RU READY ND PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: June 27, 2024
XAP LLC ("XAP") (the company that operates www.ruready.nd.gov has adopted the following Privacy
Statement for the information collected at this website.
When you use RU Ready.ND.gov XAP has access to your
information and may use your information to operate and maintain www.ruready.nd.gov and in accordance
with the terms of this Privacy Statement.
As www.ruready.nd.gov evolves, we may update
this Privacy Statement to reflect changes in the manner in which we
deal with personal information, whether to comply with
then-applicable regulations and self-regulatory standards or
otherwise. The Privacy Statement posted here will always be
current. We encourage you to review this Statement regularly.
Please see additional information regarding amending this Statement
in the Section entitled "Amending this Privacy Statement"
below.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please see the information in
the Section entitled "With whom personally identifying information
and automatically collected information may be shared" for an
understanding regarding the parties who may access your
information.
WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT COVERS:
- Your agreement to this Privacy Statement
- Types of information collected
- Creating an account when you are under the age of 18
- Reasons we collect personally identifying information
- Ways in which personally identifying information and
automatically-collected information may be used
- With whom personally identifying information and
automatically-collected information may be shared
- Security measures to protect information; Disclaimer
- Cookies
- Links
- Modifying your information
- Retention and Storage
- Amending this Privacy Statement
- Unenforceability
- Questions
YOUR AGREEMENT TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
When you use www.ruready.nd.gov, you signify and
affirm that you have read, understand, and agree to the terms of
this Statement; that you are competent and capable of
understanding, agreeing to, and complying with this Statement; and
that this Statement forms a legally-binding agreement between you
and XAP. You agree that this Statement is supported by reasonable
and valuable consideration (which includes your use of www.ruready.nd.gov), and you acknowledge your receipt
of and the sufficiency of such consideration. If you do not agree
with all of the provisions of this Statement, you may not use www.ruready.nd.gov).
TYPES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
This Statement covers information you expressly enter into www.ruready.nd.gov and information that we
automatically collect as you use www.ruready.nd.gov.
THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION WE COLLECT
To use certain features of www.ruready.nd.gov we
will require you to provide us with information that
personally-identifies you ("Personally Identifying Information" or
"PII"). If you choose not to provide us your Personally Identifying
Information, you will not be able to use certain features of www.ruready.nd.gov. When you do provide us your PII,
you are authorizing us to use that PII in accordance with this
Statement and to store your PII on our servers in the United
States. The categories of PII that www.ruready.nd.gov may collect from you include your
name, date of birth, address, email address, phone number, grade
level, Social Security number, username and password, demographic
data (such as your gender, ethnicity, and zip code), parent's or
guardian's names, parent's or guardian's addresses and phone number
and other contact information, user preferences, and such
additional information as you choose to actively enter into www.ruready.nd.gov and include in your portfolio or
are required to provide by the college and/or financial aid
applications that you choose to complete or other actions you
choose to take through www.ruready.nd.gov. Further,
some schools provide students' transcript information to us,
including at least the following student PII contained on the
applicable student's transcript: Name, address, date of birth,
gender, ethnicity, graduation year, email address, grade point
average (GPA), Student number (from your school district), and
State Student ID. If a school provides us this transcript
information about you, we will automatically include that
information in your account on www.ruready.nd.gov.
AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION
When you use www.ruready.nd.gov, we
automatically track, collect, and store the following types of
information (referred to as "Automatically-Collected Information"):
1) Date and time you access www.ruready.nd.gov; 2)
pages visited and features used, and the order of use; 3) type of
computer or other operating device accessing www.ruready.nd.gov and type of browser used to access
www.ruready.nd.gov; 4) referring source (meaning
the website you visit prior to visitingwww.ruready.nd.gov); and 5) other similar information
about the interaction between your browser and www.ruready.nd.gov and activities in which you engage
while using www.ruready.nd.gov. Unless otherwise
stated in this Statement, Automatically-Collected Information may
be combined with your PII. When you visit www.ruready.nd.gov, we collect your Internet Protocol
("IP") address to track and aggregate Automatically-Collected
Information. We also collect IP addresses of users when they log
onto their account portfolios on www.ruready.nd.gov
in order to confirm the applicable user's identity.
CREATING AN ACCOUNT WHEN YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18
Between Age 13 and 17
If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, by using www.ruready.nd.gov, you represent and warrant that you
possess legal parental or guardian consent to use www.ruready.nd.gov and provide PII and
Automatically-Collected Information throughwww.ruready.nd.gov.
Under Age 13
If you are under the age of 13 and you indicate to us that you
are under age 13 when you enter your birthdate into www.ruready.nd.gov, you can only create an anonymous
account that does not require you to enter your name or other
Personally Identifying Information. When there are open
fields required in order to create such an anonymous account, you
may not use any of these open fields to enter Personally
Identifying Information, and your account portfolio will not
include your Personally Identifying Information. Further,
you will be restricted from using any areas of www.ruready.nd.gov that require you to enter
Personally Identifying Information. You will only be able to use www.ruready.nd.gov features or modules that do not
require you to enter Personally Identifying Information.
REASONS WE COLLECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
www.ruready.nd.govcollects PII from you
primarily for three reasons. The first reason is to perform a task
on www.ruready.nd.gov requested by you, such as
filling out a financial aid application. The second reason is to
enable you to submit, in a convenient and efficient manner,
information that is likely to be needed when you complete college
admission, financial aid, and other applications and forms made
available through www.ruready.nd.gov or undertake a
scholarship search on www.ruready.nd.gov. The third
reason is to enable XAP to respond to your questions or contact you
when necessary in connection with the functioning of www.ruready.nd.gov or to provide required notices.
WAYS IN WHICH PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AND
AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION MAY BE USED
Upon your instructions to do so, www.ruready.nd.gov will use your PII to complete the
following forms and surveys, to obtain information for you, and to
effect transactions on your behalf:
- Complete financial aid applications
- Complete financial aid calculators
- Complete a scholarship search
- Complete Your Plan of Study, which can assist you in selecting
courses and otherwise planning to meet admission requirements
- Communicate your requests for information or material to
colleges or other institutions you have specified
- Complete applications for admission to educational
institutions
- Complete applications for Work-Based Learning
opportunities
Your PII and Automatically-Collected Information may also be
used for the following purposes:
- We may use your PII and Automatically-Collected Information to
help diagnose problems with the www.ruready.nd.gov
server and to administer www.ruready.nd.gov.
- We may use your PII and Automatically-Collected Information to
customize and tailor your experience using www.ruready.nd.gov, displaying content on www.ruready.nd.gov that we think you might be
interested in and according to your preferences (but we do not
track your activity across multiple websites for the purpose of
serving targeted advertising to you).
Summary data consisting of a compilation of de-identified and
aggregate data representing www.ruready.nd.gov
users may be collected by XAP and provided to various entities
including colleges and other educational institutions represented
on www.ruready.nd.gov. NO PII IS MADE AVAILABLE AS
PART OF THESE SUMMARY REPORTS. Some examples of summary data are
the number of monthly visitors to www.ruready.nd.gov, the number of admission
applications submitted over www.ruready.nd.gov, and
the www.ruready.nd.gov functions utilized by
students in specified age or grade ranges.
WITH WHOM PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AND
AUTOMATICALLY-COLLECTED INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
Except as set forth below, PII you enter on www.ruready.nd.gov is not made available or
distributed to third parties, except with your express consent or
at your express direction. In particular, XAP will not give, sell,
rent, trade, transfer, otherwise provide or provide access to your
PII to any company, individual, or organization for its use in
marketing or commercial solicitation or for any other purpose,
except with your express consent and at your direction, unless it
is pursuant to one of the exceptions listed below or necessary for
operation of www.ruready.nd.gov.
We may share your PII as follows:
- School Administration and Staff. Your account is meant
to help you set goals and plan for the future. If you connect your
account to a school or other site using www.ruready.nd.gov as part of a career and education
planning program, then professional staff at that school or site
designated by the administration of the school or site to have
access to the www.ruready.nd.gov Professional
Center will have access to view (i) your www.ruready.nd.gov portfolio, including your PII that
is part of your portfolio, (ii) email communications to and from
you through www.ruready.nd.gov, (iii) and all other
PII and other content that you add to www.ruready.nd.gov as part of your portfolio. This
access is granted to these professional users so that they may
assist you in a guidance capacity with your career and education
planning.
- Parents and Guardians. You may request that
your parent or legal guardian be given permission to view your
portfolio (including all PII and other content that you add to www.ruready.nd.gov as you use www.ruready.nd.gov). And if you do make this request,
your parent or legal guardian will be granted access to your
portfolio and may view all of your PII associated with your
portfolio.
- Bridges Transitions Inc. XAP Corporation and
Bridges Transitions Inc. reserve the right to share PII with one
another (regardless of which entity first collected the
information) in connection with the maintenance and operation of www.ruready.nd.gov and for use in accordance with this
Statement.
- As Directed by You. Any time you request that
we perform a task that involves a transfer of PII, the PII related
to the performance of that task will be made available to a
recipient you designate. For example:
- If you submit an application for admission to a college or
other educational institution, the PII required to complete that
application and any other PII you entered onto the application will
be provided on your behalf to the admissions office of the
institution to which you are applying.
- If you request that a college or other educational institution
send you material, your contact information will be provided to
that institution so the institution can send you material and
contact you.
- If on the Compass Assessment Career Profiles page you opt-in to
being matched with potential employer/sponsorship opportunities
and, if you are over 18 and opt to provide your PII to XAP's
subcontractor, Golden Path Solutions ("GPS"); or if you are under
18 and your parent/guardian opts to provide your PII to GPS to
facilitate the matching, GPS will have access to and will store the
PII you/your parent/guardian provides solely to facilitate the
matching process/service.
Note: If you begin an application for admission to a
college or other educational institution, your name and other PII
entered on that application may be provided to the admissions
office of that institution, even though you have not yet submitted
a completed application to that institution. The institution may
then contact you regarding your potential attendance.
- Required by Law. When required by law to
comply with any valid legal process such as a statute, regulation,
search warrant, subpoena, or court order, XAP may supply PII
contained in your www.ruready.nd.gov account as XAP
reasonably determines, based on the advice of counsel, it is
legally required to supply. XAP may also disclose PII in emergency
situations, to protect your safety or the safety of others, to
defend against legal claims, to enforce XAP's contractual or other
rights, or to take actions regarding illegal activities or
suspected fraud.
- Merger, Acquisition, or Sale of XAP. XAP may
transfer your PII and Automatically-Collected Information to
another entity if XAP is involved in a merger, acquisition,
reorganization, restructuring, or other sale or transfer of all or
any portion of its assets or business. In this event, we will, if
allowed, use reasonable efforts to notify you when your information
is transferred to a third party (this notification may be made via
email to you or by posting a prominent notice on www.ruready.nd.gov). Unless you consent otherwise, XAP
will contractually require any successor to treat your PII in
accordance with the promises made in this Statement, even after the
transfer. But any information you provide after the transfer will
likely be subject to a new privacy statement, and you should review
that statement.
- Third-Party Payment Processor. We use a
third-party intermediary to manage payment processing when you
submit payment to apply to an educational institution through www.ruready.nd.gov. This intermediary is not permitted
to store, retain, or use your financial information or other PII,
except for the sole purpose of processing payments you
initiate.
- Third-Party Service Providers. We may share
Automatically-Collected Information with our third-party service
providers who assist us by performing services related to our
operation of www.ruready.nd.gov(such as hosting,
data storage, and security). Such third-party service providers are
not authorized to use your information in any way other than as
described here and are required to keep the information
confidential.
- Third-Party Analytics Services. We may use
third-party analytics services to assist us in better understanding
our www.ruready.nd.gov users. For example, we use
these services to track and analyze certain Automatically-Collected
Information, such as feature usage. We only ever provide these
service providers with (or allow these service provides to collect
on our behalf) Automatically-Collected Information. We use the
information collected from these service provides to make www.ruready.nd.gov better and easier to use. The
information we receive from these third parties may be
re-associated with your PII after we receive it back from these
third parties. These third parties are not authorized to use the
information in any other way and are required to keep it the
information confidential.
SECURITY MEASURES TO PROTECT INFORMATION; DISCLAIMER
XAP uses industry standard physical, electronic, and procedural
security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and
unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of PII
and Automatically-Collected Information we collect and store. For
example, www.ruready.nd.gov encrypts the PII you
enter when it is in route from your browser to the www.ruready.nd.gov web servers, and again when your
PII is in route from the web servers to the back-end database
servers using TLS 1.2. This practice helps prevent unauthorized
third parties from intercepting and gaining access to your PII
during transmission over the Internet. www.ruready.nd.gov is WC3 compliant and performs
properly on all major operating system platforms as well as all
major modern internet browsers specifically including, but not
limited to, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, iOS, Chrome, Safari,
Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, and the build-in Internet
browsers for iOS and Android.
PII residing on the www.ruready.nd.gov server is
password protected, and account access is provided only to the
account holder who created the password, anyone to whom that
account holder entrusted the password, designated school
administrators and staff, and those employees of XAP who require
such access to administer and maintain the www.ruready.nd.gov system or to provide requested
customer support to users ofwww.ruready.nd.gov.
Each XAP employee who has access to the PII residing on the www.ruready.nd.gov server has agreed in writing to
respect the privacy of all such PII. XAP trains employees to
protect customer information and only authorize access for
employees who XAP believes have a business need for that
information. XAP holds employees accountable to a Code of Conduct
and Ethics to protect user information.
The safety and security of your PII also depends on you. You
should not send us sensitive PII via email, as this is not secure.
You are also responsible for keeping your account username and
password confidential. Please notify us if you become aware that
your PII is lost, stolen, or used without permission; we may
disable access to your account in order to prevent an unauthorized
third party from accessing your account.
While we take industry-standard security measures to protect the
privacy of your PII, we cannot guarantee that your PII will never
be compromised. No Internet or wireless network transmission is
ever 100% secure, and no security system can prevent all security
breaches. We do not and cannot guarantee that there will be no
unintended disclosures of your PII or that unauthorized third
parties will not defeat our security measures or use non-public
information for improper purposes.
COOKIES
We collect and store Automatically-Collected Information through
a standard feature found in browser software called a "cookie." A
cookie is a small file that a website transfers to a user's
computer or other operating device, which may then be stored on the
computer's or operating device's hard drive. www.ruready.nd.gov uses cookies to remember you and
personalize your web-viewing experience by keeping track of your
session when using www.ruready.nd.gov. Cookies
enable you to maintain continuity as you move from page to page on
www.ruready.nd.gov and to avoid the nuisance of
being asked to provide the same information repeatedly. Cookies
also allow us to make sure that only your browser can exchange
information regarding your account with our servers. Cookies also
provide us Automatically-Collected Information about www.ruready.nd.govfeatures used and activities
conducted while using www.ruready.nd.gov. We may
use cookies to aggregate data about user traffic on and user
interaction with www.ruready.nd.gov so we can offer
better experiences and tools in the future. The cookies we use are
called session cookies, meaning they are set when you use www.ruready.nd.gov and are erased when you end your
session on www.ruready.nd.gov or completely close
your browser. The XAP cookies we use do not remain on your hard
drive after you end your session on www.ruready.nd.gov or completely close your
browser.
Third-Party Cookies
We use third-party services provided by Google Analytics to track
and analyze your www.ruready.nd.gov activity. In
order to gather this Automatically-Collected Information, we use a
Google Analytics cookie on www.ruready.nd.gov. If
you don't want your Automatically-Collected Information used by
Google Analytics, Google recommends installing the Google Analytics
Opt-out Browser Ad-on, located here:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Don't want cookies?
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you don't
want cookies, you can set your browser to disable or refuse cookies
or to alert you when cookies are being used. Please refer to your
browser for information on how to disable and control cookies. You
should note, however, that various www.ruready.nd.gov services and features might not
function properly when cookies are not utilized.
LINKS
www.ruready.nd.gov hosts links to other sites or
resources, and you may link to one of those sites or resources for
a variety of purposes, such as but not limited to visiting an
official college website. These sites and resources have privacy
statements that may differ from that of www.ruready.nd.gov, and for your protection, we
recommend that you read and understand the privacy policy at any
website prior to providing personal information on that website or
otherwise continuing to use that website. XAP is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of any websites to which
www.ruready.nd.gov links or for the conduct of
persons operating those websites. XAP does not have control over
such external sites and resources. XAP shall not be liable for any
content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available
from such sites or resources. In addition, XAP shall not be
responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or
loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of
or reliance on any such content, advertising, products, or
materials on or available through any such site or resource.
MODIFYING YOUR INFORMATION
You may update on www.ruready.nd.gov any PII you
previously provided. To modify PII: (i) Sign in to www.ruready.nd.gov, (ii) access either your portfolio
or an application containing the information you want to change,
(iii) modify that information using standard word-processing
techniques, and (iv) save the change. If you want to remove PII
that is in a required field (and not replace it with other data),
you will need to contact XAP at 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
and request that your account be inactivated.
Please recognize that if you delete information, it will
no longer be available on www.ruready.nd.gov so
that, for example, if a college to which you previously submitted
an application were to attempt to retrieve that application from www.ruready.nd.gov after you made the deletion, the
deleted information would no longer be accessible. Similarly, when
accessed over www.ruready.nd.gov, PII that has been
updated or otherwise modified will appear in its then-current form,
rather than in the form in which it may have been submitted at some
earlier time. Please note that if you modify or delete any
PII, we may retain the earlier-submitted PII, as described in the
section below entitled "Retention and Storage.
RETENTION AND STORAGE
We retain all PII and Automatically-Collected Information in our
databases to fulfill the purpose for which the information was
collected. Because www.ruready.nd.gov is intended
to help you set goals and plan for your future education and career
path, the PII you put into www.ruready.nd.gov will
be retained until you ask us to remove your information. Note that
even after you ask that we remove your information from our
databases, it may be impossible to remove some information, such as
information tracked in our web server log files and information
that may reside in backup files. We may also retain
Automatically-Collected Information even after you request that we
remove your information from our databases, for use in the
aggregate and to analyze and improve www.ruready.nd.gov. Further, even after you request
that we remove your information from our databases, we may retain
PII and Automatically-Collected Information to comply with
applicable laws, rules, regulations, or guidelines; to prevent
fraudulent activity; to protect ourselves against liability; to
resolve disputes; and to enforce our contractual or other rights.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, XAP will not retain PII for longer
than is allowed under applicable law.
AMENDING THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
XAP may amend this Privacy Statement from time to time. We will
post any new Statement here, and you should review this Statement
regularly to make sure you are aware of its terms. You can
determine if this Statement has been revised since your last visit
to www.ruready.nd.gov by referring to the "last
updated" date at the top of this Statement. If XAP makes any
substantial changes to this Privacy Statement, XAP may also notify
you (i) by posting a message on the www.ruready.nd.govhomepage for at least thirty (30)
days; or (ii) by providing direct notice to you via your contact
information or by requiring that you agree to the revised Statement
to next time you log into your account on www.ruready.nd.gov. Once posted to www.ruready.nd.gov, the new Privacy Statement will
apply to all data previously submitted and subsequently submitted
to www.ruready.nd.gov, unless such use is
prohibited by law.
UNENFORCEABILITY
If any part of this Statement is determined to be invalid,
illegal, or unenforceable under applicable law, then the invalid,
illegal, or unenforceable provision will be deemed to be superseded
by a valid, legal, and enforceable provision that most closely
matches the intent of the original provision, and the remainder of
this Statement will continue in full force and effect.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement and the
privacy practices on this site, you may contact us at support@xap.com.