Conquer The College Essay Privacy Policy.

 

A privacy policy discloses ways that a party gathers, uses, discloses and manages data. Please read our Privacy Policy before using this website. The Conquer the College Essay LLC (“Conquer the College Essay”) website (“Site”) is an Internet website that is designed to help individuals and institutions gather information with regard to the college admissions essay and learn about the services that we provide. All Internet users should exercise caution when using the Internet so as to protect their privacy. Conquer the College Essay collects information as described below. Before you enter any information on any website, it is important to become aware of safe practices and restrictions regarding such disclosure. By accessing and using this Site, you hereby agree to be legally bound by our Privacy Policy.

 

I. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In creating content for our Site, Conquer the College Essay asks that visitors disclose comparatively little information. In general, the collection of information is limited to what is known as non-personally identifying information (e.g., screen name, gender, state, zip code, and country of residence). On occasion, we may ask for limited personality identifying information (e.g. your legal name, email address and/or email address of parent or third party), as explained below, in order to expand the success of our programs as well as your learning experience.

 

II. USE OF INFORMATION
The information we collect from you is intended to be used for the following specific purposes:
To help us develop Site content that is consistent with the interests of our user;
To provide offers that our users may be interested in;
To contact you with additional information;
To fulfill your requests for information about our products and services;
To help us review the effectiveness of our Site and its operations and give us insights into how our products are used;
To alert us to any problems with the Site, our business, products or services;
To protect the security and integrity of the Site.

 

III. CUSTOMER SERVICE
Interested parties who wish to receive emails about our services and our Site can contact us at info@conquerthecollegeessay.com [AG1] . In responding to such inquiries, we may seek additional non-personal information that can better help us respond to your questions. We do not sell, transfer, or share email addresses with any third parties.

 

IV. USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Conquer the College Essay respects the privilege of receiving information from visitors and makes sure to protect the privacy of users. On occasion, we may use personality identifying information for purposes such as sending email messages but we do not currently disclose that information to third parties. Additionally, we may use such personality identifying information to provide you with relevant marketing materials, and to contact Site users who have asked that Conquer the College Essay contact them directly about such sales and special offers. If requested, we may disclose personality identifying information to third parties in order to comply with law or requests by law enforcement agencies or to protect the rights, property or safety of our Site.

 

V. OPT OUT
At any point, users may opt out of receiving communications from us by sending an email to info@conquerthecollegeessay.com.

 

VI. INFORMATION RECEIVED BY CONQUER THE COLLEGE ESSAY
Our site uses forms that allow you to request information, products and services. Where appropriate, we also collect financial information to bill you for the products and services you indicate. We store no financial information on our sites. When we do transmit your data, we use only Secure Servers using current encryption technology to encode your data safely. Such personally identifying information is only used internally within Conquer the College Essay, and we do not sell, transfer or share this information with third parties. There may, however, be occasions when we may transfer, disclose, or share such information with third parties who are engaged by us expressly to handle and manage certain analysis of the data and other functions. These third parties would only have to the personally identifying information that allows them to perform such functions. They may not use such personally identifying information for other purposes, and have made material, contractual representations to Conquer the College Essay of their intention to treat personally identifying information in keeping with this Privacy Policy.

 

VII. COOKIES AND LOG DATA
Conquer the College Essay makes use of such unique identifiers as cookies (which may be html files, Flash files, or other small text files that are stored on your computer and help identify user preferences), Web beacons (small pieces of code placed on websites that are used to collect advertising metrics), or similar technologies that we are referring to as “Tracking Technologies.” These allow us to improve our understanding of Site and Internet usage and customize our content accordingly. Cookies enable us to personalize your experience on the Site, thereby making it more productive and pleasurable. For instance, cookies enable us to recognize your name if and when you return to the site. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you are consenting to the use of Tracking Technologies as set forth herein.
Let us note that many Internet browsers allow you to disable or reject most Tracking Technologies through the “Internet Options” sub-option of the “Tools” menu option of your browser. Consult the “Help” section of your browser for more information.
For more information about Flash cookies and how to remove them from your computer, please visit http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html or http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html.

 

VIII. MINORS AND PARENTAL ACCESS
It is critical that all Internet sites ensure the safe online experience of high school students and other minors. Accordingly, Conquer the College Essay is designed principally for the use of students, age 13 and older, as well as their parents, and schools. If you are under age 13, please obtain your parent/guardian’s permission before using this Site.

 

IX. SECURITY
Conquer the College Essay has taken all reasonable steps to ensure that personality identifying information that we may collect is secure. This is effected in large part by limiting the number of people who have physical access to our database servers as well as using electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access.

 

X. LINKS
One of the values of an Internet site is the way that it can connect you to other valuable Internet sites. This is done, in part, by offering links to such sites. Conquer the College Essay carefully reviews websites before linking to them, but it should be understood that these other websites may have their own information collection practices, which are guided by privacy policies that could be substantially different from ours. It is prudent for visitors to other websites to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of those websites.

 

XI. QUESTIONS/CONCERNS
We are happy to entertain any questions, comments or concerns regarding Conquer the College Essay’s Privacy Policy and/or information collection practices. Please email us with such questions, comments, or concerns at info@conquerthecollegeessay.com.

 

XII. COPYRIGHT POLICY
Intellectual property is a precious resource, and Conquer the College Essay respects the intellectual property of others as much as we do our own. We ask that you do the same. Information that you give us must be true and cannot be defaming to others and we are not responsible for such flawed information. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) and other applicable law, we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, subscribers or account holders who we regard as repeat infringers. We may also at our sole discretion limit access to our Site and/or terminate the accounts of any users who infringe any intellectual property rights of others, whether or not there is any repeat infringement.

 

This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 4, 2014.
To find out more about Conquer the College Essay, call (518) 392-5109 or info@conquerthecollegeessay.com

Lily’s College Essay

“I know you’re terrified of this act,” said Ann, my director, “but you have to let yourself become vulnerable. We’re all here to support you. Trust us. We love you.” 

We were just days away from performing Our Town. I was Emily, I needed a breakthrough, and this was Act Three.

 

At the end of this act, Emily, my character, dies but has the chance to relive a day with her family. She learns that the people around her did not really see what was important in life. Her idealized recollection of her life is shattered. She is deeply disappointed and saddened by her discovery. The only way to perform this last act is with great emotion. But, even though I knew this, I would not allow myself to go to a place where I could really feel Emily’s pain and loss. 

A few months before I left for this theater program, my sister, Beth, who was living in Chile, suffered a seizure. We learned that it was caused by a brain tumor that had been growing undetected for many years. Beth was flown home immediately for brain surgery.

 

 

The first time I saw my sister in seven months, she was in the hospital on a stretcher with IVs in her arm. The night before her operation, the doctor told us what could happen during brain surgery. Beth could become paralyzed, lose memory, and she could die. I have never been so sad and terrified in my entire life, and I was so angry that this had happened. As it turned out, Beth came through the surgery well and the tumor was benign, but the horror of the experience has stayed with me. 

Day after day, we rehearsed the last act and day after day I stayed dry-eyed and emotionless.

 

Talking to Ann, I came to realize why I couldn’t get to the feelings that this act required. The scene hit too close to home for me. Death had come so close and I did not want to relive those feelings. 

I stood there and said my lines. I tried as hard as I could to not just talk about death, but to allow myself to feel. I couldn’t. Ann stopped the rehearsal. She asked a staff member, Howie, to go on stage. “Hold Lily. Don’t let her fall,” Ann said, “but try to make her feel physically off balance.”

 

 

Howie held on to my shoulders and pulled me in all different directions. As this happened, I said my lines and suddenly started to cry my heart out.

 

This was my breakthrough. 

My sister’s illness threw me off balance and changed my life forever. When, once again, I was thrown off balance, Act Three changed forever. In that moment, during rehearsal, my defenses fell and I was able to reconnect to the sadness I had felt. I discovered that I could go there again safely and grow from this experience. From that moment on, each rehearsal and each performance was done with great emotion. We were days away from performing Our Town. I was Emily, I had a breakthrough, and that was my Act Three.

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