How do Cookies Work?
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Cookies can only store text, which is generally anonymous and encrypted. No personal information is stored in them, nor can they be associated with an identified or identifiable individual.
What Types of Cookies Does This Website Use?
The SIS Scholarships website uses the following cookies, which are detailed below:
- Technical cookies: Created and managed exclusively by us, these cookies allow users to navigate our website and use the different options or services available on sisscholarships.com, such as sharing content through social media using the buttons displayed at the bottom of articles.
- Analytics cookies: These cookies, whether managed by us or by third parties (particularly Google Analytics), allow us to quantify the number of users and carry out statistical measurements and analyses of how our website is used.
- As mentioned above, this website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tool provided by Google that allows us to understand how many users visit our website and how they access it. In our case, it is used solely for statistical purposes, such as determining the daily number of visitors to different articles. This information helps us focus our efforts on improving the most frequently visited sections and making it easier for users to find what they are looking for. This website may use information about your visit to carry out statistical assessments and calculations based on anonymous data, as well as to ensure service continuity and improve its websites. For further details, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: [https://policies.google.com/privacy]
How to Disable Our Cookies (or Any Other Cookies)
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Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, a company headquartered at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, CA 94043, United States (“Google”).
Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users interact with it. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers located in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf to track your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
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Informed Consent
The use of this website does not automatically imply consent to the use of cookies. Consent for non-essential cookies must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous through the cookie consent mechanism provided on the website, in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this Cookie Policy.