Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect:

• Information you provide: Your name, email address, and the contents of messages or enquiries you send us.
• Subscription information: Your email address and any preferences you choose when signing up for scholarship alerts or newsletters, where offered.
• Technical information: Your IP address, browser type, device information, referring page, pages visited, and access times, where recorded by our hosting or website services.
• Cookie information: Identifiers and preferences collected through the cookies and similar technologies described below.

Please do not send passports, bank details, academic records, or other sensitive documents through general enquiries unless we specifically request them through an appropriate process.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use relevant information to respond to enquiries, deliver updates you request, maintain website functionality, understand how visitors use our content, and detect spam, misuse, or security problems. We may also use information where necessary to meet legal obligations.

Providing information for optional features is voluntary. If you do not provide a required email address or enquiry detail, we may be unable to deliver the requested update or respond to your request.

To be confirmed: Insert the applicable legal basis for each processing purpose where required by the laws that apply to HQ Scholary, including any legitimate interests relied upon.

3. Cookies, Analytics and Advertising

Cookies are small files stored on your device. Websites use them to support functionality, remember preferences, understand traffic, and, where applicable, deliver or measure advertising.

To be confirmed: List the cookies and similar technologies actually used by HQ Scholary, including providers, purposes, data collected, and durations. Identify any analytics or advertising partners and link to their privacy information. If none are used, replace this section with an accurate statement.

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect website features. Where applicable, you can also manage optional cookies through [insert the actual cookie settings link or control]. Where consent is required, optional technologies are used only after you make that choice.

4. When Information Is Shared

We may share relevant information with service providers that support our website, such as hosting, security, and email delivery providers, to the extent needed for those services. We may also disclose information where legally required or necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

To be confirmed: Confirm the actual recipient categories, identify analytics or advertising disclosures, and state accurately whether personal information is sold or shared for targeted advertising under applicable definitions.

5. Scholarship Providers and External Websites

HQ Scholary may link to universities, scholarship providers, application portals, and other external websites. When you follow an external link or submit an application on another website, that organisation handles your information under its own privacy policy.

Read the relevant provider’s privacy notice before submitting personal information or supporting documents. This policy covers HQ Scholary’s information handling and does not describe the independent practices of those organisations.

6. Email Updates

Where newsletter or scholarship subscriptions are available, you can stop receiving promotional updates using the unsubscribe option in those emails or by contacting us. Withdrawing from marketing does not prevent us from responding to a request you submit or sending essential service communications where relevant.

7. Retention and Security

We retain personal information for the purposes described in this policy, taking account of the time needed to respond to enquiries, deliver requested services, resolve disputes, and meet applicable legal requirements.

To be confirmed: Specify actual retention periods or meaningful criteria for enquiries, subscription records, technical logs, and backups.

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information. However, no online transmission or storage system can guarantee complete security.

8. International Processing

To be confirmed: Identify whether information is processed outside the visitor’s country, the relevant countries or locations, and any applicable transfer safeguards. Explain how users can obtain further information about those safeguards. Remove this section only if it does not apply.

9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access your personal information, correct inaccuracies, request deletion, restrict or object to certain processing, or receive a portable copy of your information.

Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal. You may also have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority.

Contact us using the details below to make a request. We may need proportionate information to verify your identity before responding. Some rights are subject to legal exceptions.

10. Children and Young Visitors

To be confirmed: State the website’s actual minimum age, whether services collect information from minors, and the parental consent or other safeguards used where required.

If you believe a child has provided personal information contrary to this policy or applicable requirements, please contact us so we can investigate and take appropriate action.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes in our services, information handling, or applicable requirements. The latest version will appear on this page with an updated date. Where required, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent for relevant changes.

12. Contact Us

For privacy questions or requests concerning your personal information, contact:

HQScholary Limited
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://hqscholary.com/