Company Practices Regarding Your
Privacy
We at EDUAuthority and 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 EDUAuthority by writing to EDUAuthority,
6 Beach Rd., Suite
443 Belvedere, CA 94920, Attn: Privacy Rights or by sending an email to privacy@eduauthority.com. EDUAuthority
is not obligated to respond to more than one such
request from you per calendar year.
EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority does not own or control, or to people that EDUAuthority does not employ.
Non-Personally Identifiable Consumer
Information
EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority site, the pages of the site you visited and the
URL of the page you visited upon leaving the site.
EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority with
personally identifiable information, we may utilize such information for
marketing purposes, and this use may result in follow-up communications
from EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority
sales and marketing efforts.
Sharing Information with Third
Parties
All personally identifiable information you provide is
maintained in confidence by EDUAuthority. 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 EDUAuthority on an anonymous basis.
When you
request information from EDUAuthority or one or more of our
clients, we may transfer that information within EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority 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, EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority
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 EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority. If you choose to provide such information to EDUAuthority, 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@eduauthority.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, EDUAuthority
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 EDUAuthority 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@eduauthority.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),
EDUAuthority 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 EDUAuthority is constantly
changing to meet these demands.
If you have any comments or questions
regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at
privacy@eduauthority.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 EDUAuthority 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.