Last updated: August 9, 2026
Education Benchmark is an independent informational website focused on education systems, school structures, qualifications, learning outcomes, rankings, and academic pathways. This notice explains what information may be collected when you visit EducationBenchmark.com, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
Information We Collect
Some information is provided directly by you. For example, the contact form may ask for your name, email address, the topic of your message, a relevant page or subject, and the message you choose to send. Please do not submit private student records, identification documents, application files, medical information, financial details, or other sensitive personal information through the website.
Technical information may also be generated when you use the site. Depending on the services enabled, this can include an IP address, browser and device information, operating system, referring page, pages requested, approximate location derived from network information, date and time of access, and technical records used for security, troubleshooting, traffic measurement, or abuse prevention.
How Information May Be Used
Information may be used to operate and protect the website, respond to messages, investigate reported errors, improve navigation and content, understand how pages are used, prevent misuse, maintain technical performance, and meet applicable legal or regulatory obligations.
Contact information is not collected for the purpose of selling mailing lists. If you write to Education Benchmark, your details may be used to answer that request and to keep a reasonable record of the correspondence when needed for follow-up, security, editorial review, or dispute handling.
Cookies, Local Storage, and Similar Technologies
EducationBenchmark.com may use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies for essential site functions, preferences, security, measurement, and advertising. Some technologies are placed by the website itself, while others may be provided by third-party services.
Where consent is required by applicable law, non-essential cookies or similar technologies should not be used for purposes requiring consent until the relevant choice has been made. Visitors who are shown a consent interface can use it to accept, reject, or manage available categories.
More detail is available in the Cookie Policy.
Advertising and Google Services
Education Benchmark may display advertising, including advertising supplied through Google services such as Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve, measure, limit, and improve advertising. Where personalized advertising is permitted and enabled, advertising may be based on a visitor’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. Visitors can review or manage Google advertising personalization through Google Ads Settings. Information about how Google uses data from sites and apps that use its services is available at Google’s partner sites policy page.
Other advertising vendors or ad networks may be used if they are enabled on the site. Their technologies, purposes, retention periods, and opt-out options may differ. Where a consent management platform identifies those vendors, the current vendor list and available controls should be treated as the most specific description for that visit.
Visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, consent may be requested for cookies, local storage, advertising personalization, measurement, or related processing where consent is required. When Google publisher advertising products are used for traffic in these regions, a Google-certified consent management platform may be used to present the required disclosures and choices.
You can change available consent choices through the site’s consent interface where that option is provided. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before the withdrawal. Some essential processing may continue when it is necessary to provide the site, maintain security, or meet legal obligations.
Analytics and Measurement
Measurement or analytics tools may be used to understand broad patterns such as page visits, device types, referral sources, and how visitors move through the site. These tools can rely on cookies or similar identifiers when enabled. Where applicable, consent choices may affect whether non-essential analytics technologies operate.
Analytics information is used to evaluate site performance and content usefulness rather than to make admissions, school placement, credit, employment, insurance, or other eligibility decisions about individual visitors.
Contact Forms and Editorial Messages
Messages sent through the contact form may be reviewed to answer questions, assess correction requests, consider topic suggestions, respond to partnership or media enquiries, and address technical or editorial concerns. A message may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for those purposes.
Submitting a correction request does not guarantee that a page will be changed. Evidence is reviewed against the relevant source material and the site’s editorial standards. More information is available in the Corrections Policy.
Service Providers
Education Benchmark may rely on hosting, security, caching, content-delivery, email, form-processing, analytics, consent-management, and advertising providers. These services may process limited information on behalf of the website or for their own stated purposes, depending on the service and applicable settings.
Service providers may operate in more than one country. Where data protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, the relevant provider or controller is expected to use an appropriate legal mechanism.
Data Retention
Personal information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including responding to correspondence, maintaining security, resolving disputes, complying with legal requirements, and keeping appropriate editorial or technical records.
Different systems may have different retention periods. Server logs, security records, consent records, advertising data, and third-party service data may be retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant provider.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent. You may also have the right to complain to an appropriate data protection authority.
To make a privacy-related request concerning information controlled by Education Benchmark, email support@educationbenchmark.com. Enough information may be requested to understand and verify the request, but unnecessary sensitive documents should not be sent.
Children’s Information
The website contains general educational information, but it is not designed to collect private student records or sensitive information from children. Children and students should not submit school records, identification documents, account credentials, application materials, medical data, or other sensitive information through the contact form.
If a parent or guardian believes that a child has submitted personal information that should be removed, a request can be sent to support@educationbenchmark.com.
External Links
Articles frequently link to ministries, examination authorities, universities, international organizations, statistical services, and other external sources. Education Benchmark does not control the privacy practices, cookies, security, or content of those third-party websites. Their own policies apply after you leave EducationBenchmark.com.
Security
Reasonable technical and organizational measures may be used to protect the website and information submitted to it. No website, transmission method, hosting environment, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to This Notice
This notice may be revised when the website changes its services, advertising setup, analytics tools, consent system, legal obligations, or data practices. The date at the top of the page indicates the latest published revision.
Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to support@educationbenchmark.com. General messages may also be submitted through the contact page.