Cookies Policy

How do cookies work?

A cookie is a text file that is downloaded to the user's computer, smartphone or tablet when accessing certain web pages, allowing information about browsing activity from that device to be stored and retrieved.

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 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 let you move around the site and use the options and services available on sisscholarships.com, and they remember the answer you give in the cookie banner so that you are not asked again on every page.
Analytics cookies. These cookies, whether managed by us or by third parties, in particular Google Analytics, allow us to count visitors and carry out statistical measurements and analyses of how our website is used. They are only set once you accept them.

What we store on your device

Name	Set by	What it is for	Type	Kept for
_ga	Google Analytics	Tells one visitor's browser apart from another, so a return visit is not counted twice.	Analytics, only after you accept	2 years
_ga_P60Y3E48ZZ	Google Analytics	Holds the state of the current visit for our Analytics property.	Analytics, only after you accept	2 years
sis_cookie_consent	SIS Scholarships	Remembers whether you accepted or declined, so the banner is not shown again. Stored in your browser's local storage rather than as a cookie, and never sent to us.	Technical, always on	1 year

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.

In our case Analytics is used only for statistics, such as how many people opened a page about an event and from which country. We do not sell these details and we do not share them with advertisers.

For further details, please refer to Google's Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy

How to turn off our cookies, or any others

You may choose which cookies to allow on this website at any time through your browser settings:

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Cookies are text files whose contents can be opened and read, although they are often encrypted so that only the website that placed them can read them. They are safe: they cannot run code and they cannot be used to reach anything else on your computer. Blocking them may mean parts of this website stop working as they should.

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 banner provided on the website, in accordance with the terms set out in this Cookie Policy.

Closing the banner, scrolling the page or carrying on browsing is not consent. Until you press Accept, nothing but the strictly necessary is stored.

You can change your mind at any time.

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