User Agreement for Online Degree Link

TERMS OF USE and Privacy

Welcome to CollegeGapYear.com. Services provided on this site and its affiliates are provided subject to the following conditions. If you visit or search and shop at CollegeGapYear.com, you accept these conditions. Please read them carefully. In addition, when you use any current or future CollegeGapYear.com service or visit or purchase from any business affiliated with CollegeGapYear.com, whether or not included in the CollegeGapYear.com Web site, you also will be subject to the guidelines and conditions applicable to that individual service or business.

Basically, please know that we are not liable to you, for anything. This is an informational program only and you should carefully investigate any promises or assertions made by anyone. This goes double for anyone thinking about leaving home at a young age! Parents, be sure to help your children make good choices. We are trying to be helpful but we are not making any warranties and incur no liability with regard or as a result of to this website. None, nada, zippo so please be careful. That said...here are more particulars subject to the foregoing statement.

PRIVACY Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your visit to CollegeGapYear.com, to understand our practices. Click here to view.

COPYRIGHT All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software, is the property of CollegeGapYear.com or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of CollegeGapYear.com and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of CollegeGapYear.com or its software suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws.

TRADEMARKS COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM and other marks indicated on our site are registered trademarks of CollegeGapYear.com, Inc. or its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries. CollegeGapYear.com graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are trademarks or trade dress of CollegeGapYear.com, Inc. or its subsidiaries. CollegeGapYear.com's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not CollegeGapYear.com's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits CollegeGapYear.com. All other trademarks not owned by CollegeGapYear.com or its subsidiaries that appear on this site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by CollegeGapYear.com or its subsidiaries.

LICENSE AND SITE ACCESS CollegeGapYear.com grants you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with express written consent of CollegeGapYear.com. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its contents; any collection and use of any class or class provider listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of CollegeGapYear.com. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of CollegeGapYear.com and our affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing CollegeGapYear.com's name or trademarks without the express written consent of CollegeGapYear.com. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by CollegeGapYear.com. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of CollegeGapYear.com so long as the link does not portray CollegeGapYear.com, its affiliates, or their classes, products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any CollegeGapYear.com logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

REVIEWS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND OTHER CONTENT Visitors may submit comments; send e-mail communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam." You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. CollegeGapYear.com reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content. CollegeGapYear.com has the right but not the obligation to oversee and edit or remove any activity or content. CollegeGapYear.com claims no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

RISK OF LOSS All classes or related items purchased from CollegeGapYear.com are made pursuant to either scheduled class dates or an individual retailer's shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon the start of the class or delivery of purchased items through the mail carrier.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS CollegeGapYear.com does not warrant that Program and Program Provider descriptions or other content of this site is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If programs offered by CollegeGapYear.com itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to seek a refund from the provider. We are not liable at all.

OTHER BUSINESSES Parties other than CollegeGapYear.com and its subsidiaries operate schools, stores, or sell product lines on this site. In addition, we provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their Web sites. COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS SITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED ON THIS SITE. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM CollegeGapYear.COM ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. COLLEGEGAPYEAR.COM WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

APPLICABLE LAW By visiting CollegeGapYear.com, you agree that the laws of the state of North Carolina, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these User Terms and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and CollegeGapYear.com or its affiliates.

DISPUTES Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to CollegeGapYear.com or to classes you purchase through CollegeGapYear.com shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Greensboro, North Carolina except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate CollegeGapYear.com's intellectual property rights, CollegeGapYear.com may seek injunctive or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the state of North Carolina, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the American Arbitration Association. The arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no arbitration under this Agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to this Agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

Privacy

CollegeGapYear.com created this statement in order to assure you that any and all information that we gather about you supports our efforts in providing you with the most fulfilling learning services available. We have taken the proper measures to ensure that your learning experience with us is safe, secure, and enjoyable.

We will never sell your information to other companies, unless otherwise stated. Your privacy is important to us and we do everything possible to protect it. This statement details our information gathering and sharing practices for CollegeGapYear.com.

This Privacy & Security statement is subject to change without notice. We encourage you to review our Privacy and Security statement whenever you use this Web site to make sure you understand how your information will be used.

Information We Collect and How We Use It
When you enroll for a class with us, we will need to collect your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number and credit card expiration date. This information allows us to process your enrollment and contact you if necessary. Additionally, if you choose to participate in a contest or a promotion, we may ask for your name, address and phone number in order to administer the contest and notify the winners.

If you volunteer to participate in an online survey, we may ask for contact information and possibly additional information such as your interests and demographics. Supplying this information is strictly voluntary. The information is used to provide you with a more personalized learning experience, including future recommendations and promotions that may be of special interest to you. You may opt out of receiving this enhanced information if you so choose.

Information about our users, such as site traffic patterns and site usage, is collected as a unit. We use this non-personal information in order to improve the layout and design of our site. Additionally, for those users who complete an online form on our site - either for a contest or promotion - we may use the information they provide to notify them of any site changes, new features and services, and to keep them informed of any special offerings by CollegeGapYear.com and its affiliates.

To the extent that we use third party advertisers or contact lists to personalize your learning experience, including future recommendations and promotions that may be of special interest to you, they may adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. CollegeGapYear.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties and/or their opt-out lists. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Information Disclosure
When you enroll for a class with us, we share your information with our Class Providers in order to fulfill your enrollment. We also share sales information with Class providers in order to properly process service and refunds. We do not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information with anyone outside of CollegeGapYear.

We may provide your information as required by law or legal process; to protect and defend the rights of CollegeGapYear, the CollegeGapYear.com site or the users and, under circumstances we believe reasonably necessary to protect the personal safety of users of CollegeGapYear, this site or the public.

Links to External Sites
Our site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are not under our control. CollegeGapYear is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

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Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information that many Web sites use to help make shopping online easier. The information is stored on your computer's hard drive. It lets you visit, search, and sign-up on our site and return several days later without having to reenter the information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. Browsers usually provide the option to disable this feature.

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Security
Our site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is stored on a secure server that is not accessible through the Internet.

Children's Guidelines
At CollegeGapYear.com, a child's safety is very important to us. We are committed to protecting the online privacy of children. We will not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information about children under the age of 18 without prior parental consent. If you are under 18 and would like to enroll in a class through CollegeGapYear.com or provide personal information about yourself and your family, please ask a parent or guardian for assistance.

CollegeGapYear.com cannot prohibit minors from visiting this site. CollegeGapYear.com must rely on parents, guardians and those responsible for supervising children under the age of 18 to decide which materials are appropriate for such children to view and/or purchase.

Each time you purchase a product at CollegeGapYear.com or provide information about yourself or your family, you are representing to CollegeGapYear that you are 18 years or older.

Choice/Opt-Out
We offer you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request the information.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. If you would like more information about this practice and your choices, click here.