Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 1^st, 2012

Information Collection and Use

We collect personal contact information ("Contact Information") only if it is entered. The types of Contact Information that may be collected include: name, address, email address, telephone number, fax number. We may share your Contact Information with our email service provider or business partners who use the data for the purpose of delivering Top-Directories Customer Service and marketing information to you and for other purposes permitted in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may use your Contact Information to contact you if an inquiry you start on our Website is unable to be completed. Other personally identifiable Contact Information may be shared as required to fulfill your information request or when a business partner provides a product or service that we feel may be of interest to you.

Contact Information is aggregated to create reports on overall education industry trends, which may be sold to third parties. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Please note that use of your Contact Information by a school or third party is governed by such school's or third party's privacy policy. You should consult the third party's privacy policy, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Information Sharing

Top-Directories may share your Contact Information with our service providers who use the information for purposes related to the delivery of marketing and communication materials to our visitors. Every communication we send has links allowing the recipient to unsubscribe or change his or her preferences.

Cookies

To enhance your experience with our Website, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us. In general, Top-Directories uses cookies (small files on your computer) to track Website usage statistics about this Website, to understand where visitors find out about our Website, and to assist in entering data when requesting school information.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Ad Servers

When you browse through our Website, we collect information on the efficiency and working of our Website. This includes such information as the number of times a web page is accessed, the browser used, paths taken when moving through the Website, and search terms entered by users. We use this information to improve the operation of our Website. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our Website. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is anonymous information.

Privacy Policy Changes

From time to time, Top-Directories may update this Privacy Policy. You agree to this Privacy Policy, and any changes to the same, by visiting this Website. Therefore, we encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.