Privacy Policy - Merit Educational Consultants

Privacy Policy

Information Collection and Use

Meritworld.com is the sole owner of information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. To safeguard that your user name and password remain confidential, DO NOT share this information with anyone. If you elect to receive our newsletter or special promotions, your contact information will be used for the delivery of these items. We allow third-party companies to collect non-personally identifiable information when customers visit our site. These companies typically use a cookie or web beacon to collect this information in order to provide advertisements likely to be of interest to you. Our site does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals or mechanisms.

Cookies

We customize certain Web page content based upon your browser type and other information provided by our cookie. We will not share any personally identifiable information provided by this cookie with any third party.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information, and we do not distribute or share IP information with any third parties.

Sharing

We may employ third party companies to perform functions on our behalf. These functions may include marketing assistance, postal and e-mail delivery, customer service, data analysis, and credit processing. The third parties we contract for these purposes have limited access to your personal information and may not use it for other purposes.

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law, and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.

Children

We will not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information via the Internet from children under the age of 13. Meritworld.com is committed to protecting the welfare and privacy of children.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Meritworld.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

If you have opted out of receiving communications from Meritworld.com, you will still be able to view news of policy changes at Meritworld.com.

SMS Messages

SMS messages will only be sent to those who OPT IN via enrollment contract.  Any recipient of SMS messages from Merit Educational Consultants, LLC may opt out of receiving SMS messages by simply replying "STOP" to any received SMS message.

Last Update

The Privacy Policy contained herein became officially effective January 1, 2015 and was updated on January 21st, 2023.