GCE Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 9, 2020

This website is developed and maintained by Grand Canyon Education, Inc., an education services provider to colleges and universities (hereinafter “GCE,” “we” or “us”). When you visit our websites (gce.com and orbiseducation.com), or official social media sites, all collectively hereafter referred to as the “Sites,” GCE may collect and use certain information about you. We recognize that privacy is important to you. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices relating to how we may collect and use your information and your interaction with us through the Sites. Regardless of how you might visit our Sites, any information you provide or that is collected from you while on the Sites is governed by this Privacy Policy.

Contact Info

Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
2600 W. Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85017

Phone: 602-247-4400
Toll Free: 833-GCE-4400
Email: [email protected]

Changes to this Privacy Policy

GCE reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for any such changes. By your continued use of any of the Sites, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the current policy posted on the Sites at the time of your visit. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at the above address or phone number.

Information We Collect About You

Information You Provide
When you visit this Site, you may be asked or choose to provide personal information that could reasonably be used to contact you or to identify you personally including, but not limited to:

Contact Information: You may choose to submit your name, email address or other information via the Site or at an event, which may be used to send you information about our services, events or company.

We may combine the personal information you submit directly through this Site with other personal information we have collected from you, whether on or offline. We may also combine it with information we receive about you from other sources.

Information Automatically Collected
We may automatically collect certain information about your visits to our Sites (via cookies and other web technology), such as your IP address, browser type, and the time of your visit. We may also collect information about the way you use our Sites, including the specific pages you visit.

If you access the Sites from a mobile device, we may collect technical data and related information obtained from your device, such as the type of device you use, unique identifiers, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, and information about the way you use our Sites.

Information We Process on Behalf of Our Customers
Our customers may choose to use our services to process certain data of their own, which may contain personal information. If the data that we process through our services is solely processed by us on behalf of our customers, their privacy policies and/or the contracts we have in place with them will govern how they use the data. If you have any questions or concerns about how such data is handled or would like to exercise your rights, you should contact the person or entity (i.e., the business or data controller) who has contracted with us to use the service to process this data. Our customers control the personal information in these cases and determine the security settings within the account, its access controls and credentials. We will, however, provide assistance to our customers to address any concerns you may have, in accordance with the terms of our contract with them.

How We Use the Information We Collect About You
GCE may use the information we receive or collect for the following purposes:

We may also use the information we receive or collect to prevent fraud; to enforce the Sites' terms of use, end user license, and other agreements we have with you; and to comply with applicable laws and GCE's corporate reporting obligations.

How We Share Your Information
Service Providers. We may hire other companies to perform certain business-related services on behalf of GCE including, for example, companies who provide IT or support services. . When service providers work on our behalf, they are only provided with information reasonably necessary to perform service obligations as agreed to by GCE and are required to treat any information obtained and processed from GCE as confidential.

Affiliates: We may disclose the information we collect from you to our affiliated companies.

Legal Authorities. We may share your information with third parties, including law enforcement authorities, where we determine that doing so is appropriate to enforce our Terms of Use, protect our property, services, and legal rights, prevent physical harm to the persons or property of others, prevent fraud against GCE and others, support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions, comply with subpoenas, court orders, or similar legal processes, and respond to requests from law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts as allowed by, or to comply with, any and all applicable laws and regulations.

Third Party Advertising or Analytics Parties: We may use these third parties to provider advertising and analytics services as described below.

We may share aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information with others for marketing, advertising, research, or other purposes.

Our Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms
We and other third parties use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Sites. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you (and our service providers may do so on our behalf).

Cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser for record-keeping purposes. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site or to allow us to track your activities at our Site.

There are two types of cookies: session and persistent cookies.

Session Cookies. Session cookies exist only during an online session. They disappear from your device when you close your browser or turn off your device. We use session cookies to allow our systems to uniquely identify you during a session.

Persistent Cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device after you have closed your browser or turned off your device. We use persistent cookies to track aggregate and statistical information about user activity, and to display advertising both on our Sites and on third-party sites.

Disabling Cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of the Site, but some features may not function.

Clear GIFs, pixel tags and other technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on your computer's hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on web or mobile application pages. We may use clear GIFs (aka web beacons, web bugs or pixel tags) to help us manage content, and compile statistics about usage of our Site. We and our service providers also use clear GIFs in HTML emails to our customers to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Do Not Track. Currently, our systems do not recognize browser “do-not-track” requests.

How We Protect Your Information
Our Sites have reasonable security measures in place designed to protect against the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of information under our control. We take reasonable steps to ensure the data is reliable, accurate, complete, and current for its intended use to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Notwithstanding the security measures described herein, it may be possible for an unauthorized person to gain access to information about you. Therefore, please note that you enter information in the Sites at your own risk. You can help protect yourself by being careful and responsible when you are online and by being aware that you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords and account information you have regarding the Sites. We also advise that you use up-to-date virus scanning software on your computer to reduce the risk of encountering a virus through emails. GCE accepts no responsibility or liability for any loss or damage arising from your transmissions of data, the use of email or their attachments, or for any viruses or errors or delays in the contents that result from such email and data transmissions.

What Choices Do I Have Regarding Promotional Communications?
We may send periodic promotional emails to you. You may make a request to be removed from our mailing lists by opting out through the link in the email or sending your name and email to:

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. Opt-Out
2600 W. Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85017

If you do not wish to receive marketing emails from us, submit a request to:
to: [email protected].

Upon request, we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information. Consumers can have this information corrected by contacting us as described above.

Protection of Children's Privacy
Our Sites are general audience sites not directed at children under the age of 13. If we obtain actual knowledge that any information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that information.

Links to Third-Party Sites
The Sites may contain links to other sites that are not operated or controlled by GCE ("Third-Party Sites"). Use of any information you provide to or on these Third-Party Sites is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of those sites. Therefore, we encourage you to review that Third-Party Site's privacy policy and terms of use whenever you visit such sites. GCE is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of Third-Party Sites.

Third-Party Advertising
GCE may periodically use third parties to serve advertisements or provide services on or off the Sites. GCE deploys tags from Facebook, Snapchat, Yahoo, Bing, iHeartRadio, Verizon, and Experian. These third parties may collect information, potentially including personal information, about your activities over time and across different websites when you use our Sites. Those third parties may also provide GCE with data collection, reporting, ad response measurement, analytical information, and assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. If you wish to opt out of these online advertising features please follow the instructions on the corresponding pages linked to below:

BING: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/opt-out-of-the-bing-ads-optimization-program

YAHOO: https://aim.yahoo.com/aim/sg/en/optout/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

SNAPCHAT: https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/advertising-preferences

iHEARTRADIO: https://www.iheart.com/content/privacy-rights-choice-and-access/

VERIZON: https://www.verizon.com/legal/notices/customer-cpni/

EXPERIAN: https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/credit-education/faqs/preapproved-credit-offers/opt-out/

GCE does not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as web beacons or local storage objects (LSOs), to perform their services.

GCE currently uses analytics as part of their Google 360 marketing platform. These Analytics are fully linked with Google Adwords. To learn more about Google's privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies, including information and resources to opt out of interest-based advertising see www.aboutads.info/consumers and www.networkadvertising.org/choices.

You may also opt out of tracking and receiving tailored advertisements on your mobile device by some mobile advertising companies and other similar entities by downloading the App Choices app at www.aboutads.info/appchoices.

Please note, opting out through these mechanisms does not opt you out of being served advertising. You may continue to receive generic ads while visiting our Sites and elsewhere online.

Business Transfers and Corporate Changes
We reserve the right to disclose and transfer all information related to the Sites, including personal information:

Applicable Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the State of Arizona, without regard to conflicts of laws rules. Additional state, federal, and international laws may apply to your information, if applicable, which Grand Canyon Education will reasonably comply with.

Privacy Inquiries
For any privacy-related inquiries, please e-mail [email protected] or call 844-428-1949 to obtain information on creating a request for your current data tied to your record stored within our organization.

For any security-related incidents pertaining to your personal data, which you believe may be tied to our organization and/or its partnered institutions, please e-mail [email protected].

You may also create a request by sending your name, address and email to:

Grand Canyon Education, Inc. Opt-Out
2600 W. Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85017

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