This Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy”) explains that MyEdustream, LLC d/b/a Prepmedians (“Prepmedians”, “us” or “we”) believe in being open and clear about how we use your information. In the spirit of transparency, this Cookie Policy provides detailed information about how and when we use cookies on our Platform located at Prepmedians.com (the “Platform”) and any service made available through our Platform (the “Services”). Any defined terms used but not defined in this Cookie Policy are either defined in the Terms of Use located at prepmedians.com/terms-and-conditions or the Privacy Policy located at prepmedians.com/privacy-policy

DOES PREPMEDIANS USE COOKIES?

Yes. Prepmedians and our marketing partners, affiliates, and analytics or service providers (“Third Party Providers”) use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses the Platform has the best possible experience

WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will always be used. You can find out more about each cookie by viewing our current cookie list below. We update this list regularly, so there may be additional cookies that are not yet listed. Web beacons, tags and scripts may be used in the Platform or in emails to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our Third Party Providers on an individual and aggregated basis.

WHY DOES PREPMEDIANS USE COOKIES?

When you visit our Platform, we may place a number of cookies in your browser. These are required to enable us to hold session information as you navigate from page to page within the Platform. For example, we may use cookies on our Platform to understand visitor and user preferences, improve user experience, and track and analyze usage, navigational and other statistical information. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you elect not to activate the cookie or to later disable cookies, you may still visit our Platform, but your ability to use some features or areas of the Platform may be limited.

HOW TO DISABLE COOKIES

You can generally activate or later de-activate the use of cookies through a functionality built into your web browser. For further information about managing and disabling cookies on your computer see www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

When you visit our Platform, cookies are either served directly by us, or by our Third Party Providers. Here is a description of the different kind of cookies we use.

• Session & Authentication Cookies. These allow us to authenticate your log-in information, permit access to secured areas of the Platform and remember your preferences.
• Performance cookies. These allow us to get to know how you use our Platform and the Services. They are used to analyze visitor information such as usage and help us see how effective our Services are and to understand what you like about the Services. We also use this information to help improve our Platform and Services and improve the user experience.
• Functionality cookies.  These allow us to provide additional functionalities to the Platform, and will retain some settings information. While not essential for the functionality of our Platform, they do enable extra features that should improve your use of the Platform and the Services. These cookies allow our Platform to remember choices you make (such as your user name, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
• Essential Cookies. These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.
• Analytics Cookies. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Platform - which pages are visited, and how visitors move through the Services - so we can improve how the Platform works. We use this information in aggregate; the underlying records can include identifiers such as IP address and device information.
• Targeted and Advertising Cookies. These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to analyze users by age, gender, and interest categories. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show adverts which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third party websites.
• Social Media and Advertising Pixels. Advertising pixels from Meta (Facebook) and TikTok load on our pages as part of the Platform, not only when you use a sharing button, and may set identifiers (such as Meta's _fbp cookie) used to measure whether our advertisements led to a visit, sign-up, or purchase. Where an event carries contact details for matching, they are the parent or purchaser details described in our Privacy Policy's Advertising Measurement section — never student account log-ins. If you engage with our content on a social network directly, that network records the interaction under its own policies, and we also receive and store the comment or message itself. See the Social Media Comments and Messages section of our Privacy Policy.

LIST OF THIRD PARTY COOKIES

• Google Analytics (Performance; Targeted and Advertising)
  Google cookies allow us to use Google Analytics to measure web performance and advertising. We use this information to improve how the Platform works. Google cookies also provides us with demographics and interests data about the age and gender of our users, along with the interests you express through your online travel and purchasing activities. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies. For more information about how to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
• Microsoft Advertising UET (Targeted and Advertising)
  For visitors whose country is confirmed as the United States, Microsoft Advertising UET may use cookies or similar identifiers to measure advertising conversions. These events may include an order reference, the purchase amount and currency, and which products were bought. We configure them without names, email addresses, payment-card numbers or other payment credentials, or test-prep responses. UET is not enabled when a visitor's country is not confirmed as the United States. Separately from cookies, we report completed purchases to Microsoft from our servers using the click identifier Microsoft adds to advertisement links, and we share hashed checkout email addresses with Microsoft so that our advertisements are not shown to existing customers in the campaigns where we apply that audience; both are described in the “Advertising Measurement” section of our Privacy Policy. You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings as described above. More information is available in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
• Google Ads (Targeted and Advertising)
  Google Ads tags measure whether Google advertisements lead to sign-ups and purchases, including “enhanced conversions,” in which the parent or purchaser email address (and billing name and address for purchases) is hashed and sent to Google to match a conversion to an advertising click. Student account log-ins are not used. More information: Google Privacy Policy.
• Meta Pixel (Targeted and Advertising)
  The Meta pixel reports page views, sign-ups, checkout starts, and purchases to Meta, with order details, from your browser and, for some events, from our servers. Where matching contact details accompany an event they are the parent or purchaser details, hashed before use. More information: Meta Privacy Policy.
• TikTok Pixel (Targeted and Advertising)
  The TikTok pixel reports similar conversion events to TikTok. Where matching contact details accompany an event they are the parent or purchaser email address, hashed by TikTok's tooling; student account log-ins are not used. More information: TikTok Privacy Policy.
• OpenAI Ads (Targeted and Advertising)
  An OpenAI measurement pixel (separate from the AI-tutor service described in our Privacy Policy) reports conversion events with order details, and for some events the parent or purchaser email address, so we can measure advertising placed with OpenAI. More information: OpenAI Privacy Policy.
• Pinterest (Targeted and Advertising)
  When Pinterest ad measurement is enabled, Prepmedians shares limited, pseudonymous checkout-start and completed-purchase metadata with Pinterest, a third party, to measure and optimize online behavioral advertising. This may include keyed identifiers, product information, quantity, value, and currency, plus ordinary browser/network information. Prepmedians may temporarily retain a keyed checkout event for up to 48 hours and a retry pointer for the current browser-tab session so an interrupted measurement attempt can safely resume. Pinterest runs only in an isolated conversion frame, is not loaded into the main Prepmedians page, and is configured not to create first-party Pinterest cookies or local storage. Prepmedians does not enable Pinterest enhanced matching or send Pinterest names, email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses, test answers, payment-card data, internal user identifiers, or promoted-click identifiers. We do not activate Pinterest measurement when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. You can also use browser privacy controls, Pinterest's personalization settings, and AdChoices. Learn more in Pinterest’s Privacy Policy.
• Sendgrid (Essential and Functionality)
  We use Sendgrid to enable us to send you certain emails regarding the Services and the Platform (for example, when you ask to reset your account password). Sendgrid collects information on your email address, whether the email was delivered, if you opened the email and how many times and whether you clicked on any links contained in the emails. You can find out more information about Sendgrid here: https://sendgrid.com/docs/ui/analytics-and-reporting/stats-overview/ 
• Stripe (Essential and Functionality)
  Stripe collects information related to payments you make on the Platform. We do not collect or process your credit or debit card details, however Stripe may from time to time provide us with information regarding the credits and debits made to your card in order to enable us to reconcile our accounts You can find out more information about Stripe here: https://stripe.com/en-US/privacy for more information.
• Wistia (Performance and Analytics)
  Wistia cookies collect data on the whether you have watched certain videos on the Platform and what percentage of the posted videos you have interacted with on the Platform. These cookies collect data on your location when you use the Services. You can find out more information about Wistia here: https://wistia.com/video-marketing/analytics
• ShareThis (Targeted and Advertising)
  ShareThis provides sharing buttons on the Platform, and its script loads across our pages, not only where buttons appear. It collects information such as your IP address, cookie identifiers, and pages visited, and ShareThis may use that data to build interest segments used for advertising, under its own policies: ShareThis Privacy Policy.
• FullStory (Performance and Analytics)
  FullStory records how you interact with the Platform - the pages you visit, and how you navigate and use them, along with general location - so we can find and fix usability problems. These session records can identify your account when you are signed in. You can find out more information about FullStory here: https://www.fullstory.com/legal/privacy/

COOKIES SUBJECT TO CHANGE

The cookies and similar technologies we use change as the Platform changes. We keep this Cookie Policy up to date with our actual practices; the date at the top reflects the last revision.

UPDATING THIS POLICY

Prepmedians may amend this Cookie Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Cookie Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we use cookies, as determined in our sole discretion, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your registered account and/or through a notice on the Platform. The date the Cookie Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active and deliverable email address for you (where you are a registered user of our Services), and for periodically visiting our Platform, the Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy to check for any changes.