Terms of Use
1. Disclaimers & Limitations on Liability
Your use of this site and the service is at your own risk. All information, content, materials and services on UNIVERSITYLANE website are provided to you on an "as is" and "as available" basis and we expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, any warranty of non-infringement or any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, condition, guarantee or representation, whether oral, in writing or in electronic form, including but not limited to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained therein or provided by the service, or to reliability or title. UNIVERSITYLANE expressly disclaims any representations, warranties, and/or liability, whether explicit or implied, with respect to financial aid information provided on this site. Any transactions undertaken on or through this site shall be at the sole risk of the user. You are solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or other equipment, or loss of data that results from such download of the UNIVERSITYLANE software. Neither UNIVERSITYLANE nor any third-party information providers and vendors will be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, revenue, income, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, or damages caused by theft, unauthorized access, systems failure, or communications line failure, or the cost of procuring substitute goods or services, caused by the use of or inability to use the site, materials or any products or services provided herein, or any other matter relating to this site, even if UNIVERSITYLANE has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
We do not represent or warrant that:
1. Access to the service will be uninterrupted;
2. There will be no failures, errors or omissions or loss of transmitted information; or
3. No viruses will be transmitted during the provision of the service.
We shall not be liable to you or any third parties for any direct, indirect, special consequential or punitive damages arising out of your access to or inability to access the service, including for viruses alleged to have been obtained from the site, or your use of or reliance on the site or any of the information or materials available on the service, regardless of the type of claim or the nature of the cause of action.
Except as provided by law, neither UNIVERSITYLANE nor its third-party information providers and vendors has any responsibility to maintain the materials, products, or services offered on the site or to supply corrections, updates, or releases for the same. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusions or limitations may not apply to you. You may also have other rights which vary from state to state.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless UNIVERSITYLANE and each of its respective officers, directors, employees, and agents, from and against all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, or expenses, including attorney's fees and costs, arising out of or related to your improper access to or use of the Site, or any violation by you of these Terms of Use.
2. Use of Site
You may use or download material displayed on this Site for noncommercial, personal use only. If you download material, you agree to retain all copyright and other proprietary notices displayed on the materials. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, post, or otherwise use the content of this Site for public or commercial purposes without our written permission. UNIVERSITYLANE, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, and cancel orders if we believe that your conduct violates the Terms of Use. You agree not to disrupt, modify or interfere with the Service in any way, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of the Service. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on, or associated with, the Service. You agree that you will not use our site if you are under the age of 14.
3. Trademarks
The trademarks, service marks, designs, and logos (collectively, the "Trademarks") displayed on this Site are the registered and unregistered Trademarks of UNIVERSITYLANE. Use of the Trademarks displayed on this Site, except as provided in these Terms of Use, is strictly prohibited.
4. Copyright
Material on the Service is for your personal use only. The Service contains copyrighted and other proprietary information. You agree that you will not in any way make commercial or other unauthorized use, by publication, re-transmission, distribution, performance, caching or otherwise, of material obtained through the Service, except as permitted by the Copyright Act or other applicable law. All content on the Site, including, but not limited to, text, pictures, graphics, logos, button icons, data compilations, images, and the selection and arrangement of such content is the exclusive property of UNIVERSITYLANE or its licensors and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All rights not expressly granted hereby are reserved.
5. Third Party Content
Data and other materials appearing on this Site that are provided by third parties are believed by UNIVERSITYLANE to be obtained from reliable sources, but we cannot guarantee and are not responsible for their accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or suitability for use. UNIVERSITYLANE is not responsible for, and does not prepare, edit, or endorse, the content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from any website owned or operated by a third party that is linked to this Site via hyperlink. The fact that UNIVERSITYLANE has provided a link to a third party's website does not constitute an implicit or explicit endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by UNIVERSITYLANE with respect to such website, its owners, providers, or services. You will use any such third-party content at your own risk.
6. Internet Email
E-mail messages may not be secure and may be intercepted by third parties. If you send us an e-mail containing confidential information about you, you agree that you do so at your own risk and that you hold UNIVERSITYLANE harmless from any loss that you may suffer as a result.
7. Linking Conditions
You may not link to the Site unless you comply with the linking conditions as described below ("Linking Conditions"). UNIVERSITYLANE grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the Site ("Link"), provided you comply at all times with the following conditions:
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The Link must resolve to UNIVERSITYLANE's page at www.universitylane.com, unaltered in any way;
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The text of the Link must read "Universitylane," "Universitylane.com," or "www.universitylane.com." You may not use any UNIVERSITYLANE's logo or graphic, or any other trademark, as part of the Link without UNIVERSITYLANE's express written permission; and
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The Link and surrounding context on the linking site must not:
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Falsely represent or misrepresent any relationship between the linking site and UNIVERSITYLANE, including suggestions of affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship;
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Portray UNIVERSITYLANE or its affiliates, or their products or services, in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner; or
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Deliver content and materials in a framed environment or alter the layout, content, look, or feel of the Site.
If you have created a Link that conforms to these Linking Conditions, then you also may include one or more Links to any internal or subsidiary page of this Site that is located one or several levels down from the homepages (known as "deep links"), provided, however, that all such deep links must be in close physical proximity to the Link that conforms to the Linking Conditions. You may not maintain numerous or pervasive Links to the Site.
UNIVERSITYLANE.COM PRIVACY POLICY
www.universitylane.com ("Website") is an Internet property of University Lane Technologies and its affiliates ("universitylane," "we," "our," or "us"). This Privacy Policy is given on behalf of University Lane. We are providing this Privacy Policy to you so that you can learn about our information collection and sharing practices. Data privacy and security is important to us and to our Internet users, so we want to make sure that users of our Website understand our privacy and security practices and policies.
You agree to this Privacy Policy, in its entirety, when you: (1) access or use our Website or any of the web pages of our Website, (2) agree to receive e-mail from us and/or, (3) make application to a college through an Universitylane hosted online application (i.e., Apply Online Program).
This Privacy Policy will tell you the following:
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What information we collect/track about you.
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With whom we share the information we collect/track.
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How we use the information we collect/track.
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Our policy on correcting and updating information you have provided to us.
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Our policy on your right to opt out of some of our information sharing practices.
This Privacy Policy applies to any information you provide to us via our Website, email, telephone or in any other communication or exchange you have with Universitylane.
Information Collection Practices and Policies
We collect information about you when you provide us your information through forms, requests for information, applications for a College (i.e., apply online program), use of our service to store your data on the universitylane.com profile, or through other communications and interactions you have with us via our website, email or telephone. When you submit information to us, you are doing so on a completely voluntary basis, at your sole discretion and will. Many times the information you submit is required to obtain the benefit, assistance or service you are requesting or would like to obtain from us-for instance, to use our form completion services on Universitylane.com, or to obtain information about a College. The information you may be requested to submit may include (but is not limited to): (1) Name, (2) Address, (3) Email Address, (4) Telephone Number, and (6) Date of Birth.
We also may collect information about you from companies that may provide us with information about consumers-for instance, from a marketing list provider.
We use the following services to monitor any data you input to our site: Web analytics and Web hosting. We also may use a third party address verification service.
IP Addresses
We collect IP addresses. Your IP address is used to gather broad and specific demographic information as well as for validation purposes. In addition, we use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website. (Please also see “Web Site Tracking Software,” below.)
Cookies
A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive in order to collect information about your activities on the website. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you have the option to change your browser settings to decline them. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time that you visit our Website (if you choose), and for other purposes. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. (Please also see “Web Site Tracking Software,” below.)
Web Site Tracking Software
Web servers, or those of third-party vendors, utilize certain tracking software to capture your domain name address (the address of your Internet service provider) for purposes of tracking Website statistics. However, we do not capture any personally identifiable information in our website tracking software. The capture of your domain name is a common practice among websites for measuring the number of hits, pages visited, and length of user session. We use this information to measure the effectiveness of the Website offerings in order to service you better.
In addition, if you click on certain “banner ads” or other third-party advertisements on our Website that link you to third-party owned and/or operated websites (please also see “Other Websites,” below), we may use tracking software provided by third-party vendors to track your “clicks” and/or your other responses to such third-party advertisements (including whether you make purchases from any such third-party advertiser through the third-party’s website), to help calculate commissions that we may have earned from such third-party advertisers for such “clicks” and other responses to third-party advertisements on our Website. This tracking software may also help us and third-party advertisers measure the effectiveness of third-party advertisements on our Website. This tracking software captures certain information about your IP address and also uses “cookies.” As noted in the “Cookies” section, above, you have the option to adjust your browser settings to decline certain “cookies.”
Information Sharing Practices and Policies
We may share some or all of the information we collect, as described above, with affiliated companies and with third parties (i.e. nonaffiliated companies) as permitted by law. Information entered into college application forms is strictly proprietary to the respective college and will NOT be shared without prior written consent from the respective college. However, information entered elsewhere on the Site, such as when creating an account or profile, may be shared with affiliated companies and third parties.
For example, we may share some or all of the information we collect with the following types of affiliated companies and third parties:
- Companies with whom we conduct joint marketing campaigns;
- Companies that provide products and/or services, such as companies engaged in banking, credit cards, consumer finance, consumer computer products, travel, insurance, as well as other direct marketers and retailers;
- Companies that perform services on our behalf; and
- Other third parties as required by law, such as in response to a subpoena.
Information Use
We use the information you give us to provide the benefit, assistance or service you are requesting or would like to obtain. We may transfer aggregate or group data about our users for lawful purposes. Aggregate or group data is data that describes the demographics, usage or other characteristics of our users as a group without disclosing personally identifiable information. By submitting your information to us and using our Website, you agree to allow us to transfer such aggregate data to third parties. In addition, we collect and share information as discussed above.
Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to third-party owned and/or operated websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. These third-party websites have separate privacy policies and data collection practices and we have no responsibility or liability relating to them. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and data collection practices of those sites. The privacy policies of colleges for whom we host online college applications may be different from our Privacy Policy.
Security
Information we maintain about you is stored in a secure manner. We use security features to collect the information you provide to us via our Website in a secure manner. However, if you send us an email, that type of transmission of information is not secure, and is traveling though the Internet unprotected and can be intercepted. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or profile forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). While perfect security on the Internet is impossible, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the information you provide to us. We restrict access to this information to employees with a need to know this information to provide you with the benefit, assistance or service you request or would like to obtain, and to those employees that need the information to do their jobs.
Changes in Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
The notice will tell you that we've changed our Privacy Policy and it will make available the prior Privacy Policy that applied (including, the dates that it applied). In addition, the updated Privacy Policy will list a new "Effective Date." If you continue to use our Website (as described above, i.e., when you: (1) access or use our Website or any of the web pages of our Website, (2) agree to receive e-mail from us and/or, (3) make application for a College through our Website), you are agreeing to be covered by the updated Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Correct/Update
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you can correct, update, or delete the information you have provided to us by: (1) logging in to your account, (2) clicking on Edit Profile and (3) modifying any of the fields, as desired. You also may contact us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below to correct, update, or delete your information.
Contacting the Website
If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact us directly. We listen to and read every message sent to us, and we will endeavor to reply promptly to each one. Please email us with your questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or Terms at webmaster@universitylane.com or you can mail us at:
Attn: Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
University Lane Technologies
Level 2, ALTIUS Building
Olympia Technology Park
1 – SIDCO Industrial Estate
Chennai – 600 032, India
