Data Sharing

GMAC has a number of key service providers that fulfill services on mba.com, for the GMAT program, and for surveys. Each of the following service providers is subject to our strict confidentiality requirements: 

• GMAT test registration, customer service, test administration at test centers worldwide, and official test score reporting vendors: Pearson VUE, a business of NCS Pearson, Inc. *
• Test development vendors that also provide certain scoring services: ACT, Inc. *
• Vendor for the mba.com store: The mba.com store is hosted by our e-commerce service provider, Digital River, Inc. If you purchase mba.com products or program materials, your information, including full name, address, phone number, email address, shopping cart data, and payment information, will be transmitted to or collected by Digital River, Inc. For customer service purposes, Digital River, Inc. will provide GMAC with your full name, address, email, and the items purchased. 
• Information technology (IT) vendors used to develop new and modify existing applications, store information, host our Web servers, and provide other IT development assistance.
• Survey vendors used to send survey invitations and collect survey responses

* With the exception of selected test takers who participated in the 2005 Limited Summer Test, GMAT Program related services for test takers prior to January 3, 2006, including GMAT test registration, customer service, test administration at test centers worldwide, official test score reporting, test development and scoring services, were provided by ETS and Prometric. These service providers continue to be subject to our strict confidentiality requirements.

GMAC has a number of key strategic partners that share our commitment to creating access to graduate management education. Each of the following GMAC strategic partners is subject to our strict confidentiality requirements:

• Schools that use the GMAT test, scholarship-granting organizations, and strategic partners: These include business schools and other organizations that have agreed to strict terms-of-use agreements concerning your personal information. They will only receive your information if you voluntarily opt in for the GMASS search service in your mba.com profile or after you complete the test at the test center. These organizations are required by GMAC to provide you with a chance to opt out in the event you decide you do not want to be contacted by them. (View a partial list of GMASS using institutions.) If you would like to obtain a list of participating GMAT using schools or scholarship granting organizations, or wish to report not being able to opt out, please contact webmaster@gmac.com.
• GMAT score recipients: Institutions that accept GMAT scores and that are selected by a test taker to receive his or her scores will receive the scores and certain personal data, including contact, background and demographic information including the digital photograph collected at the test center, if the institution has elected to receive the photograph.
• Financial Aid Information: If you consent to receiving financial aid information in your profile, we may share some of your personal information, including contact, background and demographic information with a financial aid provider who may contact you directly. 

GMAC may provide access to personal information as required by law, to comply with requirements in a judicial or other governmental proceeding (for example, a court order, warrant or subpoena), or in instances where we determine that it is necessary in order to detect or prevent fraud or other unlawful activity.