Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy documents the information that Thomas Edison State University collects for internal use for operating our sites, providing personalized content, and performing analytics and advertising activities. The information we collect is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Our postal address is:

111 W. State St.
Trenton, NJ 08608

We may also be reached via email at info@tesu.edu or by telephone at 609-777-5680.

The University generally collects information via two ways, (1) when you voluntarily provide it to us and (2) automatically when you visit or use our sites.

For each visitor to our webpage, we collect only the domain name, but not the email address of visitors, and aggregate information on what pages visitors access or visit. With respect to cookies and other technologies: The University websites, Google Analytics and selected third-party online advertising networks store small fragments of text, called “cookies,” in a visitor’s web browsers with limited information such as how the visitor was directed to the websites, which advertisement was displayed to the visitor, whether the visitor has submitted a form or how recently the visitor last accessed University websites.

Thomas Edison State University uses these cookies to measure the performance of University websites and advertising, to provide interest-based advertising messages and to inform development of new content, functionality or services. Please review your internet browser’s help file for instructions on rejecting or deleting cookies.

We also use cookies to store a visitor’s preferences, record session information, such as information requests, online course registrations, tuition payments and other student services.

The University partners with third parties to display advertising on other websites and to measure performance of that advertising on other sites. The information collected is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.

  • Third-party vendors may show University advertising on sites across the internet.
  • The University uses remarketing with Google Analytics to display online advertising.
  • The University uses remarketing with third-party social networks to display online advertising.
  • The University and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party and third-party cookies to inform, optimize and serve advertisements based on a visitor’s past visits to University websites.
  • The University and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to report how the University’s ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to University websites.
  • The University uses data from Google’s interest-based advertising or third-party audience data (such as age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics to report, optimize and deliver interest-based advertisements.

Prospective students who supply us with their email addresses online may receive email contact from us with information regarding the University’s programs and course delivery methods. If you do not wish to receive such emails, please let us know by contacting us by email, phone or postal mail at the contact information above. Alternately, prospective students may opt out of email communications by completing this form: Admissions - Unsubscribe - Google Forms.

Prospective students who supply us with their telephone numbers online may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding the University’s programs and course delivery methods. If you do not wish to receive such telephone calls or text messages, please let us know by contacting us by email, phone or postal mail at the contact information above. Alternately, prospective students may opt out of text communications by replying STOP to a Thomas Edison text message.

If you are a prospective student and supply us with your postal address online, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information about the University, its programs and course delivery methods. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by contacting us by email, phone or postal mail at the contact information above.

Thomas Edison State University does not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies nor does Thomas Edison partner with any online program management (OPM) organizations for recruitment or enrollment services.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change in the future, the policy changes will be posted to our website to notify you of these changes.

If you are concerned about how your information is used, please check back to our websites periodically or reach us at the contact information above.

With respect to security: Thomas Edison State University always uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our sites. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information, such as financial or health information, we redirect users to a secure server. Thomas Edison State University utilizes current security technologies within our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our sites.

GDPR Policy

If you are visiting our websites or providing personal information to us from outside the United States, be aware that your personal data may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our operations are located. Your personal data will be stored in accordance with requirements applicable to TESU as a public institution of higher education in the state of New Jersey and other applicable United States federal laws. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred, as necessary, to our facilities in New Jersey and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy. Please review TESU’s Privacy Policy above to see how TESU uses personal data, or if you have questions or requests related to the General Data Protection Regulation.