Degree Scout Privacy Policy

The Degree Scout website is owned and operated by Geary Interactive. Before you submit any information to our website, please review the following for an explanation of our information acquirement and disbursement practices. By using any part of our website, you agree to adhere, without limitation or qualification, to this Privacy Policy.

Our Commitment to You
We are understanding of your privacy concerns, and are committed to keeping you informed on what information is being collected on our website, how the information is being used, and your options regarding the collection and use of the information.

Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. By visiting this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy and any changes made. Therefore, we encourage you to review this website regularly to re-examine any changes to our Privacy Policy.

Types of Information We Collect About You and Why
We gather information that you explicitly provide when you enter information into a form on our website including, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and other unique personal identifiers that you submit. If you choose not to provide the requested personal information, we may not be able to offer you specific services that require such information.

We also collect anonymous information, which includes any information that is not tied to your personal information, such as your IP address. You are not required to register on our website in order for us to collect anonymous information about you. In addition, we may receive information about you from other sources including, but not limited to, service providers for tracking and marketing purposes. This information may consist of referral data or the website you visited prior to entering our website, as well as information related to the browser and/or platform you are using to access our website.

In addition to the information that you provide to us or that we obtain about you, we will also collect certain information based on your use of our website, or augment the data we collect with other information from other online or offline sources. We use "cookies" and the information to enhance your experience and present you with personalized offers. We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve and track advertisements appearing on our website. These third-party companies may employ cookies and action tags to measure advertising effectiveness.

We collect information about you to (1) provide products, programs and services that you have requested; (2) operate and improve the features, offerings and content presented to you by us and our affiliates, successors and assigns; (3) personalize the content and advertisements provided to you; (4) communicate with you and respond to your inquiries; (5) conduct research about your use of the features, offerings and content from us, our parent or sister companies and partners; (6) provide product improvement; (7) "pre-populate" forms; (8) provide you with advertising targeted to your preferences; and (9) offer you other products, programs or services that may be of interest to you. We also reserve the right to collect and reuse information about you for marketing purposes.

We reserve the right to collect information about you and store it in connection with other online or offline information we may possess or obtain about you. Such information may include, without limitation, information about different sites you visit on the Internet, the time and frequency at which you visit them, and the content that you transmit or post on other websites.

Information Sharing
We may share information about you with other nonaffiliated companies or for particular purposes including, without limitation, the purposes described below. In all cases, you may opt-out of sharing your information with such providers by choosing not to use or register for that service or content.

Products or Service Requests
If you submit a request for a product or service on our website, we will share information about you contained in the request form with our business partners to process and fulfill your request. Our business partners may contact you by telephone, e-mail or mail, based on the information you provided us. If one of our business partners contacts you by telephone and you wish not to be contacted again by that business partner with respect to your inquiry, then you should specifically make a request to that partner not to contact you again.

Service Providers
We may disclose information about you to companies that host certain services for us, such as marketing distribution or credit card processing services. Our service providers use the information received from us for the purpose of providing you with the products you requested. In some circumstances, we may also share collective order information with third parties and/or business partners.

Sweepstakes or Promotions
We may run promotions and/or sweepstakes. Such promotions and sweepstakes may be sponsored or co-sponsored by third-party companies. Information about you collected during a promotion or sweepstakes is shared with the sponsor or co-sponsor unless you opt-out of sharing your information with such parties.

Subsidiaries, Parent, or Sister Companies
We may share information about you with our subsidiaries, sister companies, parent company, successors, and assigns unless you opt-out of sharing your information with such parties.

Non-Affiliated Companies
We do not share information with any non-affiliated third party except: (1) if our business partner refers you to us and you give us permission to share specific personal information with such business partners on your order form, or (2) when our business partner provides a product or service that we feel may be of interest to you.

Required by Law
We may also share information about you as permitted or required by law including, without limitation, inquiries by law enforcement or to comply with Federal laws.

This Privacy Policy and Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other Degree Scout-affiliated websites. We believe such other websites share a similar commitment to consumer privacy and urge you to review their privacy policies when visiting their websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites.

Protecting Your Information
We maintain electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect your information. We protect information about you over the Internet by using a secure web server, which allows web browser programs to interact with our web server via an encrypted session. We employ a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection that provides an encrypted connection between us and your computer. Depending on which browser you use, you will know you are in a secured area by "https" or a lock appearing in the lower right corner of your browser window. When you visit our website, you may move in and out of secured areas.

Transferability of Information
In the event that we are acquired or merge with another company, or upon a sale of all or a portion of our assets, 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.

Questions? Contact us at info@degreescout.com