Effective Date: 12/5/2011

TopSchool, Inc. (TopSchool) is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy statement is intended to inform you about how we collect, use, share and protect your information.

TopSchool, Inc. has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's  Program Requirements and the TRUSTed Cloud Program Requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at privacy@topschoolinc.com.  If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here.

TopSchool, Inc. complies with the U.S. - E.U. Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. TopSchool, Inc.  has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement.  To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view TopSchool, Inc.'s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/

This Privacy Policy covers our collection, use and disclosure of information we collect through our web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com, and our service TopSchoolLive. The use of information collected through our service shall be limited to the purpose of providing the service for which the Client has engaged TopSchool.

Information Collected

We collect personally identifiable information about you through our web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com, when you explicitly provide this information in connection with one of the services TopSchool provides, such as when you voluntarily provide us information to request a product demo, submit an online inquiry or leave a comment on our blog.  We collect personal information such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.  If we collect information from you, we clearly identify which information is necessary to fulfill your request and which information is optional. 

Our Use of Information

In the normal course of our web-based operations, the information we collect from you is used to provide you with the services and information that you request.

TopSchool may use the information we collect from you on our web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com, to contact you about special offers, events that we believe would be of interest to you, or product emails.  You may choose to stop receiving these emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, or you can contact us at privacy@topschoolinc.com.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com, and our service, TopSchoolLive, use "cookies." Cookies are small bits of information transferred to your computer that in-turn allow the software running on our web site to operate correctly. Cookies are used in two ways by our web site:

  • To manage state. "State" refers to the settings and choices made by you as you use our web site. As information is transferred to and from your computer and our web server, state is managed so that our web site works seamlessly, and so that you do not have to enter the same information repeatedly. During state management, only a random identifier is placed in a cookie for our web server to use. Personal information or other state information is NOT stored in the cookie. State management cookies are automatically deleted when you close your web browser.
  • To manage automation of the user experience. If applicable, our web server may "remember" you between visits to make it easier for you to use our web site on future visits. If we provide this feature, your user account identifier will be saved to a cookie on your computer hard drive, and will be used each time you come back to our site. No personal information is saved in the cookie itself.

The use of cookies by our partners and service providers is not covered by our privacy statement.  We do not have access or control over these cookies.  Our partners and service providers may use session ID cookies. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.  We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

We use a third-party tracking service that records non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate, providing usage and volume statistics to help us identify interest and activity of individuals that have visited our site.

Security

The security of your personal information and our clients' information is important to us.  When you enter sensitive information (such as login credentials to TopSchoolLive we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us through www.TopSchoolinc.com and TopSchoolLive, both during transmission and once we receive it.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.  Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact privacy@topschoolinc.com.

Sharing Information

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement.  We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as communications that provide you with information on our products and services. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

If TopSchool is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.

We will only share this information with any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

Information Related to Data Collected for our Clients

TopSchool collects information for the TopSchoolLive service under the direction of its Clients, and has no direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data it processes. TopSchool works with its Clients to help them provide notice to their customers concerning  the purpose for which personal information is collected.

TopSchool collects information for our Clients. Customers of a TopSchool Client who wish to no longer be contacted should contact the institution directly. 

TopSchool may transfer personal information from the TopSchoolLive system to companies that help us provide our service. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the provisions in this Policy regarding notice and choice and the service agreements with our Clients.

TopSchool has no direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data it processes in the TopSchoolLive service. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data should direct his query to TopSchool's Client (the data controller). If the Client requests TopSchool to remove the data, we will respond to their request within 30 business days.

TopSchool will retain personal data we process on behalf of our Clients for as long as needed to provide services to our Client. TopSchool will retain and use this personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.


Additional Privacy Policy Information

Access
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire to be contacted by TopSchool, Inc., you may update your information or ask to be removed from our records by  by emailing us at privacy@topschoolinc.com,or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.  We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.

Data Retention
We will retain your information as needed to provide you services or information regarding our products and services. If you wish to request that we no longer use your information to provide you services or information contact us at privacy@topschoolinc.com.  We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

TopSchool Blog
The TopSchool web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com,  offers a publicly accessible blog. Any information provided in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of personal information from the TopSchool blog, contact TopSchool at privacy@topschoolinc.com.  In some cases, TopSchool may not be able to remove personal information, in which case the requestor will be notified.

Links to Other Web Sites
The TopSchool web site, www.TopSchoolinc.com, includes links to other web sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of TopSchool. If personal information is submitted to any of those sites, that information will be governed by their privacy statements. Individuals are encouraged to carefully read the privacy statement of any web site visited. 

How to Reach TopSchool

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, our information handling practices, or any other aspects of your privacy and the security of information, please call us at 800.449.0720. You may also reach us by mail at the following address:

TopSchool, Inc.
4643 South Ulster Street
Suite 920
Denver, CO 80237

Privacy Policy Updates

TopSchool may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes you will be notified by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.