ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This Acknowledgment, including the Privacy Notice at www.ets.org/legal/privacy, contains the terms and conditions between you and Educational
Testing Service (“ETS,” “we,” “us,” “our”) regarding the ETS test you are now registering for and/or the testing products and services you are now
requesting (these are together referred to as “Testing Services”). It applies to all actions you take regarding the Testing Services, including creating an
online account, providing survey information regarding a test that you take, requesting one of our services relating to the test and completing a test or
product order and providing payment information.
Personal Information
In registering for the Testing Services, you acknowledge and agree that we have the right to obtain, collect, store, use, disclose (including to public
authorities and score recipients), extract and transmit (collectively "use") the personal information you provide, including your full name, home address,
email address, telephone number, social security or similar number, passport number, national ID number, gender, nationality, age, date of birth,
responses to other background information questions, test administration date and details, payment information and how you specifically use our
website. This also includes our use of biometric data (including fingerprints, audio recordings, facial images and video files) provided by you in the
course of your registering for and participating in the Testing Services. All of the above data is referred to as “Personal Information.” Which Personal
Information we hold, how we use it and how long we hold it for may be subject to legal limitations in the jurisdiction in which you receive the Testing
Services. ETS strives to meet these legal requirements, and further information on how we do so is provided below.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your Personal Information to:
• complete any registration, purchases or other transactions you request
• improve our products and services, and identify, develop and offer new or expanded products and services
• improve and personalize your experience on the website, and customize the content and/or format of the pages you visit
• subject to your opting-in (see below), notify you about updates, products, services and/or special offers from ETS, its affiliates and selected
third parties
• ask you to participate in brief surveys or provide other information
• generate aggregate statistical studies and conduct research ourselves or jointly with others related to our products and services and the use
of our website
If you agree (or have agreed) under other agreements with ETS that we may use your Personal Information in additional ways, those other agreements
will not be limited by this separate Acknowledgment.
International Transfer
ETS, its website, and its servers are located in the United States. Therefore, your information, including Personal Information, will be transferred from
your location to the United States in accordance with applicable laws. It may also be transferred directly from your location or via the U.S. to other
countries who provide processing services to ETS, all at the direction of ETS and in accordance with applicable laws. In accepting this Acknowledgment,
you are agreeing to cross-border transfers of your information, including your Personal Information. If you do not agree to these cross-border transfers,
then you should refrain from using the website. You may have a right under applicable law to revoke your consent to the international transfer of your
Personal Information. If you do so, we are unlikely to be able to continue providing the Testing Services to you.
Third Party Disclosure
We communicate your Personal Information to certain third parties, within the jurisdiction of your location and elsewhere, with whom we have a direct or
indirect business or contract relationship in order to provide you with the Testing Services you have requested. These third parties assist with various
aspects of the delivery of the Testing Services, including security services and score distribution services.
Your Rights
In some instances, under applicable laws, you have the right to withdraw your consent and require us to delete your Personal Information should the
lawful purposes for which we hold it cease. You may also request that we correct your Personal Information if it is incorrect, inaccurate, misleading or
incomplete. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
If required under applicable laws, at your request and on satisfactory proof of identity (as determined by ETS), we will provide you (i) confirmation that
we
hold your Personal Information, (ii) details or a description of the Personal Information we hold in an intelligible form; (iii) information of how we came
to hold the Personal Information, the purposes for which we are using it, and in some cases the methods and logic we use in processing the Personal
Information; (iv) further corporate information regarding ETS and, in some circumstances, the other corporate entities who may process the Personal
Information on behalf of ETS.
To reques
t any of the above actions, please contact us at: Educational Testing Service, 660 Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08541, USA, email:
etsinfo@ets.org
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You may also have the right under certain applicable laws to complain to a regulatory authority in your country if you believe we have not processed your
Personal Information in compliance with applicable laws.
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