Last Updated: February 14, 2024
At Global Scholarships (https://globalscholarships.com) (“us”, “we”, “our” or the “Company”), we highly value your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your information. When you use our website and its services, you consent to share this information with us. This information may include personal information relating to you. The term “Personal Data” used in this Policy refers to information such as your name, age, email address, and any other data relating to you as a person.
If you have any questions regarding the use of your Personal Data, please don’t hesitate to contact us at admin@globalscholarships.com. We will gladly assist you.
Scope of this Policy
This Policy applies to Global Scholarships’ websites, domains, and services.
In this Policy, we discussed the basis of why we collect information and how we use them. It also explains how we collect, process, and disclose your information. Through this Policy, you’ll have more knowledge on how you can protect or control your Personal Data.
We also connect to third-party websites or services. Please be reminded that the information shared with third-party websites is not covered in this Policy. Hence, your information will be protected with the third-party websites’ Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
To give you a more enhanced experience while using the website, we collect different types of information about you. In this section, we categorized the 2 types of information we collect from you.
Technical Information
When you use or visit our website, we automatically record some technical information about you. With the help of this data, we are able to track your preferences, and activities on the website.
- Web Server Log Information
We automatically collect your device’s IP address when you visit our website. Our servers record your device’s information and activities on the website. It involves the collection of dates, locations, duration, and the source of your access to our website. Also, we track the web pages you’ve visited and other activities inside the website.
- Cookies Information and Similar Technologies
When you visit our website, we send cookies – small text files that a website stores on your computer. Through cookies, we can record some of your activities on the website and we can also save your preferences.
- Third-Party Ad Monetization
We use third-party agencies to provide monetization technologies for our site. You can review their privacy and cookie policy on Snigel’s privacy policy page.
You can change your privacy settings for third-party ad monetization by clicking the following button:
Personal Data
Aside from technical information, we may collect Personal Data about you. Please note that we need your permission before getting this data from you.
If you want to receive information from us, you will need to share your Personal Data. For example, we send an email newsletter every day, and if you want to receive them, you need to provide your name and email address.
On the other hand, if you plan to contact us, we will be receiving your name, contact number, email address, or other educational information.
Use and Processing of Information
As we aim to provide the best resource for international students, we are committed to showing you content that’s updated and relevant to you. By providing technical and personal data, we can do the following:
To provide more personalized content
To help you achieve your academic goals, we use your Personal Data to give recommendations, or suggestions when you’re looking for courses, universities, or scholarships. We also use geolocation to provide you with the nearest options for your studies.
To send email newsletters
To keep you updated with the scholarships, universities and other educational content, we send an email newsletter. By providing your email address, we are able to send these daily newsletters.
To communicate with you
When you reply to our posts, send queries or other forms of contacting us, we are able to reply and answer you.
To improve our website
As we move towards our goal of being the best resource for international students, we strive to improve our website. Through your activities on the website, we can measure the quality of our posts, pages, and content. In that way, we are able to develop features, and services that are useful for international students.
Please be reminded that we don’t collect information from children under the age of 13 years old. If you think that your child has subscribed to one of our email newsletters and campaigns, please contact us to help your child unsubscribe from our newsletter.
Disclosure of Information
We work closely with our partner universities and organizations. You can submit your personal details such as name, email addresses, phone number, interested degree and programs through an electronic form to our partner universities and organization. Once you submitted that information and agreed for us to send that information to our partner universities and organizations, your information will be submitted directly to our partner institutions and organization. Once the data is submitted, your data is processed by the individual universities and organizations by their privacy policy. We cannot be held responsible on how they process your data.
Security, Retention, and Deletion of Data
Your privacy is important to us and we highly value your Personal Data. As we strive to protect your confidentiality, we take various measures to ensure personal information are safely stored on our servers.
We store your information for 48 months after your last activity on our website. After that time period, we will consider deletion of your data.
If you wish to delete your Personal Data stored in our email database, you can unsubscribe to our email newsletter. Also if you wish, you can also contact us at admin@globalscholarships.com and we will assist you in deleting your data so that you can ensure that all your data has been deleted if you wish.
Knowing Your Rights
Depending on your citizenship and location, your rights are subject to national law and regulations.
In general, you have the right to request to access your Personal Data collected by Global Scholarships. This also includes the right to delete or edit your information stored on our website.
If you wish to exercise your rights including but not limited to, deletion of all your personal details, you can write us a letter, and send it to admin@globalscholarships.com.
Changes and Updates to this Policy
We update our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will post these changes. We will notify you of these changes through an announcement on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us. Global Scholarships Team will respond within 24 – 48 hours. You may contact us at admin@globalscholarships.com.