Last updated: July 12, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit Education by Country at educationbycountry.org.
Education by Country is an independently operated educational information website. Privacy questions and requests can be sent to support@educationbycountry.org.
Services Used by This Website
Education by Country currently uses the following services:
- WordPress: Used to publish and manage website content.
- Hostinger: Provides website hosting, technical infrastructure, security functions, server records, and hPanel traffic analytics.
- Google AdSense: Used to display, measure, and protect advertisements.
The website does not currently use Google Analytics or Cloudflare.
The website does not offer public comments, user accounts, memberships, newsletters, or a website contact form. It does not currently embed YouTube videos, Google Maps, reCAPTCHA, Meta Pixel, or similar third-party interactive services.
Information Collected
Email Communications
The website does not use a contact form. When you contact us by email, we receive the information you choose to include in your message.
This information can include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The contents of your message
- Any files you choose to attach
- Technical email information, such as the sending date and mail headers
Email information is used to respond to questions, investigate reported errors, process correction requests, handle privacy requests, and maintain necessary correspondence.
Please do not send passwords, identification documents, financial information, medical information, student records, or other sensitive personal information by email.
Hosting and Technical Information
Hostinger processes technical information required to deliver, protect, and maintain the website.
This information can include:
- IP address
- Date and time of access
- Requested pages and files
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring page
- Approximate country or region
- HTTP response and error information
- Security events and suspected malicious requests
Hostinger’s hPanel Analytics is used to view general website traffic information, such as visitor numbers, countries, device types, and page requests. Education by Country does not use Google Analytics.
More information about Hostinger’s data practices is available in the Hostinger Privacy Policy.
Advertising Information
Education by Country uses Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google and participating advertising providers process information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Cookie identifiers and similar online identifiers
- Advertisements displayed or viewed
- Advertising interactions
- Approximate location
- Information used to detect fraud, invalid traffic, and abuse
- Consent and advertising preference signals
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to display advertisements based on visits to Education by Country and other websites, where permitted by law and by the visitor’s consent preferences.
Education by Country does not receive a visitor’s name, email address, or private email communications from Google AdSense.
More information is available through the Google Privacy Policy, Google Advertising information, and Google Cookie information.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files stored by a browser. Similar technologies include local storage, advertising identifiers, pixels, and consent signals.
Education by Country uses two main categories of cookies and similar technologies:
- Necessary technologies: Used for website delivery, security, fraud prevention, consent storage, and essential technical functions.
- Advertising technologies: Used by Google and participating advertising providers to display advertisements, measure advertising performance, limit repeated advertisements, detect invalid traffic, and personalize advertisements where consent has been provided.
Education by Country does not use Google Analytics cookies.
Cookie Consent
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are shown a Google-certified consent message before advertising technologies requiring consent are used.
The consent message allows visitors to:
- Consent to the requested uses of personal data
- Reject non-essential advertising purposes
- Review the advertising providers involved
- Manage individual purposes and preferences
A visitor can change or withdraw a previous choice by using the Privacy and Cookie Settings link displayed on the website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place lawfully before consent was withdrawn.
Visitors can also delete or block cookies through their browser settings. Blocking cookies can affect the availability or operation of some advertising and website functions.
Personalized and Non-Personalized Advertising
Where legally permitted and where the visitor has provided the required consent, Google AdSense can display personalized advertisements based on interests, previous website visits, and advertising interactions.
Where personalized advertising is not permitted or consent has not been provided, Google can limit advertising personalization and display non-personalized or restricted advertisements.
Non-personalized advertisements can still use information such as the current page, approximate location, device information, and limited cookies needed for frequency control, fraud prevention, and aggregated measurement.
Visitors can review Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
Purposes of Processing
Information is processed for the following purposes:
- Delivering website pages and files
- Maintaining website availability and performance
- Protecting the website against spam, attacks, fraud, and unauthorized access
- Understanding general website traffic through Hostinger hPanel Analytics
- Responding to email inquiries and correction requests
- Displaying and measuring advertisements
- Detecting invalid advertising traffic and abuse
- Recording and respecting privacy choices
- Complying with legal obligations
- Establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims
Legal Bases
Depending on the visitor’s location and the applicable law, information is processed on one or more of the following grounds:
- Legitimate interests: Operating, maintaining, securing, and improving an informational website.
- Consent: Using advertising cookies, personalized advertising, and related technologies where consent is required.
- Legal obligations: Complying with lawful requests and applicable legal requirements.
- Steps taken at your request: Responding to an email or privacy request initiated by you.
Information Sharing
Education by Country does not sell personal information directly for money.
Information is shared only where necessary with:
- Hostinger, as the website hosting and infrastructure provider
- The email service providers used to send and receive messages
- Google and participating advertising providers through Google AdSense
- Security, technical, or professional service providers where necessary
- Public authorities where disclosure is required by applicable law
The use of advertising cookies and advertising identifiers can be treated as the sale, sharing, or use of personal information for targeted advertising under certain United States state privacy laws.
Visitors covered by those laws can request to opt out of applicable advertising uses through the website’s privacy controls or by contacting support@educationbycountry.org.
International Data Transfers
Hostinger, Google, advertising providers, and email providers can process information in countries other than the country where a visitor lives.
Where required, international transfers are handled using legally recognized safeguards, such as adequacy decisions, contractual protections, or standard contractual clauses.
Data Retention
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer period is required by law or needed for a legal or security matter.
- Routine email correspondence: Retained for up to 24 months after the last meaningful communication.
- Privacy and deletion requests: Retained for as long as necessary to document the request and the response.
- Security incident records: Retained until the incident is resolved and any related legal period has ended.
- Hosting and traffic data: Retained according to Hostinger’s technical, security, and service retention settings.
- Advertising information: Retained by Google and participating advertising providers according to their applicable retention policies and user settings.
- Consent records: Retained for as long as necessary to demonstrate and respect the visitor’s privacy choice.
Information stored in backups can remain temporarily after deletion until the relevant backup is securely overwritten or expires.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and the law that applies, you can have the right to:
- Request confirmation that personal information is being processed
- Request access to personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Request restriction of processing
- Object to processing based on legitimate interests
- Withdraw consent
- Request data portability where applicable
- Opt out of targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information where applicable
- Appeal a refusal of a privacy request where applicable
- Submit a complaint to the appropriate data protection or privacy authority
Privacy requests can be sent to support@educationbycountry.org with the subject line Privacy Request.
The request should explain what information or communication it relates to. Additional information will be requested only where reasonably necessary to confirm the identity of the person making the request.
A request will not be refused or treated differently because a visitor exercised a privacy right.
Children’s Privacy
Education by Country publishes general educational information but does not provide user accounts, student profiles, public comments, direct messaging, or online classroom services.
The website does not knowingly request personal information directly from children.
Children should not send names, school records, identification documents, photographs, addresses, or other personal information by email.
A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child has sent personal information to the website can request its deletion by contacting support@educationbycountry.org.
Data Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures are used to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, and misuse.
These measures include encrypted website connections, access controls, software updates, hosting security functions, backups, and monitoring for malicious activity.
No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
External Links
Education by Country contains links to government agencies, universities, international organizations, research publications, and other external websites.
Education by Country does not control the privacy, security, cookies, or content of external websites. Visitors should review the privacy information provided by each external website they visit.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy will be updated when the website’s services, advertising configuration, hosting arrangements, privacy controls, or data-processing practices materially change.
The date displayed at the top of this page identifies the latest revision.
Contact
Questions, correction requests, access requests, deletion requests, objections, and other privacy inquiries can be sent to:
Education by Country website operator
Email: support@educationbycountry.org