Last Updated: October 2026. This Privacy Policy details how ScholarshipPark ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, protects, and discloses personal information obtained from visitors and registered users of https://scholarshippark.com.
1. Our Foundational Privacy Promise
ScholarshipPark is designed to empower students worldwide with transparent access to educational funding. We believe your academic aspirations, demographic background, and personal identity are strictly confidential. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information or contact details to third-party commercial data brokers.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with our website, we collect the following categories of information:
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
Account Registration: When you sign up, we collect your email address, display name, and authentication credentials.
Profile & Eligibility Criteria: If you use our matching engine, you may choose to input your target country, degree level, field of study, and nationality to filter relevant grants.
Bookmarked / Saved Grants: Opportunities you bookmark are tied to your account to provide synchronized access.
Inquiries & Support: When you contact [email protected], we retain your message history to assist you.
B. Automatically Collected Technical Data
Device & Network Information: IP address (anonymized for geographic region detection), browser type, operating system, and referral headers.
Usage Metrics: Pages visited, searches performed, and outbound university links clicked to help us identify broken portals and popular disciplines.
3. Cookies & Local Storage
We use lightweight, essential cookies and browser local storage mechanisms for:
Session Authentication: Remembering your logged-in state across navigation.
Display Preferences: Preserving your preferred color theme (Light vs Dark Mode) and chosen currency (e.g., USD, EUR, KES, INR, GBP).
Performance & Security: Mitigating DDoS attacks, cross-site request forgery, and server abuse via Cloudflare security tokens.
You can instruct your browser to refuse cookies; however, authentication and theme preference persistence may be impaired.
4. Your Legal Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
Regardless of your jurisdiction, ScholarshipPark grants all users the following fundamental privacy rights:
Right of Access: You may request a complete copy of all personal data we hold associated with your email address.
Right to Rectification: You may update or correct inaccurate profile details at any time via your dashboard or by emailing us.
Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten"): You may request immediate and permanent deletion of your account, saved scholarships, and data logs.
Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is predicated on your consent, you may withdraw it without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
To exercise any of these statutory rights, please send an email from your registered account to [email protected] with the subject line "Privacy Rights Request". We process verified requests within 30 calendar days at zero cost.
5. Outbound Links to Universities and Official Portals
ScholarshipPark contains thousands of direct links to external university websites, government education portals, and grant systems. We have no authority over external websites. We encourage you to inspect the individual privacy policies of any institution before uploading academic transcripts, passport scans, or recommendation letters.
6. Data Protection Officer Contact
For any questions regarding our data privacy architecture, security controls, or regulatory inquiries, contact our Data Protection Officer at: