Our Cookie Policy explains how scholarship.com and its partners use web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies“) when you visit this website. This statement explains what these technologies are, why, and how we manage them.
We recommend you to read this Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy, which clarify how and why we collect, store, and use collected personal data. Moreover, these policies outline your rights about your personal data too.
In short, if you visit scholarship.com you acknowledge that:
- We may set strictly necessary Cookies (described below) on your computer or other device to operate and administer this website;
- If you give permission, we may also set certain Cookies that are not strictly necessary; and
- Our partners such as GOOGLE also may collect data using cookies.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information (text files) that a website places and stores on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or any other device that can access the Internet when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to:
- Recognize your browser;
- Store user preferences;
- Remember login details and other information;
- To collect statistics on users’ use of a website;
- Ensure that certain graphic elements are correctly displayed; and
- The website functions properly.
Types of Cookies
Cookies remain on your computer or other devices for various periods. Based on the length of time that cookies are stored in your computer or mobile, there are:
- Session Cookies – meaning that they are stored temporarily on your computer, tablet, or mobile while your browser is open. They are deleted instantly from your computer or mobile once you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies – meaning that they remain on your computer or other device after you close your browser. They can be used by websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
Cookies based on who places are:
- First-party: Cookies set by the website owner are called “first-party Cookies”. These Cookies are used to safeguard the website and store personal information such as login details; and
- Third-party: Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called third-party Cookies. These Cookies enable another website’s features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising and analytics). Third-party Cookies can recognize your computer both when you visit the website and when you visit certain other websites.
What does scholarshipjh.com use Cookies for?
We use first-party and third-party Cookies for multiple reasons. Some Cookies are required for technical reasons for our Website to operate, and we call them “essential” or “strictly necessary” Cookies. Other Cookies assist us in providing our visitors with a better service, such as by collecting your experience information.
Cookies allow:
- you to browse and view our Website, adapt the content or display of our services to your device to improve your navigation experience, and help us optimize our Website;
- to store information relating to your account and a form already filled relating to products, services, or information about our services (e.g. contents consulted, etc.);
- to customize our content and advertising according to your interests;
- to collect statistics and audience measurements on the use of our Website;
- to fulfill our legal obligations regarding the personal data of users of our services.
The types of Cookies used on the Website are described in more detail below.
What types of Cookies do we use?
This website uses various types of Cookies as listed below
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are necessary to ensure that our website is working properly and we can provide you with better services. They are set in response to your actions, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. Because these Cookies are necessary for the functionality of our Website, you cannot turn them off. However, you can set your browser to block or alert you about these Cookies, but that will limit our website’s functionality.
- Functionality Cookies: Functionality Cookies allow our Website to remember the user’s preferences and choices such as username, region, and language. These cookies can include first-party, third-party, persistent, or session cookies. Functionality cookies allow our website to provide personalized features. They are anonymous and do not track browsing activity across other websites.
- Performance/Analytics Cookies: These Cookies help us to analyze how the Website is accessed, used, or is performing to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate, and continually improve the Website. Generally, these Cookies allow us to understand our Website visitors’ experience, collect information about Website visitors such as their browser type and location, determine the number of unique users of the Website; recognize errors that occur; and conduct research and diagnostics to improve services.
- Marketing Cookies: These Cookies allow us to promote our content on third-party websites and measure the effectiveness of our marketing initiatives. We adhere to industry-accepted practices concerning our use of marketing Cookies.
How to manage or delete cookies
Cookie Preference Center: You can accept or reject Cookies except for strictly necessary Cookies. You can exercise your Cookie preferences by clicking on the “Cookies Settings” on our cookie banner.
Browser Controls: You can delete Cookies that have already been set and not accept new Cookies. To learn how to do this, visit the help pages of your browser, or search on search engines.
Note that if you delete Cookies or do not accept them, we might not be able to serve you as you/we expect.
Other tracking technologies
Beacon and pixel tags are other technologies that assist us in recognizing or tracking visitors to a website. These are tiny graphics files containing a unique identifier permitting us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites and track the online user’s movement. These tiny graphics files help us in the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. In contrast to cookies, stored on a user’s computer, pixels are embedded on Website pages. Often, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Third-Party Website Cookies
When using our Website, you may be directed to other websites (“Third Party Sites“. They may use their cookies or similar technologies. We do not have control over their cookies or other technologies that you visit, even if you are directed to them from our Website. If you share your information with Third Party Sites, your information will be governed by the specific privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms and conditions of the Third Party Sites and not sholarshipjh.com’s Cookie Policy.
Cookie Policy Updates
This Cookies Policy may change when new Cookies are used, or existing Cookies removed. If necessary, we will inform you when you next visit the Website.
We may also update this Cookie Policy if we change our Cookie usage policy. based on our
Finally, we encourage you to check back here to keep up-to-date with the latest version of this Cookie Policy.