Our Commitment To Privacy:
Your privacy is of paramount important to us and we pledge to handle your personal information as if it were our own. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage. Because America.edu contains links to selected online partners offering education-related information, services and products, we take extreme care to ensure that partner sites take your privacy as seriously as we do. View each partner site's privacy pledge for more information about their specific policies.

The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on America.edu. On some pages, you can submit reviews, register for our forums or request more information about specific topics of interest. The types of personal information collected on these pages may include: your name; address; email address; phone number; and other demographic or contact information. We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, and/or third parties to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences and expedites information delivery. Consequently, some collected information may be tied to the users personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. We do not share your profile with other third parties.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies, wherein once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. By setting a cookie on our site, users would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If users reject the cookie, they may still use our site. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

The Way We Use Information:
We use the information you provide about yourself when posting a review, using our forums or requesting information to serve you best and we do not share this information with outside parties.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive and while such addresses are never shared with outside parties, we may contact you subsequently about special offers, sales or promotions in which you have previously shown interest.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with advertisers. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out an information request form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

Our Commitment To Data Security:
America.edu takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When forms on America.edu ask users to enter sensitive information, that information is stored in a secure limited-access database. Only America.edu employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. All employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. The data servers that store personally identifiable information are in a secure locked facility.

Our Commitment To Children's Privacy:
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important to us. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Notification of Changes:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement on our homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
If, however, we are going to use users’ personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email and offer them the opportunity to opt-out.
How To Contact Us:

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please email us at privacy@America.edu.