Privacy Policy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize access, personally-identifiable information is not actively shared. In particular, we do not re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our web servers.

Information Collected
Use of Collected Information
Distribution of Collected Information
Individual Choice
Responsibility for Linked-To Sites

Information Collected

The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions may collect personal information such as name, address, e-mail address, telephone number(s), and/or educational interests. Such personal information may be requested by us for administrative purposes. Additional personal information, such as credit card account information, may be requested for application or enrollment purposes. Web servers typically collect, at least temporarily, the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; web pages requested; referring web page; browser used; date and time. The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions may collect statistics identifying particular IP addresses from which our websites are accessed.

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Use of Collected Information

We may use personal information collected from websites for the purpose of future communication back to online enrollees, in order to keep you informed of such activities as campus programs, symposia and/or special events, but only if you are provided the opportunity to opt out of that type of use.

The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve Web presentation and utilization. The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.

Some Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions online activity sites may use "cookies" in order to deliver web content specific to individual users’ interests or to keep track of online purchasing transactions. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.

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Distribution of Collected Information

The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions will not disclose, without your consent, personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law. We will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.

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Individual Choice

Individuals who wish to use methods other than online enrollment may submit requests by email or U.S. mail addressed to The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions.

Access to your own information: Questions regarding users’ rights to review, modify or delete their previously provided personal information should be directed to the campus organization to which they provided the information. Any disputes will be resolved under existing records regulations applicable to The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions.

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Responsibility for Linked-To Sites

While using an Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions website, you may encounter hypertext links to the Web pages of organizations not directly affiliated with The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions. The Office of Graduate and Professional Admissions does not control the content or information practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the privacy statements of these organizations.

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