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Privacy Policy

The following privacy policy applies to personal data collected at the www.Gilfus Education Group.com website. Gilfus Education Group Inc. and its affiliates (collectively “Gilfus Education Group”) are committed to protecting the privacy of its users. Because Gilfus Education Group gathers certain types of information about the users of the Services, we believe you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the use of the information we collect. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Services. If you are using any of the Services through an educational or other institution that is a customer of Gilfus Education Group, this policy does not supersede the terms of any agreements between Gilfus Education Group and any other party, nor does it affect the terms of any agreement between any user of the Services and their employer, their educational institution or any third party. Please make sure that you read the terms of any privacy policies that you enter into with parties other than Gilfus Education Group, including your employer or educational institution, as those policies may also explain how your personal information is used by those parties.

Please review the following statement to understand how the information you provide to Gilfus Education Group through the Services will be treated.

1. Information Gilfus Education Group collects.
You are free to utilize the Services without identifying yourself; however, if you would like to utilize or customize some features of the Services, you must first register with Gilfus Education Group. When you register, we will request certain personal information, including, but not limited to, contact information, such as your name, city and state, and e-mail address as well as demographic information such as your age, gender and interests. This information better enables us to provide you with content relevant to your interests and provides us with aggregate data that Gilfus Education Group uses to improve the Services. We may also ask you for information about your system or how you use Gilfus Education Group products and services. Please see Section 5, below, for information on how to access or update this information.

Gilfus Education Group gathers information about all users collectively, such as what areas users visit most frequently and what services users access most often. Gilfus Education Group automatically logs IP addresses, session sources, and other data which tracks users’ access to the Services. We analyze these logs for sales and marketing purposes as well as system performance monitoring. These logs are analyzed for the aggregate trends they reveal about our customers and how the customers use the Services, not for the behaviors of individual users.

2. Purposes of Data Collection
Gilfus Education Group requests personal information for purposes such as the provision of customer service and support, billing, network management, customer surveys, sales management, support, newsletter subscriptions, user group memberships, event registration and sponsorship, offers of related services, and other exchanges of information.

3. What Gilfus Education Group does with the information it collects.
Gilfus Education Group makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available in certain areas of the Services. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

The personal information you supply to Gilfus Education Group will not be given, sold, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed to any third parties outside of Gilfus Education Group and its agents, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with legal process, (ii) enforce the Terms of Use, (iii) respond to claims that any content provided by using the Services violates the rights of third parties, or (iv) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Gilfus Education Group, its users, or the public.

Gilfus Education Group may use aggregated personal information to determine the demographic composition of our user base and to distribute statistics and general marketplace information about Gilfus Education Group. This aggregate information does not identify specific users.

Certain non-personal information regarding users is recorded by the standard operation of the Internet servers hosting the Services. This information is primarily used to provide users of the Services with an enhanced online experience. Gilfus Education Group may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the Services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Some features of the Services may be offered in conjunction with a partner company. In order to provide these features, it may be necessary for either you or us to share your personal information with this company. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular feature. Also, please be aware that advertisers or Web sites that are linked to the Services may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Web sites linked to the Services are not covered by this Privacy Policy and Gilfus Education Group is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Gilfus Education Group utilizes other companies to provide limited services on its behalf, including but not limited to customer support, web analytics, coordination of mailings and event management. These companies are permitted to access only the information they require to perform those services. Gilfus Education Group requires these companies to maintain the confidentiality of any personal information and prohibits them from using the information for any other purpose than the purpose for which it was collected.

4. User Options — Opt-Out
Users may opt out of receiving future promotional electronic mailings from Gilfus Education Group by following the unsubscribe procedures indicated in the mailing. Individual end users of Gilfus Education Group software should contact their educational institution or other organization hosting the software for questions about access to the personal information collected by that institution. Please contact us at the address below if you have other questions about the information you receive from us or the information that we collect from you.

5. Access to Your Information
Gilfus Education Group offers users the ability to correct or change the information collected during registration. Users may change this information at any time and as often as necessary by choosing the “edit personal information” option or other similar functionality offered in the Services. To access or change your personal information, log in to your account through the Services. For data not available through such an account, please contact us at the address listed below.

6. Security
All of your personal information is stored on servers at a location designed specifically to ensure that no unauthorized individuals have access to the server or its data.

7. European Union Data Protection
If you reside in the European Union, upon registration you will be indicating your explicit consent that the personal information you have provided may be transferred and stored in countries outside the EU, including the United States. If you fail to provide your consent, you will not be permitted to access the Services for which registration is required.

8. Gilfus Education Group Privacy Policy Statement Changes
If Gilfus Education Group changes this privacy statement, we will post those changes at www.Gilfus Education Group.com/company/privacy.aspx, so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. By using the Services, you signify your assent to the Gilfus Education Group Privacy Policy Statement. If you do not agree to this statement, please do not use the Services. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

9. Contact Gilfus Education Group
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the information that we collect from you, or the Services, please contact us at [email protected] or write to:

Legal Department
Gilfus Education Group Inc.
1050 Connecticut Avenue., NW
10th Floor
Washington, D.C 20001

In the event that you are concerned about how data you have provided Gilfus Education Group through the Services has been used, please contact us at one of the addresses listed above. Gilfus Education Group takes all concerns about privacy and use of data very seriously, and shall endeavor to reply to you within two business days to commence its investigation of your concerns.

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