Cookie Policy

MtishbiScholars (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is an international education advisory and student placement platform based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. We are dedicated to maintaining complete transparency regarding how we store data in your browser, maintain secure user sessions, monitor software stability, and assess public website traffic.

This Cookie Policy outlines the specific cookies and local storage items used on our platform, their operational purposes, retention durations, and the mechanisms available to manage your preferences.

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device by websites you visit. Cookies are transmitted between your web browser and web servers to enable authentication, preserve user sessions, and maintain platform security.

Browser Local Storage (localStorage) is a browser-based storage technology that allows web applications to store functional key-value pairs locally on your device. Unlike HTTP cookies, local storage items are not automatically sent to web servers with every network request.

We utilize cookies and browser storage strictly for legitimate operational purposes, categorized as follows:

Strictly necessary cookies are essential for our platform to operate securely. They enable student login, secure session validation across page loads, and role-based route protection in our middleware.

When you authenticate using Google OAuth, our authentication provider utilizes the standard Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) security protocol to prevent authorization code interception.

We use browser local storage to save your UI preferences directly in your browser. These items are strictly functional and do not track you across external websites:

Note: sessionStorage is not used anywhere on the platform.

We use Google Analytics 4 to evaluate public website traffic, page navigation patterns, popular destination searches, and public call-to-action interactions.

We use Sentry for production error monitoring, crash detection, unhandled exception diagnosis, and application reliability tracking.

MtishbiScholars uses Google Search Console as an administrative webmaster service to monitor website search indexing, submit XML sitemaps, verify search crawl health, and identify technical search visibility issues.

Google Search Console operates via server-level metadata verification and does not inject advertising tracking scripts or behavioral cookies into your browser.

To protect applicant privacy, MtishbiScholars explicitly does not install, use, or integrate any of the following third-party tracking services:

MtishbiScholars does NOT use advertising cookies, marketing pixels, cross-site trackers, or behavioral profiling tools.

We do not monetize your browsing activity, display third-party advertisements on our platform, or share student browsing profiles with commercial ad networks.

• Session Cookies: Temporary cookies that remain active only while your browser is open and are deleted upon closing the browser.
• Persistent Cookies & Local Storage: Stored locally until their expiration date or until manually cleared via your browser settings or dashboard preferences.

You have full control over cookie storage through multiple methods:

If you configure your browser to block all cookies, strictly necessary authentication cookies will be blocked, preventing you from logging into your student dashboard, uploading application documents, or submitting university files. Public pages (universities, scholarships, services) will remain readable.

For detailed information regarding how personal information is collected, processed, retained, and protected in accordance with the Tanzania Personal Data Protection Act, 2022, please review our Privacy Policy.

We may periodically update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our operational technologies or applicable statutory standards. Any modifications will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date.