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usadegreesearch.com
Web Privacy Statement
usadegreesearch is committed to
protecting your privacy when you visit our Websites, so
we want you to know what information we collect when you
visit one of our sites, how we use that information, and
how you can update it. We reserve the right to append or
otherwise modify this Privacy Statement at any time, so
please re-visit this page occasionally to check for
updates.
Information We
Collect
We collect various types of information from our
visitors so we can adjust our site to meet our users'
needs and expectations. Some of this information is
collected automatically through cookies and other
information is collected when you register for any of
our online services or when you request information from
one of our partners.
Information Collected Automatically
The types of information your browser or Internet
session automatically sends us each time you visit one
of our sites, which we automatically collect, includes:
- Your browser, e.g.,
Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator.
- Your Internet
domain, e.g., AOL, Netcom, Earthlink, etc.
- You computer's
operating system, e.g., Windows, Macintosh, UNIX,
Linux.
- Your navigation
path, i.e., the URLs of where you come to our site
from, which of our pages you visit, and where you go
as you leave.
- Your IP address.
This information lets us
see how users are finding our sites, and it tells us
which pages are visited the most often so we can make
our Websites more useful.
Information You
Provide to Us
In addition to the information automatically collected
by your browser, we also collect information that you
provide to us when you request information about a
particular school or educational program.
Our websites provide users
the opportunity to request information from schools, and
to learn about various education opportunities. These
information request sites require users to provide us
with contact information (name, address, phone number,
email address, gender, age, work experience, etc.) as
well as information about their interest in one of our
educational partners (universities, colleges, test prep
companies, etc.) We collect this information that you
provide, and may use it to make your future requests
from our websites easier by pre-populating contact forms
with the information that you have provided. We provide
this contact information that you provide to the
educational partner that you requested information from.
Customer interest information is collected to determine
what information the customer wishes to be sent.
How We Use This
Information
We use the information we automatically collect to help
us better plan our Website to meet your Internet needs.
Information you provide to us is used for marketing
purposes, and may result in follow-up communications.
Your Rights Our
Obligations
usadegreesearch only provides the personal data submitted by
visitors to our site to the third party/parties from
which they requested information.
The company respects the
privacy of users visiting our sites and will abide by
all applicable laws concerning the release of personal
information. On an occasion we may use certain directory
information that we have collected to send you
information about products and services, or updates and
other information we think may be of interest to you. We
may share this information with our educational partners
to bring similar information to your attention. If you
tell us that you do not wish to have this information
used as a basis for further contact with you, we will
respect your wishes. Please contact us to request your
name and address be removed from our lists. If you do
not want to receive our e-mail marketing, please submit
a request to have your e-mail address removed by
emailing: unsubscribe@usadegreesearch.com.
Other than directory
information, data you provide to us as you use the
Website will be held in strict confidence by the company
and will be used for company purposes only.
Our Security Measures
Our Websites have security measures in place to protect
against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control.
Why We Use "Cookies"
When you visit some of our sites, we use cookies to keep
track of your information. This small piece of program
code resides on your computer and stores your contact
information for all of our request information sites. We
do this so you are not required to re-enter your contact
information as you move from one site to another.
Links From Our Site
To Other Sites Some of our sites may contain links
to other sites external to our sites. When you access
these external Websites, the providers of the sites will
have access to certain information about you. usadegreesearch
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the
content of any Websites which we do not directly
control.
Definitions
Cookies
Data created by a Web server that is stored on a user's
computer. It provides a way for the Website to keep
track of a user's patterns and preferences and, with the
cooperation of the Web browser, to store them on the
user's own hard disk.
The cookies contain a
range of URLs (Web addresses) for which they are valid.
When the browser encounters those URLs again, it sends
those specific cookies to the Web server. For example,
if a user's ID were stored as a cookie, it would save
that person from typing in the same information all over
again when accessing that service for the second and
subsequent time during the same browser session.
You can opt out of the use
of cookies by having your browser disable cookies or
warn you before accepting a cookie. Look for the cookie
options in your browser in the Options or Preferences
menu.
IP (Internet
Protocol) Address
This is the address of a computer attached to a TCP/IP
network. Every client and server station must have a
unique IP address. Client workstations have either a
permanent address or one that is dynamically assigned
for each dial-up session. IP addresses are written as
four sets of numbers separated by periods; for example,
204.171.64.2.
Browser Session
A browser session is defined as the period of time a
browser is in consecutive use. The session begins when
you open the browser and ends when you close it. When
you reopen the browser, you begin a new session.
SSL Encryption
(Secure Sockets Layer)
The leading security protocol on the Internet. When an
SSL session is started, the browser sends its public key
to the server so that the server can securely send a
secret key to the browser. The browser and server
exchange data via secret key encryption during that
session. We also use SSL encryption whenever we display
your personal information (e.g., name and address,
scheduled courses, grades).
URL (Uniform Resource
Locator)
An Internet address. URLs are used to locate sites on
the Internet and to navigate between sites and pages
within sites. The URL for usadegreesearch is www.usadegreesearch.com.
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