Personal Information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

MSC obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you.  For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
• Indirectly from you.  For example, from observing your actions on our websites or when using our products or services.
• From third-party business partners such as your Institution (as defined below), social media sites, ad networks, and analytic providers.

Use of Personal Information MSC may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Websites, products, and services.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including investigating and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To conduct data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our services.
• To conduct audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements.
• To personalize your Website and product experiences and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests.
• To track and analyze and report on your progress, success, performance, registrations, incomplete attempts, and results.  If your use of our products or services is in connection with a school, employer, institution or other organization (“your Institution”), we may share your data with your Institution, its instructors and staff, and other parties associated with or required by your Institution.
• To perform benchmarking analytics and general metrics about your performance, to draw inferences in order to highlight areas of learning that need additional attention or readiness to proceed or, after anonymizing, de-identifying or aggregating the data, your Institution’s performance as compared to other schools and institutions and other MSC customers.
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Websites, products, and services, databases, and other technology assets, and business.
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Websites, products, and services.
• For operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our services are of most interest to our customers so we can focus our energies on meeting our Customers’ interests.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some of all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our customers is among the assets transferred.

MSC will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. Sharing Personal Information MSC may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter into a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose other than performing the contract. We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Contractors and service providers.
• Data aggregators.
• Third parties with whom we partner to offer products and services to you.
• Your Institution and its faculty, instructors, and staff.
• Regulatory or oversight bodies with which you are, or previously were, affiliated for licensing, certification, or registration purposes.
• Subsidiaries and affiliates that supply support services to our company.

MSC engages certain trusted third-party service providers to process personal information on our behalf. These may include the provision of customer support, web hosting providers, customer data management and list enhancement companies, agencies that run our prize promotions, companies that fill product orders or coordinate mailings, delivery companies, payment processors, data analysis firms, and email service providers. We may also make certain information available to such third parties for various purposes, including for business or marketing purposes or to assist us and our service providers in understanding our Customers’ interest, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and functionality available through our products and services. Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose to the parties identified above:

• Category A: Identifiers.
• Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
• Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
• Category D: Commercial information.
• Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
• Category I: Professional or employment-related information
• Category J: Non-public education information (FERPA)
• Category K: Inferences

Sales of Personal Information MSC does not sell, rent or lease personal information.  Accordingly, in the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold personal information. Although it is not our practice to sell or rent personal information, we may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including personal information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy. Your Rights and Choices The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights. Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights You have the right to request that MSC discloses certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights”), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights You have the right to request that MSC deletes any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see “Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights”), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. MSC may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation or regulatory requirements.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability and Deletion Rights To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at:

• Calling us at 404-777-9528 or,
• Emailing us at privacy@mscmeded.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line of your message.

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

MSC cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. Response, Timing, and Format MSC endeavors to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. MSC does not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request. Non-Discrimination MSC will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny your goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time. OTHER CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Websites that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To obtain this information, please email us at privacy@mscmeded.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line of your message.  Please include sufficient information so that we can process your request, including name, mailing address, and email address if you want to receive a response by email.  We reserve the right to confirm your identity before processing any requests. If you are a California resident under age 18 and are a registered user of any of our Services, then you may request that we remove any content or information that you posted on our websites, online services, online applications, or mobile applications (“User Content”).  To request removal of your User Content, please send a detailed description of the specific User Content you want us to remove to the email or regular mail address set forth above. We reserve the right to request that you provide information that will enable us to confirm that the User Content that you want to be removed was posted by you. MSC will make a good faith effort to delete or remove your User Content from public view as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note, however, that your request that we delete your User Content does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of your User Content. Your User Content may remain on backup media, cached or otherwise retained by us for administrative or legal purposes or your User Content may remain publicly available if you or someone else has forwarded or re-posted your User Content on another website, online service, online application, or mobile application prior to its deletion. We may also be required by law to not remove (or allow removal) of your User Content. MSC’s Privacy Notice for California Residents

Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which MRP collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Website: http://www.mscmeded.com
Email: privacy@mscmeded.com