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At Higher Education Tests, we strive to develop innovative services to better serve
our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate
our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines
the types of personal information we that gather when you use our services, as well
as some of the steps we take to safeguard it.
The following principles apply to the personally identifying information that we
request and that you provide. "Personally identifying information" is information
that individually identifies you, such as your name, phone number, physical address,
or email address.
Data Collection
- Visiting our web site does not require any personally identifying information.
- We may collect information about your Internet service, such as IP address to make
sure that our service to you is not abused.
- We may use third party services to accept and process your orders. These parties
could have their own privacy policy.
Cookies
- We do not place any permanent cookies on your computers.
Information Sharing
- We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies
or individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such information in any
of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent.
- We conclude that we are required by law or have a good faith belief that access,
preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect
the rights, property or safety of Higher Education Tests, Corp., its users, or the
public.
- In the event of a transfer of ownership of Higher Education Tests, Corp. web site,
such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice before
any personally identifying information is transferred and becomes subject to a different
privacy policy.
- We may share aggregated information with others. Examples include the number of
users who visited our web site or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement.
Information Security
- We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. However, we shall
not be held liable should these cases occur.
- We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need
to know that information in order to operate, develop, or improve our services.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. We expect most changes
to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. All changes will
be posted on this page. Each version will be noted at the top of the page. Prior
versions of this Privacy Policy will be kept in an archive for you to view.
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