The website www.altierus.edu is owned by ECMC Education, Inc. (f/k/a Zenith Education Group) (for more information, please visit www.ecmceducation.org). ECMC Education, Inc. previously operated Altierus Career College (“Altierus”), which have now all closed. This Privacy Statement is designed to inform you of our policies for the collection, use, and disclosure of the information we gather from you when you visit our website (“Statement”). This Statement explains when and how such information is collected, used and safeguarded.
This Statement covers the website www.altierus.edu (“Website”). It does not cover third-party sites that are linked to or from the Website. This Statement also does not apply to other entities that we do not own or control, or persons that are not our employees or agents. By accessing or using this Website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Statement. This Statement may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Statement periodically for updates.
When you interact with our Website, certain information about your use of the site is automatically collected. The tracking technologies employed when you use our Website may be first-party or third-party. Our primary goal in collecting the information described within is to provide you, the user, with a better experience on our Website.
Altierus uses cookies and other similar technologies for a variety of purposes, including to improve our Website and better serve our Website users. A “cookie” is a small file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive to remember your preferences. We may use cookies to track general information about our users (e.g., pages viewed, time spent on our Website, and the websites visited just before and just after our Website) for statistical and research purposes. The information is collected on an aggregated and anonymous basis.
You have choices with respect to cookies. By activating the appropriate settings on your browser preferences, you may set your browser to reject all cookies. However, by doing so, it may prevent you from accessing certain features on our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that the browser will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Avisan, our third-party servicer, and as part of its hosting services, automatically logs certain information in its server log, such as your IP address, your browser type and language, and the date and time of your visit, along with a few other things. Avisan may share this aggregated information with us and with certain trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website or conducting our business. This information helps us to track users’ movements around our site, to understand trends, and to test updates on various types of browsers and devices. We may use this data in the aggregate to better understand the needs and interests of visitors to our Website.
Google Analytics, a third-party analytics provider, collects information about the use of our site. Google Analytics records things like the time of visit, pages visited, referring site details, the length of your visit, the type of web browser and operating system, document downloads, network location and IP address, clicks on videos and external websites, flash version, screen resolution, and screen color processing ability, along with a few other things. Google Analytics, however, does not identify individual users. Google Analytics may plant a cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site. We use the reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and usage. You may read more about what methods and technologies are used by Google Analytics here. The information generated by Google Analytics is transmitted and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policy, which you may read about at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US. You may also opt out of Google Analytics tracking software by installing and using the browser plugin found here.
Our information collection practices on our Website will continue to operate as described in this Statement regardless of any “Do Not Track” signals that may be sent by certain browsers. As standards develop, however, we may revisit this issue and will update this notice if our practices change. For more information about “Do Not Track” signals, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.
We use the information you provide, including any personal information to customize the content you see on our Website; facilitate your use of our Website by managing your preferences; analyze the use of our Website to improve our web site and services; identify and protect against fraudulent transactions and other misuses of our Website; and to enforce our Terms of Use.
We do not sell or trade any personal information about our website visitors for marketing purposes. We may share your information with our employees, agents, and affiliates with a business need to know, and our third-party service providers to process or use it for us based on our instructions.
We reserve the right, subject to applicable law, to disclose your information to third parties when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable law, court order, subpoena, or other legal process.
You may choose to delete or decline cookies by changing your browser settings, although if you do so, some of the features of our Website services may not function properly.
We take reasonable precautions to protect any personal information we collect from our Website users and visitors. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and verify the appropriate use of information, we have put in place physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, use or disclosure. While we do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of information sent over the Internet, whether by email or by using our online system and Website, is not completely secure against interception. As a result, although we utilize such measures, we cannot guarantee you against interception, loss, misuse, or alteration of your information and you provide such personal information to us at your own risk. You should take care how you handle and disclose your personal information.
This Website may contain certain hyperlinks to other websites, including third-party links to request transcripts. Although these websites may have privacy statements, all of these websites and their privacy policies are independent of our Website and this Statement. This Statement does not apply to such third-party websites and we are not responsible for compliance with the other websites’ privacy policies or data collection practices. You should consult the respective privacy policies of each of those third-party websites to learn how they collect, process, share, and store your information. You should exercise caution, and read the third-party privacy policies carefully before providing any personal information to be sure you understand the third parties’ policies related to the collection, processing, sharing and storing of your information. We are not responsible for compliance with other websites’ privacy policies or data collection practices. You should review these privacy policies carefully before providing personal information to these websites.
We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, particularly in an online environment. Our Website is not intended for, nor designed to attract children under the age of 13. It is our policy never to knowingly collect or maintain any personal information about any person under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not use this Website. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at the contact information below and we will promptly address the issue.
If you have questions about our Website or this Statement, please contact us at:
Altierus Career College
Attn: Legal/Privacy policy inquiry
111 Washington Avenue South
Suite 1400
Minneapolis, MN 55401
privacy@ecmc.org
1-800-276-0366, opt. 3