Last Updated 4/13/2020
At Tilt Access (“Tilt”) protecting your privacy, data, and personal is very important to Us. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “We” or “Us” refers to Tilt and “You” and “Your” refers to You, the individual accessing, browsing, or registering to use the Tilt Access services and website. This policy explains how Tilt collects, uses and shares Your personal information in connection with your use of www.tiltaccess.com (the “Site”) and any of the services that Tilt may provide now or in the future (the “Services”). This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") is incorporated by reference into the Tilt Terms of Use.
Any information collected by the Services is covered by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we'll notify you of those changes by posting them on the Services or by sending you other notification, and we'll update the "Last Updated" date above to indicate when those changes will become effective.
Account Information. We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us. You must create an account in order to use the Services (the “Account”). Through the registration process and/or through your Account settings, we may collect personal information including your name, email address, phone number), account information and password, User selected University or College, Financial Aid Award Letters, SAT and ACT scores, GPA and demographic or other information (such as your school, gender, age or birthday, pronoun, proposed major and other information about your interests and preferences) (collectively “Personal Information”). Any other information combined with your Personal Information will be treated together as Personal Information.
All information entered by you is voluntary and at your own discretion, though certain information is required in order to create an Account or to use the Services. If you provide such information, you consent to the use of that information in accordance with the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Tilt may, send you notifications, information, materials, or other offers through email, text, or other type of notification. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. This confirmation helps us make our communications with you more interesting and improve our Services. If you do not want to receive communications from us, please indicate your preference by contacting us at hello@tiltaccess.com or by unsubscribing from our emails.
Information Collected Through Your School. We will add information to your Account provided by your School. This may include information such as Financial Aid Award Letters, SAT and ACT scores and GPA that the School may provide to us in connection with our Services. Tilt understands that it is important that our partner Schools comply with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) and related regulations. Certain information collected through your School that may be provided to Tilt that is directly related to a student and maintained by your School, may be considered an education record (“education record”) under FERPA.
Like many website owners and operators, we use automated data collection tools such as Cookies and Web Beacons to collect certain information. This information is necessary for the adequate performance of the contract between you and us, to enable us to comply with legal obligations and given our legitimate interest in being able to provide and improve the Services.
The technologies and information we automatically collect include:
Information You Give To Us and Information Provided By Your School. We will use this information:
Information Automatically Collected. We will use this information:
Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Services, to administer your use of the Site and Services (including your Account, if you are an Account holder), and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate the Site and Services. We will use your Personal Information to:
First and foremost, you should know that Tilt does not sell or rent your Personal Information to any third-party for any purpose - including for advertising or marketing purposes. Third-party advertising is not permitted on areas where You are required to log in to the Services and Personal Information is never used for behaviorally-targeted advertising (by us or third-parties). Furthermore, we do not share your Personal Information with any third-parties except in the limited circumstances described in this Privacy Policy and as set forth below:
If you are employed by a school or district subject to FERPA, you agree to appoint Tilt as a “school official” as that term is defined in FERPA and as interpreted by the Family Policy Compliance Office, and determine that Tilt has a “legitimate educational interest” for the purpose of delivering the Services in accordance with these Terms. Tilt agrees that it shall be bound by all relevant provisions of FERPA, including operating under the direct control of your school or district with respect to handling of “personally identifiable information” from “education records,” as those terms are defined in FERPA. Tilt further agrees that personally identifiable information from students will not be disclosed to third parties except as required to provide Services to you contemplated in this Agreement. Any third party users will be bound to manage personally identifiable information in compliance with the Privacy Policy, security policies and all applicable laws, and to use the personally identifiable information for the sole and limited purpose of providing the Services to the user.
Tilt may use education records that have been de-identified for product development, research or other purposes permitted by applicable law (“de-Identified data”), including:
Tilt agrees not to attempt to re-identify the de-Identified data and not to transfer the de-Identified data to a third-party unless that party agrees not to attempt re-identification.
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use and sharing of your Personal Information and we'll respect the choices you make. Please note that if you decide not to provide us with the Personal Information that we request, you may not be able to access all of the features of the Services.
Opt-Out. We may periodically send you free newsletters, SMS messages and e-mails that directly promote the Site and Services. When you receive such communications from us, you will have the opportunity to "opt-out" (either through your Account or by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive). We do need to send you certain communications regarding use of the Services and you will not be able to opt out of those communications – e.g., communications regarding updates to our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy or communication in connection with your Account.
Modifying Your Information. You can access and modify the Personal Information associated with your Account by sending us an email at hello@tiltaccess.com. If you want us to delete your Personal Information and your Account, please email us at hello@tiltaccess.com with your request. We'll take steps to delete your information as soon we can, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for our records or as otherwise required by law.
Tilt uses commercially reasonable information security safeguards to protect its databases and servers against risks of loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification, or inadvertent or improper disclosure of data. Tilt segregates certain personally identifiable and other information about your use of Tilt's services into separate databases, some of which can be accessed only by a limited number of employees. Your Tilt account is protected by a password. You can help us protect against unauthorized access to your account by keeping your username password secret at all times.
We restrict access to personal information to authorized Tilt administrators, agents or independent contractors who need to know that information in order to process it for us, and who are subject to strict confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.
The Tilt Site and Services may contain links to websites and services that are owned or operated by third parties (each, a "Third-party Service"). Any information that you provide on or to a Third-party Service or that is collected by a Third-party Service is provided directly to the owner or operator of the Third-party Service and is subject to the owner's or operator's privacy policy. Tilt is not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices and policies of any Third-party Service.
Tilt is operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that the information we collect about you, including personal information, will be transferred to the United States. By using Tilt, you consent to the transfer, processing and storage of your information, including personal information, in the United States in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We will only access, use, and retain Your personal information for the length of time necessary to provide you access to the Services, in accordance with our data retention policies and applicable law.
The Tilt Site and Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you believe that your child may have provided us with personal information without your consent, you may contact us at hello@tiltaccess.com. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information of a child under 13 we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.
Our Site and Services do not have the capability to respond to "Do Not Track" signals received from various web browsers.
If You have questions or concerns about the terms of this Privacy Policy, please contact Us at hello@tiltaccess.com.