Privacy Policy

The publishers of Education Online Search (EOS), Optimized Internet Corporation (OIC), are committed to the privacy of the users of this site. OIC does not retain any personally identifiable information on any user who visits EOS. EOS does place cookies on the PCs of visitors to this site, and such cookies are used solely to help OIC better understand typical site usage patterns that can be used to improve site design. These cookies do not collect or transmit any personal information whatsoever.

In some portions of EOS, users will be presented with a form that does ask for personal information, such as name, address, and contact information (User Information). These forms are used in general by users wanting to receive more infomation (School Details) from a school, college, university, or other entity (Schools) that is promoted on EOS. This User Information is transmitted by EOS directly to such Schools, or such Schools' appointed marketing agency, and is not retained by OIC. OIC does not, and will not provide such information to any other entity than the School the user is attempting to contact, or that Schools appointed marketing agency, unless required to do so by law.

The Schools' use of the User Information provided is subject to the privacy policy of the individual School being contacted by the user. While OIC strives to work with Schools whose use of User Information is limited to the provision of details about the School to the user providing the User Information, OIC cannot provide any representation or guarantee regarding the School's behavior, and any use of the forms on EOS, or of forms on other sites that are reached through EOS, to contact such Schools is at the sole risk of the user of such forms.