Privacy Policy

mswdegree.com is operated by Rupe Enterprises LLC, a Washington limited liability company.

Information Handled When You Visit

Our hosting and security providers may process ordinary technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, requested pages, timestamps, and security events. We use this information to deliver the site, prevent abuse, diagnose problems, and understand basic site performance.

We do not currently offer user accounts, comments, or a site-operated school application form. Please do not send sensitive personal information through our contact form.

Messages Sent Through Our Contact Form

Our contact form asks for your name, email address, and message so we can read and respond to questions, corrections, and privacy requests. The form sends your message to our inbox through our email provider. We use Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent automated submissions; Cloudflare processes verification information for that purpose. The contact form is separate from the affiliate sponsored program search and does not submit your message to a school.

Planning Tools and Browser Storage

The MSW cost and loan calculator, the program matcher, the advanced standing checker and the license pathway planner run entirely in your browser. The figures and answers you enter are not sent to us or stored on our servers; the page downloads the site's public program data and does the work on your device.

The site uses your browser's session storage for two small conveniences: the programs you add to the comparison tray, and whether you closed the sticky program search bar. That information stays in your browser, isn't sent to us, and is cleared when you close the tab or clear your browsing data.

Sponsored Program Search Forms Are Provided by Affiliate Partners

Some pages include an optional school-matching form supplied by an affiliate partner. Your ZIP code and any information you enter into that experience are collected by the form provider, not by the editorial school listings on this site. Before submitting, read the privacy, consent, and partner language shown with the form. The schools or service providers named there may contact you under the choices you make in that experience.

You can use our public guides without submitting the form. Schools shown by the widget are participating partners and may differ from the schools covered in our independently researched guides.

Analytics, Cookies, and Similar Technology

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and use the site and to monitor site performance. Google Analytics may process information such as pages viewed, approximate location derived from an IP address, browser and device details, referral information, and interactions with the site. It may use cookies or similar technology for this purpose. We do not send the contents of the sponsored program search form to Google Analytics through our site.

Google processes analytics data under its own privacy policy. You can limit cookies in your browser or use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The site infrastructure and embedded sponsored program search may also use technology needed for delivery, security, fraud prevention, or their own operations.

When Information May Be Shared

Technical data may be processed by providers that host, secure, or operate the site. Contact messages are delivered through our email provider to the people who handle site inquiries. Information entered in the sponsored program search may be shared by the form provider as described in the notices shown in that form. We may also preserve or disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights and safety, or investigate abuse.

Retention and Security

Infrastructure records and contact messages are retained only as long as reasonably needed for correspondence, delivery, security, troubleshooting, and legal obligations. Third-party services set their own retention periods. No online service can promise perfect security, but we use established hosting and access controls appropriate to this site.

Your Choices and Requests

You may avoid the sponsored program search and still use the rest of the site. Browser settings can limit cookies, although doing so may affect third-party tools. Because privacy rights vary by location, you may ask what information we control, request correction or deletion where applicable, or raise a privacy concern through our contact form. To protect you, we may need to verify a request before acting on it.

We do not currently change site behavior in response to a browser's Do Not Track signal. Where a legally recognized opt-out signal applies to our practices, we will honor it as required.

Children's Privacy

This site is intended for people researching education and careers, not for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the editorial site.

Updates

We will post changes here and update the effective date. Material changes to how we handle information will be described before or when they take effect, as required.