Privacy Statement
At Tutorz, we place the highest importance on respecting and protecting the privacy of our users. Our most important asset is our relationship with you. We want you to feel comfortable and confident when using our Web site. Therefore, we would like to share with you the following principles that govern our information practices and other privacy aspects of our Web site.
Tutorz is an online application that helps people find tutors. To accomplish this, our registered tutors post their profile to the Tutorz site. Other Tutor profiles come to the Tutorz site from crawling the Internet. Users write reviews about tutors that are posted to the Tutorz Site. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, a "user" is defined as someone using the Tutorz Site. Tutorz goal is to help students and parents to find tutors they can trust. At the same time Tutorz aims at ensuring that tutoring requests are well-intentioned too. To fulfill the purpose of our site, we need to display a limited amount of personal information, so that users are able to evaluate the trustworthiness of a particular tutor, student and review.
By using Tutorz, you permit the collection and use of your personal information as outlined below in our Privacy Policy. You should visit this page periodically to review any changes to the Privacy Policy.
We Tell You What Information We Collect
Tutorz collects user submitted account information such as name and email address to identify you and send you notifications related to the use of the service. Tutorz also collects user submitted location information such as city, state or zip. Tutorz also collects user submitted photos, education information, personal statement, age range, years tutored, number of students tutored, reviews, and ratings of tutors. This information originates from either directly registered users or tutor profiles identified and aggregated by our crawler.
We tell you How We Use Your Information
Tutor profile information such as your full name, photo and any personally identifiable information you have included in your profile may be shown to users in conjunction with your advertisement you have posted.
Your full name and email address may also be used when you send an email notification to a user (such as an request to write a review about a previously contacted tutor). We may also use your email address to send you updates or news regarding our site.
We Protect Your Information
Your Tutorz account is password-protected. Tutorz tries very hard to protect our users' information from loss, misuse or unauthorized alteration. We use industry-recognized security measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. We limit the access to your information to those employees who need access to perform their job function such as our customer service personnel. Our employees are trained and required to safeguard your information. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Tutorz respects and protects your privacy. We will not rent, sell or share your personal information with outside companies for their promotional, including marketing, use.
You hereby acknowledge that Tutorz is not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the Internet, and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.
We Tell You about our Relationships with Third Parties
Our website may contain links to third party websites to which we have no affiliation. Tutorz does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We suggest you read the privacy polices on these third party websites.
We tell you how we use Cookies
Like most websites, Tutorz requires cookies to function properly. Cookies are small text files that reside on a user's computer and identify you as a unique user. We use cookies to refine our site and simplify the user experience. For example, the use of cookies allows registered users to enter our site without explicitly typing in their email address and password every time. You should be aware that Tutorz cannot control the use of cookies by advertisers or any information advertisers may gather from their use of cookies. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you certain features (e.g., customized delivery of information).
We give you Control about Your Personal Information
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g., user name, e-mail address) via profiles and reviews or in other areas of the Tutorz site, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of Tutorz. Please do not post any personal information on the Tutorz site or in other areas that you expect to keep private.
As a registered Tutorz user, you can modify your personal information at any time by accessing the "Account" section of the site. Also, upon your activation of the "Close" link in your "Account", Tutorz will remove you and your personal information from the site; however, it may be impossible to remove your entry without some residual information being retained by Tutorz.
Children
This website is not directed to children, and Tutorz does not knowingly adds information from any child under the age of 13 to our database. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child (or a parent or guardian) to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.
Terms and Modifications to this Privacy Statement
By using the website, you signify your agreement to the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the site. Tutorz may modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If a material change is made to this Privacy Policy and/or the way we use our users’ personally identifiable information, then we will post a prominent notice of the nature of such change on the first page of this Privacy Policy and also on our home page. You are responsible for reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure that you are aware of any changes to it. Your continued use of the site indicates your assent to any changes to this Privacy Policy.
You can Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you want to exercise any of the rights that you are given
under this Privacy Policy, you can email us at contact@tutorz.com or write to:
Tutorz LLC
745 Reef Circle
Port Hueneme, CA 93041
The effective date of this Agreement is July 14, 2008.