NextStudent Privacy Policy Effective 05/16/2006:

In order to use this Web site, you must first complete the registration form and create a user a myApp account.  During registration you are required to provide contact information such as name, address, phone, and email address. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest. 

You have the option to provide demographic information such as Driver license number, date of birth, and employer information to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site. 

NextStudent will use this information to contact you in regards to your product interest.  Registered users have the option to receive informative emails or the NextPath email newsletter. NextStudent is the sole owner of the information collected on www.nextstudentloans.com. NextStudent collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Enhancement of Profile Information

We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in which we think you would be interested.  To enrich our Profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information they have provided to us.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

NextStudent abides by federal law and the guidelines established by the Federal Trade Commission regarding youth privacy. Therefore, we will not knowingly collect any personal information from or allow the registration of young people under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a person under the age of 13, we will promptly take all reasonable steps to delete the data from our system.

NextStudent will not share your personal information with nonaffiliated, third parties except as required or permitted by federal law or regulation. For example, we may share your personal information with schools, lenders, agencies of the United States government and their agents, credit-reporting agencies, and with third-party servicing organizations. These third parties are required to use your personal information for its intended purpose only.

NextStudent will always protect the personal information you share with us. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. All personal information you provide online is encrypted using SSL, or 128-bit encryption technology; the internet standard for secure communication online. Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct or update your information by making the change on our member information page or by contacting your dedicated account representative, or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us.  When you enter sensitive information (such as social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).  To learn more about SSL, follow this link (http://info.ssl.com/article.aspx?id=10241)

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.  No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however.  Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

This privacy statement covers the site http://www.nextstudentloans.com. 

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Joe Kunkel (Compliance Officer/Ombudsman) at 800.229.4639. 

Business Transitions

In the event NextStudent goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.  You will be notified via email and notice on our web site of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.  If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

NextStudent stores all personal information internally in a controlled, secure environment where only those NextStudent employees with a business reason to access your personal information are authorized to do so. Choice/Opt-out

We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.  For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

If you have any questions or comments in connection with this privacy policy,
please contact us at

Customer Privacy
NextStudent
19601 N Black Canyon Hwy
Phoenix, Arizona 85027
Phone: (800) 577-5734
Web site: www.nextstudentloans.com