Collecting and Using Your Personal Data:

You can browse our websites without providing any personal information. However, to use some of our enhanced functionality, we will sometimes ask for additional information in order to process your request.

Examples include:

• Providing your name, email address, and preferences to create an account to receive email newsletters and save your preferences.
• Providing your name, email, and contact details to request a prospectus or make an enquiry to an education provider.
• Providing your name, contact details, and education history to engage with offline education counselling services.

Details of why we collect each piece of information is displayed clearly next to the field used to enter the data.
A full list of the data collected by each website is available on the site-specific data collection notice.

We also collect some technical information while you use our websites, such as information on the type of browser you use and your IP address. This information is used to maintain and monitor the performance of our websites.

Cookies:

We use cookies on our websites to provide login and preferences functions, and to collect anonymized data on user interactions. For example, we use cookies to:

• Keep you logged into the website.
• Understand and save your user preferences for a future personalized experience and to deliver the type of content and products in which you are most interested.
• Compile anonymized data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We use tools such as Google Analytics to do this.
• Provide targeted content and advertising based on your preferences and previous interactions. We work with third-party companies to provide targeted advertising. Personal data is not shared with these companies. Further details of the companies we work with are available within our Cookie Policy.

You can choose to block some or all cookies through your browser settings. If you disable cookies, some advanced features will be disabled and some of our services may not function as intended.

Anonymized Analytics and Insights:

Occasionally, we will ask for additional information to help us monitor the reach and effectiveness of our services. For example, when creating an account, we may ask for your country of residence or postcode. This data will only ever be used in an anonymized format to help us demonstrate the effectiveness and improve the products and services we offer.
We use Google Analytics to log aggregated use data across all of our websites. No personal data is shared with Google Analytics.

Geographical Data and Geotargeting:

As with all websites, your IP address is sent to us each time a webpage is viewed. For some functionality, we use this, along with geo-location information provided by your browser, to provide location-specific content within our websites and apps. When you browse our website or use our apps, your IP address and location information are stored on our system anonymously unless you are a registered user, in which case it will be possible to link it to your profile. This link will only exist temporarily and will be removed three months after your visit.

We will not use this information to identify you personally. We use location data for analytics purposes to understand the locations our products are successful in and to deliver a better service. You can stop sharing this information by changing your browser settings.