This Privacy Policy applies to web sites operated by cambrian.edu.bd/metropolitan ("Metropolitan") (each such web site being a " Metropolitan Site"). School & College Greenlight® is a service offered by Metropolitan.
1. GENERAL STATEMENT
Metropolitan respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it. Our services require us to collect detailed personal information from you. We want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision about sharing your information with us. This Privacy Policy explains our information collection and sharing practices, as well as the choices you can make to limit our sharing your information.
In general, we may share your personal information with a variety of third parties, including school & colleges, scholarship administrators, marketing partners, advertisers and counselors. However, we only share your personal information with these parties if you have either given your permission or taken an action on a Metropolitan Site to indicate an interest in a particular college or university (for example, adding the school to your "list," calculating your chances of admission to a particular school, etc.). We also share your personal information with vendors (for example, our web hosting provider) as needed to assist Metropolitan with business operations, but they are contractually required to keep your information confidential.
We may also use information about how you interact with the Metropolitan Site and the schools in which you show an interest to generate aggregate data analytics that may be shared with our college and university partners. We take steps to ensure that this data is always anonymous and not identifiable in any way.
We've tried to make this privacy policy as simple as possible. You should read the rest of it for more detail on how we treat your personal information.
Humble request to maintain the policy:
1. Ignorance
2. Chattering
3. Criticism
4. Quarrel
5. Irresponsible reception
6. Sending around from one office to another
7. Looking up and down suspiciously
8. Receiving while doing other thing
9. Smoking
2. TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Student Offline Registration - When you offline registration on a Metropolitan school & college, you are asked to provide certain information, such as name, address, phone number, e-mail address, date of birth and other academic and demographic variables relevant to the college selection/admission process. You may update this information at any time after your initial registration. If you are searching for scholarships, you may be asked to provide additional information that will help match you as a candidate for particular scholarships, including financial information, community involvement or disabilities.
Counselor Department- Counselors and certain student supporters ("Counselors") have the ability to Metropolitan Sites counselor section page. If you create a Counselor Department, we will collect your business contact information and it may be viewable by students, school and colleges that use Metropolitan Sites. You always have the ability to update your counselor information and can have by contacting us at metropolitanbd@gmail.com.
Metropolitan School & College Advisers Service– We may collect personal information from users who subscribe to the Metropolitan School & College Advising Service (the “Advising Service”) when such information is shared via online chat and other interactive tools on the Metropolitan Sites. Personal information collected through the Metropolitan College Advising Service may be retained and used by our college advisors and other operational vendors to enable us to provide the Advising Service, but this information will not be added to your Metropolitan user profile and will not be shared with colleges, universities and sponsors as described in section 3 without your consent.
Referrals - You may have received an invitation to register for a Metropolitan Site because we received your information from a third party that believes you would benefit from using a Metropolitan Site. If you decline the invitation, we do not retain the information we received from that party. Similarly, Metropolitan registrants can choose to let others know about Metropolitan through our referral feature by entering in a person's name and email address. If we received your email address through this channel, you may receive an invitation to register for a Metropolitan Site.
Cookies and Web Site Information - We use cookies and web server logs to collect information about how you use Metropolitan Sites and to customize advertising that you may see on Metropolitan Sites. Information gathered through cookies and our web server logs may include the date and time of visits, your IP address, the pages viewed, time spent at our Metropolitan Site, and the web sites visited just before and just after a Metropolitan Site. This information may be appended to your profile information to provide you with better service and information and may be shared with colleges, universities and other sponsors as provided below. It also may be collected on an aggregate basis, and shared with or collected by third-party web analytics services to help Metropolitan understand our users' aggregated usage patterns and related trends. If you would like more information about advertising-related data collection practices and to know your choices about not having this information used by these online advertising companies.
3. HOW WE USE AND SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use and share the information you supply to Metropolitan in the following ways:
School and Colleges, Sponsors - We use your profile information to match your background to the preferences of colleges and universities and other variables so we can recommend colleges and universities based on "fit." Additionally, colleges and universities who work with Metropolitan may target certain types of students based on non-personally identifiable criteria such as GPA or general geographic regions. If you meet the school's targeting criteria, or based on other information in your profile, we may ask you whether your profile information may be sent to school and colleges, other sponsors. With your permission, we will release your profile information to such school and colleges other sponsor so that they may directly contact you. Metropolitan will also share your information with colleges and universities when you take certain action or interact with certain functionalities on a Metropolitan Site indicating an interest in a school. For example, if you add a college to your list, your profile may be shared with that college. Similarly, if you use the What Are My Chances® function to calculate your chances of getting in to a school, your profile may be shared with that school. Colleges and universities may be notified when you begin an application with the applicable school using the Application Service. If you do not complete the Application within the defined application period, the incomplete application data may be provided to the school so that it may close out its records. Metropolitan may be compensated for information that is shared with school and colleges and sponsors.
Contacting You by E-Mail - Metropolitan may use your contact information to send you e-mail messages regarding updates at a Metropolitan Site, such as new Metropolitan opportunities and additional listings which may be of interest to you. The frequency of these messages will vary depending upon your profile, including the types of colleges and other activities you indicated having an interest in. We may also send you various Metropolitan newsletters and other email marketing messages. You may opt-out of receiving these offers at any time by following this link and provided below in the "Your Privacy Choices" section of this Privacy Policy, or via the unsubscribe link contained in the email message. You may also receive e-mail messages from colleges, universities and other third parties once we have shared your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy do not govern e-mail messages from third parties.
Scholarships - Metropolitan Sites offer opportunities to apply for scholarships and each may require you to provide additional information about yourself. If you are a match for an external scholarship, Metropolitan will provide you with information you need to apply for the scholarship and you will then work with that organization to apply. If you participate in a Metropolitan -sponsored scholarship offer, Metropolitan will share your personally identifiable information with a third party scholarship administrator who may contact you to verify your profile information, including obtaining copies of any required documentation Metropolitan or the scholarship administrator requires to award the scholarship and disburse funds to your college or university.
Surveys and Contests - Metropolitan Sites may invite you to participate in surveys, contests and other promotions relevant to your college search process. If you participate, your personally identifiable information may be shared with third party marketing partners to process entries and send you promotional material. Please consult the official rules of any contest or sweepstakes you enter on a Metropolitan Site as specific data collection, usage, and information sharing practices may vary by contest and sweepstakes. Survey information will be used to monitor or improve the Metropolitan Sites, but we will not share individual responses to a survey without your consent.
Inviting Counselors - You can choose to allow Counselors, other trusted advisors to access your Metropolitan account. If you use this feature, you will either select a registered counselor provide your counselor's name and e-mail address so that Metropolitan can invite them to register on the Metropolitan Site, both of which will allow the counselor to view your account and monitor your progress. By inviting these individuals to monitor your progress, you are granting permission to Metropolitan to share all information in your profile with them. For School and College counselors will have the ability to do everything with your account that you could do, including make changes to your profile and take actions that result in Metropolitan sharing your information with third parties. As part of School and College Greenlight's mission to serve traditionally underrepresented student populations, we do this so that can fully assist their students in finding the right college fit and scholarships to fund your education.
Site Customization - Metropolitan uses your information in order to customize our Metropolitan Site(s) to your interests and customize the advertisements you see based on your interests and preferences. Metropolitan uses various methods to recognize you, including cookies and requesting your e-mail address and password before accessing our site.
Aggregate, Non-Personally Identifiable Information - We may use anonymous information about how you use Metropolitan Sites (e.g., the schools in which you are interested in, schools to which you apply, etc.) to improve the functionality of Metropolitan Sites and improve Metropolitan service offerings, including using this data at an aggregate level to create data analytics offerings to analyze trends. Metropolitan may share this aggregate level data and other non-personally identifiable information with our business partners and university and college users and may be compensated for the same. Metropolitan attempts to use industry-standard methods to ensure that the data remains anonymous and that individual students cannot be identified through any of this aggregate data.
Third Party Vendors - Metropolitan uses third party vendors to perform operational functions related to the Metropolitan Sites. Some of these vendors (e.g., the Application Service, email vendors or hosting providers) may have access to your personally identifiable information, but only as necessary to provide services to Metropolitan. Metropolitan has agreements in place with these vendors requiring them to keep your information confidential and use reasonable data security measures to protect it.
Web Analytics Services - Metropolitan Sites may use third party analytics services, such as Lucky Orange Web Analytics Service, to help improve usability and the customer experience. These services may record mouse clicks, page views, mouse movements and scrolling activity and are used by Metropolitan to analyze trends and administer the Metropolitan Sites. In the case of the Lucky Orange service, you can disable it here; however, doing so may disable features of the Lucky Orange system that the Metropolitan Sites employ such as 1:1 support chat.
Other Third Parties - If you permit colleges, universities or other third parties to contact you based on the practices described in this Privacy Policy, those third parties may share your personal information with other marketers, data aggregators or others (possibly in the form of list rentals).
Links to Other Sites - This Privacy Policy applies only to the Metropolitan Sites. While Metropolitan Sites may link to other third party web sites, information you may provide on a linked site once you leave the Metropolitan Site is not controlled by Metropolitan and is not controlled by this Privacy Policy. You should consult the privacy policy of any linked sites before providing your information to those sites.
Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures - Metropolitan will release your personal information if required by law, for example, if we receive a subpoena or otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires us to release your information.
4. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
Modifying Privacy - You may deactivate your account of receiving certain types of communications, which will take you to the "Manage your Account" page of the Metropolitan Site. If you deactivate your account, we will retain your information in our active database, but will not use it to contact you or share with colleges or other third parties. Metropolitan will communicate with you only according to your listed preferences. In order to opt-out of third party communications, you will need to contact the applicable third party. If you have any questions relating to opting-out, please contact us at metropolitanbd@gmail.com, and we will do our best to answer your questions.
Updating Information - Admin can update information on a Metropolitan Website, or by following the instructions included in any e-mail message you receive from Metropolitan. Contact us at metropolitanbd@gmail.com if you have any problems updating your information.
5. USE OUTSIDE OF THE BANGLADESH
Metropolitan Sites are operated in the Bangladesh. If you are located outside of the Bangladesh, any information you provide to us will be transferred to the Bangladesh. By using the Metropolitan Sites or by providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.
6. OUR DATA SECURITY PROCEDURES
Metropolitan has reasonable security measures in place to keep the information you provide to us safe from unauthorized access. However, no method of information transfer over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information during its transmission or storage in our systems. We will assume that anyone who has the required login/password information for your account is you, so please keep this information confidential. Vendors and contractors who perform operational services for Metropolitan Sites and have access to your personally identifiable information are required to keep the information confidential.
If you have any questions about security issues, please e-mail us at metropolitanbd@gmail.com, and we will try to answer your questions.
7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY / QUESTIONS
Changes to the Privacy Policy - Metropolitan may update this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to users other than posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. After posting such amended Privacy Policy, all information provided to us will be subject to the terms of the amended Privacy Policy. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes.
Your privacy is important to Metropolitan. If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at metropolitanbd@gmail.com.
Alternatively, you may contact us at:
Metropolitan School and College
329/8, South Jatrabari, Dhaka.
Mobile: +8801720557130/140
Website: cambrian.edu.bd/metropolitan
Email: metropolitanbd@gmail.com