Cookie Policy

This document describes what we store on your device when you browse studyfi.com, why we do it, and how you can change it at any time. It supplements the Privacy Policy, which refers to it.

A cookie is a short record a website stores in your browser and reads back on your next visit. Alongside cookies we also describe entries in local storage below, because from a privacy point of view they are the same thing — data kept on your device.

1. Nothing is measured before you agree

The analytics on this site do not start until you give consent. That is not a promise about intent: the analytics library is not downloaded into your browser or initialised at all until consent exists, so before you decide, no analytics data is written to your device.

Refusing is exactly as easy as accepting — both are buttons of the same size in the banner. If your browser sends a “Do Not Track” signal we treat that as a refusal and do not ask you at all.

2. Essential — always on

These are what the site needs in order to work. They serve no other purpose and cannot be switched off, because without them the site does not function correctly.

sf-consent

Your cookie decision — which categories you allowed, and when. We store it precisely so that we do not ask again on every page load. Valid for 12 months, after which we ask again. It is set only for the studyfi.com domain and is readable by every part of the site at that address, so an answer given in the wiki applies here too.

NEXT_LOCALE

The language you chose. It is written only when you actively switch language — never automatically on arrival. Valid for 12 months. The Creators Hub at the same address reads it too, so that it does not greet you in a different language.

theme (local storage)

Light or dark display mode. It is not a cookie and is never sent anywhere — it stays in your browser until you clear it. We list it here because it is data on your device, and that is what this document is about.

3. Analytics — only with your consent

These help us learn how many people visit, which language they arrive in, and which pages genuinely help students. Without them the site behaves exactly the same; we simply do not know what to improve.

Cookies beginning with “ph_”

Set by PostHog, the tool we use to measure traffic. They exist so that a repeat visit from the same browser is not counted as a new visitor.

What PostHog does not collect on this site

• We do not record your screen or mouse movement — session recording is switched off.
• We do not automatically capture every click; we measure page views and a small number of explicitly chosen actions, such as clicking a button that leads into the app.
• We do not build an advertising profile, do not pass data to ad networks, and do not use it for ad targeting.
• We do not create a user profile for an anonymous visit to this website.

Transfer outside the EU

The project these measurements go to is hosted in the United States, so the recipient of the data is PostHog, Inc. The conditions under which personal data is transferred outside the European Union are described in the Privacy Policy, linked in the footer of this page.

4. How to change or withdraw your decision

Every page has a “Cookie settings” link in its footer. It opens the same banner you decided in the first time, showing what you currently have set.

Withdrawing consent takes effect immediately: measurement stops on the page you are on, without a reload, and the analytics cookie is removed from your device. Withdrawing is as easy as giving — that is a requirement, not just our preference.

You can also delete cookies at any time in your browser's own settings. If you delete the sf-consent entry, we will ask you again on your next visit.

5. Changes to this document

If what we store or why it is stored changes, we will ask for your consent again — consent given to the old text is not consent to the new one. In practice that means the banner will appear again even if you have already answered once.

6. Contact

For questions about this document, or to exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected]. Details about the operator are in the Provider Information document.