Your privacy

Your account

When you create an account we keep your name, your email, and when you last signed in. Nothing else.

If you sign up with email, your password is stored only as a scrambled one-way code (bcrypt). Nobody, including us, can read it back.

Signing in with Google

If you choose “Continue with Google”, Google tells us your name, your email and a Google account number, so we know it’s you next time. We don’t take your profile photo or anything else from your Google account.

Google’s own rules apply to their part: Google Privacy Policy ↗

What you save

Universities, scholarships, programs, housing and My Plan progress you save are kept in your account on our server, so your plan is the same on every device.

If you saved things on this site before accounts existed, they move into your account the first time you sign in, and are then removed from your browser.

Cookies

We use only two cookies, and both are needed for the site to work:

• Sign-in cookie: keeps you signed in for up to 30 days.
• Security cookie: stops other websites from making changes to your account pretending to be you.

No advertising or tracking cookies.

How we protect it

• The site uses an encrypted connection (https).
• After 10 wrong passwords, signing in is paused for 15 minutes, so nobody can guess their way in.
• Your account can only see its own plan.

Other services the site loads

• Google Fonts: for the fonts. Like any website, it sees your IP address when it sends them.
• Google Sign-In: the script behind the “Continue with Google” button.

Links to universities and scholarship websites open their own sites with their own privacy rules.

Deleting your data

Want your account and everything you saved removed? Write to study.scholarmap@gmail.com from the email you signed up with, and we’ll delete it.

Questions?

Email study.scholarmap@gmail.com or message us on Instagram @scholarmap.study. We answer every message.