Privacy Policy

Personal Information

We care about your privacy. For this reason, we collect and use personal information only as needed to deliver our service and to communicate with you about the same, or as you have requested (collectively, our “Services”). Your personal information includes information such as:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Telephone number
  • Email address
  • Educational history
  • Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We collect the data shown in the Contact Us form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Profile

We collect the data shown in the Create an Account form.

If you decide to set up an account, we will ask you to create a login name and a password. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Scholarship application package

We collect the data shown in the Scholarship Application form; data from supporting documents, including your references, resumes/curriculum vitae; data from a person or company/organization authorized by you to submit an application on your behalf; and/or publicly-available sources.

Who we share your data with

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our Site is being used — you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Your comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

All Personal Information collected by the Foundation about scholarship applicants is used to review applications, and to administer and monitor awards, which are at the heart of the Foundation’s mission of facilitating the “getting to the next level of education”. Consistent with these purposes, you should also expect that information collected by the Foundation may come to be used and disclosed in the following activities:

  1. As part of the review process, applications are disclosed to the selection committee appointed by the Foundation. All participants in these review activities are advised of the Foundation’s expectations with regard to the confidentiality and protection of the information entrusted to them.
  2. Because the Foundation has a single database, staff are generally aware of applications submitted.
  3. For the purposes of adjudication and award administration, the selection committee is provided with multi-year summaries of an individual’s applications and awards.
  4. The Foundation routinely publishes and disseminates certain details about successful applications, including the name of the applicant, a biography, the amount awarded, the institution and department where they study, the field of research, and the project title of their research. The information will normally be published on the Foundation’s website.
  5. Files and databases containing personal information may also be used by the Foundation for planning, evaluation and review, and in audits, and for generating statistics for these
    activities.
  6. The Foundation collects data on gender, age groups, language, disciplines, the locations where candidates and award winners study, citizenship, and research. This data is not used in the adjudication process. It is used for statistical purposes and to improve the Foundation’s Services to award winners.
  7. The Foundation uses the information in its files and databases to generate mailing lists in order to
    disseminate its publications and other information to its community.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

How we secure, store and retain your data

We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate.

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate legal or programming purposes. These might include retention periods:

  • mandated by law, contract or similar obligations applicable to the Foundation operations;
  • for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or
  • needed to maintain adequate and accurate Foundation and financial records.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have submitted scholarship applications, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You have the rights to request the correction of your Personal Information. You can also request the erasure of any personal data we hold about you, but this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact Us

If you have any privacy-related questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our Services, you may contact our Privacy Officer by clicking here.

We will respond to all requests, inquiries, or concerns within three business (3) days.