Effective Date: October 10, 2008
The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) provides a privacy notice when collecting personal information and requires individuals to agree to our privacy policy. This notice provides highlights of the full gmac.com Privacy Policy and is part of our overall Terms and Conditions. Users of gmac.com include:
Information Collection
You are not required to register with gmac.com in order to view much of the content on the site. However, to access a greater variety of products and services at gmac.com, we ask that you submit your personal information to GMAC. We clearly identify data you must provide so we can deliver the services you request. This information may include, but is not limited to the following:
- Basic contact information
- Profile opt-in preferences
- Information about your graduate business school/program
- Certain background information, such as demographics
- Payment information required for purchases, subscriptions, and event registration
- Data used to verify and authenticate your identity as a professional authorized to use certain GMAC products and services.
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Data Uses and Your Choices
We use the information we collect to:
- Allow you to create and update a Profile with gmac.com
- Administer the GMAT test
- Provide the products and services you request from gmac.com (e.g., GMASS, MBA Pathfinder, or the Recruiting Calendar)
- Determine eligibility for participation in events (see Special Notes)
- Manage event logistics and communications
- Solicit survey participation
- Authenticate you as a valid professional from an institution that uses the GMAT test or receives GMAT score reports (see Special Notes)
- Contact you regarding GMAC news, graduate management industry updates, and GMAC products and services, if you opt in
- Email any individual to whom you send an email using our “Email-a-Friend” feature in certain online publications (Note: GMAC will not send any messages beyond the introduction communication without first obtaining opt-in consent from those individuals)
- Enable you to fulfill your governance responsibilities, if applicable (see Special Notes)
- Enable you to participate in a GMAC committee, task force, or advisory group, if applicable
- Maintain the integrity and quality of our services, customize site content to meet your specific needs, and make technical improvements to gmac.com
- Cooperate with others as required by law or in legal proceedings, and to detect or prevent fraud and unlawful activity
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User-Submitted Content
GMAC has established a number of ways with which you may communicate with other users and with GMAC including responding to blog posts and submitting contact requests. All user communications made to or through gmac.com are referred to as "User-Submitted Content." For information concerning our use of User-Submitted Content, please see the gmac.com Terms & Conditions.
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Data Security
GMAC is committed to the privacy and security of your personal information, and we protect it in the following ways:
- We utilize security safeguards, incorporated within an enterprise security program and administered by appropriate GMAC officials that combine administrative, technical, and physical safeguards over your data and our systems to protect your information from loss, unauthorized disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction.
- Payments, registration, and all data transfers to third parties on gmac.com (e.g. Pearson VUE) are protected by SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption.
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Data Sharing
GMAC has a number of key service providers and strategic partners who fulfill online and offline services through gmac.com. Each is subject to our strict confidentiality or Terms of Use requirements. Our key service providers include:
Our key strategic partners include:
- Schools that use the GMAT test
- Scholarship-granting organizations
- Other organizations in the graduate management education industry who share our commitment to creating access to graduate business education.
Transborder Data Flows
GMAC is a global organization. As such, users and registrants of gmac.com, professionals from institutions that use the GMAT test or receive GMAT score reports, users of GMAC products and services, subscribers of communications or publications, and participants of events or surveys understand that data is processed and controlled in the countries in which the data is collected, and then transmitted into and out of the United States, which is the primary processing location for GMAC and its service providers.
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How to Contact Us
If you have questions about this statement, please contact GMAC:
- Email us at: privacy@gmac.com*
- Phone us at: +1 (703) 749-0131 or
toll-free in the U.S. at (800) 811-8042
- Write us at:
Graduate Management Admission Council
Attention: Chief Privacy Official
1600 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 1400
McLean, VA 22102 USA
Please note that opt-out requests should be made by deselecting your preferences in your Profile or by contacting GMAC Customer Service.
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* GMAT test registration, customer service, test administration at test centers worldwide, and the official GMAT score reporting prior to January 1, 2006, with the exception of test takers who participated in the 2005 LImited Summer Test: ETS and Prometric
** Test development and scoring service vendors prior to January 1, 2006, with the exception of test takers who participated in the 2005 LImited Summer Test: ETS