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Privacy Policy

Degrees.com is committed to protecting the privacy of your information. We recognize that privacy is of utmost importance, and operate our company with protecting your sensitive personal information in mind. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") outlines the type of information we gather, its uses and steps we take to safeguard it.

Data Collection

The following principles apply to the personally identifying information we ask for and that you provide. Degrees.com collects personally identifying information such as name, physical address or email address when you:
  • Request information from schools
  • Volunteer to participate in an online survey, in which case we may ask for contact information & demographics information.
  • Contact Degrees.com with questions or comments.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties other than our business partners and affiliates as described later in this Privacy Policy. We treat all the information you provide to us as non-public.

Technical Data

We gather technical information about your machine through your web browser such as your IP address, operating system, browser type and referring URL. Our partners may also gather non-personally identifiable information about your machine via invisible "web beacons".

Log Files

We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files, which contain information such as IP addresses, browser type, operating system, ISP, date/time stamps and referring pages. This information is used to track statistics and trends on an aggregate basis, and does not identify individual users. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for tracking purposes. We use persistent cookies to store a session ID to represent your machine during your first, and each subsequent visit to our website. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service and to better understand how people interact with our website. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still be able to access most of the Degrees.com website. These cookies are not tied to your personal information.

Web Beacons

We employ a software technology called Web Beacons, also known as clear gifs, in order to gather aggregated, non-personally identifiable information through third party advertising agencies about our website. Web Beacons help us identify and track the performance of web pages on our site, therefore allowing us to measure the performance and quality of our website.

Optional Information

When you access the Degrees.com website, we may give you the option of submitting general information such as the type of degree you want to obtain and your general goals, for purposes of providing products and services which may be of value to you.

Third Party Information Sharing

Degrees.com helps match students with the right school and schools with the right students. We partner with an extensive array of high-quality institutions, offering campus and on-line programs, certificates and degrees. We have many satisfied customers throughout the nation.

Thus, when requesting information from our site, you consent to being contacted by one or more potential educational institutions

Degrees.com collects information from new and existing customers at various points throughout our website. Only with your consent, may we share this information with trusted third party business partners who may contact you to subscribe to or use their products. We work with various trusted companies in the educational industry. Trusted companies are companies defined as those that adhere to our strict agreements that protect your personal information from distribution, loss, theft and misuse.

Opt-Out

Degrees.com provides users the ability to opt-out of receiving communications from us. If you wish to cease future communications or wish to no longer receive our services, you can opt-out by any of the following means

Visit the following URL and request to Opt-out: http://www.degrees.com/contact-us.html

Send an email to: privacy@degrees.com

Send postal mail to:
Degrees.com,
Attn: Opt-Out
818 West 7th Street, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90017

To opt-out of communications from the educational institutions that wish to provide the service you requested, please contact them directly.

Safeguarding Personal Information

Degrees.com uses advanced digital encryption and internal security measures to safeguard your personal information from loss, misuse alteration and destruction. We use the highest-grade 128-bit encryption of all submissions of sensitive data, in order to protect unauthorized parties from viewing or intercepting the data transmission. Only authorized employees of Degrees.com can access your personal information, and can do so only on a "need-to-know" basis.

Data Retention

Degrees.com stores your information for no less than 1 year from the time of initial submission of personal information, as well as automated personal information we collect about you.

Contact for Privacy Related Issues

If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, or would like your previously submitted information modified or removed, you can contact us through the web by visiting Customer Service at:http://www.degrees.com/contact-us.html. You can also email us at privacy@Degrees.com, or send postal mail to:
Degrees.com,
Attn: Privacy
818 West 7th Street, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90017

Privacy Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy may change, from time to time, due to changes on our website, legal developments, business factors and ever-changing technology. Notifications to changes of our Privacy Policy will be posted on our website, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Disclosures of Personal Information

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.

Special Notification for California Residents

Individual customers who reside in California and have provided their personal information to us may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us at privacy@degrees.com. Within thirty days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for third-party direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses of these third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.