Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Use of MastersOfSocialWork.org (Effective Date 2/5/2016)

Thank you for visiting MastersOfSocialWork.org and using our content and services. This page will explain our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which covers the conditions governing use of the website and the ways in which MastersOfSocialWork.org gathers and makes use of different types of information. Your use of our website assumes that you agree to this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

In order to bring you useful, relevant content and related products and services, we collect information in two categories:

Automatic information is the anonymous information most websites receive and store in your typical interaction with them. We primarily make use of this information to improve your user experience. For example, we use cookies to collect data helpful in site optimization and analytics, as well as for tailored advertising and marketing. This kind of information includes, but isn’t limited to:

• Operating system version
• Browser version
• IP address

Submitted information is the information you voluntarily submit through web forms on this website. This includes, but isn’t limited to:

• Name
• Phone number
• Mailing address
• Email address

Providing this information allows us to provide you requested services and to match you to education products and services. We collect, store, and share this information with schools and other third parties to provide you with information about schools, programs, and education-related services, as necessary. Using the website means you acknowledge and agree that we may collect this information and share it with schools, affiliated companies, and third parties in order to provide you with degree information and to notify you of other programs and education-related products and services.

When you provide information to us, you authorize MastersOfSocialWork.org and our affiliated schools and partners to contact you about education options options and related topics, whether by telephone, text message, email, or mail, in accordance with all applicable laws. This action grants us, our affiliates, and partner and vendors the right to contact you, and this relinquishes any rights granted to you by the Do No Call list or other applicable law for a period of time. By submitting information, you effectively omit yourself from Do Not Call requirements established by state and federal governments and may also provide exemption for us from other applicable laws. All emails from us, a school, or a third party will provide a link in the email itself through which you can unsubscribe if you decide that you do not wish to receive further mailings.

By submitting information, you also grant us the right to release your personal information as required by law, for example to abide by a subpoena or other legal procedure. We do this when, in good faith, we believe it is necessary to reply to a government or legal request, preserve our rights, ensure the safety of you or others, explore alleged fraud, and/or in the instance that MastersOfSocialWork.org enters into a merger, acquisition, or sale of some or all of its assets to a third party. Additionally, we reserve the right to release any collected information, personally identifiable or otherwise, as needed, to businesses providing administration services to our company (such as email service delivery).

If we make changes to our practices, this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will be revised, so we recommend that you review this page regularly to understand our most up-to-date standards regarding your privacy and other important information.

More About Cookies

Small pieces of data sent from a website and stored in the user’s web browser, usually for technical purposes such as web analytics, are called cookies. Our web analytics is done primarily through Google Analytics, a Google, Inc. tool. Advertising cookies are anonymous (i.e., they don’t contain personally identifiable information). They track navigation and publish ads on behalf of third parties. Sometimes called third-party cookies, advertising cookies allow advertisers to tailor ads to the user’s needs. By making use of this website, you acknowledge and consent to our use of cookies.

Here are some examples of how we use cookies, both through MastersOfSocialWork.org and through services and partnerships with vendors and third-party service providers:

• Web analytics, which captures demographic and other anonymous data that allows us to better analyze and optimize the website;
• Lead auditing for ensuring accuracy, relevance, and validity of information that is submitted;
• Tracking marketing and conversion, including, but not limited to, targeting and optimizing digital ads to improve relevance, user experience, and advertising effectiveness.

For more information on Google Analytics, see Google’s privacy policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Please use the contact form to address any questions you may still have about this Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thank you for using MastersOfSocialWork.org.