Introduction

Bright Institute believes in protecting the privacy of users of its website. Bright Institute Corporation (“Bright Institute”) reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time at its sole discretion, and without sending a notice to you, so you should review this Privacy Policy periodically. The effective date of this policy and any subsequent revised or changed statement may be found on the bottom of this notice.

Privacy Statement

When you visit the Bright Institute website, you can surf the Site anonymously without revealing your identity. At times, Bright Institute may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. Bright Institute may require that you provide your contact information, including your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and phone numbers. When you submit information to Bright Institute, you understand and agree that we may access, store, and use your information for normal business operations. Bright Institute DOES NOT sell, share or publish information of site users.

Information Collection and Use

Bright Institute collects information from users at different points on our website. We are the sole owner of the information collected on this Site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to others or use the information in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement except when authorized by law. Occasionally, we may grant our affiliates access to information collected on our website for regular business transactions.

Forms

We use forms to collect personally identifiable information for regular business transactions. We may collect names, Social Security Numbers, date of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and other personally identifiable demographic data. Credit card numbers and other payment information may be collected for payment of services. Credit card numbers are transmitted to a third-party, with no additional personally identifiable information, for authentication and accounting purposes.

Cookies

To improve our website, Bright Institute may use cookies to track your visit to our Site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. But some Web pages which require authorization have cookies that are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will likely not be able to access those pages. While Bright Institute uses cookies to track your visit, this information does not identify you personally, and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided Bright Institute with personal information.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information of individuals that visited our Site.

Links to other Sites

This website contains links to other sites that we do not control. Please be aware that Bright Institute is not responsible for the privacy practices of those other sites. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each Site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement published on our Site applies solely to information collected by this website.

Encryption

Bright Institute uses no encryption (data scrambling) on certain portions of the Site. When you are on any website that asks you for confidential information, you should check to see if the information being transmitted is encrypted to increase the security of your data.