Privacy Policy for LandmarkEducation.nl and LandmarkConnect.com

Landmark Education (“Landmark”) has adopted the following Privacy Policy, which is applicable to all information that you provide to Landmark through LandmarkEducation.com or the LandmarkConnect site (the Sites) or for purposes of using the Sites.

You must also review and accept our LandmarkEducation.com Terms of Use and LandmarkConnect.com Terms of Use as they are also applicable and govern your use of the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you may provide to third parties, such as through other sites linked to the Sites. Please be aware that if you choose to visit such third party sites, you should contact such third parties directly to determine their respective privacy policies because that third party’s privacy policy, and not Landmark’s, will govern your activities and any information you disclose while visiting the third party site.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Site:

Overview
As part of the normal operation of the Sites, we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This information will be transferred to and stored in the United States, and is not necessarily subject to the data protection laws of the European Union or the Netherlands. If you do not agree to have your personal information as described below transferred and stored in the United States, please DO NOT REGISTER on this Site. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information.

By accepting this Privacy Policy and the LandmarkEducation.com Terms of Use and LandmarkConnect.com Terms of Use, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the LandmarkEducation.com Terms of Use and the LandmarkConnect Terms of Use and governs all use of the Sites.

Landmark recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. No personally identifiable information of children under age 18 is collected on the Sites and the Sites are not intended for children under the age of 18. Children are not permitted to provide any personally identifiable information on or through the Sites.

Restricted Areas
Certain areas of LandmarkConnect are restricted (“Restricted Areas”) to users who are graduates of Landmark’s programs and who subscribe to, join, or register for LandmarkConnect (become “Members” as defined in the LandmarkConnect Terms of Use). Non-members may have limited access to the Sites provided that such non-members (i) accept the Landmark Education Terms of Use, the Landmark Connect Terms of Use, and this Privacy Policy; and (ii) create a username and password.

Information We Collect

Certain areas of LandmarkConnect are restricted (“Restricted Areas”) to users who are graduates of Landmark’s programs and who subscribe to, join, or register for LandmarkConnect (become “Members” as defined in the LandmarkConnect Terms of Use). Non-members may have limited access to the Sites provided that such non-members (i) accept the Landmark Education Terms of Use, the Landmark Connect Terms of Use, and this Privacy Policy; and (ii) create a username and password.

We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Sites using “cookies” (described below) and other devices. We use this information to do internal research on Members' and other Authorized Users’ demographics, interests and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our Sites or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our Sites or not), what browser you are using and your IP address.

Our Use of Your Information
Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that are most likely to meet your needs, and to customize the Siteto make your experience easier. We use information in the files we maintain about you, and the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Sites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, enforce the Landmark Education.com Terms of Use resolve disputes, identify multiple usernames, ID numbers or aliases improve our marketing and promotional efforts; analyze usage of the Sites; improve our content and product offerings; and customize content, layout, and offerings on the Sites.

We also may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, is targeted to your interests, such as administrative notices, product offerings and communications relevant to your use of the Sites. If you do not wish to receive communications such as those promoting product offerings, services and events, we encourage you to indicate your preference Update Records/Account page. However, you will continue to receive administrative notices and communications relevant to your use of the Sites. You will also receive email confirmations if you register for a course online, subscribe to services, or update records information.

Cookies and Aggregate Information
"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services through the Sites. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie, for example course registration. Cookies can also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests and to personalize your user experience. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.

We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Sites, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Our Disclosure of Your Information
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government, law enforcement agencies, or third parties under certain circumstances; third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications; or users or Members may independently abuse or misuse your information that they collect from the Sites, in violation of our Landmark Education Terms of Use or LandmarkConnect Terms of Use. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed. We do not disclose any information about you except that if you are a LandmarkConnect Member, the username you have specified may be displayed in any profiles, postings and discussion groups in which you participate.

Advertisers.
We may aggregate (gather data across all Authorized Users and Members) personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Other Corporate Entities.
We may sometimes share data with our affiliates and subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, Landmark Education International, Inc. and Vanto Group, Inc. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, will ask them to treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other members. Our affiliates, subsidiaries and joint ventures will follow privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that Landmark, its subsidiaries, affiliates, joint ventures or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that Landmark would share some or all of your information in order to continue to maintain and provide access to the Site. You will receive notice of such event (to the extent it occurs), and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Legal Requests.
Landmark cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws relating to matters, such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with any investigation.

Your Use of Member Information
If you are a LandmarkConnect Member, in order to facilitate interaction among Members using LandmarkConnect, LandmarkDating, LandmarkJobs, LandmarkHousing or LandmarkTravelers, when you send an introductory note through our system to another Member using those areas of LandmarkConnect, your username is included in that note so that the recipient can respond to you. Landmark hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) Landmark related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose that such Member expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). Under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another Authorized User or Member to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other Authorized User or Member after adequate disclosure. Landmark and our LandmarkConnect Members and Authorized Users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Member or Authorized User to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express written consent after adequate disclosure.

Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
After setting up an account (creating a username and password) you can review and change specific information you submitted during the process of including your password, email address, occupation, marital status, name, address, city, province/region, postal code, country, and phone number by visiting Update Records/Account page.

If you would like to request a change to other information regarding your account or your participation in Landmark programs, you may contact us at grad.records@landmarkeducation.net.

We will, however, retain in our files information you have requested to remove in order to use it in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored “back up” systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Changing Your Information on LandmarkConnect
As a LandmarkConnect Member, you can also change information you provided in your profiles or postings.

Upon your notification at LandmarkConnect, we will cancel your LandmarkConnect membership and remove your access to LandmarkConnect services. We will also remove any access Members may have to your information through LandmarkConnect. Such access will be removed as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our cancellation policy and applicable law.

Security
Landmark use reasonable to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such as “firewalls," Secure Socket Layers. However, you agree and acknowledge that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Questions and Updates.
If you have any questions or suggestions about our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us at legal@landmarkeducation.com.