Privacy Statement
1. Collection
When you visit the GradeGuru Website you may provide us (The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. of 1221 Avenue of the Americas New York New York 10020-1095 USA) with two types of information:
(a) personal information (which may include email address, name, postal address, phone number; and in addition, student information including your university, qualification, course, mode of study, year of study and discipline areas) which you knowingly choose to provide in your personal profile and which is collected by us; and
(b) GradeGuru Website use information which is collected by our cookies as you interact with the GradeGuru Website (see below).
2. Use
When you use the GradeGuru Website you will carry out the following activities: set up your personal profile, search for notes, view others’ notes, post notes, comment on other Users’ notes, request notes, claim your rewards, email other users (who have given their express permission, please see paragraph below) and contact GradeGuru. We collect and use information about these activities so that we can provide you with the GradeGuru Services, set up personalized features to make your use of the GradeGuru Services more relevant to you and, offer to you other relevant products and services from us and other businesses within The McGraw-Hill Companies. We may also use such information to deliver offers to you via the GradeGuru Website of products and services from reputable companies outside of the McGraw-Hill Companies, which may be relevant to you based on criteria relating to your use of the GradeGuru Services. However, at no time do we share your personal information with companies outside of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
A limited subset of your personal profile (your user name and student details) will also be shown through the GradeGuru Services to other Users to enable them to better understand and use your Content. Users can post requests for certain types of notes from certain types of students (based on broad criteria including university and course), but not from specific students or specific usernames. Users will only have access to more detail about you if you select to make yourself known to other users explicitly through notes you post yourself on the site, by selecting clearly labeled site options that reveal further details about you, if you choose to name yourself explicitly in your username, or you give your express permission for your contact details to be provided to other Users.
To view the information we make available about you, click on your username anywhere on the site and it will appear as a hyperlink.
3. Cookies
GradeGuru uses cookies to uniquely identify computers that connect to our site. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a Web site transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk. We use cookies only so that our website can remember you when you return and not double count you as a site user and to keep a count of the number of files you open. This cookie remains on your hard drive until you erase it or it expires. In order to change these cookie preferences, you must change your browser’s preferences to disable cookies or delete cookies. Please note that disabling cookies for some services may affect the ability to use that service. Security information is specific to each browser and operating system. Please check with your browser’s specific company for more information.
You may be able to access other third party websites on the GradeGuru Website. If you choose to access the websites of third parties through the GradeGuru Website, such third parties may place or recognize a unique persistent or session cookie on your browser. These third parties may also collect and use personally identifiable information about your visits to their websites in order to present further advertisements that may be of interest to you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. This Privacy Statement applies solely to information collected by GradeGuru.
4. Opt-Out for Distribution of Personal Information
Occasionally, and subject to applicable laws, GradeGuru also makes Users’ names and e-mail addresses and other similar contact information available to other businesses within The McGraw-Hill Companies. If at any time you would like your name removed from lists that are shared for these purposes, please set the correct privacy settings when you register or (if you have already registered) go to your My Profile page and adapt your privacy settings.
5. Questions and Comments
If you have questions about our privacy practices, the uses we are making of your information, or if you would like to exercise your right to access and correct your information, please contact GradeGuru’s Privacy Official at privacy@gradeguru.com or by post to:
6. McGraw-Hill Privacy Policy
All information will be maintained in a secure database in the United States and accessed only by authorized employees. For more information about the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Customer Privacy Policy, visit our Website at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/privacy.html.
