Last updated: 3/17/09

At RSWP, Inc. (“RSWP”, or “we,” “us,” or “our”), provider of the Eduify website (the “Eduify Site”), we respect the importance of your privacy, and we are committed to taking steps to ensure that your documents and data are kept strictly confidential.  We believe that you should know what information about you is collected when you use the Eduify Site, including our services through the Eduify Site, as well as how that information is used, maintained and, in some cases, shared.  Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy to set forth our privacy practices and policies. BY USING OR ACCESSING IN ANY WAY THE EDUIFY SITE AND/OR OUR SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE EDUIFY SITE, SUCH AS PAPER BOX, STATUS BOX, RESEARCH BOX, EDITOR AND PROOFREADING AND EDITING SERVICES, OR BY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION TO US BY EMAIL OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS, YOU ASSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE EDUIFY SITE OR SERVICES, OR OTHERWISE ENGAGE IN THESE ACTIVITIES.

YOUR DOCUMENTS

The document(s), research clip(s) or note(s) and other content that you upload as part of your account to the Eduify Site or services (collectively, “Client Documents”) will remain your intellectual property. We will never claim ownership of Client Documents nor share them with anyone outside of RSWP or its Contractors (as defined below) or the Service Providers (as defined below), except with your permission or as provided in the then-current Terms of Use (or any applicable Additional Terms, as defined in the Terms of Use) for the Eduify Site or applicable services. We require our editors, proofreaders, coaches, teachers (collectively, “Service Providers”) to be bound by an agreement in which the Service Provider agrees to maintain the confidentiality of your personal information (as included in shared work) in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy and to respect your intellectual property rights in the Client Documents. You may designate the sharing of Client Documents with other clients or users of the Eduify Site or services at your discretion via the paper box, research box and / or in account settings.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

When you register with the Eduify Site or you wish to use certain services available through the Eduify Site (such as proofreading and editing services), it is necessary for Eduify to collect certain personally-identifiable information from you:

Personal Contact Information

We collect basic information about you (including your name, telephone number, time zone, and e-mail address) in order to be able to notify you when the paid-for service is complete. We will not sell this information to a third party and will share it with our Contractors who are under contract with us and who need it to provide the service(s) you request.

Financial Information

Your financial information will not be disclosed to a third party except only as needed to process the transaction (for example, to a third party payment processor who is our Contractor). We do not retain your financial information once the transaction is completed. As a client or user of the Eduify Site, we will not ask for your Social Security Number.

Evaluation and Feedback

After requested service has been completed or during normal site use we may ask you to evaluate our services. The completion of this evaluation is at your discretion; if you choose to complete it, your evaluation will be shared with relevant members of our team (including Service Providers), and with our Contractor(s) who process statistical information, but not with any other third party. If you provide us with your own comments about our services, we may use your comments in our marketing and promotional materials and/or on our Website only if you give us permission to do so.

Referrals

If you invite or refer a friend or colleague to the Eduify Site we will then generate an e-mail, SMS, IM or other requested notification for you to send to your friend as a one-time invitation to visit the Eduify Site. We only retain your friend’s or colleague’s contact details if you have configured this in your profile settings.

Special Offers, Promotions, Newsletters and Updates

If you authorize us to do so in your profile, we will contact you, according to your privacy preferences to inform you of special offers, promotional deals, newsletters, and updates to our service offerings. Out of respect for your privacy, we allow you to choose the path and type of communication you receive. If you wish to update your settings, simply login to the Eduify Site and change your notification settings accordingly.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

Service Providers.

RSWP employs Service Providers as independent contractors in order to provide some of the services available through the Eduify Site. Service Providers do not receive personally identifiable information about you, unless embedded in the Client Documents you provide for the requested service. Service Providers are contractually obligated to delete your Client Documents and other information we provide to them about you, including any personally identifiable information, in 5 days after the completion of work for which the information was provided or upon the termination of their association with RSWP, whichever comes first. They are also contractually obligated to refrain from sharing your Client Documents or personally identifiable information about you with any other person, business, or entity.

Contractors

RSWP uses third party providers, suppliers, licensors or other contractors (collectively, “Contractors”) to perform certain of the technical processing, administration and support of the Eduify Site and services, including third party payment processors, web hosting services providers, web analytics, and anti-plagiarism services. Such Contractors generally are permitted to use and disclose your personally identifiable information only as provided in this Privacy Policy. However, with respect to certain services, some Contractors may have their own privacy policies that will apply to their use or disclosure of your information obtained through those services. You will be notified of any other privacy policies or terms when you sign up for these services, and you may decline to receive any such service if you do not agree with those other terms.

Others

RSWP and its Contractors reserve the right to disclose information about you, including the content of Client Documents or your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of RSWP, its providers, suppliers and licensors or other clients or third parties; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of RSWP, its providers, suppliers and licensors or other clients or third parties.

Log Files

As is true of most websites, RSWP gather certain information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP) information, referring/exit pages, operating system information, date/time stamps, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site and services, to track users’ movements around the site and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base in aggregate. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information. We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that may use cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate for marketing research purposes.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

The Eduify Site contains links to third party sites that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected, retained and accessed by the Eduify Site, including services available through the Eduify Site. In addition, certain Contractors may have their own privacy policies that will apply to certain services, as described above.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter your personal information onto our query form and upload your document(s), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL) with 128-bit (or better) encryption, which is the industry standard for safely delivering your details. RSWP follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we cannot, therefore, guarantee the absolute security of anything transmitted via the Internet, you may take comfort in knowing that RSWP uses commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information. If you have any questions about security on our Website, you are always welcome to contact us at security(at)eduify.com.

BUSINESS TRANSITION

In the event that RSWP goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information. This Privacy Policy will become binding upon the new owner of the information until amended.

CONSENT TO TRANSFER AND PROCESSING

Personal information collected through the Eduify Site and/or its services may be stored and processed in the United States or in any other country in which RSWP or its providers (or its or their affiliates or providers) maintain facilities. By using the Eduify Site and/or its services, you consent to any such transfer and processing of information outside of your country.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

If you are under the age of 13, please do not use or access the Eduify Site or services in any way. We will not knowingly collect or use any personal information from any children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases.

TERMS OF USE

Your use of the Eduify Site and its services is governed by our then-current Terms of Use

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

RSWP may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and when we do, we will also revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we consider any change to this Privacy Policy to be material, we will place a prominent notice on the Eduify Site or we may notify you directly by e-mail, at our discretion. Changes are effective upon posting to the Eduify Site, unless we say otherwise in our notice, so please check this site often for changes.

UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION; QUESTIONS

You may view or edit your personal information online by accessing your account from the Eduify Site at http://www.eduify.com, using your username and password for the Eduify Site. Please feel free to contact us at support(at)eduify.com to assist in updating your personal information or if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy.