Cookie Policy

1. Scope of This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Falconscholars may use cookies and similar technologies on this informational website. The website provides general content about university admissions concepts and student-related information topics. It does not provide registration, payment processing, subscriptions, user accounts, application submission, document upload, or enrollment functions.

2. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on a visitor’s browser or device when a website is opened. Similar technologies may include local storage, session storage, pixels used for basic site operation, or consent tools that remember privacy choices. These technologies can help a website load pages, keep basic settings, and understand general website activity.

3. Categories of Cookies Used

Falconscholars may use strictly necessary cookies, functional cookies, and limited analytics cookies. Strictly necessary cookies support basic website operation. Functional cookies may remember selected settings. Limited analytics cookies may provide general information about how visitors access pages. The website does not use advertising cookies, retargeting cookies, or cookies for targeted advertising.

4. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies are used for basic website functions. They may support page loading, privacy preference storage, security-related functions, form operation, and consent settings. These cookies are not used to create user profiles, process payments, manage subscriptions, submit applications, or evaluate any reader’s admissions-related information.

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember choices made by a visitor, such as cookie settings or display-related preferences. These cookies are used only to maintain selected settings within the website. Functional cookies are not used for admissions decisions, student ranking, commercial profiling, advertising lists, or cross-site behavioral tracking.

6. Limited Analytics Cookies

Limited analytics cookies may help Falconscholars understand general website use, such as page views, browser type, device category, approximate region, referral source, and general interaction patterns. Analytics information is used for website operation and content organization. It is not used for targeted advertising, paid audience creation, applicant profiling, or commercial email lists.

7. Cookies Not Used by Falconscholars

Falconscholars does not use cookies for sales activity, payment processing, subscription access, account registration, school enrollment, application submission, behavioral advertising, retargeting, or commercial profiling. The website does not use cookie information to predict admissions results, assess eligibility, compare students, or identify individual applicants.

8. Cookie Banner and Consent Choices

The website may display a cookie banner or cookie settings tool. This tool may allow visitors to accept optional cookies, reject optional cookies, or manage cookie categories. Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they support basic website operation. Optional cookies should operate according to the visitor’s selected settings where applicable.

9. Changing or Withdrawing Consent

Visitors may change or withdraw cookie consent through the cookie settings tool when available. Visitors may also use browser settings to block, delete, or restrict cookies. Deleting cookies may remove saved preferences, which may cause the cookie banner or settings tool to appear again during a later visit.

10. Browser Controls

Most browsers include controls for cookie storage. A visitor may choose to block all cookies, delete existing cookies, allow cookies from selected websites, or receive notices before cookies are stored. Browser settings may affect how the website displays pages or remembers choices. Visitors should review their browser privacy settings for available controls.

11. Global Privacy Control

Falconscholars recognizes Global Privacy Control signals where technically supported and where required by applicable U.S. state privacy laws. A Global Privacy Control signal may be treated as a privacy choice related to sale, sharing, or targeted advertising. Falconscholars does not sell or share personal information and does not use targeted advertising.

12. Cookie-Related Personal Information

Some cookie-related data may be considered personal information when it can be linked to a browser, device, or visitor. This may include IP address, device identifiers, browser information, page activity, and consent preference records. Falconscholars uses this information only for limited website operation, consent management, security, and limited analytics.

13. Retention of Cookie Data

Cookie retention periods may vary by category and browser setting. Strictly necessary cookies may last for a session or for a limited period needed for website operation. Functional cookies may remain long enough to remember visitor choices. Limited analytics cookies may keep general activity data for a limited operational period. Visitors may delete cookies through browser settings.

14. Children’s Cookie Data

The website is not directed to children under 13. Falconscholars does not knowingly use cookies to collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent where required by COPPA. The website does not use cookies for targeted advertising, student profiling, or behavioral advertising for users ages 13 to 16.

15. Relation to the Privacy Policy

This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy explains how Falconscholars handles personal information submitted through the Contact page and processed through basic website access. Cookie choices may relate to privacy rights available under applicable U.S. state privacy laws.

16. Updates to This Cookie Policy

Falconscholars may update this Cookie Policy when website functions, cookie categories, consent tools, or privacy practices change. The Last Updated date shows the current version of this policy. Visitors may review this page to understand how cookies are described for this website.