Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 1, 2025

At WizAdmissions.info, our mission is to provide clear, reliable information on financial aid and career opportunities to help our readers navigate their future. We want you to understand how we handle your personal information when you use our services. We also want you to know your rights and choices.

This policy describes how we handle your personal information when you use the following “WizAdmissions Services”:

Our website, wizadmissions.info, and all its subpages.
Our email newsletters.
Our pages or ads on social media networks, like our Facebook and LinkedIn pages.
Anywhere we gather information from you and refer you to this Privacy Policy.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

1. What Information Do We Gather About You?

The information we gather depends on how you interact with WizAdmissions Services. By and large, it’s information that can personally identify you – either on its own or when combined with other information.

(A) Information You Voluntarily Give Us

For Newsletters and Communications: When you sign up for our email newsletters or contact us directly, we collect personal identifiers such as your name and email address.
For User-Generated Content: We offer you the ability to post comments on our articles. Anyone can read, collect, and use any personal information that accompanies your posts (such as your name). We are not obligated to publish your content and may remove it if required by law or if it violates our terms.
For Contests, Surveys, and Special Offers: From time to time, we may offer opportunities like contests or surveys. When you participate, you give us your name, email, and any other required information. Participation is always voluntary.

(B) Information Collected Automatically

When you use WizAdmissions Services, we collect some information automatically using technologies like cookies and web beacons. These are essential for analyzing our site’s performance and providing relevant content and advertising.

The categories of personal information we collect automatically include:

Identifiers and Device Information: When you visit our website, our servers automatically log information about your device and network, including your IP address, cookie identifiers, browser type and version, operating system, and device identifiers.
Geolocation Information: We may collect your approximate location (e.g., city or country) based on your IP address. We use this to provide more relevant content, such as location-specific job vacancies or loan information. We do not collect your precise GPS location.
Usage Data: We collect information about your interactions with our website, such as the pages you visit, the links you click, how long you spend on a page, the website you came from, and your search queries. This helps us understand what content is most useful to our readers.

(C) Information Collected from Other Sources

Social Media Platforms: If you interact with our pages on social media platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn, we may receive information from your public profile and aggregated data about our followers (e.g., age and location demographics) and engagement (e.g., “likes,” comments, shares).

2. What Do We Do with the Information We Collect?

We use the information described above for the following business purposes. These activities can involve outside companies (“service providers”) to whom we disclose your personal information for these purposes.

To Provide WizAdmissions Services: We use your information to operate our website, send you newsletters you’ve requested, and respond to your inquiries.
To Personalize Your Experience: We analyze your reading habits to highlight articles and guides you might find interesting.
To Develop Our Services and Do Analysis: We analyze user behavior to understand how our website is used. This helps us make business decisions, improve our content, and identify popular topics. We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose.
For Security and Legal Compliance: We use information to detect and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity, protect the security of our Services, and comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
To Allow for Personalized Advertising: We gather data and work with third-party advertising partners to show you personalized ads. This data comes from tracking technologies (e.g., cookies), your use of our site (e.g., your reading history), and information from advertising vendors.
- Affiliate Links: Some of our content may contain affiliate links. If you click on one of these links and make a purchase, the vendor will know you came from our site, and we may earn a commission. These vendors use their own cookies to track this activity.
To Market WizAdmissions Services to You: We may use your information to send you promotional emails about new content or features on our site. You can opt out of these at any time.

3. To Whom Do We Disclose Your Information?

With Service Providers: We work with service providers to carry out certain tasks, including:
- Hosting our website.
- Distributing our email newsletters.
- Analyzing website traffic (e.g., Google Analytics).
- Serving and targeting ads (e.g., Google AdSense).
With Other Third Parties: We may disclose your information to third parties in the following situations:
- Advertisers: We provide aggregated, non-personally identifiable information to advertisers to help them understand our audience. We also work with advertising networks that may collect information directly from you via cookies for targeted advertising purposes.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose personal information if required by law or if we believe it’s necessary to comply with a legal process, protect our rights, or protect the safety of our users.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, sale, or transfer of our business assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
- Publicly Posted Content: As stated above, any information you post in a comment becomes public and is available to other users and the general public.

4. What Are Your Rights and Choices?

We provide a variety of ways for you to control the personal information we hold about you.

Communications Preferences:
- Email: You can unsubscribe from our promotional emails and newsletters at any time by following the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.
Access, Correct, or Delete Your Personal Information:
- You may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of the personal information we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will need to verify your identity before processing your request.
Browser and Platform Controls:
- Cookie Controls: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can typically change your browser settings to reject or delete cookies. Doing so may affect the functionality of our website.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC): Some browsers and extensions support the Global Privacy Control, which can send a signal to websites indicating your choice to opt-out of certain data processing. Where required by law, we will respect your choice indicated by a GPC setting.
Opt Out of Targeted Advertising and “Sales/Sharing” of Personal Information:
- If you are a U.S. resident, you may have the right to opt out of targeted advertising and the “sale or sharing” of your personal information (as defined under applicable state law). You can exercise this right by clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the footer of our website. You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from many ad networks through tools like the DAA Webchoices Browser Check and the NAI Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising page.

5. How Long Do We Retain Data?

We store your personal information for as long as needed or permitted for the reason we obtained it, consistent with applicable law. For example, we will retain your email address for our newsletter list until you unsubscribe.

6. How Do We Protect Your Information?

We use appropriate organizational and technical safeguards to protect your personal information, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security. No method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

7. Guidelines for Children

WizAdmissions Services are intended for a general audience and are not directed at children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected information from your child, please contact us at [email protected].

8. How Is Information Transferred Internationally?

WizAdmissions.info is operated in and our servers are likely located in the United States. If you are located outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States.

9. How Are Changes to this Privacy Policy Communicated?

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and update the “Effective Date” at the top. For significant changes, we may provide a more prominent notice, such as via email. Your continued use of WizAdmissions Services after we post any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

10. How Can You Contact Us?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at [email protected].