● Provide and improve our Services.
● Fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
● Respond to inquiries and provide customer support.
● Send notices about updates, products, or billing information.
● Conduct research and analytics to enhance user experience.
● Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or policy violations.
We do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, we may share Personal Information with third parties to operate the Site and provide Services. One such third party is the CounselMore platform (www.counselmore.com), which we use to host and manage our platform.
We will also share your Payment Information with third-party service providers such as HubSpot Payments, powered by Stripe, to process your payment. These third parties store your Payment Information; we do not store it.
We may also disclose information tolaw enforcement agencies or regulatory bodies if required by law.
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee complete security of our databases.
You can update your information by accessing your account profile or emailing us at info@mypathadmissionsadvisors.com.
We may send you promotional emails from time to time about new services and college admission tips. You may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions in the email or emailing info@mypathadmissionsadvisors.com.
Our Sites may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
We retain your Personal Information only for as long as necessary:
● To provide Services to you.
● To comply with legal obligations.
● To resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Once no longer needed, we securely delete or anonymize your data.
We honor Do Not Track (DNT) signals and do not track users who enable DNT browser settings.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@mypathadmissionsadvisors.com with “PRIVACY POLICY” in the subject line.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and will post any changes on the Sites as soon as they go into effect. We will also provide you notice via email when we make updates to our Privacy Policy. By accessing the Site or using the Services after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
We do not knowingly collect any personal information from visitors or users of our site who are under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not give us any personal information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our privacy policy by instructing their children to never provide personal information through the Internet without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at info@mypathadmissionsadvisors.com, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
The Sites and the Services are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By providing us with any information through the Sites or the Services, you consent to this transfer.
Lawful Basis of Processing: Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal information can include (i) consent with notice, (ii) performance of a contract, (iii) to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, (iv) for our legitimate interests or those of a third party (A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests). Please contact us using the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy if you have any questions or concerns about the specific legal grounds in which we employ to inform our lawful basis of processing of your information.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you may have certain rights regarding your personal data:
● Right to Access - The right to be provided with a copy of your personal information.
● Right to Rectification - The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal information.
● Right to be Forgotten - The right to require us to delete your personal information — in certain situations.
● Right to Restriction of Processing - The right to require us to restrict processing of your personal information — in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.
● Right to Data Portability - The right to receive the personal information you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine - readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party — in certain situations.
● Right to Object - The right to object:
○ At any time to your personal information being processed for direct marketing (including profiling);
○ In certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information, e.g. processing carried out for the purpose of our legitimate interests.
● Right Not to be Subject to Automated Individual Decision - Making -
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.Any requests to exercise these rights can be directed to us through the contact details provided in this Privacy Policy. These requests will be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as early as possible and always within one month. The General Data Protection Regulation
also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.