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By continuing to use this site, you consent to our use of cookies, as described in Sections 3.2 and 4 of the document <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#privacy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" background-color="background-color">here</a>, unless you have disabled them.</div><div>---</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">Last Modified: June 22, 2017<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width"><a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/SummaryOfChanges.jsp" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Summary of Most Recent Significant Changes</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">PRIVACY POLICY AND YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">This is the privacy policy (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Privacy Policy”) describing our privacy practices for the specific Internet website, application or other interactive service that includes an authorized link to this Privacy Policy and all other websites, applications and other interactive services you also use that are offered by the specific VII Brand (as defined below) that is providing this website, application or other interactive service (collectively, all such websites, applications and other interactive services, "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Site," "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">we," "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">us" or "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">our"). The Site is owned, operated and/or provided in cooperation or connection with mtvU, one of the VII Brands, by RateMyProfessors.com LLC, a subsidiary of Viacom International Inc. (RateMyProfessors.com LLC and Viacom International Inc., along with its Affiliates, shall be referred to collectively as “VII”) through its Viacom Media Networks division, which offers television channel or programming services (such as television networks, websites, applications or other interactive services) and offers other products and services under various brands, such as those Viacom Media Networks brands and other VII brands listed <a href="http://viacom.com/brands/pages/default.aspx" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a> (each, a “VII Brand”). This Site together with the associated VII television channel or programming service, if any, shall be referred to collectively as the “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Channel”. “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Affiliates” refers to Viacom International Inc.’s parent company Viacom Inc. and all affiliates that Viacom Inc. directly or indirectly owns or controls (such as Paramount Pictures Corporation and the other affiliates of Viacom Media Networks as described in the link <a href="http://viacom.com/brands/pages/default.aspx" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>).<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">This Privacy Policy is intended to explain our privacy practices and covers the following areas:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">1. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">When This Privacy Policy Applies.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">2. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Governing Law.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">3. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">What Information Is Collected.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">4. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">How Is Collected Information Used.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">5. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your Choices.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">6. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp6" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">[reserved]</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">7. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp7" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Sharing and Disclosure of Information.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">8. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Reviewing, Updating or Deleting Certain Information.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">9. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp9" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Protection of Information.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">10. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp10" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your California Privacy Rights.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">11. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp11" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Changes to this Privacy Policy and Notice.</a><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">12. <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp12" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Miscellaneous.</a><span class="anchor" id="sectionp1" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">1. When This Privacy Policy Applies.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">This Privacy Policy applies:<ul class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style="list-style" none="none"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Regardless of whether you are accessing the Site via a personal computer, a mobile device or any other technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered (each, a “Device”);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Whether you are accessing the Site as a registered user (if offered by the Site) or other user of the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">To all Information (as that term is defined below) collected by the Site (as defined above)</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">To our use of combined information if we combine Information (as that term is defined below) collected by the Site with other information we collect from other sources, such as information received from VII (for example, information collected at a physical location), marketing companies or Advertisers; and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Will remain in full force and effect even if your use of or participation in the Site or any particular service, feature, function or promotional activity offered through the Site terminates, expires, ceases, is suspended or deactivated for any reason.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">This Privacy Policy does not, unless specifically stated, apply to any Information (as that term is defined below) collected by any other company or collected in any other manner or by any other website, application or other interactive service offered by Viacom and/or its Affiliates. Such information collection may be governed by separate privacy policies or notices. In particular, see our <a href="http://www.viacom.com/privacypolicy/Documents/Privacy_Shield_Privacy_Policy_Viacom.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Privacy Shield Privacy Policy</a> for information on our privacy policy and practices with respect to personal information transferred to the U.S.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">By participating in this Site or any features, activities or services offered through the Site, you consent to our privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">Certain products or services offered by this Site may be subject to additional privacy practices, such as practices on how Information is collected, used, shared and/or disclosed by such products or services and/or how you may exercise choice with regard to such Information (“Additional Privacy Statements”). These Additional Privacy Statements, if any, shall be provided to you in conjunction with those products and services and are hereby incorporated in this Privacy Policy by reference. To the extent that there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy and the Additional Privacy Statement for the activity in which you choose to participate, the Additional Privacy Statement shall govern.<span class="anchor" id="sectionp2" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">2. U.S. Governing Law<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">The Site is designed and targeted to U.S. audiences and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. We make no representation that this Site is operated in accordance with the laws or regulations of, or governed by, other nations.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">If you are located outside of the U.S., you use this Site at your own risk and initiative and you, not us, are responsible for compliance with any applicable local and national laws. Please be aware that any Personal Information and Other Information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of this Site shall be collected in the U.S. and/or transferred to the U.S. and subject to U.S. law.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">By using this Site, participating in any Site activities and/or providing us with your Personal Information and Other Information, you (a) consent to the transfer and/or processing of any Information to and in the U.S., (b) acknowledge that U.S. law may provide a lower standard of protection for personal data than the laws of your location and (c) understand that we shall collect, transfer, store, process and/or deal with your Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and U.S. law. Consequently, to the full extent permitted by law, you hereby waive any claims relating to the processing of your Personal Information or Other Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy that may arise under the laws and regulations that apply to you in or of any other country or jurisdiction.<span class="anchor" id="sectionp3" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">3. What Information Is Collected.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">When we use the term "Personal Information" we mean information that you provide us that identifies you or would allow someone to contact you, such as your full name, postal address, email address or telephone number. When we use the term “Other Information”, we mean any information other than Personal Information that may be collected about you, including, but not limited to, Device and advertising identifiers and information collected through cookies or other Tracking Technologies or Identifiers (as those terms are defined below). Any Personal Information that is modified to remove your contact information and other information that identifies you or that is replaced with information that no longer identifies you or allows someone to contact you(for example, hashed email addresses or usernames) shall not be treated as Personal Information but shall be treated as Other Information after such modification. (Personal Information and Other Information shall be referred to, together, as “Information”.)<div class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">3.1 Information We Collect that You Provide Us.<div class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1 User Registration; Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On; Single VII Sign-On. If we offer user registration on the Site, to register as a member of the Site, there may be a few options for you to register: Site Registration (as described below) and Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On (as described below). In each case, you are required to either use a pre-existing user name and password (together, your “User ID”) or select a new User ID.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1.1 Site Registration. For Site registration, you are required to select a User ID and may be required to also provide other Information, such as your email address and date of birth. Additional Information may be requested and/or required during the registration process. After you have registered for the Site under Site Registration, we may recognize you when you visit certain other VII websites, applications or other interactive services across Devices (such as when you login) and permit you to use Single VII Sign-On (as described below) to register for and login on such other websites, applications or other interactive services, but please note that other VII websites, applications or other interactive services may set additional or different requirements for membership, such as minimum age.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1.2 Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On. We may provide you with the ability to sign on to the Site by using third party social media network credentials (“SMN”). If you choose to sign-in through an SMN, you may be required to provide us with all or some of the Information required in the Site’s registration form and your use of the Site shall be governed by the applicable SMN’s privacy policy and user agreements as well as this Privacy Policy and the Site’s Terms of Use Agreement. [clickable link] Please note that the SMN may set additional or different requirements for membership than those set for the Site, such as minimum age. We, and VII, are not responsible for the use of any such SMN, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you may disclose to or receive from an SMN or other third party in connection with such use. If you use an SMN to sign-in, we may receive certain information from such SMN and our use of your Information we receive from any SMN is governed by the relevant policies of any such SMN and any permissions you give us regarding your Information, including, but not limited to, those set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about whether a particular feature, function or service of the Site is powered by a third party, you may contact us with your question as provided in Section 12.2 (Questions) below.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">After you have registered for the Site through SMN, we may recognize you when you visit certain other VII websites, applications or other interactive services and permit you to use Single VII Sign-On (as described below) to register for and login on such other websites, applications or other interactive services.</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">Also note that, for your online privacy and security, if other people have access to your Device, we recommend you log out of your account after visiting any of the websites, applications or other interactive services that are associated with your account.<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.2 In Connection with Certain Features and Functions. We may also provide you with access to certain features or functions that we may offer on the Site, such as the option to participate in commenting, shopping and member profile pages. To sign up for or participate in these features or functions, you may be required to provide us with certain Information about you in order for us to personalize and/or allow you to use such features and functions. For example, if we offer e-Commerce services on this Site, if you order any of our goods or services through such services, in addition to your name and contact information, we (or our operational service providers that we use to provide the e-Commerce service) may also collect and/or maintain your billing address, shipping address, selections, credit card or other payment instrument information, order number and information about your computer's internet address and website which may have referred or directed you to the Site (e.g., the referring URL).<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">The Site may also provide features, functions and/or services powered by an SMN or other third party. For example, Information may be disclosed to an SMN through plug-ins offered by such SMN (such as Likes, Shares or commenting). Please take care when using any SMN or other third party service and familiarize yourself with the SMN’s or other third party’s policies and agreements, if any, that govern such use.<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">3.1.3 In Connection with Promotions such as Contests and Sweepstakes. There may be a separate registration process to enter Promotions (as defined in the Site’s <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#use" id="samePage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Terms of Use Agreement</a>) such as contests and sweepstakes which may require the submission of all or some of the following: your first and last name, street address, city, state and zip code, email address, telephone number and date of birth. Additional Information may be requested depending on the specific Promotion. The Promotion’s entry page and/or Rules shall provide the specific requirements. You may also have the opportunity to opt-in to receive special Promotions or offers from our third party advertisers, sponsors or promotional partners (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Advertisers”) as a result of your use of the Site in connection with these Promotions.</div><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">3.2 Information Collected Through Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.<div class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">The Site and/or third parties may use “cookies”, “web beacons”, Flash local shared objects and other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Tracking Technologies”) to collect Other Information automatically as you browse the Site and the web. "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Cookies" are typically html or browser-based text or other files (and often referred to as browser cookies) that help store information, user preferences and/or user activity. “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Web beacons” (also known as image tags, gif, tracking pixels or web bugs) are small pieces of code used to collect data, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses. Flash local shared objects (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">LSOs”) (sometimes known as Flash cookies and used if Adobe Flash is used) are text or other files that help store user preferences and/or activity.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">These Tracking Technologies collect “click stream” data and additional Other Information regarding your visits to the Site (such as your visits to the Site’s webpages, type of browser use, type of operating system used, date and time of viewing, use of our features and purchasing history or preferences) or other websites, applications or interactive services. Through these Tracking Technologies, we may collect such Other Information across multiple sessions on this Site and other websites, applications or other interactive services and may also collect or access your IP address (which is automatically assigned to any Device(s) and/or Device and Internet browser combination you use to access the Site) and/or set or access some other identifier unique to the Device(s), Device platform and/or Device-Internet browser combination you use to access the Site (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Identifier”). For example, we may set a unique alphanumeric Identifier unique to your home computer on Firefox, or access an Identifier provided by a mobile platform, such as the application or advertising Identifiers offered by Apple. Your Personal Information is not collected as part of this process but we may combine any or all of the Other Information we collect using Tracking Technologies and associate it and/or Identifiers with your Personal Information (such as your Single VII Sign-On ID) and/or with other non-personally identifiable unique identifiers assigned by VII or third parties.<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">3.2.1 The Site’s Use of Tracking Technologies to Collect Information<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">By visiting the Site, whether as a registered user or otherwise, you acknowledge and understand that you are giving us your consent to track your activities and your use of the Site and other websites, applications or interactive services through these Tracking Technologies and that we may use Tracking Technologies in the emails we send to you. See <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your Choices</a> section below for more information on how you can withdraw your consent for certain purposes.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">We use Tracking Technologies to enable us to collect and then use Information as described in <span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Section 4.2 “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#otherbyus" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Other Information Collected by Us</a>” under “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">How Is Collected Information Used</a>” below. For example, we use Tracking Technologies to enable Single VII Sign-On, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times or seeing advertisements too frequently, to tailor your experience on the Site by delivering relevant personalized advertising, email marketing and other content and to record if you have opted out of receiving personalized advertising from us.<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">3.2.2 Third Parties’ Use of Tracking Technologies to Collect Information<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">This Site may additionally use a variety of third party advertising networks, data exchanges, data management platforms, supply side platforms, ad exchanges, traffic or audience measurement service providers, marketing analytics service providers and other third parties (collectively, “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Third Party Service Providers”) to, for example, facilitate personalized advertisements (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Customized Advertising”) and/or other content, serve advertisements on the Site and/or measure and analyze advertising or content effectiveness and/or traffic on the Site. Customized Advertising enable us to, among other things, help deliver advertisements to you for products and services that you might be interested in based on your visits to the Site and other websites, applications or other interactive services you have visited.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">Third Party Service Providers, as well as Advertisers and other third parties, may themselves set and access their own Tracking Technologies on your Device subject to your choices about those Tracking Technologies (see “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#trackingtpspa" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Tracking Technologies set by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers</a>” section below and “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#mimtt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">More Information on Managing Tracking Technologies</a>” section below) and/or they may otherwise collect or have access to Information about you and your online activities over time and across different websites when you use the Site.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">We may also enlist the assistance of Third Party Service Providers so that the Site may set Tracking Technologies. For example, to the extent necessary to provide basic advertising serving services such as controlling how often you see advertisements or ensuring you do not see the same advertisement repeatedly, we may enlist the assistance of such Third Party Service Providers to create, customize or modify Tracking Technologies set by the Site. See also Section 5.2.1 for more information on this Site’s use of Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software to collect and use video viewing metrics and other information.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width" px="px">Except to the extent necessary to provide services to the Site, Third Party Service Providers do not have access to Tracking Technologies set by the Site, but we may provide to Third Party Service Providers certain Other Information collected by Tracking Technologies set by the Site in order for the Site to provide Customized Advertising or in order for the Third Party Service Providers to provide other services to the Site, such as measuring or analyzing advertising or content effectiveness or traffic on the Site. For example, in order to analyze traffic on the Site, we may provide to our Third Party Service Providers certain information we collect about your interaction with the Site along with an Identifier so that the Third Party Service Provider may provide analytics services to the Site.</div></div></div><span class="anchor" id="sectionp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">4. How Is Collected Information Used.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">As set forth in this Privacy Policy, we may share Information with VII (including Affiliates).<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.1 Personal Information. We, and/or VII, use the Personal Information we collect from you in a variety of ways, including:<ul class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style="list-style" none="none"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Sending marketing and promotional emails, newsletters or, subject to the “Text Messaging Marketing and Promotions ” Section below, text messages offering goods and/or services that may be of interest to users, whether those goods and/or services are provided by the Site, VII or third parties (for example, we may send you an email about a product sold by a third party or about a new VII show);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Processing your registration with the Site, such as verifying that your email address is active and valid;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Contacting you regarding the administration of your account, any services, features or functions you have enrolled in or registered to use, any Promotions you have participated in or have entered, any goods and/or services you have ordered through e-Commerce services available on the Site or any other transactions you have undertaken with the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Allowing you to participate in the public areas and/or other features of the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Responding to your questions or other requests;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Contacting you regarding your use of the Site, for informational purposes related to the Site or, in our discretion, regarding changes to the Site’s policies;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Improving the Site or our services and for internal business purposes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Tailoring your experience on, and/or otherwise customizing what you see when you visit, the Site and/or other sites, applications or other interactive services across Devices whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties (for example, to provide recommendations on content or provide advertisements, emails or other content of more interest to you);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Saving your User ID or other Personal Information, so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Otherwise to maintain and administer the Site and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">For other purposes disclosed at the time you provide the Personal Information (for example, as set forth in the Rules for any Promotions you enter).</li></ul><p id="otherbyus" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width"><span class="anchor" id="oicbu" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; height: 80px; visibility: hidden;"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.2 Other Information Collected by Us. We, and/or VII, use the Other Information we collect from you in a variety of ways, including:<ul class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style="list-style" none="none"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Keeping count of your return visits to the Site or VII’s, Advertisers' or partners' sites, applications or other interactive services;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Accumulating and reporting aggregate, statistical information in connection with the Site and user activity;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Analyzing, determining or anticipating which features, webpages, products and services users like best to, among other things, help us operate the Site and/or other VII websites, applications or other interactive services, enhance and improve our services and the Site and/or other VII or third party websites, applications or other interactive services and display advertising and marketing information on the Site and/or other VII or third party websites, applications or other interactive services (for example, to provide ads of interest to you on the Site or third party sites, to analyze effectiveness of advertisements, to assess the appeal of certain content to our general site audience and to understand your interactions with email messages we send and the content contained in such messages (such as the links clicked on within marketing and promotional emails we send and whether such messages were opened or forwarded));</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Preparing statistics reports;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Allowing you to participate in the public areas and/or other features of the Site (for example, to enable you to use shopping carts on the Site);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Improving our services, the Site and/or other websites, applications or other interactive services and for internal business purposes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Tailoring your experience on, and/or otherwise customizing what you see when you visit the Site and/or other sites, applications or other interactive services across Devices whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties (for example, to provide recommendations on content or provide advertisements, emails or other content of more interest to you);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Saving certain Other Information for use on your return visits to the Site and making your experience on this Site more convenient for you (for example, to recognize you by name when you return to the Site, to apply certain settings or preferences you have identified on this Site or other VII websites, to save your password in password-protected areas and to save your online game or video player settings);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Using certain characteristics that you enter about yourself on the Site, such as age or gender, for tailoring the online advertising and/or other content that you see when you visit the Site or other websites, applications or other interactive services whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties, whether alone or in combination with other Information;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">Otherwise to maintain and administer the Site (for example, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times or seeing advertisements too frequently, to record if you have opted out of receiving personalized content or using IP address to pre-populate registration fields to facilitate your sign-up);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">For the uses described for “Personal Information” above; and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc">For other purposes disclosed at or before the time the Other Information is collected.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" list-style-type="list-style-type" disc="disc" /></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.3. Other Information Collected by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers. The use of Tracking Technologies by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers is within their control and not ours. Even if we have a relationship with the Third Party Service Provider or Advertiser, we do not control their websites, applications or other interactive services or their policies and practices regarding your Information and you should be aware that different rules might apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your Information by third parties in connection with their advertisements or promotions and other sites, applications or other interactive services you encounter on the Internet. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Information that a Third Party Service Provider or Advertiser may directly collect from you. Use of Third Party Service Providers’ and Advertisers’ Tracking Technologies is governed by the Third Party Service Providers’ or Advertisers’, as applicable, own specific privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy. However, please see the “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your Choices</a>” section for more information on how to opt-out of the collection and/or use of Information collected by certain Third Party Service Providers.<span class="anchor" id="sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" display="display" block="block" height="height" visibility="visibility" hidden="hidden"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">5. Your Choices.<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-family: " source="Source" sans="Sans" pro="Pro" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" width="width">...</div><div></div><div><div class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;">3.1 Information We Collect that You Provide Us.<div class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1 User Registration; Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On; Single VII Sign-On. If we offer user registration on the Site, to register as a member of the Site, there may be a few options for you to register: Site Registration (as described below) and Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On (as described below). In each case, you are required to either use a pre-existing user name and password (together, your “User ID”) or select a new User ID.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1.1 Site Registration. For Site registration, you are required to select a User ID and may be required to also provide other Information, such as your email address and date of birth. Additional Information may be requested and/or required during the registration process. After you have registered for the Site under Site Registration, we may recognize you when you visit certain other VII websites, applications or other interactive services across Devices (such as when you login) and permit you to use Single VII Sign-On (as described below) to register for and login on such other websites, applications or other interactive services, but please note that other VII websites, applications or other interactive services may set additional or different requirements for membership, such as minimum age.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.1.2 Third Party Social Media Network Sign-On. We may provide you with the ability to sign on to the Site by using third party social media network credentials (“SMN”). If you choose to sign-in through an SMN, you may be required to provide us with all or some of the Information required in the Site’s registration form and your use of the Site shall be governed by the applicable SMN’s privacy policy and user agreements as well as this Privacy Policy and the Site’s Terms of Use Agreement. [clickable link] Please note that the SMN may set additional or different requirements for membership than those set for the Site, such as minimum age. We, and VII, are not responsible for the use of any such SMN, or for the accuracy, use or misuse of any information that you may disclose to or receive from an SMN or other third party in connection with such use. If you use an SMN to sign-in, we may receive certain information from such SMN and our use of your Information we receive from any SMN is governed by the relevant policies of any such SMN and any permissions you give us regarding your Information, including, but not limited to, those set forth in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about whether a particular feature, function or service of the Site is powered by a third party, you may contact us with your question as provided in Section 12.2 (Questions) below.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">After you have registered for the Site through SMN, we may recognize you when you visit certain other VII websites, applications or other interactive services and permit you to use Single VII Sign-On (as described below) to register for and login on such other websites, applications or other interactive services.</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;">Also note that, for your online privacy and security, if other people have access to your Device, we recommend you log out of your account after visiting any of the websites, applications or other interactive services that are associated with your account.<div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;"><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">3.1.2 In Connection with Certain Features and Functions. We may also provide you with access to certain features or functions that we may offer on the Site, such as the option to participate in commenting, shopping and member profile pages. To sign up for or participate in these features or functions, you may be required to provide us with certain Information about you in order for us to personalize and/or allow you to use such features and functions. For example, if we offer e-Commerce services on this Site, if you order any of our goods or services through such services, in addition to your name and contact information, we (or our operational service providers that we use to provide the e-Commerce service) may also collect and/or maintain your billing address, shipping address, selections, credit card or other payment instrument information, order number and information about your computer's internet address and website which may have referred or directed you to the Site (e.g., the referring URL).<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;">The Site may also provide features, functions and/or services powered by an SMN or other third party. For example, Information may be disclosed to an SMN through plug-ins offered by such SMN (such as Likes, Shares or commenting). Please take care when using any SMN or other third party service and familiarize yourself with the SMN’s or other third party’s policies and agreements, if any, that govern such use.<div style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;">3.1.3 In Connection with Promotions such as Contests and Sweepstakes. There may be a separate registration process to enter Promotions (as defined in the Site’s <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#use" id="samePage" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Terms of Use Agreement</a>) such as contests and sweepstakes which may require the submission of all or some of the following: your first and last name, street address, city, state and zip code, email address, telephone number and date of birth. Additional Information may be requested depending on the specific Promotion. The Promotion’s entry page and/or Rules shall provide the specific requirements. You may also have the opportunity to opt-in to receive special Promotions or offers from our third party advertisers, sponsors or promotional partners (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Advertisers”) as a result of your use of the Site in connection with these Promotions.</div><p class="bold" style="font-weight: bold; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 950px;">3.2 Information Collected Through Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.<div class="indent" style="font-weight: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">The Site and/or third parties may use “cookies”, “web beacons”, Flash local shared objects and other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Tracking Technologies”) to collect Other Information automatically as you browse the Site and the web. "<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Cookies" are typically html or browser-based text or other files (and often referred to as browser cookies) that help store information, user preferences and/or user activity. “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Web beacons” (also known as image tags, gif, tracking pixels or web bugs) are small pieces of code used to collect data, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses. Flash local shared objects (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">LSOs”) (sometimes known as Flash cookies and used if Adobe Flash is used) are text or other files that help store user preferences and/or activity.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">These Tracking Technologies collect “click stream” data and additional Other Information regarding your visits to the Site (such as your visits to the Site’s webpages, type of browser use, type of operating system used, date and time of viewing, use of our features and purchasing history or preferences) or other websites, applications or interactive services. Through these Tracking Technologies, we may collect such Other Information across multiple sessions on this Site and other websites, applications or other interactive services and may also collect or access your IP address (which is automatically assigned to any Device(s) and/or Device and Internet browser combination you use to access the Site) and/or set or access some other identifier unique to the Device(s), Device platform and/or Device-Internet browser combination you use to access the Site (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Identifier”). For example, we may set a unique alphanumeric Identifier unique to your home computer on Firefox, or access an Identifier provided by a mobile platform, such as the application or advertising Identifiers offered by Apple. Your Personal Information is not collected as part of this process but we may combine any or all of the Other Information we collect using Tracking Technologies and associate it and/or Identifiers with your Personal Information (such as your Single VII Sign-On ID) and/or with other non-personally identifiable unique identifiers assigned by VII or third parties.<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">3.2.1 The Site’s Use of Tracking Technologies to Collect Information<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">By visiting the Site, whether as a registered user or otherwise, you acknowledge and understand that you are giving us your consent to track your activities and your use of the Site and other websites, applications or interactive services through these Tracking Technologies and that we may use Tracking Technologies in the emails we send to you. See <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your Choices</a> section below for more information on how you can withdraw your consent for certain purposes.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">We use Tracking Technologies to enable us to collect and then use Information as described in <span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Section 4.2 “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#otherbyus" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Other Information Collected by Us</a>” under “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">How Is Collected Information Used</a>” below. For example, we use Tracking Technologies to enable Single VII Sign-On, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times or seeing advertisements too frequently, to tailor your experience on the Site by delivering relevant personalized advertising, email marketing and other content and to record if you have opted out of receiving personalized advertising from us.<p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">3.2.2 Third Parties’ Use of Tracking Technologies to Collect Information<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">This Site may additionally use a variety of third party advertising networks, data exchanges, data management platforms, supply side platforms, ad exchanges, traffic or audience measurement service providers, marketing analytics service providers and other third parties (collectively, “<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Third Party Service Providers”) to, for example, facilitate personalized advertisements (“<span class="underline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: underline;">Customized Advertising”) and/or other content, serve advertisements on the Site and/or measure and analyze advertising or content effectiveness and/or traffic on the Site. Customized Advertising enable us to, among other things, help deliver advertisements to you for products and services that you might be interested in based on your visits to the Site and other websites, applications or other interactive services you have visited.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">Third Party Service Providers, as well as Advertisers and other third parties, may themselves set and access their own Tracking Technologies on your Device subject to your choices about those Tracking Technologies (see “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#trackingtpspa" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Tracking Technologies set by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers</a>” section below and “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#mimtt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">More Information on Managing Tracking Technologies</a>” section below) and/or they may otherwise collect or have access to Information about you and your online activities over time and across different websites when you use the Site.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">We may also enlist the assistance of Third Party Service Providers so that the Site may set Tracking Technologies. For example, to the extent necessary to provide basic advertising serving services such as controlling how often you see advertisements or ensuring you do not see the same advertisement repeatedly, we may enlist the assistance of such Third Party Service Providers to create, customize or modify Tracking Technologies set by the Site. See also Section 5.2.1 for more information on this Site’s use of Nielsen’s proprietary measurement software to collect and use video viewing metrics and other information.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 940px;">Except to the extent necessary to provide services to the Site, Third Party Service Providers do not have access to Tracking Technologies set by the Site, but we may provide to Third Party Service Providers certain Other Information collected by Tracking Technologies set by the Site in order for the Site to provide Customized Advertising or in order for the Third Party Service Providers to provide other services to the Site, such as measuring or analyzing advertising or content effectiveness or traffic on the Site. For example, in order to analyze traffic on the Site, we may provide to our Third Party Service Providers certain information we collect about your interaction with the Site along with an Identifier so that the Third Party Service Provider may provide analytics services to the Site.</div></div></div><span class="anchor" id="sectionp4" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; height: 80px; visibility: hidden;" /><p class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px;">4. How Is Collected Information Used.As set forth in this Privacy Policy, we may share Information with VII (including Affiliates).<span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.1 Personal Information. We, and/or VII, use the Personal Information we collect from you in a variety of ways, including:<ul class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Sending marketing and promotional emails, newsletters or, subject to the “Text Messaging Marketing and Promotions ” Section below, text messages offering goods and/or services that may be of interest to users, whether those goods and/or services are provided by the Site, VII or third parties (for example, we may send you an email about a product sold by a third party or about a new VII show);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Processing your registration with the Site, such as verifying that your email address is active and valid;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Contacting you regarding the administration of your account, any services, features or functions you have enrolled in or registered to use, any Promotions you have participated in or have entered, any goods and/or services you have ordered through e-Commerce services available on the Site or any other transactions you have undertaken with the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Allowing you to participate in the public areas and/or other features of the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Responding to your questions or other requests;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Contacting you regarding your use of the Site, for informational purposes related to the Site or, in our discretion, regarding changes to the Site’s policies;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Improving the Site or our services and for internal business purposes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Tailoring your experience on, and/or otherwise customizing what you see when you visit, the Site and/or other sites, applications or other interactive services across Devices whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties (for example, to provide recommendations on content or provide advertisements, emails or other content of more interest to you);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Saving your User ID or other Personal Information, so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Otherwise to maintain and administer the Site and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">For other purposes disclosed at the time you provide the Personal Information (for example, as set forth in the Rules for any Promotions you enter).</li></ul><p id="otherbyus" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 960px;"><span class="anchor" id="oicbu" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -80px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; height: 80px; visibility: hidden;" /><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.2 Other Information Collected by Us. We, and/or VII, use the Other Information we collect from you in a variety of ways, including:<ul class="indent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Keeping count of your return visits to the Site or VII’s, Advertisers' or partners' sites, applications or other interactive services;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Accumulating and reporting aggregate, statistical information in connection with the Site and user activity;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Analyzing, determining or anticipating which features, webpages, products and services users like best to, among other things, help us operate the Site and/or other VII websites, applications or other interactive services, enhance and improve our services and the Site and/or other VII or third party websites, applications or other interactive services and display advertising and marketing information on the Site and/or other VII or third party websites, applications or other interactive services (for example, to provide ads of interest to you on the Site or third party sites, to analyze effectiveness of advertisements, to assess the appeal of certain content to our general site audience and to understand your interactions with email messages we send and the content contained in such messages (such as the links clicked on within marketing and promotional emails we send and whether such messages were opened or forwarded));</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Preparing statistics reports;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Allowing you to participate in the public areas and/or other features of the Site (for example, to enable you to use shopping carts on the Site);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Improving our services, the Site and/or other websites, applications or other interactive services and for internal business purposes;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Tailoring your experience on, and/or otherwise customizing what you see when you visit the Site and/or other sites, applications or other interactive services across Devices whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties (for example, to provide recommendations on content or provide advertisements, emails or other content of more interest to you);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Saving certain Other Information for use on your return visits to the Site and making your experience on this Site more convenient for you (for example, to recognize you by name when you return to the Site, to apply certain settings or preferences you have identified on this Site or other VII websites, to save your password in password-protected areas and to save your online game or video player settings);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Using certain characteristics that you enter about yourself on the Site, such as age or gender, for tailoring the online advertising and/or other content that you see when you visit the Site or other websites, applications or other interactive services whether owned, operated and/or provided by VII or by third parties, whether alone or in combination with other Information;</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">Otherwise to maintain and administer the Site (for example, to prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times or seeing advertisements too frequently, to record if you have opted out of receiving personalized content or using IP address to pre-populate registration fields to facilitate your sign-up);</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">For the uses described for “Personal Information” above; and</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;">For other purposes disclosed at or before the time the Other Information is collected.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: disc;" /></ul><span class="bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">4.3. Other Information Collected by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers. The use of Tracking Technologies by Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers is within their control and not ours. Even if we have a relationship with the Third Party Service Provider or Advertiser, we do not control their websites, applications or other interactive services or their policies and practices regarding your Information and you should be aware that different rules might apply to the collection, use or disclosure of your Information by third parties in connection with their advertisements or promotions and other sites, applications or other interactive services you encounter on the Internet. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of Information that a Third Party Service Provider or Advertiser may directly collect from you. Use of Third Party Service Providers’ and Advertisers’ Tracking Technologies is governed by the Third Party Service Providers’ or Advertisers’, as applicable, own specific privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy. However, please see the “<a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/TermsOfUse_us.jsp#sectionp5" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Your Choices</a>” section for more information on how to opt-out of the collection and/or use of Information collected by certain Third Party Service Providers.</div><div></div>