Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Updated: September 6, 2022

1 Introduction

1.1 This Privacy Policy (hereinafter: “Policy”) of listscholarships.com. listscholarships.com can be reached via our [email protected].

1.2 listscholarships.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Policy describes what
we do with
your data and applies to all information that identifies you or may be used to identify you
with (“Personal data”) by listscholarships.com, such as but not limited to processing via the
listscholarships.com websites (hereinafter: “Websites”). The Websites are intended for
general
audiences over the age of 16 years old. We do not knowingly collect information from children under
the age of 16 years old.

1.3 If you are not at least 16 years old (or 13 years old in the United States), please
do not use the Websites. Our Services are not intended for use by children under the this ages.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under mentioned age without
verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any
information from or about a child under the age, please contact via
our [email protected].

1.4 This Privacy Policy is provided in English. Translations to certain other languages
may be available and can be requested by contacting us [email protected].

1.5 For ease of reference, each section of this privacy policy is set out below:

  • Introduction
  • Processing of Personal data
  • Purposes of the processing
  • Legal basis of the processing
  • Recipients of your Personal data
  • Retention of your Personal data
  • Safeguarding your Personal data
  • Your rights
  • Amendments and questions

2 Processing of Personal data

2.1 listscholarships.com is a data controller under the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR).
This means that with regard to any Personal data referred to in this Policy, listscholarships.com determines
the
purpose for which we process this data and we determine the means necessary for the processing of this
data.
As a data controller, we process the data set out in this section. listscholarships.com does not engage in
automated decision-making.

Data collected directly from you

2.2 When you access our Websites, we may (automatically) collect
the following information about you and/or your device:

  • Your anonymous IP address;
  • Your (mobile) device identifier;
  • Information about your settings, such as language settings, browser information (user agent)
    and/or operating system;
  • Query-string;
  • Your Website preferences;
  • Your location and time zone.

Data you may provide to us

2.3 Access to the Websites, their content and any web search results generated by using
the Websites in general do not require you to submit Personal data to us other than the information
listed above. Under certain circumstances, you may wish to provide us with more information about
yourself, for example in relation to any enquiry you may want to make with us via
our [email protected].
When you are reaching out to us, we may process the following information about you:

  • Your name;
  • Your company name;
  • Your email address;
  • Any other Personal data you provide us with.

For our website listscholarships.com we use Google reCAPTCHA before you can fill in our Contact Form. It is
a system to find out if the website visitor is a human and not a bot and helps us to protect
our contact form from cyber spam and abuse. You acknowledge and understand that the reCAPTCHA API
collects the following information:

  • All cookies that Google has placed on the user's system in the last 6 months
  • How many mouse clicks the user made in the browser window (or tapped if it is a touch device)
  • The scrolling behavior of the user
  • The webpage's CSS
  • The user's system date and time
  • The user's IP address
  • Whether the user is currently logged in to their Google account
  • The user's browser language setting
  • All add-ons installed in the user's browser
  • All Javascript objects
  • The speed with which the user fills out the form

and sending this data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of
the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes.
It will not be used for personalised advertising by Google.
You can find further details via this link https://support.google.com/recaptcha/?hl=en.

2.4 If you choose to provide us with any additional Personal data, we recommend that
you
limit the provision of such data to the absolute minimum, and we discourage you from providing us with
any
sensitive Personal data, such as data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious
or
philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic or biometric data or data about your sex life or
sexual orientation.

Data collected via our partners

2.5 Third parties may be able to process data related to you through our websites in
order to provide us with certain products and services. Such third parties may use technologies such as
cookies, ad tags or ad beacons to collect information about your interaction with any products and
services (such as advertisements) they offer through the Website.

We use advertisement from partners (from Google and Microsoft Bing and Yahoo). Because we have set off
ad
personalization, they will not collect or use your information to create an ad profile. You will still
see
ads, but are not personalized. Ads are only be based on the topic of the website you're looking at, your
current search terms, or on your general location, but not on your interests, search history, or
browsing history. Your information can still be used for measure the effectiveness of advertising and
protect against fraud and abuse.
Please note: listscholarships.com is not responsible for tracking cookies which you have previously accepted
while
visiting third-party websites. These third parties are data controllers and must inform you.

For more information about Google's privacy policy, please
visit Google
Privacy Policy.

2.6 Third-parties who provide us with products and services may also place cookies, ad
tags
and/or beacons that collect the information outlined above in order to provide us with products and
services
including analytics tools allowing us to analyze the performance of our Services and advertisers and
ad networks allowing the delivery of ads. These third parties may also collect information about you
from
other sources and combine it with other information collected about you from third party websites not
affiliated with us.
The IP is stored, as well as location (country), browser data and what results were shown
(such as ads and organic results). Also, certain information is passed on to third parties
(such as IP address, ads shown and ads clicked on) to make our service possible
(showing results, both ads and organic results).

User behavior is never tracked to match organic results or ads to the visitor's profile.
Organic results and ads are only shown based on the visitor's search query. For all websites,
the personalized ads option is disabled. The necessary cookies are essential to operate our websites
and provide our services by helping us provide basic functionality such as loading and rendering pages
on the websites and enabling your navigation around the websites and use of certain features. They are
also
used to identify and prevent fraud and improve security.

3 Purposes of the processing

3.1 Primary purposes for which we process your Personal data are to offer you the best
services
possible,
to optimize our Websites and services and to ensure continuity thereof. More specifically,
your Personal data can be used for the following purposes:

  • To provide our services: we may need certain information about you in order to be able to
    provide our
    services.
    Data is used to properly perform our services and to improve our services.
    User behavior is never tracked to match organic results or ads to the visitor's profile. Organic
    results and
    ads are only shown based on the visitor's search query. For all websites, the personalized ads
    option is
    disabled. We use data because they:

    • are essential to operate our websites (they allow us to show you search results and
      advertisements
      that match your search query)
    • used to identify and prevent fraud and improve security.
  • To improve our services: our Websites and services are constantly evolving, and we are
    constantly
    working on improving your user experience and adding new functionality to our Websites.
  • To secure our services: in order to be able to provide your with the best user experience
    possible,
    it is necessary to keep out hackers, automated bots or other threats. We are therefore
    constantly
    monitoring our services and the use of our services.
  • To communicate with you: when you contact us, we process your contact details such as
    your name
    and email address and any other Personal data you may provide to us in order to be able
    adequately
    revert to you on your enquiry.
  • To exercise and safeguard our rights: we may need to exercise our legal rights in case
    you
    infringe our intellectual property, engage in fraudulent acts or act in violation of this Policy
    or our terms of service.
  • To compensate our partners: as we show and run advertisements, certain Personal data may
    be
    needed in order to calculate the compensation to be paid to or received by or from our partners.
  • To comply with a legal obligation: we may be required by law or by a court order to
    process
    (and/or transfer) certain Personal data.

4 Legal basis of the processing

4.1 We process your Personal data on the following legal basis:

  • Execution of a contract with you: most processing activities are carried out in order to
    provide
    you with our services.

  • Our legitimate interests: your Personal data may be processed by us based on our
    legitimate
    interest, such as our commercial interests. This may be the case with, among others,
    compensation of
    our partners. listscholarships.com's websites are search engines for different types of
    visitors from all over the
    world.
    After you submit a search query, the most relevant content and ads will be displayed.
    Information is collected for functional purposes only. Data is only used to properly
    perform our
    services
    and to improve our services. The IP is stored, as well as location (country), browser
    data and what
    results were shown (such as ads and organic results). Also, certain information is
    passed on to third
    parties (such as IP address, ads shown and ads clicked on) to make our service possible
    (showing
    results, both ads and organic results and payment of fees).

    User behavior is never tracked to match organic results or ads to the visitor's profile.
    Organic results
    and ads are only shown based on the visitor's search query. For all websites, the
    personalized ads
    option is turned off. We use data because they:

    • are essential to operate our websites (they allow us to show you search results and
      advertisements
      that match your search query);
    • used to identify and prevent fraud and improve security.
  • Your consent: should certain processing activities not be related to our contract with
    you, or
    our legitimate interest, then we may process your Personal data on the basis of your consent.

5 Recipients of your Personal data

5.1 listscholarships.com may transfer your Personal data to the following categories of
recipients:

  • Suppliers: when such is necessary to enable the use Websites and services, we may
    transfer your
    Personal data to suppliers, subcontractors and business partners, such as our hosting provider
    that hosts
    the Websites, the provider of our job application platform, partners that help us to improve the
    user-experience of our services and providers of IT support, data backup, recovery service and
    office software.
  • Group companies: we may provide Personal data to other companies within the listscholarships.com group of
    companies, if this is necessary for compliance, internal reporting, auditing or security
    purposes.
  • Professional service providers: Our accountant, legal advisers and other professional
    service
    providers engaged by us for compliance reasons;
  • Advertisement partners: Information on your Website visit may be provided to
    advertisement
    partners in order to serve you with (relevant) advertisements on our Websites and elsewhere, and
    to
    measure effectiveness of advertisements. Ads are only be based on the topic of the website
    you're
    looking at, your current search terms, or on your general location, but not on your interests,
    search history, or browsing history.
  • Law enforcement agencies: we may be under an obligation to provide your information to
    law
    enforcement, regulators, courts or other public authorities in relation to an official (court)
    order. In
    addition we may provide your data to law enforcement agencies, regulators, courts or otherwise
    in order
    to exercise our rights.
  • Fraud prevention: we may engage third parties when we believe disclosure is necessary to
    investigate, prevent, or respond to suspected illegal or fraudulent activity or to protect the
    safety,
    rights, or property of us, our users, or others.
  • Third parties: we may transfer data to third parties acquiring or merging with listscholarships.com, or
    purchasing part or all of our assets, or in case of a corporate restructuring.

5.2 The third parties receiving or accessing your Personal data might be located
outside
the European Economic Area (EEA). When transferring data for which we are responsible to countries
outside
of the EEA (so-called ‘third countries’), we ensure ‘appropriate safeguards’. More specifically, we
contractually bind recipients of Personal data to protect your data using
the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC’s) as approved by the European Commission. We will assess in
advance
(where necessary, with the help of the recipients in third countries) on a case-by-case basis if the law
or practice of the third country diminishes the effectiveness of the SCC’s. In those cases, we will
implement
supplementary measures that fill the gaps in the protection and bring it up to the level required by EU
law.

6 Retention of your Personal data

6.1 We retain your Personal data for as long as necessary in order to fulfil the
associated
purpose as set out above.
For spam detection and statistic purposes we retain data for 7 days. We retain conversion data for 30
days.
After that, we can only retain your Personal data if this is required or necessary in order to comply
with
applicable law or in order to be able satisfy any legal, reporting or audit requirements. Where possible
we
anonymize or pseudo-anonymize your Personal data or retain it in an aggregated form only.

7 Securing your Personal data

7.1 We highly value the secure processing of your Personal data. Therefore, we may
implements
security measures, such as but not limited to, as appropriate:

  • The pseudonymisation and encryption of Personal Data;
  • The ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of
    processing
    systems and services;
  • The ability to restore the availability and access to Personal Data in a timely manner in the
    event of
    a physical or technical incident; and
  • A process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and
    organisational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

8 Your rights

8.1 You are provided with the following rights:

  • Objection: Under certain conditions you have the right to object to the
    processing of
    your Personal data and the conditions under which this processing takes place.
  • Access: You have the right to request from us, without constraint, at
    reasonable intervals
    and without excessive delay or expense, i) a confirmation as to whether or not Personal
    data
    regarding you is being processed, ii) information on the purposes for which Personal
    data is
    processed, iii) the categories of Personal data concerned, and iv) the
    recipients
    or categories of recipients to whom the Personal data is disclosed. You have the right to
    receive,
    in an intelligible form, a communication of the Personal data being processed and of any
    available
    information as to the source(s). Furthermore, you have the right to knowledge of the underlying
    logic
    of the automated processing of Personal data relating to you.
  • Rectification, restriction, erasure, blocking or deletion: Under certain
    conditions you
    have the right to rectification, restriction, erasure, blocking or deletion of your Personal
    data that is
    not processed in compliance with data protection laws and regulations, in particular when the
    nature of
    the data is incomplete or inaccurate.
  • Data portability: Under certain conditions you have the right to receive your
    Personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format to transfer those data.
  • Withdraw consent: where we are processing Personal data relating to you on the
    basis
    of your prior consent to that processing, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Complaint with relevant authority. You have the right to file a complaint with
    the relevant data protection authorities.

8.2 You may exercise these rights by contacting us via our
[email protected], click the "Contact Us" button and then
fill out the form.

8.3 In order to fulfil your possible requests pursuant to the rights as stated above,
we may
request specific additional information from you to identify you with or we may ask you for information
to
identify you with. We only collect and process such specific data with the purpose of executing your
above
stated rights insofar this is requested by you.

9 Amendments and questions

9.1 listscholarships.com may amend this Policy at any time. In case the Policy is amended,
the amended
Policy will be made available to you through publication of the amended Policy on
the Website.

9.2 Should you have any questions after reading this Policy, or would want to exercise
any
right as stated in this Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us via
the [email protected].