Review Details

When submitting a review on Rate My College, you have the option to provide additional details, such as your start year at a specific accommodation facility and whether you are an Australian or international student. We collect this information to enhance the context and significance of your reviews and other contributions. It may be displayed alongside your content on the website. We make this clear when you choose to enter this profile data.

Additionally, we process this data in an anonymized manner, ensuring that individual records cannot be traced back to specific user accounts. This allows us to derive generic trend data, such as differences between user groups who started university in different years. Some of this processed data may be visible on the website to assist other users.

 

Furthermore, we may share this anonymized data with commercial partners and customers for their research and processing purposes. If you wish to remove this data from, you should contact Rate My College. This data may still exist temporarily in our logs and backups, but it will not be actively processed.

 

Reviews and other Submitted Content

When you use the Rate My College website, you have the opportunity to submit reviews, questions, answers, or other content. We collect and display this content to assist other users seeking information. Additionally, we process this data in an anonymized manner, ensuring that individual records cannot be traced back to specific individuals. This allows us to provide generic scores and aggregated information about specific subjects, which we display on the website to further assist users. Furthermore, we make this anonymized data available to commercial partners and customers for their research and processing purposes. When you contribute content, it becomes part of our live dataset and remains accessible on the website. If you’re concerned that a piece of content you’ve submitted could identify you as the author, please contact us at Rate My College. If we can verify your claim, we’ll either edit out the identifying part or remove the entire item from our database, at our discretion. Your privacy is important to us!

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Contacting Rate My College

When you get in touch with Rate My College, you provide us with your email address and first name. Optionally, you may also share additional details like your full name and phone number. We collect this information only when you explicitly provide it, and we use it for specific purposes:

Communication: We use your contact information to keep you informed about Rate My College news and any website activity related to content you’ve submitted (such as reviews, questions, or answers).

Identity Verification: In case you reach out to us regarding your review, we may use this information as proof of your identity.

We make sure to clarify our intentions when collecting this data from you. Your email address should remain valid if you wish to stay connected with Rate My College.

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