Privacy

This page explains, in plain language, how Healthcare Student GPS handles information today. Browsing is not completely anonymous, and the site is not cookie-free. That does not mean we collect every kind of data, and it is not a promise of a particular privacy law or registered nonprofit status.

Using the website

Students and families can browse without creating an account. Looking around does not create a student profile, and public sign-up is turned off.

When you choose a starting point, career, country, or school, those choices can appear in the page address. They can also show up in your browser history and in the ordinary request the website host receives.

Looking up published school and pathway information uses our data service so the pages can show current listings. No advertising tools, remarketing, or session replay are installed.

Usage statistics

After you allow it, we collect aggregate usage statistics so the site owner can understand how the public website is used. Not every visit is measured: only browsers that allow statistics, and that are not blocking the tool, are counted. Students do not need an account for this.

If collection is allowed, Vercel Web Analytics (Vercel, the company that hosts the website) can receive the page address with extra query text and fragments removed, a referral source when the browser sends one, device and browser type, and a broad location. It estimates visitors with a short-lived technical hash. That hash is not a student account and is not meant to follow you across days or other websites. We do not send names, email addresses, contact messages, search text, grades, or other free-text details through this tool. The ordinary request the host receives can still include your network address and browser type. The browser is asked to send only the site origin, not the full page address with extra text, when it talks to this statistics tool.

This is optional. Statistics are not sent until you allow them, and the website still works if you decline. A previous decline stays in effect until you change it. This browser can remember your allow or decline choice on this device. You can change it below. If this browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, usage statistics stay off. The choice is used only when this copy of the site is actually collecting statistics. Blocking scripts, other devices, and some automated traffic are outside this choice. Vercel currently keeps about one month of these Web Analytics reports on the hosting plan in use. That is not a claim that the figures are anonymous or that a particular privacy law is met.

Contacting us

The Contact Us form asks for an optional name, an optional email, and a required message. Name is only to know who wrote. Email is only if you want a reply. The message is the note itself.

We use those details to receive your enquiry and, when you include an email, to reply. A reply is not guaranteed. The form does not create an account. Please do not include grades, medical information, passwords, or other sensitive personal information.

Cookies and technical information

Opening a page can send ordinary technical details to the website host, such as the address of the page, your network address, and your browser type. Those details can appear in hosting records. We have not published how long those records are kept.

Cookies may be used for restricted access. If someone signs in on a staff sign-in page, the browser can keep sign-in cookies for that visit. Restricted preview access may also use hosting access cookies. Everyday student browsing does not require those cookies. Vercel Web Analytics is documented as not using cookies for visitor estimates. Remembering your usage-statistics choice uses ordinary browser storage on this device, not an advertising cookie.

Service providers

We use other companies to run the website and to hold published school information. They may process the technical details above on their systems, which can be outside the country you are in.

Contact-form messages are sent by email. A separate service limits how often the same connection can send.

Privacy questions

You can use Contact Us to send a privacy question.