Privacy Policy

Last modified: October 2025

Welcome to Nursing Prerequisites Guide at nursingprerequisitesguide.com (together with all other digital properties and applications, communications, or forms that link or refer to this notice, the "Website"), which is operated by StraighterLine, Inc. ("StraighterLine" or "we"). This notice describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the personal data we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Website.

We respect your privacy and commit to protecting it through our compliance with the practices described in this notice. Please read this notice carefully to understand our policies and practices for processing and storing your personal data. By engaging with our Website, you accept and consent to the practices described in this notice. This notice applies to the personal data collected through our Website, regardless of the country where you are located.

This notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued engagement with our Website after any such revisions indicates that you accept and consent to them, so please check the notice periodically for updates.

Additionally, the Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Data We May Collect About You

We collect and use different types of data from and about you including (without limitation):

• Personal data that we could reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username or other similar identifier, and any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline.
• Newsletter and communication preferences, including your subscription choices and communication history with us.
• Non-personal data that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users viewing specific guide content or using specific Website features. To the extent that we maintain and use de-identified data, we will not attempt to re-identify the information (except for the purpose of confirming the effectiveness of our de-identification processes).
• Technical and device information, including (without limitation) the Internet protocol ("IP") address used to connect your computer or device to the Internet, your login information (if applicable), browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform. The information we collect may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
• Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including (without limitation) the full Uniform Resource Locators ("URLs"), clickstream to, through, and from our Website (including date and time), content you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, or interactions with advertisements.

If we combine or connect non-personal, technical, or demographic data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as "personal data."

How We Collect Data About You

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including (without limitation) through:

• Direct interactions. You may give us information about you by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by email, chat or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you subscribe to newsletters, request information about nursing programs, participate in discussion forums or chat functions on our Website, and when you report a problem with our Website.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns as specified above. We collect this information by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies (see Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies).
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive information about you from third parties including, for example, StraighterLine.com and advertising networks.

Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies

Our Website uses cookie technology. We collect anonymous non-personally identifiable information about your website visit through pixel tags, sometimes known as cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer, mobile phone or other device from the Website and is stored on your device's browser or hard drive. The information generated by cookies relates to information about your use of our Website.

You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser (see How to Manage Cookies). However, if you update your settings to refuse cookies, certain parts of our Website may become inaccessible and certain features may not work correctly. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue them.

How We Use Cookies

Cookies help us track information about your visit and may be used to deliver banner advertisements to you on the Internet. This helps us deliver a better and more personalized service when you browse our Website. It also allows us to improve our Website by enabling us to:

• Store your preferences so we may customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Track content engagement and effectiveness.

How To Manage Cookies

You can edit your browser settings to not accept cookies, and the below websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. Blocking and deleting cookies may have a negative impact upon the usability of our Website.

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari (web)
• Safari (iOS)

By continuing to browse our Website, you hereby consent to our cookies policy regardless of your browser settings.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We do not and will not sell your personal data.

We use your personal data to provide you with information and resources, communicate with you, deliver advertising and marketing, and to conduct other business operations, such as using data to improve and personalize your experiences. Examples of how we may use the personal data we collect include to:

• Fulfill the purposes for which you provided the data or that were described when it was collected.
• Provide you with the information, resources, and support that you request from us.
• Respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback, or questions.
• Deliver newsletter subscriptions and content updates you have requested.
• Provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website and services.
• Notify you about changes to our Website or services.
• Ensure that we present our Website content in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device.
• Administer our Website and conduct internal operations, including (without limitation) for troubleshooting and debugging, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, development, and maintenance purposes.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity.
• Improve our Website, content, marketing, and user experiences.
• Protect our Website, employees, or operations.
• Measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, deliver relevant advertising to you, and audit current interactions with you.

If you elect to allow us to share your contact information with nursing schools or educational institutions of interest, we may share such information with the relevant institutions. In general, the only information that would be shared would be your full name and email address. You may rescind or modify such consent at any time by contacting us at privacy@straighterline.com.

We may also aggregate personal data and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our content and services, to improve and add features to our Website, and for other similar purposes.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data:

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• With your consent.
• With StraighterLine, Inc. and its affiliates for business operations and service delivery.
• With business partners, suppliers, service providers, sub-contractors, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Website improvement and optimization). We contractually require these third parties to keep that personal data confidential and use it only for the contracted purposes.
• With advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant ads to you and others.
• With advertisers and advertising networks to suppress ads for our services after you have visited our Website.
• For any other purposes that we disclose in writing when you provide the data.

We may also disclose your personal data to third parties:

• To enforce or apply our terms of use.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including (without limitation) responding to any government or regulatory request or complying with mandatory reporting requirements.
• To protect the rights, property, or safety of our business, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of cybersecurity, fraud protection, and credit risk reduction.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, where one of the transferred assets is the personal data we hold.

Consent to Personal Data Transfer

We are based primarily in the United States and have personnel located around the world. We may process, store, and transfer the personal data we collect, in and to a country outside your own, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as your own. As of the date of this notice, our processing activities take place in the United States and in the United Kingdom.

By submitting your personal data or engaging with our Website, you consent to this transfer, storing, or processing.

Your Personal Data Use Choices

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses. We have established the following personal data control mechanisms:

• Promotional Communications. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our products, services, or content, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to privacy@straighterline.com. You may also opt-out of further marketing communications by replying to any promotional email we have sent you or following the opt-out links on that message.
• Third-Party Sharing. If you do not want us to share your personal data with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for advertising purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@straighterline.com.
• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about tracking technologies, please see Cookies and Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data

You can access, review, and change your personal data by contacting us at privacy@straighterline.com.

You may also contact us to request access to, correct, delete, receive a copy, or restrict our processing of personal data that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete information if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or negatively impact the information's accuracy. If we are unable to accommodate your request, you may contact us at privacy@straighterline.com for more information.

At any time, you may also contact us to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, this will only affect whether and how we process your personal data after you inform us that you no longer consent to the processing.

Our Retention of Personal Data

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide services and fulfill the purposes you have requested, or for other legitimate purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different types of personal data, the context of our interactions with you or your use of our Website, actual retention periods can vary significantly.

Other criteria used to determine the retention periods include:

• Whether you provided the data with the expectation that it will remain until you affirmatively remove it. Examples include the email address you provided to subscribe to our newsletter.
• Whether you provided consent for a longer retention period. If so, we will retain data in accordance with your consent.
• Is the personal data of a sensitive type. If so, a shortened retention time will generally be adopted.

California Privacy Rights

The following disclosures are intended to provide additional information for California residents about the categories of personal data we collect from them:

In the past twelve months, we have disclosed each category of personal data to third parties as further described above.

To the extent provided for by law and subject to applicable exceptions, California residents have the following privacy rights in relation to the personal data we collect:

• The right to know what personal data we have collected and how we have used and disclosed that personal data;
• The right to request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• The right to limit the disclosure of certain of your personal data; and
• The right to be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.

California residents can exercise the above privacy rights by emailing us at: privacy@straighterline.com.

California's Shine the Light law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of the Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@straighterline.com or write to us by mail to the mailing address included at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

In order to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, correction, or deletion, we may require you to verify your identity before we respond to a request to know, correct, or delete personal data. If you do not have an account with us, or if we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity, we may ask you to provide additional personal data for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not provide or delete your personal data.

You may submit a request to know, correct, delete, or limit the disclosure of your personal data through an authorized agent. If you do so, the agent must present signed written permission to act on your behalf, and you may also be required to independently verify your identity.

If we are unable to accommodate your request, you may contact us at privacy@straighterline.com for more information.

Additional State Rights

Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access, correct, and delete certain personal information.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising, sales, or profiling.
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights vary by state. To exercise any of the state-specific rights delineated above, please contact us at privacy@straighterline.com.

Data Security

The security of your personal data is very important to us. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect personal data both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Children's Online Privacy

We do not direct our Website to minors and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we learn we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected or received personal data from a child without appropriate consent, we will delete it. If you believe we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected any information from or about a child, please contact us at privacy@straighterline.com.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will post any changes we may make to our privacy policy on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. If the changes materially alter how we use or treat your personal data we will notify you by email to the primary email address we have on file for you.

Contact Information

Please address questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices to:

Email: privacy@straighterline.com

Operated by:
StraighterLine, Inc.
1201 S. Sharp Street, Suite 110
Baltimore, MD 21230

If you live in the European Union ("EU"), you may also contact our EU representative at: euprivacy@straighterline.com. If you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner or should you wish to report a complaint, you may also contact the European Data Protection Supervisor.