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PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated January 9, 2024.

Welcome to usnews.com, which is published by U.S. News & World Report, L.P.
("U.S. News"). As used in this Privacy Policy, “Affiliates” of U.S. News are any
entities that control, are controlled by or under common control with U.S. News;
and “U.S. News” includes any Affiliates of U.S. News that operate a U.S. News
Service (defined below) and include without limitation USN College Advisor, Inc.

This privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") applies to www.usnews.com and any
other of our or our Affiliates’ websites, emails, digital services or mobile or
other applications on which a link to this Privacy Policy appears (collectively,
the "U.S. News Services" and include without limitation collegeadvisor.com,
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provided by U.S. News or one of its Affiliates in their sole discretion. U.S.
News may change, suspend or discontinue any or all of the U.S. News Services at
any time. U.S. News does not control and is not responsible for, and this
Privacy Policy does not apply to, any third-party site to which the U.S. News
Services link or that links to any U.S. News Services.

U.S. News is the controller of your personal information or personal data
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personal data with our Affiliates. When we share your personal information with
them, our Affiliates may also be acting as controllers of your personal
information.

You acknowledge that your use of the U.S. News Services is subject to this
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information as set out in this Privacy Policy, please do not use any U.S. News
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or revisions to this Privacy Policy.

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Personal Information Collected by U.S. News

U.S. News collects personal information from you through means that include but
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 * Account registrations
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 * Subscriptions to U.S. News products or services
 * Event registrations
 * Sweepstakes entries
 * Saved pages, such as articles, cars and hotels
 * Your navigation on the U.S. News Services
 * Your use of certain tools on the U.S. News Services, such as the “My Fit” or
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 * Forms on the U.S. News Services that you complete requesting information or
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Information we (and third parties we feature on the U.S. News Services) may
collect from you may include personally identifiable information including but
not limited to:

 * Identifiers and contact information such as name, phone number, physical
   address, email address, and mobile identification number
 * Personal records such as name, signature, physical address, telephone number,
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   number, and debit card number
 * Personal characteristics or traits such as age and gender
 * Transaction / commercial information such as U.S. News’ products or services
   used, purchased, or considered; third-party business partners’/digital
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   consuming histories or preferences provided by business and marketing vendors
 * Services usage information such as search, browsing history, and other
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 * Other information provided by third parties such as focus or research groups
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 * Location data such as where you enable location-based features on your device
   or inferences of your rough location (such as zip code)
 * Professional or employment information such as your title, affiliated
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 * Inferences from PI collected such as your interest in certain content based
   on the pages of the U.S. News Services you visit
 * Account information and password, such as account log-in and password
   combinations
 * Sensitive personal characteristics, such as race, ethnicity and religious
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information we receive from or about you.

Purposes of Processing

Generally, we collect, use, disclose or otherwise process your personal
information in connection with the operation of our business, including for the
following processing purposes:

 * Providing our products and services – to provide you with information,
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   information you agreed to receive or to provide you with special offers or
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 * Facilitating your relationship with our Affiliates and Third-Party Business
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   and third-party partners, we may disclose your PI to our Affiliates and to
   certain third parties so that they can provide you with services you have
   requested or that you may be otherwise interested in (“Third-Party Business
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   limitation retail merchants, automobile dealers, financial institutions,
   public and private educational institutions, and companies in the consumer
   service industries.
 * Customizing your experience, offers, and content – to enhance your experience
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   deliver to you curated content, including marketing for our own products or
   service offerings or that of our Affiliates and/or Third-Party Business
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 * Registering and administering accounts – to process your registration with
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   manage your account.
 * Customer service and communications – to respond to questions, comments, or
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   changes to the U.S. News Services and/or their policies; and to verify
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 * Research, development, and analytics – to better understand how users access
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   and where to place our ads, including ads placed on other websites. These
   activities may be carried out by us, our vendors, and/or third-party digital
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 * Market research and customer satisfaction – to administer surveys and
   questionnaires, such as for market research or customer satisfaction
   purposes.
 * Targeting advertisements – to provide you or your device with customized
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 * Safety, security, and compliance with legal obligations – for prevention,
   detection, investigation, and mitigation of illegal activities, fraud, injury
   to others or violation of our Terms and Conditions or our Privacy Policies.
 * For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your personal information.
 * For purposes that are compatible with the purpose of collecting your personal
   information and that are not prohibited by law.

Lawful Basis for Using your Personal Information

Under data privacy laws in certain jurisdictions, such as the General Data
Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in the United Kingdom (the “UK”) and the European
Economic Area (the “EEA”), we require a lawful basis to process your personal
information. In such jurisdictions, we rely on one of the following lawful bases
to process your personal information:

 * To take steps to enter into or perform a contract we have with you.
 * To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
 * Legitimate interests, where those interests do not override your fundamental
   rights and freedoms, including our legitimate interests in customizing your
   experience, responding to your queries, promoting our business and engaging
   in business development, carrying out data analysis and market research,
   engaging with sponsors, carrying out systems maintenance and reviewing our
   data security.
 * On the basis of your consent.

When we process special categories of personal data or personal data that may be
considered sensitive, we will rely on your explicit consent to do so. We will
process special categories of personal data relating to racial or ethnic origin
when you voluntarily provide that information when creating a U.S. News
education account, and we may share that information with K-12 schools,
colleges, universities, online or graduate programs (“Educational
Institutions”), as applicable, so they may contact you, including via email, for
purposes of recruiting students. See “Educational Institutions and their
Representatives” below.

Sharing your Personal Information

We may share your personal information with, or receive your personal
information from, third parties for various purposes, including the purposes set
out above. We have set out a list of categories of recipients below and provided
more detailed information of our data sharing beneath it.

We may share your personal data with following types of recipients:

 * Third party service providers, this may include vendors we use in the process
   of delivering the U.S. News Services, such as for data hosting or third party
   credit card processors and card issuers to process payments on our behalf.
   (U.S. News does not store any payment card information.)
 * Third-Party Business Partners (described in further detail below).
 * Third-party digital businesses (described in further detail below).
 * Educational Institutions and their third party representatives (described in
   further detail below).
 * Event or webinar sponsors.
 * Where you publicly post User Comments (defined below) or submit other
   public-facing content, other users of the U.S. News Services (described in
   further detail below).
 * Survey or focus groups we use for research and measurement purposes on our
   behalf or on behalf of our Affiliates or third parties.
 * Sweepstakes sponsors (described in further detail below).
 * Our Affiliates.
 * Government bodies, dispute resolution bodies, law enforcement bodies,
   regulators and courts.
 * Our advisors, including accountants, auditors, lawyers and other external
   professional advisors.
 * Third parties in the context of a restructuring or sale of all or parts of
   our business.

Third-Party Business Partners. Certain Third-Party Business Partners offer
promotions or services on the U.S. News Services. U.S. News may earn a
commission from products or services you purchase from such entities. If you are
interested in such promotions or services, you may be asked to share personal
information to be able to receive more information about the promotion or
service. In some cases, U.S. News will collect personal information from you and
provide it to such Third-Party Business Partner. In other cases, such
Third-Party Business Partner will collect personal information from you directly
and may share it with U.S. News, in which case U.S. News may use your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy as though you had provided it
directly to U.S. News. The Third-Party Business Partner’s privacy policy will
govern its use of your personal information, and U.S. News is not responsible
for the privacy practices of such Third-Party Business Partners. If you do not
wish to receive further communications from them, you will need to so notify
such Third-Party Business Partners.

Third-Party Digital Businesses. When you use the U.S. News Services, subject to
any applicable lawful basis requirement under applicable privacy laws, we may
share information that we collect from you, such as your email address, IP
address, or information about your browser or operating system, with our service
providers or other third-party digital businesses for use in interest-based and
targeted advertising. You are able to control our use of cookies and other
tracking technologies (including providing consent where required) through the
use of our cookie Preference Center which you can access here. For further
information on your choices with respect to cookies and interest-based
advertising, see "Use of Cookies" below.

Educational Institutions and their Representatives. We offer various tools for
users of certain of our Education pages and our Education app that allow you to
save and compare schools and to assess their suitability to your needs based on
personalized criteria you provide. In addition to the information you provide
when you create a U.S. News education account, we may use information you
provide through these tools and your navigation on our Education pages and in
our Education app to infer which Educational Institutions you may be interested
in, and we may share your personal information with them or their third party
representatives so they may contact you, including via email, for purposes of
recruiting students. We may also share your personal information with
Educational Institutions so they may contact you, including via email, for
purposes of recruiting students if you meet certain characteristics such
Educational Institutions are interested in. You are not required to provide your
race or ethnicity when you create a U.S. News education account, but if you do,
you consent to U.S. News sharing that information with Educational Institutions
so they may contact you, including via email, for purposes of recruiting
students. If you no longer wish for U.S. News to share your personal information
with Educational Institutions, please complete our Consumer Rights Request Form.
If you do not wish to receive further communications from any Educational
Institution, you will need to so notify such Educational Institution.

User Comments and other Public Submissions. Some sections of the U.S. News
services permit users to submit reviews, questions, answers to questions
submitted, comments or other content for publication on the U.S. News Services
(“User Comments”). If you choose to submit User Comments, we may publish your
name, screen name or such other information that you provide. You may receive an
email from us when other users respond to or interact with your User Comments.
(See “How to Unsubscribe from Emails” below.) Please keep in mind before you
submit any User Comments that your User Comments as well as any personal
information you provide may be available to the public in perpetuity and may
appear in third-party search engine results. We do not remove User Comments at
the writer’s request.

Sweepstakes Sponsors. If you enter into any sweepstakes we offer, you must agree
to the rules of such sweepstakes, which may require you to allow the sweepstakes
sponsor to use your name, voice and likeness for promotional purposes in
connection with the sweepstakes. We may use your personal information provided
in your sweepstakes entry in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Your
sweepstakes entry information will be shared with the sweepstakes sponsor, who
may use it for marketing purposes in accordance with its own privacy policy, and
with the sweepstakes administrator for purposes of administering the
sweepstakes. If you are a sweepstakes winner, your name may be disclosed on a
winners list and as required by law.

Data Retention

We will retain your personal information for as long as is necessary or
permitted for the processing purposes we have set out above. To determine the
appropriate retention period for your data, we consider the purposes for which
we process the personal information, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the
personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or
disclosure of your data, whether we can achieve those purposes through other
means and the applicable legal requirements. We may also retain your information
as necessary to comply with our legal obligations and for the purposes of
exercising, establishing or defending claims.

Please note that we may convert, or permit others to convert, your personally
identifiable information into deidentified data or aggregate consumer
information, in which case it will no longer be considered your personally
identifiable information.

Transferring your Personal Information Internationally

By virtue of running our business we may sometimes transfer your personal
information internationally. If you are located outside of the U.S., this will
mean that your personal information will be transferred to the U.S.

In these situations, we will ensure that the transfer is carried out in
accordance with the applicable data protection laws and that appropriate
measures are implemented to preserve the confidentiality and security of your
information. To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level
of protection when it is transferred internationally, we may rely on one of the
following safeguards:

 * The transfer is to a country that has been deemed by the relevant regulator
   to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data;
 * We have put in place approved contractual terms approved by the relevant
   regulator; or
 * You have consented to the transfer (if applicable and permitted by law).

For further information about the safeguards relied on in relation to a
particular transfer, please contact us using the contact details at the end of
this Privacy Policy.

Data Security

We use commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls
to protect the information we collect online. Personal information is
transferred via secured protocols and stored in an encrypted location with
controlled access. Please note that since no method of transmission over the
internet, or method of electronic storage, is completely secure, we are unable
to guarantee security of your information.

Links to Third-Party Sites

The U.S. News Services may link to third-party websites and services that are
outside of our control. U.S. News is not responsible for the privacy or security
of any information collected by such third-party websites or services. You
should review the privacy policies applicable to any such third-party websites
or services that you use.

We use Google Maps API on our content products including but not limited to our
Best Cars product. The use of Google Maps features and content is subject to (1)
Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service at
https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html; and (2) Google Privacy Policy at
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

How to Unsubscribe from Emails

If you decide that you do not wish to receive email communications from U.S.
News and others, you may opt-out of receiving further commercial emails and
other communications by clicking "Unsubscribe" or "Manage my email preferences"
in any email. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving further
commercial emails, you may still receive transactional emails.

Rights

Depending on the data privacy laws that apply to you, and your location, you may
be able to exercise certain rights in relation to your personal information. If
you are a resident of any U.S. state that with consumer privacy laws in effect,
please see the separate U.S. State Privacy Notice for information about your
rights in relation to your personal information. For users outside of the United
States, the following rights may be relevant to you:

 * To obtain access to your personal information - you may be able to request
   information on how we handle your personal information and request a copy of
   such personal information;
 * To request us to correct or update your personal information if it is
   inaccurate or out of date;
 * To object to the processing of your personal information where we rely on
   legitimate interests as our justification, unless we demonstrate compelling
   legitimate grounds which override your right to object or the processing is
   necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
 * To erase your personal information held by us where the personal information
   is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was
   collected, in certain circumstances where you have objected to the processing
   of such personal information, or where the personal information has been
   unlawfully processed;
 * To restrict processing by us (i.e., the processing will be limited to storage
   only) where you oppose deletion of your personal information and prefer
   restriction of processing instead, or where you object to the processing by
   us where we rely on legitimate interests as our justification;
 * To transmit personal information you submitted to us back to you or to
   another organization in certain circumstances; and
 * When we are relying on your consent or explicit consent, to withdraw your
   consent or explicit consent at any time.

Please be aware that not all of these rights are absolute and that there may be
situations in which you cannot exercise them or they are not relevant. If you
wish to exercise any of your rights, please complete our Consumer Rights Request
Form.

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U.S. News and some advertisers, service providers and other third parties that
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"Cookies" are pieces of information that are placed in a storage place on your
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While you can disable cookies (follow your web browser's instructions to do so),
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an industry-standard Do-Not-Track protocol has not yet been established, we
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and those browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on such
techniques. You can enable Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) on your device or
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tracked via cookies. To use GPC, you can download an internet browser or a
plugin to use on your current internet browser and follow the settings to enable
GPC. To our knowledge, we have configured our websites to receive and honor GPC
signals pursuant to the specifications and implementation instructions at
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under the age of 16.

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