Introduction

University of Maryland believes that your personal information—including your phone number(s), email and residential addresses, and other relevant personal data you may share with us—belongs to you. We collect this type of information to serve you better when you provide it to us, but we do not rent or sell your information to third parties.

This privacy policy applies when you make visit to our web site or when you receive an email communications from the Office of Professional Studies at College Park.

What We Collect and Why

Our primary goal in collecting your information is to provide you with an efficient customer service experience. When we collect your personal information, you are sharing it only with the University of Maryland.

Disclosure to Outside Parties

We work with reputable third parties to assist us in delivering services to you, including the delivery of email services. In these instances, we will provide your personal information to third parties so that they can perform these services. In addition, from time to time we may disclose your personal information to third parties based on a legal obligation; we will only accommodate these requests when it is determined to be legally necessary in the reasonable opinion of our legal counsel.

When You Contact the University of Maryland

When you contact us, we use your phone number, mailing and email addresses, and comments generated on any previous calls and/or email communications to help us assist you with any enrollment, graduate program or registration-specific questions you my have.

When You Subscribe to Receive University of Maryland Email Communications

You can choose to receive email from us by signing up online to receive e-news alerts and other graduate program-specific email newsletter(s).

To ensure that we are providing materials of interest to you, we may occasionally monitor whether you opened a particular email have clicked on the images and/or links therein. Our HTML-based email messages include an invisible coded sensor that is activated when the email message is opened. This sensor communicates the date and time the message was opened and, more importantly, whether your computer is capable of receiving HTML-based email.

You may unsubscribe at any time from our email communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email message. All unsubscribe requests will be honored.

Children's Privacy

We do not seek or knowingly collect any personal information about and/or related to children.

Updates to this Policy

We reserve the right to update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of these updates. In addition, feel free to check back to this website for any additional updates.

More Information About Protecting Your Privacy Online

For more information on protecting your privacy, the United States Federal Trade Commission has created many informational guides. For more detailed information on protecting your privacy, you may also wish to consult the FTC publication Site Seeing on the Internet. This handbook is filled with information about how to use the Internet wisely, including tips on how to avoid fraud and deception online and how to keep personal information private.