Privacy Policy – PHDOnlineDegree.com

Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Use of PhdOnlineDegree.com (Effective Date 2/11/2016)

Thank you for your interest in and use of our website content and services. This document explains fair use conditions of our website, and how PhdOnlineDegree.com collects and utilizes information to deliver content and other products and services to you. By using our website, you agree to these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Automatic information is one of the types of information we collect on our site. Every interaction you have with us allows us to receive and store certain types of anonymous information, as most websites do. With this information, we can make improvements and create a more relevant user experience. We use cookies to collect anonymous data for analytics, site optimization, tailored advertising and marketing purposes and other potential uses. Examples of anonymous data include, but are not limited to, your browser version, operating system version, and your IP address. Learn more about our use of cookies below in this document.

Submitted information is also collected on our website. We provide web forms for the voluntary submission of personal contact information including name, telephone number, mailing address and email address. This enables us to provide the services requested by our visitors, as well as any other information needed to match you to an education product or service. We collect your submission and it is stored with schools and other third parties to provide you with relevant education related programs and services, as necessary.

With your voluntary submission of information our site, PhdOnlineDegree.com, is authorized, along with our affiliated schools and partners, to contact you by telephone, text messages, email or mail, in accordance with all applicable laws, in regards to education options or related topics. Below is additional information on this and other important topics. If you wish to unsubscribe from our email communications or that from an affiliated school or third party, you will be afforded this opportunity through an opt-out link, which allows you to be removed from that sender’s further mailings.

Submitting personal information to PhdOnlineDegree.com grants us permission, and grants permission to our affiliated entities, including schools, third party marketing partners and vendors, to contact you, including via telephone, text messages, email, or mail to provide information, marketing or otherwise, for education related services and products. Additionally, our website, our affiliates, and partners and vendors, are granted the right to contact you and you relinquish any rights extended to you by the Do Not Call list or other applicable law, for a period of time. You effectively omit Do Not Call requirements established by state and federal governments and may also provide exemption for us from other applicable laws through your submission.

Also via your submission, you allow us the right to release your personal information, such as for a subpoena or other legal procedure, or in other instances required by law. We exercise this option in good fath when we believe it is necessary to preserve our rights, ensure the safety of you or others, explore alleged fraud, to reply to a government or legal request, and/or in the instance that PhdOnlineDegree.com enters into a merger, acquisition, or sale of some or all of its assets to a third party.

Using our website means you acknowledge and agree that information we collect on our website may be shared with schools, affiliated companies, and third parties, to provide you with degree information and/or inform you of other programs and education related products and services. You also acknowledge and agree with our right to release any collected information, personally identifiable or otherwise, as needed, to businesses providing administration services to our company, such as for email service delivery.

Cookie Policy

Using this website means you acknowledge and consent to our use of cookies, which are the small pieces of data sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser, used for technical purposes such as web analytics. We perform our web analytics mainly using Google Analytics, by Google, Inc. Advertising cookies allow advertisers to tailor ads based on user’s interests, but personally identifiable information is not included, so users are still anonymous. Advertising cookies, or third-party cookies, track navigation and publish ads on behalf of third parties. Read more in Google’s privacy policy about Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

There are several ways in which we use information gathered by cookies, including through services and partnerships with vendors and third party service providers. We use cookies to perform Web analytics to capture demographic and other anonymous data for web optimization and other analysis; lead auditing for ensuring accuracy, relevance and validity of information that is submitted; and tracking marketing and conversion, including, but not limited to, targeting and optimizing digital ad serving for improving relevance, user experience, and advertising effectiveness.

If you choose to refuse and/or remove cookies and third party advertising, you may do so through your browser at any time. This may be required on a per use and not one time basis. Generally, you can opt out of receiving personalized ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or those who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles, as well as from other third party advertisers and ad networks. Visit the opt-out pages on the NAI website and DAA website to unsubscribe.

Contact us through our contact form to address any questions or concerns about this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

This Terms of Use and Privacy Policy may be revised in the future if we change our practices, therefore we recommend that you reread this document periodically for the most up to date practices concerning your privacy and other important information.