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Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

NEF University, its subsidiaries and affiliates ("NEF University") are committed to respecting your privacy. Our aim is to provide a secure environment in which you can participate in on-line activities with us. This Policy discloses our privacy practices and expresses our commitment to keeping you informed of the information we collect and how it is used. We ask that you take time to read it carefully. We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect new uses, rules, regulations or technologies that impact your privacy. We recommend that users review our Policy on a routine basis to view any changes.

The Information We Collect and How It Is Used

It is your decision to proceed or not to proceed with any activity that requests personal information, but please be aware that if you choose not to provide the information requested, you may not be able to complete certain transactions with NEF University. Sometimes, such as when you register for a free service, order a product, or make other inquiries, we may ask for specific information about you in order to provide that product or service to you. We may need certain personally identifiable information such as name, contact and billing information, transaction and credit card information. Also, to tailor subsequent communications to you and to continually improve NEF University offerings, we may also ask you to provide information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, past experience with NEF University products and services, and detailed contact preferences.

We may periodically conduct both Organizational and individual user surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve our products and services. Participation in such surveys is purely voluntary, and any personal information submitted in response to a survey will remain strictly confidential.

Data you submit online may also be combined with other information you provide through other means of communication, such as postal mail.

Some NEF University Web pages use cookies. Cookies are small data files that are transferred from a Web server to your browser. This file contains information that may later be read back by the Web server for record keeping purposes. Use of cookies is standard on the Web and can improve the service a Web site provides to you because content can be prepared to suit your preferences. Cookies are useful, for example, to facilitate a regular visitor's use of a site by eliminating the need to repeatedly type in a password, and to store preferences on a personalized site. This type of information is not used to personally identify an individual, and you remain anonymous. You may modify your browser to reject cookies or to notify you whenever a cookie is sent to your hard drive. If you reject a cookie sent by NEF University, you may still access the site, but such access may be limited.

Sharing Of Information

NEF University will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless NEF University has your permission or is required by law, NEF University will only share the personal data you provide online with other NEF University entities and/or outside contractors which may use such information to ship products, provide technical support, handle order processing, or otherwise act on NEF University's behalf for the purpose of providing products and services.

Please remember that when you submit information to a discussion group or some other public forum, the information submitted will be deemed public information and will not be considered confidential.

Data Security

NEF University is committed to ensuring the security of your information. We use all appropriate means to safeguard your personal information.

Because NEF University is a trying to bridge the digital divide globally, we may provide information to our worldwide offices. The personal information you provide may be transferred to other NEF University offices around the world. Also, in certain countries, NEF University's outside contractors might undertake the collection, transferring and storage and processing of your information.