Information -- How We Get It
All personal information obtained by Advanced-Degrees.com comes from you when you to choose to share it on a form. Our automated system does gather information regarding your online activities based on your IP address. However, such information is collected in an aggregated, non-personally identifiable way and in a manner that may allow us to associate such information with other personally identifiable information about you and your activities on our site.

What Type of Information Do We Collect?
When you enter personal information onto our site's forms, including, without limitation, your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other unique personal identifiers (e.g., date of birth) ("Personal Information"), you have granted your permission for us to collect this information so that we may customize your interactive experience with us. 

We collect Personal Information about you to (a) connect you with information on products, programs, and services that you have requested; (b) operate and improve the features, offerings, and content presented to you by us and our affiliated companies, successors, and assigns; (c) personalize the content and messaging provided to you; (d) communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; (e) conduct research about your use of the features, offerings, and content from us, or our parent or sister companies and partners; (f) provide product improvement; (g) "pre-populate" forms; (h) provide you with advertising targeted to your preferences; and (i) help offer you other products, programs, or services that may be of interest to you. We also reserve the right to collect and reuse Personal Information about you for marketing purposes.

We also collect anonymous information, which includes any information that is not tied to your Personal Information, such as your IP address ("Anonymous Information"). You are not required to register on our Web site in order for us to collect Anonymous Information about you.

We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on our Web site, in addition to the Personal Information that you provide to us. This may involve the employment of cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness. To learn more about "cookies," please see the section below titled "Usage of Cookies and Tracking."

How We Use and Disclose Your Information
Your information is used on an aggregated basis to facilitate of the operation and enhancement of our site. We also use this data, both aggregated and personally identifiable, to enhance your future site visits. We may disclose aggregated information about our site to third parties.

We do not sell your personally identifiable information to third parties or mass marketers unless that is disclosed to you, in which case we will explicitly tell you that the data we are collecting on that page will be provided to third parties. We would also have the right to sell this information as part of a sale of all or substantially all of our assets.

In some situations, we provide your personally identifiable information to third-party service providers to enhance or expand the functionality available to you as a site visitors, but this will only be done when you specifically ask us to by responding to a survey.

In some cases, we use your personally identifiable information to provide information to you, such as to send newsletters and email that you request, or to personalize the site in accordance with your requests. We will provide you with directions in all emails and newsletters on how to be removed from our newsletter list.

Additionally, an Advanced-Degrees.com representative may use your personally identifiable information that you provided to subsequently contact you by telephone in order to obtain your feedback on the quality of the follow-up you received and/or discuss additional education related opportunities even if you have registered your telephone number with the National Do Not Call list. Participation in the survey is strictly voluntary. Please tell the representative if you wish to opt-out of participating in such surveys in the future. E-mail and web-based surveys will include instructions for opting out of future customer support surveys.

Usage of Cookies and Tracking
We may use cookies on our site. Cookies can help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. Cookies allow us to better understand how users use our site, which in turn helps us focus our resources on features that are most popular. In addition to using cookies, in some circumstances we may track or collect information about your activities on our site by your IP address or by the URLs that you come from or leave to. However, these methods do not permit us to associate this information with any other personally identifiable information that you may have provided us.

Children's Online Privacy Protection
In compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, we do not accept personally identifiable information online from children under the age of thirteen (13).  If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, you cannot complete any forms or surveys on this site, and you should not otherwise send us any personal information.

Each time you access our Web site or request information on a product or service we represent, or provide personal information about yourself or anyone else, you are representing to us that you are eighteen (18) years or older. If you are under eighteen (18) years of age and want to request information on this site, you should first check with your parents to make sure it is okay to do so.

Transferability of Information
Information collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy by us may be stored and processed within the United States of America or in any other country in which we or our agents maintain facilities. By using our Web site, you consent to any transfer of Personal Information outside of your country, should we find it necessary.

In the event that we are acquired or merge with another company, or upon a sale of all or portion of our assets, Personal Information about you will be among the assets transferred to the new company. The new company may handle such Information in accordance with its own policies and procedures and not in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information on the Web Site
Information on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. We may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the services described in this information at any time without notice.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. You agree to this Privacy Policy, and any changes to the same, by visiting this Web site.