Company Practices Regarding Your Privacy
We at ExploreOnlineDegreesand our affiliated companies are
committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need for
appropriate protection and management of any information you share with us by
using our web sites.
Certain states, such as California, have passed legislation
requiring certain specific disclosures be made available to their residents who
use the Internet and provide information that may be used for marketing
purposes. That legislation requires any business that discloses a customer’s
personal information (as defined by the act) to any third party for direct
marketing purposes to provide the customer a method for obtaining the names,
addresses and certain other specified details of anyone who might have received
that personal information. If you are a California resident you may request
this information from ExploreOnlineDegreesby writing to ExploreOnlineDegrees, 6
Beach Rd., Suite 443 Belvedere, CA 94920, Attn: Privacy Rights or by sending an
email to privacy@ExploreOnlineDegrees.com.
ExploreOnlineDegrees is not obligated to respond to more than one such request
from you per calendar year.
ExploreOnlineDegrees has established the following Privacy Policy so
that you can understand the care with which we intend to treat your information.
This policy describes the overall privacy practices of ExploreOnlineDegrees regarding
information we collect on our site or network of web sites and through our other
advertising. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that
ExploreOnlineDegrees does not own or control, or to people that ExploreOnlineDegrees does not
employ.
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
ExploreOnlineDegrees collects various types of information from you
to better meet your needs and to provide you with a more relevant user
experience. Some of this information is collected automatically through cookies
(a small text file placed on your computer) or other Internet tracking
technologies. The type of information your browser or Internet session may
automatically provide us with can include the browser you are using, your
Internet domain, the operating system on your computer, your IP address and the
URL you saw just before coming to the ExploreOnlineDegrees site, the pages of the site
you visited and the URL of the page you visited upon leaving the site.
ExploreOnlineDegrees may also contract with reputable third-party
advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may also use
cookies or other measures to collect your non-personally identifiable
information.
Personally Identifiable Consumer Information
In addition, we may collect information that you choose to
provide to us when requesting additional information from us or from one or more
of our clients. Examples of personally identifiable data that you may provide to
us include name, address, phone and email address. If you provide personally
identifiable data to us, you may later elect to have your information deleted
from our files, or kept from being used for purposes other than for the service
requested, by following the opt-out procedures set forth below.
How Collected Information is Used
The non-personally identifiable information that
ExploreOnlineDegrees collects is used for marketing and sales efforts to better target
advertisements and other content in an effort to create a more personally
relevant experience. The information is also used to predict responses to
advertisements, and to help determine which ads perform best and which content
is most appropriate for different individuals.
If you elect to provide ExploreOnlineDegrees with personally
identifiable information, we may utilize such information for marketing
purposes, and this use may result in follow-up communications from ExploreOnlineDegrees
and from our clients. In addition, that information may be combined with
information collected from other sources to assist with targeting ads to your
preferences and behaviors, and for other ExploreOnlineDegrees sales and marketing
efforts.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
All
personally identifiable information you provide is maintained in confidence by
ExploreOnlineDegrees. There are instances, however, in which your personally identifiable
and non-personally identifiable information is shared with third parties, as
described below.
Your non-personally identifiable data may be shared with
third-party partners of ExploreOnlineDegrees on an anonymous basis.
When you request
information from ExploreOnlineDegrees or one or more of our clients, we may transfer that
information within ExploreOnlineDegrees or route your information to our client(s), so
that they may provide the information on their product or service.
We may
also disclose information to an affiliate or third party who provides services
we deem relevant. In such situations, you will always be provided with an
opportunity to opt-out of receiving this information. Please be aware that
ExploreOnlineDegrees is very careful in selecting companies with whom it does business.
In addition to the above situations where your information may be shared
with others, there is also the possibility that ExploreOnlineDegrees, or part(s) of our
parent company, may one day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. In
the event of such transaction, the acquiring (or merging) company will have
access to all collected personally identifiable information.
Finally,
ExploreOnlineDegrees may share your information as necessary to comply with a court order
or to cooperate with government and law enforcement officials.
Security
Wherever your personally identifiable
information may be held within ExploreOnlineDegrees or on its behalf, we intend to take
reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the information you shared with us
from unauthorized access or disclosure. Please note that while ExploreOnlineDegrees will
make every reasonable effort to protect your information, no transmission of
data over the Internet is 100% secure.
Choice
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer Information – Use
of Cookies & Opting-Out
Some of our web sites utilize cookies to collect
information about your online activities as specified above and to recall the
personal information you previously shared with us. Most browsers allow you to
control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them.
You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may
choose to block cookies with your browser. Blocking cookies may result in a
lower quality experience for you while you are visiting ExploreOnlineDegrees or related
sites.
Personally Identifiable Consumer Information –
Opting-Out
You may choose whether or not to provide personally identifiable
information to ExploreOnlineDegrees. If you choose to provide such information to
ExploreOnlineDegrees, you have the right to tell us not to make some of the uses of such
information described herein or may have such information deleted in its
entirety. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters, surveys or
promotional communications via email, you may opt-out without charge by
clicking here and following the instructions to unsubscribe. To
have your personal information completely removed from our databases without
charge, simply contact us at
privacy@ExploreOnlineDegrees.com and provide
the name of the service for which information was provided, your full name,
mailing address, phone number and email address so that we may identify you in
the opt-out process. Once we receive your instruction, we will promptly take
corrective action.
Access/Accuracy
To the extent that you do provide
us with personally identifiable information, ExploreOnlineDegrees wishes to maintain the
accuracy of this information. Where we collect personally identifiable
information from you on the Web, our goal is to provide a means of contacting
ExploreOnlineDegrees should you need to update or correct that information. If for any
reason those means are unavailable or inaccessible, you may send updates and
corrections about your personally identifiable information to
privacy@ExploreOnlineDegrees.com and we will
make reasonable efforts to incorporate the changes in the information that we
hold as soon as practicable.
Children’s Privacy
In compliance with the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),
http://www.ExploreOnlineDegrees.com/ is not structured to attract
children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect personally identifiable
information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age.
Commitment
Protecting your privacy online is an
evolving area, and ExploreOnlineDegrees is constantly changing to meet these demands.
If you have any comments or questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please
contact us at
privacy@ExploreOnlineDegrees.com. While we
cannot guarantee privacy perfection, we will address any issue to the best of
our abilities as soon as practicable after you bring it to our attention.
Your Consent
By using this web site, you consent
to the terms of our Online Privacy Policy and to the processing by ExploreOnlineDegrees
of personally identifiable information for the purposes given above. Should the
Privacy Policy change, we intend to take every reasonable step to ensure that
these changes are brought to your attention by posting all changes prominently
on our web site for a reasonable period of time and by amending this privacy
policy.