Last updated November 11, 2024
Law School Admission Council, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “LSAC,” “we”, “our” or “us”) are committed to privacy and to transparency in our information practices. In this Cookie Notice, we explain how we use Cookies and your choices concerning Cookies used on our Websites (including but not limited to lsac.org, lawhub.org, lsac.zendesk.com, and lawschooltransparency.com, collectively referred to as “Websites”).
To fully understand how we collect, use, disclose, and process your Personal Information that we collect in relation to our Services, this Cookie Notice should be read in conjunction with our main LSAC Privacy Notice. Capitalized terms used in this Cookie Notice, which are not otherwise defined, have the meanings assigned to them in our main LSAC Privacy Notice.
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What are Cookies?
Like most websites, we use Cookies and similar technologies to remember things about you so that we can provide you with a better experience.
- Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device. They may be served by the entity that operates the website you are visiting (“first-party Cookies”) or by other companies (“third-party Cookies”). For example, we partner with third-party analytics providers, like Google, which set Cookies when you visit our websites. This helps us understand how you are using our Services so that we can improve them.
- Pixels are small images on a web page or in an email. Pixels collect information about your browser or device and can set Cookies.
- Local storage allows data to be stored locally on your browser or device and includes HTML5 local storage and browser cache.
- SDKs are blocks of code provided by our partners that may be installed in our mobile applications. SDKs help us understand how you interact with our mobile applications and collect certain information about the device and network you use to access the application.
How We Use Cookies
We use Cookies for a number of reasons, like helping us see which features are most popular, counting visitors to a page, improving our users’ experience, keeping our Services secure, and generally providing you with a better experience. The Cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories.
| Category of Cookies | Why we use these Cookies |
|---|---|
| Technical | These Cookies are essential for our services to function properly. Like the other Cookies we use, technical Cookies may be either first-party Cookies or third-party Cookies. |
| Preferences | We use these Cookies to remember your settings and preferences. For example, we may use these Cookies to remember your language preferences. |
| Security | We use these Cookies to help identify and prevent security risks. |
| Performance | We use these Cookies to collect information about how you interact with our Services and to help us improve them. For example, we may use these Cookies to determine if you have interacted with a certain page. |
| Analytics | We use these Cookies to help us understand improve our Services. For example, we can use these Cookies to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and where we may need to make improvements. |
| Advertising | We and our advertising partners use these Cookies to deliver advertisements, to make them more relevant and meaningful to visitors to our Websites, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns, both on our Services and on other websites. |
View a full descriptions of each Cookie we Deploy on our Websites, including each Cookie’s name, type, purpose, provider, and retention period.
Device IDs: If you access our Websites using a mobile device, the advertising identifier associated with your device or other identifiers may be recorded and used for purposes similar to those of Cookies. We do not identify or record a device location without your specific permission.
In some cases, LSAC and our service providers may match Personal Information collected through Cookies with other Personal Information collected from you through our Services or through their services to conduct our research and other internal work to maintain, improve, repair, or develop our Services, workforce, and/or technology.
For example, when you use our Websites to create an LSAC account, we may collect Personal Information (such as your name, email address, country of residence, zip code, etc.), and we may use Analytics Cookies and/or Advertising Cookies to de-identify your Personal Information and transmit your de-identified Personal Information to our marketing and advertising service providers. Similarly, if you provide some of this Personal Information offline (e.g., if you provide Personal Information while creating an LSAC account over the phone), we may combine it with Personal Information we collected from you online through Analytics Cookies and/or Advertising Cookies, and we may transmit the combined data to our marketing and advertising service providers in a de-identified format. Our marketing and advertising service providers may use the de-identified Personal Information we transmit to them in combination with other Personal Information they independently collected from you to help LSAC determine the effectiveness of marketing and advertising services.
Information We Collect Using Cookies
The types of information, including Personal Information, we collect using Cookies vary depending upon the Cookie consent settings you choose. We may collect log information about your use of our Websites, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, links clicked, your IP address, search terms entered and the page you visited before navigating to our Websites. We may also collect information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Websites, including the hardware model, operating system and version, and unique device identifiers.
Your Choices
You have a number of options to control or limit how we and our service providers use Cookies and similar technologies, including for advertising. We will only use Necessary Cookies unless you provide your consent for us to use other types of Cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time: review your Cookie consent settings.
In addition to managing your Cookie consent settings, you may also manage the use of Cookies on our Websites and other websites through:
- Your browser or device: Although most browsers and devices accept Cookies by default, their settings usually allow you to clear or decline Cookies. If you disable Cookies, however, some of the features of our services may not function properly.
- Google Analytics: To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install Google’s opt-out browser add-on
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- Digital Advertising Alliance: For information on how our advertising partners allow you to opt out of receiving ads based on your web browsing history, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: European users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising through the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
- Social Media Settings: To opt out of ads on Facebook, Pinterest, or Google that are targeted to your interests, use your Facebook
- Your mobile device: Check your mobile device for settings that control ads based on your interactions with the applications on your device. For example, on your iOS device, enable the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting, and on your Android device, enable the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” setting.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of Cookies, please contact us at privacy@LSAC.org.