Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 11th September, 2025

At EduMap (accessible from [https://www.edumap.blog]), the privacy of our visitors is one of our main priorities. As an educational resource providing university admission guides, aggregate calculators, and scholarship data, we handle information that affects your future. This document outlines the types of information we collect and how we use it to maintain a trustworthy, authoritative environment.

1. Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

2. Information We Collect

Voluntary Data: If you contact us directly or subscribe to our newsletter, we may receive your name, email address, and the contents of your message.

Academic Data: When you use our Aggregate Calculators (for NUST, GIKI, FAST, etc.), the marks you input are processed locally or used temporarily to provide results; we do not sell your academic scores to third parties.

Log Files: EduMap follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. This includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamps, and referring/exit pages.

3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising

EduMap uses Google AdSense to serve advertisements. To comply with Google’s requirements:

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to EduMap and/or other sites on the Internet.

Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting
Google Ads Settings.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, EduMap uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

5. DART Cookies

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.edumap.blog and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network.

Privacy Policy at the following URL: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

6. Our Advertising Partners

EduMap uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google AdSense: As our primary provider, Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits. You can opt-out by visiting the
Google Ads Settings.

Other Third-Party Vendors: Other third-party ad networks or vendors may also serve ads on edumap.blog. These vendors use cookies and web beacons to measure ad effectiveness and personalize content.

Opt-Out Options: You may visit those third-party websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Additionally, you can opt out of some third-party vendors' uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting
www.aboutads.info.

7. California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, the CCPA and CPRA provide you with specific rights regarding your personal information. EduMap is committed to transparency and provides the following disclosures:

Right to Know and Access: You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, and share.
Right to Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: EduMap does not sell your personal information to third parties. However, like most websites, we share certain identifiers (such as IP addresses and cookie data) with ad technology partners like Google AdSense to provide personalized ads. You can opt out of this "sharing" via the link in our footer or through your browser's Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

8. Children's Information

In line with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), EduMap does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately so we can remove such information from our records.

9. Contact Our Team

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact our editorial team.

Email: umalik1019@gmail.com
Website: https://edumap.blog