Last updated: August 9, 2026
EducationBenchmark.com may use cookies, local storage, and related technologies to keep the website functioning, remember choices, protect the service, measure traffic, and support advertising. This page describes the main categories visitors may encounter and how those technologies can be controlled.
How Cookies Are Used
A cookie is a small piece of data stored by a browser. Similar technologies can store or retrieve information for purposes such as session management, consent records, security, measurement, frequency control, and advertising.
Some cookies disappear when the browser session ends. Others remain for a defined period or until they are removed. The exact lifetime depends on the purpose, provider, browser settings, and configuration in use when you visit.
Essential Technologies
Strictly necessary technologies may be used to provide basic site functions, maintain security, prevent abuse, remember privacy choices, balance traffic, or keep requested features working. These technologies are not used simply to create an advertising profile.
Blocking essential technologies in the browser can cause parts of the site to work incorrectly.
Preference Technologies
Preference cookies or local storage may remember choices that improve a later visit, such as interface preferences or consent settings. Their purpose is to avoid asking for or rebuilding the same preference unnecessarily.
Measurement and Analytics
Analytics or measurement services may be used to understand aggregate patterns such as which pages are visited, how visitors arrive, what types of devices are used, and whether pages or interactive tools are functioning as expected.
When non-essential analytics technologies require consent, they should be controlled by the consent choices available to the visitor. Measurement tools and retention periods can change as the site’s technical setup changes.
Advertising Cookies
Education Benchmark may use advertising services, including Google AdSense. Google and other advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to deliver ads, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, detect invalid activity, and, when permitted, personalize advertising.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor’s previous visits to EducationBenchmark.com or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies can enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet.
Google advertising personalization can be reviewed through Google Ads Settings. Additional information about Google’s use of information from sites that use Google services is available at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Consent in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland may be shown a consent management interface for advertising and other non-essential technologies. Where Google publisher advertising products are used, the site may use a Google-certified consent management platform that supports the disclosures and consent signals required for those regions.
The available interface may allow you to accept, reject, or manage purposes and vendors. Choices can normally be revisited through the consent control made available on the site. The exact options shown can vary by location and the services currently enabled.
Third-Party and Embedded Services
A page may contain content, resources, or links supplied by third parties. If an embedded third-party service is used, that provider may set or read its own technologies according to its policies and the consent signals it receives.
External websites opened from an Education Benchmark article operate independently and may place their own cookies after you leave this site.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Most browsers allow cookies to be viewed, deleted, blocked, or restricted. Browser controls may also allow site data to be cleared after a session. The steps differ between browsers and devices.
Deleting cookies can remove saved preferences, including a previous consent choice, which may cause a consent message to appear again. Blocking all cookies can also interfere with essential functions.
Changes to Cookie Use
The technologies used by the site can change when hosting, analytics, advertising, security, consent, or other services are added, removed, or reconfigured. This page may therefore be updated without changing the basic purpose of Education Benchmark.
Questions About Cookies
Questions about the site’s use of cookies or consent controls can be sent to support@educationbenchmark.com. For broader information about personal data, see the Privacy Policy.