Blackstone Career Institute recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of our students and visitors to Blackstone.edu. Described below, our privacy policy explains what information may be collected, how this information may be used, appropriate disclosure of the information, as well as your rights regarding any review, correction, or deletion. Rest assured, we are a reliable online certificates school.
Collection of Information
Our site has the ability to collect two types of information, general and personal. General information contains non-personal data from visitors to our website. This information is used for general purposes only and in ways that do not identify the individual user. This information may include statistical data such as location, time of visit, day the visit was made, and the visit path.
The second type of information collected is specific to the visitor and would include information provided by you. This information would include your e-mail address, name, street address, and any contact information provided.
Blackstone uses technology called “cookies” to collect much of the information described above. Our cookies do not access, collect or reveal any personal information stored on your personal computer. Disabling your Internet Browser to prevent cookies will prevent your ability to function on our website.
Use of Information
The collection of information is used primarily for the improvement of services to our students. Information gathered through our online request forms will be used to process those requests. E-mail inquiries will utilize the e-mail address provided for any appropriate correspondence.
Privacy Pledge
On occasion, Blackstone will make our list of contact and student directory information available to reputable business and academic associates. If you wish to be excluded simply notify B.C.I., Student Services at:
Blackstone Career Institute
Attn: Student Services
P.O. Box 3717
Allentown, PA 18106-3717
Email: info@blackstone.edu
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm EST.
Informational Access
Maintaining our system with complete, current, and accurate information allows Blackstone to provide our students with exceptional service. Students are asked to keep in contact with Blackstone to ensure your information remains relevant. All personal information provided by you can be viewed upon request, with availability of corrections and/or deletion of incorrect information.
Security
Blackstone currently utilizes GoDaddy.com, Inc. to provide a secure transmission of all enrollment agreement activities including online payment information. We also use established industry-standard security measures to protect all information services. While we strive to provide 100% security for all transmissions, we cannot guarantee that all general information submissions will be completely secure. Unauthorized modification or misuse of information stored within our website or operating systems will be investigated and may result in criminal prosecution.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
• Remarketing with Google Analytics/Google AdWords
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• Demographics and Interests Reporting
We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page.
