1. Introduction
Our website, Mygreatlakes-Studentloans.Com (hereinafter: “the website”), uses cookies and related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies
A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that makes our website function properly and interactively. It is executed on our server or your device.
4. What is a webbeacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “All cookies”, you consent to us using all cookies and plug-ins as described in the pop-up and this cookie statement. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
6. Third Parties
We have made agreements about the use of cookies with other companies that place cookies. However, we cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your data reliably or securely. Parties such as Google are to be considered independent data controllers within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation. We recommend that you read these companies’ privacy statements.
7. Cookies
7.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work correctly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to enter the same information when visiting our website repeatedly, and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
7.2 Analytical Cookies
We use analytical cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these analytical cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website.
Because statistics are being tracked anonymously, no permission is asked for to place analytical cookies.
7.3 Advertising cookies
On this website, we use advertising cookies, enabling us to personalize the advertisements for you, and we (and third parties) gain insights into the campaign results. This happens based on a profile we create based on your click and surfing on and outside MyBKExperience.rest. With these cookies, you, as website visitors, are linked to a unique ID, so you do not see the same ad more than once, for example.
Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask your permission to place them.
7.4 Social media buttons
On our website, we have included buttons for Facebook and Twitter to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. These buttons work using pieces of code from Facebook and Twitter. This code places cookies. These social media buttons can also store and process certain information so that a personalized advertisement can be shown to you. Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data, which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook and Twitter are located in the United States.
8. Placed cookies
WordPress |
Purpose: WordPress log in cookie Retention period: 30 days Description: Cookie to keep you logged in |
Privacy details of WordPress
CloudFlare
Purpose: Security and speed by delivering content from distributed servers. Retention period: 1 year Description: The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
Purpose: Security and webspeed by delivering content from a distributed servers. Retention period: 1 year Description: The __cfduid cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. |
Privacy details of CloudFlare
Google Adsense | |
Purpose: This cookie is used by Google Adsense to show you advertisements based on browsing behaviour. Retention period: 365 days Description: This cookie is used by Google Adsense to show you advertisements based on browsing behaviour. | Privacy statement |
Privacy details of Google AdSense
Google Fonts | Privacy Statement |
Purpose: Retention period: Description: |
Privacy details of Google Forms
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your data:
- You have the right to know why your data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your data that we know.
- Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, delete, or block your data at any time.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie statement. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you. Still, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser. You can also indicate your preferences on the following page: www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Please note that our website may not work correctly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after you give your consent when you revisit our websites.