Scholar Box Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to Web sites operated by Scholar Box, LLC ("Scholar Box"), including www.scholarbox.org. Please read this policy carefully before sharing any of your personally identifiable information with us.

Scholar Box goes to great lengths to respect and protect your privacy. We promise that we will not share your contact information to a college, university, sponsor or advertiser without your express permission. We also promise that we will take all reasonable precautions to prevent your personal data from being accessed by unauthorized individuals.

Because our services require us to collect some fairly detailed personal information, we want you to have the information you need to make an informed decision about sharing information with us. This Privacy Policy will outline our practices and procedures we follow when handling information input through our web site.

Types of Information We Collect

Information is collected from our users at several different points during visits to Scholar Box

Registration - A user must register in order to use this site. During the registration process, a user is required to provide certain information, such as name, address, e-mail address, a password, date of birth, gender, country of citizenship, educational background, grades, and extracurricular activities. In addition, a user may choose to provide other information, such as intended major, career objectives, hobbies and other interests. This information may be updated and amended at any time after the initial registration. Scholar Box encourages its users to provide these fields of information so that users may maximize the effectiveness of our scholarship search and matching services.

Collection of Information from Children - Scholar Box abides by federal law and the guidelines set up by the Federal Trade Commission regarding youth privacy. As such, Scholar Box will not knowingly collect any personal information from or allow the registration of young people under the age of thirteen (13) years.

Referring Friends - You can choose to let others know about Scholar Box through our referral feature. If you choose to use this feature, we will ask you for that person's name and e-mail address and Scholar Box will send him or her one or more e-mails inviting him or her to visit Scholar Box to learn more about our services. Scholar Box stores their contact information for the sole purpose of sending these e-mails.

High School Counselors Monitoring - Your high school counselors will have access to monitor your account. Only counselors at the high school that you indicated you attend will have access to monitor your account. We have verified Counselors to ensure that they are employed the high school you have selected. Scholar Box will share the details of your profile with them. This information includes the personally identifiable data such as name, scholarships you have viewed, scholarships you have applied for, and scholarships you have received and other information you have provided to us or that we have collected.

Cookies and Web Site Information - We use "cookie" technology and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used by you. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by your web browser on your hard drive. The cookies allow our web servers to recognize the computer used by you to access our websites. Cookies allow you to move from page to page on the website, by remembering the information about the entire session. Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include the date and time of visits, your IP address, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information may be appended to your personal information provided by you to us to help us provide you with better service and information. It also may be collected on an aggregate basis, and shared with or collected by third-party Web analytics services to help Scholar Box understand our users' aggregated Web site usage patterns and related trends.

Information gathered through cookies and by our web server logs may include the date and time of visits, your IP address, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information may be appended to your personal information provided by you to us to help us provide you with better service and information. It also may be collected on an aggregate basis, and shared with or collected by third-party Web analytics services to help Scholar Box understand our users' aggregated Web site usage patterns and related trends.

User Communications - When you send email or other communications to Scholar Box, we may retain those communications in order to process, respond or improve our services.

Use of Information

The information you supply to Scholar Box enables us to provide the scholarship search and matching services which you select by matching your background to the requirements and/or preferred student backgrounds of scholarships. Under no circumstances will we share any of your personally identifiable information with colleges, universities, sponsor or advertiser without your consent.

In addition, Scholar Box uses your information in order to customize our site to your interests and enhance your overall experience. Scholar Box uses various methods to recognize you, including requesting your e-mail address and password before accessing our site. Once Scholar Box recognizes you, pages, and other content is customized for you so that you can see what interests you the most. In addition, as described above, Scholar Box utilizes passive information to learn more about how you interact with our site. This passive information may be combined with your other information for purposes such as testing and improving your experience at our site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties such as content and Web analytics partners. This aggregate passive information does not contain any personal information which can identify any individual user.

Contacting You by E-Mail - Scholar Box may use your contact information periodically in order to send you e-mail regarding updates at the Scholar Box site, such as new Scholar Box opportunities and additional listings, which may be of interest to you. The frequency of these messages will vary depending upon your profile, including the types of scholarships and other activities you indicated having an interest in. Please note that the opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy do not govern e-mail messages from third parties.

Third Party Scholarship Applications - At various other points during your visit to Scholar Box, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. Participation in surveys, contests or scholarships or the use of other services which require the input of additional information is completely voluntary on your part, and you have the choice about whether to disclose the information necessary to use these features of our site. Contact information will be used to process entries, send promotional material, notify the winners and award prizes.

Please be sure to consult the official rules of any contest or sweepstakes you enter on Scholar Box as specific data collection and usage practices may vary by contest or sweepstakes.

Sharing of Information

Scholar Box will not knowingly sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Service Providers - From time to time, Scholar Box may decide that it is more efficient to use third parties to perform specific services, such as sending newsletters to Scholar Box's users. If we use a third party to provide specific services (such as sending newsletters to our users on our behalf), then personally identifiable information (such as contact information) may be shared with that party to the extent necessary for such third party service provider to provide these services. These third party service providers are only allowed to use personally identifiable information only for the purpose of providing the specific services requested by Scholar Box. These third party service providers have agreed to hold and use your confidential information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The third party services covered by this paragraph do not include links to third party sites found on our site, which are governed by a more specific provision.

Scholarship Administrators - If you applied for a scholarship on Scholar Box, your profile information may be shared with a third-party scholarship administrator to select scholarship recipients. If you are selected as a scholarship winner, a third-party scholarship administrator will contact you directly to verify your profile information, including but not necessarily limited to obtaining copies of academic transcripts, proof of financial need if required, or any other documentation Scholar Box or the scholarship administrator requires to award the scholarship and disburse funds to your college or university.

Facebook Connect: We allow users to link their Facebook account to Scholar Box. Users can then post recent activity on Scholar Box back to their Facebook account. You will be prompted to decide whether or not your activity on Scholar Box will be shared and disclosed on your Facebook account. Use of this feature is entirely optional.

Links to Other Sites - Scholar Box may present links to third party websites in a format that enables us to keep track of where those links have been followed. This Privacy Policy applies only to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Scholar Box, LLC. As we do not control other sites to which we may link, they are not subject to our Privacy Policy. Please realize that we do not control the information provided by you to any other third party site to which you may link from the Scholar Box site.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures - Scholar Box reserves the right to release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.

Sale or Merger - In the event that Scholar Box sells, assigns or transfers some or all of its business to a successor or acquirer, Scholar Box may sell, assign or transfer all of your information, regardless of your opt status, to such successor or acquirer.

Security

Scholar Box has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information you provide to us or that we collect. You are the only user authorized to update your profile, unless you provide your password information to another party. We will assume that anyone who has the required login information and password for your account is you, so please keep this information confidential. Parents, guardians and counselors with whom you permit to have access to your account will have their own login information and password, and will not be permitted to alter your information or authorize the release of your information.

Scholar Box helps protect personally identifiable information by utilizing both online and offline security methods, including firewalls, passwords and restricted physical access to the servers where your information is stored. Our staff is trained to comply with our security procedures, are bound by confidentiality and our security procedures are reviewed and revised periodically.

If you have any questions about security issues at our site, please send an e-mail to support@scholarbox.org, and we will try to answer your questions.

Updating Your Information

You can update your personal information by clicking on the "My Account" link on the Scholar Box site, or by following the instructions included in any e-mail message you receive from Scholar Box. Users who are experiencing problems with updating their information should contact us at support@scholarbox.org, and we will try to resolve your problems.

Other Provisions

Acceptance of Terms - Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer - Scholar Box provides information created both by Scholar Box, and by third parties. While our site strives to provide accurate advice, Scholar Box does not make any warranty regarding the accuracy, reliability or use of any information provided on this site. Please see our Terms of Use.

Changes to the Privacy Policy - Scholar Box reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to users other than posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. After posting such amended Privacy Policy, all information provided to us will be subject to the terms of the amended Privacy Policy. Please visit this page periodically so that you will be apprised of any changes. Your use of this site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Your privacy is important to Scholar Box. If you have questions about any of the provisions described above, please contact us at support@scholarbox.org.

Alternatively, you may contact us at:

Scholar Box
10102 S Redwood Rd #95754
South Jordan UT 84095

Sep 29, 2022