Data Uses and Your Choices

We use the information we collect for many purposes, including, but not limited to, those listed below. (See Special Notes for GMAT® Test Takers and Special Notes for Survey Participants.)

• Allow you to create and update a My mba.com profile and manage your data and preferences through this profile as well as through GMAC Customer Service or GMAT Customer Service (for test takers) 
• Provide the services you request from mba.com, such as saving searches of graduate business school programs, downloading software, and purchasing products and services using the mba.com store
• Register you for the GMAT test, as well as allow you to reschedule or cancel test appointments, order additional score reports, and view past and future test appointments
• Contact you concerning MBA programs and services, if you opt in
• Contact you regarding participation in surveys
• Authenticate and verify the identity of test takers including comparing certain data collected at the test centers against those of previous test takers. See Special Notes for GMAT Test Takers for additional information
• Maintain the integrity and quality of our products and services, customize site content to meet your specific needs, and make technical improvements to mba.com
• Allow you to opt into additional programs and services offered by GMAC, such as the Graduate Management Admission Search Service® service. Through GMASS, certain contact and background information, and your GMAT score range (if available), may be shared with schools, scholarship-granting organizations, and other GMAC strategic partners to directly offer you relevant information and services.  (For a partial list of institutions that subscribe to the GMASS search service, click here.)

GMAC does not sell, rent, or share your personal information to third parties for promotional or other purposes unless you have opted into communications from such third parties

As an mba.com website registrant you may access your Mymba.com profile at any time to modify your personal information. You are responsible for the accuracy of any information you provide on this site and for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information through keeping your user ID and password secure.

You may manage your opt-in preferences related to receiving information about or participating in programs and services offered by GMAC through your My mba.com profile, GMAC Customer Service, or GMAT Customer Service (for test takers). You may elect to receive the following:

• Contact from schools, scholarship-granting organizations, and other strategic partners through opting into the GMASS search service
• Financial aid information
• Information about recruiting events
• Information about preparing to enroll in an MBA program
• GMAT preparation and other test-related information
• News and information about mba.com and GMAC

If you no longer desire to use mba.com, you may request to have your My mba.com profile deactivated using the contact information provided below, or by contacting GMAC Customer Service. Inactive accounts will be subject to appropriate retention and archiving procedures to support the Council’s business needs and legal and integrity requirements.

When you register for the GMAT test, you will be required to agree to the terms and conditions stated in the GMAT Information Bulletin, which include testing policies and rules, restrictions around test records and score data, and descriptions of the use and disclosure of such information and your personal information. Please review Special Notes for GMAT Test Takers regarding access, modification, rectification, data integrity, and retention of GMAT test taker information.

(See Special Notes for mba.com Users and Registrants and Special Notes for Survey Participants for further information on mba.com users and registrants and survey participants respectively.)