This is the privacy policy ("Privacy
Policy") for the Web site ("Site") for Obtain An Education ("OAE") www.obtainaneducation.com.
This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you
when you visit our Site.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully,
because by visiting or using this Site, you agree to its terms.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from
time to time. When we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will inform
you by posting a notice on the home page www.obtainaneducation.com or by
e-mail of this Site that the policy has been updated and by changing the date on
this page noting when the policy was last updated. If you see a notice of change,
please check the Privacy Policy, because your continued use of the Site after we
post the change means you have agreed to the new terms.
Collection of Your Data
Personal Data. When you fill out a "Student
Matching Profile", our Self-Assessment, our Financial Aid Estimator, and at other
times, we ask for some information about you, such as your name, age, email address,
postal address, and phone number, level of education, desired level of educational
program, areas of interest, current occupation,
military status (if any), governmental loan status. We do not knowingly collect
information from children under the age of 13.
Anonymous Data. We automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information
from you when you visit the Site. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors
use and navigate the Site on an aggregate basis, including the number and frequency
of visitors to each Web page, and the length of their visits.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal data in the
following ways:
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For the purpose for which you specifically provided
the personal data, for example, but not limited to, to match your student matching
profile to educational institutions or to respond to a specific inquiry.
To send you notifications about your accounts or transactions with us and to otherwise
contact you with information that we believe will be of interest to you.
To notify you about our products and services and special offers.
To enhance
existing features or develop new features products and services.
We may combine the information that
we collect from you on the Site with information that we collect from third parties.
Sharing Your Data
We share this personal data with the
educational institutions to which we have matched your profile so that these institutions
can contact you with information about their educational programs. These educational
institutions are not governed by this Privacy Policy. If you want to know more about
a partner school’s use of your information, contact the school directly. We share
the information you have provided on our matching profile with educational institutions.
We also share your information with
third party service providers who help us to run this Site, provide services offered
on this Site or to fulfill your requests with educational institutions and/or educational
marketing providers. We may also need to disclose your personal data to third parties
if required by law or to enforce our User Agreement or this Privacy Policy, or when
we, in our sole discretion, believe it is necessary or appropriate, in connection
with a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets in the Site.
If you do not wish to have your personally identifiable information shared, to opt-out
from receiving further communications from any third party that is not our agent
or service provider. Please contact that marketing partner/affiliate directly.
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s),
we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect
for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and
Opt-out” section.
You can let us know that you do not
wish us to share your information with third parties for marketing purposes or to
notify you about our own products and services and special offers by opting out
at the time that you submit your Student Matching Profile or by sending us a written
request either by email to
unsubscribe@CollegeInformationSource.com or
via postal mail.
If you no longer wish to receive our
newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by
following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by clicking
on the following
link to
add your email address and/or telephone number directly to our Unsubscribe/Do Not
Call lists. Please address postal mail requests to:
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Attn: Information Inquiry or Update
·
Obtain An Education Services
Please be aware that we do not control
the activities of the educational institutions with which we match your profile
or any third parties to whom we have provided your information for marketing purposes.
If you wish them to stop contacting you, you will need to notify them of this fact
separately.
Cookies and Other Technology
We use cookies to allow you to move
quickly through our site, to recognize repeat visitors and to allow you to take
advantage of some of our site’s special features. A cookie is a string of information
that is sent by a Web site and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your
computer’s memory. Cookies are small files and won’t pose any significant disk-space
concerns. No cookies are linked to personally identifiable information. Cookies
are stored to remember your education selection and to prevent duplicate leads from
the same IP address from being created and to make it easier for you to navigate
our site, in order for you to use our matching services.
You can turn off the ability to receive any of these cookies by adjusting the browser
in your computer. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how
to prevent your browser from accepting cookies, how to have the browser notify you
when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Without cookies
you can visit our Site, but you will not be able to use the services that require
you to provide your personal information.
We use clear GIFs, Web beacons, and other tracking devices to follow visitor usage
of our site. The data collected through these mechanisms is anonymous, and we do
not link it to the personal data you may provide us.
We use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs)
on our Site in order to recognize users and assess traffic patterns. We also include
Web beacons in our e-mail messages in order to count how many e-mail messages have
been opened.
The use of cookies by our partners,
affiliates, or service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do
not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, or service
providers use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site,
in order for you to use our matching services.
Supplementation
of Information
In order to provide accurate school
matching services to you, we may on occasion supplement the personally identifiable
information you submitted to us with information from third party sources.
We post customer testimonials on our
web site which may contain personally identifiable information like a video along
with their first and last name. We do obtain the customer's consent via email prior
to posting the testimonial to post their name and video along with their testimonial.
Ads for CIS
When you view an ad for CIS on other
sites, our third-party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie
on your browser. CIS and our advertising company may also use Web beacons (invisible
images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) to note which pages of the
Site you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through
the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track
response to our advertising efforts.
Links to Other Web Sites
If you click on a link to a third party
site, including on an advertisement, you will leave the www.obtainaneducation.com
site you are visiting and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control
the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of
your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee
that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as www.Obtain An Education.com.
We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider
from whom you request services. If you visit a third party website that is linked
to an www.obtainaneducation.com site, you should read that site’s privacy
statement before providing any personally identifiable information.
Transfer to the United States
If you are located outside of the United
States, please note that the personal data you provide to us will be transferred
to the United States. Whenever you submit any personal data to us, you consent to
this transfer.
Review and Correction
You may review and update the personal
data you have provided to us contacting us via e-mail at
info@collegeinformationsource.com
Any revisions you provide to your personal
data will be applied in our own records but will not be updated in the records of
the educational institutions to which we have already provided your data. If you
would like to review and correct the personal data that has been provided to educational
institutions, you will need to contact them separately.
We follow generally accepted industry
standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both
during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet,
or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive
to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security
on our Web site, you can send email us at info@CollegeInformationSource.com.
In the event that someone buys or acquires
us or substantially all of our assets, our information about you and your use of
our services will likely be one of the acquired assets.
We reserve the right to disclose your
personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding,
court order, or legal process served on our Web site.
E-mail: info@obtainaneducation.com