MDT Institute 
Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

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The primary role of MDT Institute (“MDT”, “we”, or “us”) as an academic institution is to deliver exceptional education and services to its students. A consistent focus on delivery of quality education supports the mission and requires the Institute to plan ahead, but also respond to current market demands.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose your personal information and the choices you can make about how we collect, use, process, and disclose your personal information.  This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected through this website and other services we offer, and anywhere else the Policy is posted (collectively, our “Services”). If you reside or are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”), MDT is the data controller of all personal information collected via the Services.

If you are a student at MDT, your educational information that is part of your educational record is maintained in accordance with the U.S. Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), state laws, and MDT’s policies.

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Personal Information We Collect

 

We collect personal information to provide and improve the Services we offer and to communicate with you about our Service offerings. We collect personal information in the following ways:

• Information you provide to us: We collect personal information you provide to us as part of the Services, such as when you create an account with us, request informational materials, submit an application, enroll in our programs or courses, apply for financial aid, participate in a promotion or survey, use career services, set up profiles for online educational or administrative tools, utilize our online or offline resources, [attend a conference, event or other in-person function, or otherwise interact with us either online or offline. Examples of the type of information you may provide to us are:

  • Personal information, such as your name, mailing address, email and phone number, social security number, date of birth, passport details, sex, national origin, medical condition, educational and employment history, photo, background informations, financial information, and health insurance information;

  • Student Account login credentials;

  • Testimonials provided for marketing materials;

  • Demographic information, job application or career preferences, interests, veteran or military status, and information provided on your applications for admission;

  • Payment information

  • Course enrollment information

  • Information that you provide in course discussion boards, in directories, on social media, or in response to promotions and surveys, such as photos, comments, and reviews; and

  • Audio recordings in connection with coursework and testimonials

• Information collected automatically: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of the Services, such as information collected through the use of cookies, pixels and other tracking technologies. Examples of the type of information we may collect automatically includes:

  • Course access dates/times and course completion data;

  • IP address of the device you are using;

  • Device ID;

  • Location of your device;

  • Browser type;

  • Internet service provider;

  • Audio recordings when you make customer service calls for quality and training purposes;

  • Video recordings from security monitoring; and

  • Content interaction information, such as files or content viewed, time spent viewing content, and download information.

• Information from other sources: We may receive information from other sources, such as education partners that administer exams and courses, provide scholarships or financial services or manage educational records, service providers, testing centers, social media, third-party platforms and forums, and business partners. Examples of the type of information we may receive from other sources are:

  • Personal information, such as your name, personal and professional mailing address, email and phone number, and professional and educational history;

  • Educational performance, professional history, information contained in letters of reference, and student loan or grant information related to your attendance at MDT;

  • Profile information, comments, and similar information provided to or on social networks and other forums; and

  • Interests, demographic data, and internet browsing behavior.

Some of the information we collect may, when combined with other information, be personal information that could be used to identify you. Such information is treated as personal information.

You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of personal information you provide to us. Inaccurate information may affect your ability to use the Services, the information you receive when using the Services, and our ability to contact you.

Where we need to collect personal information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you or in order to provide you with information you have requested, and you do not provide this information when requested, we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations or we may not be able to perform all or part of the contract we are entering into with you or provide you with the information requested. For example, we require (a) certain information under law in order to process a financial aid application, (b) certain information in order to enroll you in a course, (c) your contact details in order to send you any information you have requested.

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Special categories of data

 

When you make an application for admission to one of our programs, our application form asks you about your racial/ethnic origin. You are not required to give us this information but if you choose to do so we only use it for equal opportunities monitoring and share it with the Department of Education for this purpose. Our legal basis for processing this data is your explicit consent.

All applicants deemed academically eligible by the MDT must initiate drug, and background screenings and either clear all screenings within 120 days of the session start date or sign a self-attestation and disclosure indicating their ability to clear all screenings within 120 days of the session start date before the applicant is granted acceptance. Through these checks, we may potentially process health data, criminal convictions and offenses data, and we will process your biometric fingerprint information using a third-party background check provider. We will ask you whether we can do this. We only use this data for the purposes of conducting a fraud and security check and clearing your application to the MDT pre-licensure program. We retain this data while you are active in the program and for six years after you leave the program.

In addition, once your application to one of our programs has been accepted, we collect details of any medical conditions you may have, your health insurance information and we may be able to infer information about your racial or ethnic origin from your nationality or from your passport. We only use this information for assisting students with any conditions you may tell us about so that we can arrange any additional support or make any necessary arrangements for you (this is for our legitimate interests in ensuring we provide equal opportunities for all applicants and for carrying out obligations in the field of social protection law.

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How We Use the Personal Information Collected

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We use, store, and process the personal information we collect to provide and improve the Services,  to support our business functions, as well as to personalize, provide, measure and improve our advertising and marketing. In particular, we may use personal information to form a view on what we believe may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which content, product and service offerings may be relevant for you and direct you to particular areas of this website that we think will be most relevant for you.

Some examples of how we use personal information include:

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us such as details about our programs, enrollment, ongoing education, financial aid, and student services;

• To administer applications, enrollment, registration, financial and student services;

• To assess your eligibility for admission to MDT (necessary in order for us to enter into a contract with you);

• To analyze student performance (our legitimate interests in understanding more about student performance in order to operate our business and improve our Services);

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection (necessary for the performance of our contract with you);

• To process payment or facilitate delivery of services requested (necessary for the performance of our contract with you);

• To provide you with support and respond to your inquiries, such as to investigate and address your concerns, and monitor and improve our responses (our legitimate interests in providing you with support, responding to your inquiries, and developing and improving our service);

• To provide, personalize, measure, and improve our website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings based on your advertising customization preferences (our legitimate interests in operating our website and keeping it updated and relevant);

• To send you information about our products, services, and promotions (either your consent (where applicable law requires us to obtain your consent for marketing to you) or for our legitimate interests in promoting our products and services and growing our business);

• To administer promotional activities, such as surveys, sweepstakes, contests, and referrals (either your consent where we request this or our legitimate interests in running such activities in order to promote our business);

• To help maintain and improve the safety, security, and integrity of our campuses, facilities, website(s), and applications (our legitimate interests in maintaining network and physical security);

• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, such as to develop and improve our websites, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and offerings (our legitimate interests in developing our business and product lines);

• To support our general business operations (our legitimate interests in running and operating our business in a proper manner); and

• As described to you when collecting your personal information to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

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Disclosing Personal Information

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We may disclose your personal information to other businesses or entities where it is required in order for the performance of our contract with you, where it is required by law, or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so, as follows:

• To our parent organization, only for use in the manner described in this Privacy Policy;

• To service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as credit card payment processors, event planners and coordinators, data management and storage providers, marketers and advertisers, analytics and research companies, background check providers, and professional advisors;

• To clinical affiliates;

• To law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in response to a court order, subpoena, regulatory requirements or similar legal process, to report any activities we reasonably believe to be unlawful, or as otherwise required by law;

• To combat fraud or criminal activity, and to protect our rights, users, and business partners, or as part of legal proceedings affecting MDT;

• To another entity in connection with a merger, transfer of data assets, reorganization, divestiture, financing, dissolution, or similar corporate event involving all or part of our business; and

• Otherwise at your request or with your consent.

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Cookies and Similar Technologies

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We, as well as third parties that provide content or other functionality for our Services, may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other technologies to automatically collect information through the Services. These tracking technologies are small data files downloaded to or stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other internet-enabled device that enable us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our email communications, website, applications, and tools. These technologies allow us to understand who has interacted with us and also help us to operate our Services more efficiently, personalize your experience on our website, improve our content and offerings, engage in analytics and measurement and show you advertisements in which you may be interested.

• Cookies. Our site uses cookies that fall into the following categories: Strictly Necessary, Functionality, Performance, Third-Party, and Marketing and Advertising. 

• Pixel Tags/Web Beacons. A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded on the website that collects information about users’ engagement on that web page. The use of a pixel allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page.

• Interest-based advertising. We permit third parties to use technologies on our website to collect information about your device and your use of our Services to advertise products and services to you that are tailored to your perceived interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. Such third parties may act on our behalf, and we may grant them the right to use your information for their own purposes. Typically, the information used for interest-based advertising is collected through cookies and other tracking technologies which recognize the device you are using and collect information about it and your use of our website and other websites and applications over time, including click stream information, browser type, time and date you visited the Services, AdID, precise geolocation and other information. For example, one such third party vendor, Google, shows our ads and uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. We also use data analytics to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. Click here for more information about Google Ads

• Analytics. We also use Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to collect information regarding visitor behavior and visitor demographics for some of our Services and to develop content. Click here for more information about Google Analytics

• Social Media. This website may include social media features, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or other widgets. These social media companies may recognize you and collect information about your visit to our website, and they may set a cookie or employ other tracking technologies. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of those companies.

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Your Choices in Relation to Tracking and Online Advertising

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• Users can visit Google Ad for more information about its settings.

• Users can visit Google Analytics for information on how to opt-out of Google Analytics.

• Users can manager their cookie preferences by utilizing the online cookie preference center

 

Security

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To help protect the privacy and security of your personal information we use reasonable security measures, including administrative, technical, and physical measures. These measures help protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of your personal information. Additionally, we train our colleagues about the importance of confidentiality and maintaining the privacy and security of your personal information.

While we do our best to protect your personal information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. If you know or have reason to believe that your personal information has been lost, stolen, misappropriated, or otherwise compromised, please see the Contact Us section below for information about how to contact us.

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International Transfer of Personal information

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Personal information may be collected, used, disclosed, stored, and processed in a jurisdiction other than where you reside or are located, including in the United States where we are based and in other countries including Canada and the United Kingdom where the parties listed above are based for the purposes outlined above. These jurisdictions may have data protection laws that differ from your home jurisdiction. For individuals located in the EEA and UK, we are committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of your personal information when it is transferred and have put in place standard contractual clauses as appropriate safeguards to protect your personal information where this is required. If you require further information about this you can contact us on the contact details listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.

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Retention

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We keep personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting or reporting requirements and our legitimate interests in maintaining such personal information in our records. In doing this we will have regard to the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal requirements.  

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Third-party Websites

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Any links to third-party websites on our site are provided solely as a convenience to you. We do not endorse or make any representations about these websites or any products, materials, or services. Any personal information you provide on these third-party websites is subject to the privacy practices and policies of those sites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices or content of any websites or services that are not operated by or for us.

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EEA and UK Data Subject Privacy Rights

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If you are an individual located in the EEA or UK, you have the following rights:

• The right to request access to your personal information,

• The right to edit, correct, and update your personal information,

• The right to request erasure of your personal information,

• The right to restrict processing of your personal information,

• The right to object to the processing of your personal information,

• The right to data portability, and/or

• The right to withdraw your consent, to the extent that we have collected your personal information based on your affirmative informed consent.

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances and as identified above:

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests. This can include processing your personal information for the purposes of providing and enhancing the provision of our Services, as well as advertising our products, credentials, designations, services, and information to you.

• Where we need to perform the contract we have entered into or are about to enter with you.

• Where we need to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our contractual agreements.

• Where we have your express opt-in consent.

If you wish to contact us in connection with the exercise of your rights listed above, contact us at privacy@mdt.atsinstitute.edu. Unless we notify you at the time of your request, we will not charge any fee in connection with the exercise of your rights. You also have the right to complain to or seek advice from a supervisory authority for data protection issues and/or bring a claim against us in any court of competent jurisdiction.

 

Parents/Guardians

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Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 16. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, and do not have parent or guardian consent on file, we will endeavor to delete such personal information from our records. If you believe we are incorrectly processing the personal information of a child under the age of 16, we recommend you contact us as provided in the final section of this policy.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

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This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically. If we make material changes, we will attempt to let you know via email or other communication. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. As long as you continue to use the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and any updates we make to it. We will not, however, use your personal information in a manner that is materially different than what we disclosed to you at the time the personal information was collected without your consent.

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Contact Us

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If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

MDT Institute

3805 Crestwood Pkwy, Suite 530

Duluth, GA 30096

privacy@mdt.atsinstitute.edu