This Privacy Policy explains how Scholarmake collects, uses and protects personal information when you visit https://scholarmake.com, contact us or interact with our content.
Scholarmake is an independent information website owned and managed by Samuel Agbaraji. For the personal information described in this policy, Scholarmake acts as the data controller.
Information You Provide
We may collect personal information when you choose to:
- Contact us by email
- Submit a comment
- Report an error or broken link
- Send a business enquiry
- Communicate with us in another way
The information may include your name, email address, message and any other details you decide to provide.
Comments submitted for publication may appear publicly with the name you provide. Your email address will not normally appear with a published comment.
Please do not send passwords, bank details, passport copies or other sensitive personal documents through comments or general email enquiries.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Scholarmake, our website, hosting provider and service providers may collect technical information such as:
- Your IP address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Date and time of access
- Pages viewed
- Referring website
- General interaction with the website
- Cookie and consent preferences
- Information needed to detect spam, misuse or security threats
Some of this information may count as personal data even when it does not directly reveal your name.
How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Respond to questions and enquiries
- Review reported errors
- Manage and display comments
- Improve website content and performance
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Remember cookie preferences
- Prevent spam, fraud and misuse
- Maintain website security
- Meet legal or regulatory responsibilities
- Manage advertising where it is enabled
We do not sell or rent personal information.
Our Lawful Reasons for Using Information
Where UK data protection law applies, we must have a lawful reason for using personal information.
We may rely on:
- Consent when you accept optional analytics or advertising cookies
- Legitimate interests when we respond to enquiries, manage comments, improve the website or protect it from misuse
- Legal obligations when the law requires us to keep, use or disclose information
- Steps taken at your request when you contact us about a genuine business proposal or service related matter
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it through the cookie preference tool or by contacting us.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. Similar technologies may also store or access information on your device.
Scholarmake may use:
- Necessary cookies required for security and basic website functions
- Preference cookies that remember your choices
- Analytics cookies that help us understand website use
- Advertising cookies used to deliver and measure advertisements
Necessary cookies may operate without consent where the law allows. Where consent is required, we ask for it through the cookie preference tool before using optional analytics or advertising cookies.
You can accept, reject or customise optional cookies through the cookie notice displayed on the website. You can return to the cookie settings to change your choice.
You may also block or delete cookies through your browser settings. However, blocking necessary cookies may affect some website functions.
Google Analytics
Scholarmake may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website.
Where Google Analytics is enabled, it may collect information about pages visited, time spent on the website, browser type, device type and general interaction with the website.
Where consent is required, we ask for it through the cookie preference tool before using optional Google Analytics cookies.
Google may process information on servers located outside the United Kingdom. You can read Google’s Privacy Policy for more information about how Google handles data.
Google AdSense and Advertising
Scholarmake may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense and other advertising partners.
Third party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve and measure advertisements. Google’s use of advertising cookies may allow Google and its partners to show advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to Scholarmake or other websites.
Depending on your location, consent choices and Google’s advertising settings, advertisements may be personalised or non personalised. Non personalised advertising may still use cookies for purposes such as frequency control, fraud prevention and aggregated reporting.
You can manage your Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
You can also read Google’s explanation of how it uses information from websites and apps.
Where consent is required, we ask for it through the website’s cookie preference tool before using optional advertising cookies.
Sharing Personal Information
We may share limited information with service providers that help us operate the website. These may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Security and spam prevention services
- Analytics providers
- Advertising partners
- Email and communication services
- Technical support providers
These providers may process information only for the services they provide or under their own published privacy terms.
We may also disclose information where required by law, to protect the website or its users, or to investigate fraud, misuse or security problems.
International Data Transfers
Some service providers, including Google, may process information outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area.
Where data protection law applies, these transfers should use recognised safeguards or another lawful transfer mechanism. The privacy policies of the relevant providers explain how they manage international transfers.
How Long We Keep Information
We keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected.
For example:
- Contact messages may be kept while we respond and manage necessary follow up
- Public comments may remain while the relevant article is published unless the comment is removed
- Technical logs may be kept for the period needed for security, maintenance or troubleshooting
- Cookie preferences may remain for the period shown by the consent tool
- Analytics and advertising information may be kept according to the settings and policies of the relevant provider
We may keep information for longer where the law requires it or where it is needed to resolve a dispute or protect legal rights.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location and circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Ask for a copy of your personal information
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Ask us to delete information
- Ask us to restrict how information is used
- Object to certain uses of your information
- Receive certain information in a portable format
- Withdraw consent where processing depends on consent
These rights do not apply in every situation. We may need to confirm your identity before responding to a request.
You also have the right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise your rights, contact us at info@scholarmake.com.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your information, you may complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
Third Party Links
Scholarmake contains links to universities, employers, government departments, scholarship providers and other external websites.
We do not control the privacy practices of those websites. Read the privacy policy of an external website before providing personal information.
Data Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure.
However, no website or method of online transmission can guarantee complete security.
Children’s Privacy
Scholarmake is not designed for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to the website, please contact us so we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, legal responsibilities or data practices change.
Any revised version will appear on this page with a new last updated date.
Contact Us
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise a data protection right, contact:
Email: info@scholarmake.com