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PRIVACY POLICY


Effective 08/23/2011

Education-For-Careers.com totally respects your privacy. This privacy statement describes how Target Direct Marketing collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Web site: Education-for-Careers.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Target Direct Marketing has been awarded TRUSTe's Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe's program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. TRUSTe's mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at Target Direct Marketing, 185 Main St. Gloucester, MA 01930. If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact TRUSTe here.

YOUR INFORMATION

When you log onto our website, you supply us with your IP address, and other information you put onto the forms on our site. This can include your zip code, e-mail address, first and last name, phone numbers, the programs and campuses you are interested in, and possibly some other information requested by the schools on our website.

How We Use Your Information

We DO NOT Share sell, rent, or trade Personally Identifiable Information with third parties. We use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide when you request information from specific schools to fulfill your request, or to facilitate fulfillment by the agency that handles those schools’ information requests. When you ask for information from a particular school, someone from that school will contact you with the additional information you have requested. Education-For-Careers.com may use your information to help us improve the quality and your usage experience of our website.

Affiliates

We collect information on our Web site including name, company name, email address, and phone number when you request information about the Affiliate program. We will contact you via email or telephone to discuss joining the program.

Refer-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to refer a friend to our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name, and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Target Direct Marketing does not store this information after sending this one-time email.

Agents/Service Providers

We use other third parties such as an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. We will only share your personally identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service.

COOKIES

"Cookies" are small pieces of information our website may ask for. They help us understand your requests for information, and are intended to provide you with a better browsing experience. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personal information you submit while on our site. But our site will still function for you if your browser blocks these cookies. We also use third party companies (such as Google Analytics) in order to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics for us about visitors to our site.

Web beacons

Our Web pages contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our site is used and may be used in some of our emails to let us know which emails and links have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of our customer communications and marketing campaigns.

INFORMATION SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal 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, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us at bwang@tdmkt.com.

Updating/Correcting Personally Identifiable Information

Please note that users can not update or delete previously submitted information. If your information (such as your email address) should change, we ask that you re-submit a registration form or request. We will respond to your access request within 30 days.

We will retain your information as needed to provide you services. If you wish to request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at bwang@tdmkt.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Legal Disclaimer

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 to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Business Transitions

In the event Target Direct Marketing goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via [email] [prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days] of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Notification of Privacy Statement Changes

We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you wish to change or remove your contact information from our database, ask us questions about this Privacy Statement, or for any other information, you may contact Target Direct Marketing at bwang@tdmkt.com or via mail at

Target Direct Marketing, 185 Main St. Gloucester, MA 01930