YOUREDUCATIONSEARCH.COM PRIVACY POLICY
Revised: AUGUST 20, 2012
This Privacy Policy covers the YourEducationSearch.com Web site ("We," "Us," or "Our"). Before you submit any information to Our Web site, please read this Privacy Policy for an explanation of how We will handle your information. By using any part of Our Web site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use Our Web site.
WHAT IS
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU?
We are sensitive to your privacy concerns, and are committed to letting you know
what Information is being collected on Our Web site, how the Information is
being used and what choices you have regarding the collection and use of the
Information.
PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. You agree to
this Privacy Policy, and any changes to the same, by visiting this Web site.
Therefore, We encourage you to review this Web site from time to time to review
changes to Our Privacy Policy.
WHAT
TYPES OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND WHY?
We gather personally identifiable information that you expressly provide when
you enter information into a form on Our Web site including, without limitation,
your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other unique personal
identifiers (e.g., date of birth) ("Personal Information"). If you choose not to
provide the requested Personal Information, We may not be able to offer you
personalized services that require such information.
We also collect anonymous information, which includes any information that is not tied to your Personal Information, such as your IP address ("Anonymous Information"). You are not required to register on Our Web site in order for Us to collect Anonymous Information about you. In addition, We may receive information about you from other sources including, but not limited to, service providers for tracking and marketing purposes ("Source Information"). Source Information may consist of referral data or the Web site you were previously visiting prior to visiting Our Web site; and information related to the browser and/or platform you are using to access Our Web site. Personal Information, Anonymous Information, and Source Information are collectively referred hereinafter as "Information."
In addition to the Information that you provide to Us or that We obtain about you, We will also collect certain information arising out of your use of Our Web site, or augment the data We collect with other information from other online or offline sources. We use "cookies" and the Information to enhance your experience and present you with personalized offers. Likewise, We may use third-party advertising companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on Our Web site. Such third-party companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. To learn more about "cookies," please see the section below titled "Cookies and Web Bugs."
We collect Information about you to (a) provide products, programs, and services that you have requested; (b) operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by Us and Our affiliated companies, successors, and assigns; (c) personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; (d) communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; (e) conduct research about your use of the features, offerings and content from Us, Our parent or sister companies and partners; (f) provide product improvement; (g) "pre-populate" forms; (h) provide you with advertising targeted to your preferences; and (i) help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you. We also reserve the right to collect and reuse Information about you for marketing purposes.
We reserve the right to collect Information about you and store it in connection with other online or offline information We may possess or obtain about you. Such information may include, without limitation, information about the different sites that you visit on the Internet, the time and frequency at which you visit them, and the content that you transmit or post on other Web sites.
WITH WHOM
WILL THE INFORMATION BE SHARED?
We may share Information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies
or for particular purposes including, without limitation, the purposes described
below. In all cases, you may opt-out of sharing your Information with such
providers by choosing not to use or register for that service or content. Please
see "Offering You Choices-Marketing Options" below for information on how to
opt-out of sharing your Information.
OFFERING YOU CHOICES
COOKIES
AND WEB BUGS
A cookie is a small piece of information that many Web sites use to help make
shopping online easier. The information is stored on your computer's hard drive
and provides a number of conveniences for you. We may set and access cookies on
your computer to provide you with customized content and to assist in providing
the services that you have requested. Most cookies are "session cookies," which
automatically delete themselves from your hard drive after each session. Like
many Web sites, We may automatically track information based upon your behavior
on Our Web sites. We may combine information that We obtain through the use of
cookies with Personal Information, other aggregate or anonymous data, including
a unique ID We may assign you. As described above, We use this information for
research purposes to better understand, protect and service Our customers. The
information We track may include such information as browser type, Internet
service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, IP
address and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer Our Web sites, track
user's movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for
aggregate use.
DOES THIS
PRIVACY POLICY APPLY TO OTHER WEB SITES?
Our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. We believe such other Web
sites share a similar commitment to consumer privacy and urge you to review
their privacy policy when visiting their Web sites. We are not responsible for
the privacy policies of other Web sites.
HOW DO WE
PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?
We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect your
Information. We protect Information about you over the Internet by using a
secure web server, which allows web browser programs (such as Netscape or
Microsoft Internet Explorer) to interact with Our web server via an encrypted
session. We employ a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection that provides an
encrypted connection between your computer and Us. The 128 bit encrypted
connection scrambles ordinary text or data into cyphertext to safeguard
sensitive information during its journey across the Internet. The information is
decrypted, or put back into a readable format, when it reaches its intended
destination. Depending on which browser you use, you will know you are in
secured area by "https" or a lock appearing in the lower right hand corner of
your browser window. When you visit Our Web site, you may move in and out of
secured areas.
DATA
TRANSFER
We may store, process and/or transfer personal data to countries outside of the
United States of America and, by using Our products and services, you consent to
such transfer. For example, if you elect to submit your Personal Information to
a Canadian school, We may transfer your Personal Information across borders to
the Canadian schools that you selected.
A SPECIAL
NOTE REGARDING PEOPLE UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
Individuals under the age of eighteen (18) should not send any Information to
Us. Each time you access Our Web site or purchase a product or service from Us,
or provide Information about yourself or anyone else, you are representing to Us
that you are eighteen (18) years or older.
CONCERNS,
QUESTIONS OR COMPLAINTS
If you have privacy concerns, questions, or complaints, please contact us at:
Privacy Officer
YourEducationSearch.com
2280 Grand
Avenue Suite 314
Baldwin, New York 11520