Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10 October 2026

Scholarship Compass ("we", "us") respects your privacy. This page explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your choices.

What we collect

We don't require you to register an account. The site is fully readable without logging in. We collect:

  • Analytics: Google Analytics 4 records anonymised usage data (page views, time on page, country, device type, referring source). It does not identify you personally.
  • Advertising: Google AdSense may use cookies to serve relevant advertisements. AdSense is a third-party service governed by Google's privacy policy.
  • Server logs: Our hosting provider (Netlify) automatically logs IP addresses and request metadata for security and abuse prevention.

Our own analytics

As well as Google Analytics, this site uses a small analytics script that we run ourselves. Each time you load a page or interact with it, the script sends a short record to our hosting provider, Netlify, where it is stored. A record contains: the time; the page address without anything after a "?"; the page's type and, where the address names one, the listing, article or tool it shows; the website that sent you here (its address up to the domain, nothing more); your device type (mobile, tablet or desktop) and browser family; and, if the link you followed had them, its utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign campaign tags, which are kept for the rest of your visit. It also records when you click a phone, email or external link (for external links, the destination website's domain; never the phone number or email address), when you submit a form (the form's name or ID, never what you typed), labelled results that a tool on the page reports, whether you scrolled past 50% and 90% of a page, and whether the page was visible for 30 seconds.

Netlify tells us which country your connection comes from; we do not store your IP address. Your browser's user-agent is used to work out its browser family and to flag automated traffic such as search-engine crawlers; the user-agent itself is not stored. To group page views into visits, the script keeps a random visitor ID in this site's local storage that is replaced each day (UTC), and a random session ID in session storage that is replaced after 30 minutes of inactivity or when you close the tab. If your browser blocks storage, a temporary ID is used for that page only. The script sets no cookies, is not used for advertising and does not link your visits to other websites. The data is processed and stored by Netlify on our behalf and is not sold. We delete these records 14 months after they are made; after that we keep only daily totals, such as how many times a page was viewed, which cannot be linked to a visit or a visitor ID. You can remove the stored IDs at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.

What we don't collect

  • We don't collect names, email addresses, or contact details unless you email us directly.
  • We don't sell, rent, or share your data with anyone.
  • We don't track you across other websites.

Cookies

Cookies set on this site come from Google AdSense and Google Analytics. You can control these via your browser's privacy settings or by visiting Google Ads Settings.

Third-party links

Most scholarship pages on this site link out to university and government websites for application. Once you leave Scholarship Compass, the destination site's privacy policy applies, not ours.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13. Most users are senior secondary school students or adults applying for tertiary study.

Your rights

You may request access to or deletion of any personal data we hold by emailing hello@decisionlab.com.au. As we do not collect personal data through normal site use, this typically applies only to email correspondence.

Changes

We update this policy occasionally to reflect changes in practice or law. The "last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions: hello@decisionlab.com.au