Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 9, 2024

This Privacy Notice describes how XYZ Media (“XYZ,” “we,” “our”) collects, uses, and shares personal information. In particular, this Privacy Notice applies to:

• Our websites that post this Privacy Notice (our “Websites”). This Privacy Notice applies to visitors to our Websites, including those that express interest in particular Educational Institutions or programs (“Visitors”), and educational institutions and their employees and representatives that engage our services (“Educational Institutions”).
• Our widget appearing as a link or a form on third party websites but hosted by XYZ (“Widget”).
• Our other services we operate that post or refer to this Privacy Notice (together with our Website and Widget, the “Services”).

XYZ helps individuals find, learn about, and connect with Educational Institutions and programs of interest. We collect information you choose to provide us and other information that may be collected from your use of our Services, including from your device. We use that information to operate our business and for purposes set forth below. Below, we also describe choices we offer with respect to your information.

This Privacy Notice does not apply to information which is not processed by XYZ. If you are a Visitor who wants to understand the information practices of a particular Educational Institution, you should contact them directly or refer to their privacy notice(s). This Privacy Notice does not apply to information that cannot be identified to any individual, household, or their devices, such as de-identified or anonymized information.

The sections of this Privacy Notice are hyperlinked below for your convenience:

• Information We Collect
• Information Collection on our General Website
• Other Information Collection, Logging, and Automatically Collected Information
• Other Ways We Use Information We Collect
• How We Secure Information
• How We Share Information
• What Choices Do I Have?
• Links to Other Websites; Third Party Applications
• Children’s Privacy
• Updates to Our Privacy Notice
• Contact Information

We collect information about individuals from a variety of sources, including:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us, for instance when you fill out forms or respond to a survey on our Websites or when you express interest in a particular Educational Institution or program.
• Automatically as you utilize the Services.
• From third parties. We may collect information from advertisers, marketing service providers, affiliates, promotional partners, and application providers. These and other third parties may provide us information in connection with content, widgets, components, or other tools deployed on our Websites. We may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content and for other purposes, such as to better understand our audience.

Personal Information Collected

• Education programs of interest.
• Education history.
• Profile information.
• Search criteria (e.g., indicating the kind of degree or other educational program you are interested in).
• Name
• Phone number.
• Email.
• Other data you willingly include on forms and surveys or otherwise provide on the Websites.
• Usage Data, as defined below.

Key Information Uses

• We may use such data to connect you with Educational Institutions and programs of interest to you.
• To provide Services to Educational Institutions.
• To provide analytics data to our Educational Institutions.
• Provide Service functionality.
• Provide information about new or related services we may offer.
• For other general purposes noted below (e.g., to maintain records, enforce legal terms or comply with law) (see Other Ways We Use Information We Collect).

Educational Institutions

Personal Information Collected

• Name.
• Email address.
• Phone number.
• Mailing address.
• Job title and professional affiliations and certifications.
• Employment status and details.
• Data you communicate to us while using the Website.
• Login credentials.
• Payment information such as credit card or bank account Information.
• Usage Data, as defined below.

Key Information Uses

• Post content regarding your educational institution.
• Communicate with you regarding the Services.
• Permit you to login to/access the Services.
• Manage the business relationship with you and Services provided to you.
• Provide Service functionality.
• Provide information about new or related services we may offer.
• For other general purposes noted below (e.g., to maintain records, enforce legal terms or comply with law) (see Other Ways We Use Information We Collect).

If you interact with any of our Websites, your browser or device will be subject to collection of logging and other automatically collected information. This includes information collection via cookies, web beacons, and other automatically collected information. The information we automatically collect may include your IP address, date and time you access our Websites and the pages and content you access during your visit, language preferences, Websites that you link to or from, whether you receive or open an email or other communication from us (or via our Services), and the links you click on within those emails, information from your mobile device or your computer about how you interact with our Website, including unique device identifier, mobile network information, the type of device used and the operating system on that device, browser type, a list of files downloaded or pages viewed, and any errors encountered (collectively, “Usage Data”).

If you are a Visitor on our Websites, please note that third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites and online services. These third parties may provide us information in connection with content, widgets, components, or other tools offered on our Websites. These third parties may collect information from these sources when you use our Websites. The information third parties collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information about your online activities over time. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content, and for other purposes. We do not control any personal information once collected by these parties. We do not respond to “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide individuals the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information about an individual’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.

In all cases, we may collect and use other information you choose to provide or with your consent.

In addition to the uses described above, we may use all of the information we collect in order to:

• Maintain, analyze, customize, and improve your experience with our Services.
• Support business development, research, marketing and promotional purposes, press inquiries or aggregate statistical analysis and site customization.
• Communicate with Visitors and Educational Institutions about our Services, including receipts, technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages. We may also provide customer and technical support, including notices about accounts and subscriptions and changes to our service.
• Send promotional and marketing materials, support contests and other promotions, notify you about incentives and rewards, and to provide you information that you request from us.
• Monitor and enforce our contracts, legal terms, acceptable use or other policies or similar terms.
• Comply with law and satisfy our regulatory and compliance obligations. Additionally, to support compliance efforts on behalf of others and ourselves that support our provision of services to you.
• Provide a personalized experience. Automatically collected and device information may also be used to help us estimate our audience size, usage patterns, and analyze trends and administer our services, and used for research and marketing purposes.
• Help detect and prevent fraudulent use of our Services and other prohibited, illicit or illegal activity. We may use information to compare information for accuracy.
• Monitor information security, manage and protect our technical infrastructure (servers, networks, etc.), detect and prevent fraud and other prohibited, illicit or illegal activity, and to protect the rights and vital interests of you, others, and ourselves.
• Address existing or anticipated disputes and to protect our legal interests.
• Otherwise operate our business, including support for transactions impacting our company as a whole (such as mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, underwriting or asset purchases).
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide your information to us and for other purposes disclosed to you in connection with our Services.
• Other purposes permitted by law or to which you consent.

To enhance our services, we may also retain and use your information in an anonymized or de-identified format where your identity is not recognizable. Such information is not subject to the same usage restrictions as personal information and can be used to improve our products and services, conduct research, or for our other business purposes.

As permitted by law, we may combine the information we gather about you in identifiable form, including information from third parties. We may use this information, for example, to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.

We are committed to maintaining measures to protect the security of your personal information maintained in our systems. However, no network or system is ever entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of networks and systems that we operate or that are operated on our behalf. If we face a security breach, we may notify you as required by law via email or conspicuous posting on this site.

The safety and security of your personal information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You should not share your password with anyone.

We may share your information with third parties as reasonable to operate our business (including for the purposes described above), to provide the Services to you and others, as permitted or required by law, or as directed or authorized by you. For example:

Educational Institutions. We may share the information of Visitors with Educational Institutions to facilitate our Services, provide insights as to how Visitors interact with content, support Educational Institution marketing efforts, and other purposes. If you are a Visitor and have questions regarding how Educational Institutions use the data they collect through our Services, you should contact them directly.

Our Affiliates. We may share some or all of your information with our parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.

Operational Support. We work with third parties to help us provide our Services and to support internal operations. In some cases, they may use your information subject to their own privacy policies and to comply with their own legal and regulatory obligations. We work with different types of third parties, presently including:

• Data hosting, storage and cloud service providers;
• Platform and/or application security service providers.
• Technical and customer support providers;
• Marketing and analytics providers; and
• Other third parties.

Professional Advisors, Law Enforcement and Regulators. We share information with our professional advisors who provide legal, compliance, auditing, accounting, banking, consulting, or other professional services, and with regulators, law enforcement, or government agencies to:

• Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, including those compliance obligations of federal, state or local regulators;
• Protect our interests, property or legal rights, or those of our customers or third parties;
• Respond to a subpoena, court order, or similar law enforcement request, or when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity, or to investigate violations of this Privacy Notice or other applicable terms; and
• For other legal purposes, such as to enforce our terms and conditions, or to exercise or defend legal claims.

Corporate Transaction. In the event of a corporate transaction or reorganization, we may share your personal information. We may share your information in connection with, or during the negotiation of, any merger, sale of company stock or assets, financing, acquisition, restructuring, divestiture or dissolution of all or a portion of our business, or other similar event.

Other Disclosures. In addition to the above disclosures, we may disclose personal information in the event that we believe such disclosure is (i) necessary to provide our services or operate our business; (ii) in accordance with purposes we describe when you share it with us; (iii) permitted by law; or (iv) with your consent or at your direction.

We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

Update personal information. If you are an Educational Institution who holds an online account with us, you can adjust certain information you have provided about yourself by logging into your account. You may also request changes to your information by emailing us at [email protected]. As permitted by law, we may deny a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or prevent the provision of our Services.

Marketing communications. You may receive marketing communications from XYZ, including if you sign up for marketing or other communications. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe link in each email, or by contacting us at [email protected]. Please note that you may continue to receive non-marketing emails from us after you opt out. Please note that we do not control communications from others, including Educational Institutions. If you are a Visitor, you should contact your Educational Institutions directly to understand communication choices they may provide you.

Cookies. You have choices regarding certain cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may modify your browser’s setting to notify you of cookie placement or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, certain features of our Websites may not function properly or at all as a result

XYZ is not responsible for any practices employed by Websites linked to or from our Websites, nor their information or content. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Websites to another website, this Privacy Notice is no longer in effect.

Our Services are not intended to interact in any way with minors. Any access to or use of the Services by anyone under the age of 13 is unauthorized. If you are under 13, and you provide any information on or through our Services, we may contact your parent or guardian about your communications. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian or otherwise believe we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us.

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in order to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices. If we make changes, we will revise the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Notice. Changes to this Privacy Notice will be effective once they are posted’ unless otherwise indicated. We may choose to notify you by email to the email address in our records.  We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Notice to be sure you are familiar with the most current version.

If you have any questions or concern about this Privacy Notice or the privacy practices at XYZ, please contact us at [email protected]