Your information, handled plainly.

When you submit a scholarship application, we collect the information you enter on the form: your name, date of birth, contact details, home address, education history, work history, extracurricular activities, and the documents you upload (transcripts, recommendation letters, and any supporting files).

We use this solely to assess your application, to contact you about it, and to administer the scholarship if you receive one. Applications are reviewed by the Foundation’s Board of Directors. We do not sell this information, and we do not share it with anyone outside the Foundation except where we are required to by law.

While you are filling in the form, a draft is saved in your own browser’s local storage so you do not lose your work. That draft stays on your device and is cleared once you submit successfully. It is never sent to us on its own.

If you use the contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the message you write, so that we can reply. We keep correspondence only as long as we need it to answer you and to keep a record of the conversation.

Donations are processed by PayPal. Your card and bank details are entered on PayPal’s systems and are never seen or stored by this website. We receive only what PayPal reports back to us about a completed donation, such as the amount and the donor name, so that we can acknowledge your gift and keep proper records.

PayPal handles that payment data under its own privacy policy, which is worth reading if you would like to know how they treat it.

This site sets no advertising cookies, uses no analytics service, and carries no third-party tracking scripts. We do not build profiles of visitors or track you across other websites.

The one cookie we do set is a sign-in cookie for Foundation staff using the private admin dashboard. It is created only after a successful staff login, and it expires automatically. It is never set for ordinary visitors.

Application data and uploaded documents are transmitted over an encrypted connection and stored on access-controlled services. Access to the admin dashboard requires a password, and sessions expire after a period of inactivity.

No system is perfectly secure, and we will not pretend otherwise. We limit who can see applications to the people who need to read them.

You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask for a correction, or ask us to delete it. Email us and we will act on the request, unless we are obliged to keep something for legal or accounting reasons.

If you withdraw an application, tell us and we will remove the associated documents from active consideration.