Privacy Policy

Account Registration Data

To create an account, you will be asked to create a username and password and to provide information such as your name, address, phone number and email address on the registration form. In addition to the uses set forth in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information may also be used to contact you when necessary for customer Website reasons. Once registered with the QB Website, you will then be able to complete the application process. For more detailed information on what information will be collected during the application process, please refer to the "How to Apply" sections of the QB Website. All Personal Information collected by the QB Website, including without limitation the registration and application information, will be available to QB and subject to this Privacy Policy.

QB Website Usage Data

This is the personal data that is collected about you when you are using the QB Website - this may include: 

• IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin Website with an Internet Website Provider. Each time you access the QB Website and each time you request one of our pages, our server logs your IP address. Standing alone, your IP address is not necessarily personally identifiable. We may use your IP address to administer our website, to assist in diagnosing problems with our server, to monitor our system performance and/or to make it easier and more convenient for you to navigate and use the QB Website. 
• Cookies: Generally, cookies work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of our site. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information; we use them to provide features such as personalization, to save your username and to keep track of your application. We may also use cookies to assist us in delivering content specific to your interests, such as informing you of certain third party offerings. Additionally, after you have entered your username and password during a session on the QB Website, that information is saved so you do not have to re-enter it repeatedly during that session. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this. Not accepting cookies may make certain features of the QB Website unavailable to you.
• Your interaction on the QB Website: QB may use a variety of other technical methods for tracking purposes, including Web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in web pages and emails. We use these technical methods in HTML emails that we send our users to determine whether they have opened those emails and/or clicked on links in those emails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that is personally identifiable.

Application Data

This is the personal data that is collected when you apply to programs on the QB Website, including but not limited to the CPS Programs and the College Match. Data collected in the application includes biographical, academic information, household income, financial status, citizenship, citizenship status, essays, and other personal details. This includes data considered to be in the “Special Category of Personal Data.”

College admissions and graduation data

This is personal data about where you ultimately enroll in college, whether you have been offered admissions from our college partners. This also includes data related to your graduation from college and beyond.

Communications Data

This is personal data, including but not limited to, email and mailing address, is used to enable QB and our partners / Website providers / Associates to send you communications either: 

• Via email;
• Whilst using the QB Website; and/or
• Direct from the third party.

Surveys and Updated Data from you

This is personal data that we collect from surveys that we administer to you, including but not limited to updated data that you submit to keep your data up to date in our records.

To provide, personalize, and improve your experience with the QB Website and other Websites and products provided by QB, for example by providing customized, personalized, or localized content, recommendations, features, and personalized guidance on or outside of the QB Website.

• Performance of a Contract
• Legitimate Interest

• Account Registration Data
• Website Usage Data

To understand how you access and use the QB Website to ensure technical functionality of the QB Website, develop new products and Websites, and analyze your use of the QB Website, including your interaction with applications, products, and Websites that are made available, linked to, or offered through the QB Website.

• Performance of a Contract
• Legitimate Interest

• Account Registration Data
• Website Usage Data

To communicate with you for QB Website-related purposes.

• Performance of a Contract
• Legitimate Interest

• Account Registration Data
• Website Usage Data

To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for: 

• educational and life opportunities
• surveys

via emails, notifications, or other messages, consistent with any permissions you may have communicated to us.

• Consent
• Legitimate Interest

• Communications Data

To administer the selection processes related to providing services such as the College Match or CPS Programs to you, as well as to personalize your account and to allow our network of colleges, universities, scholarship providers, internship programs, and others looking for outstanding students ("Associates") to contact you for the purposes of providing our services or responding to requests by you (e.g., responding to applications).

• Performance of a Contract
• Legitimate Interest

• Application Data
• Surveys and updated data from you

To facilitate QB’s partners’ selection processes related to services such as the College Match or CPS programs to you.

• Consent
• Performance of a Contract
• Legitimate Interest

• Application Data

To better understand the populations that QB is reaching to devise strategies to further our nonprofit mission of providing talented low-income students with additional access and navigate exceptional educational and life opportunities

• Legitimate Interest

• Application Data
• College admissions and graduation data
• Surveys and updated data from you

Educators, school administrators, the wider public

If you are selected for QB programs, we ask that you give us your permission to share your biographical and academic information, photograph, and application and award status with educators and school administrators, and to use that information for publicity and promotional purposes if you are selected for QB programs (including, but not limited to, the CPS programs or the College Match). Within this context, QB will never share the confidential specifics of your application, such as household income, citizenship status, or other personal details. If you no longer agree to this data sharing, you can contact QB at questions-data@questbridge.org immediately regarding the exclusion of your information.

QB Partners

If you submit an application for a QB program, including but not limited to the CPS Programs and the College Match, QB may share personal data considered to be in the Special Category of Personal Data defined in the GDPR. Personal data in the special category include data that you may share in your application related to racial and ethnic origin, political opinions, religious and philosophical beliefs, health data, information about person’s sexual orientation, criminal record, etc.). If you share such data in your application, we ask that you give us your permission to share such information with our partners to aid them in their review process of your application.If you no longer agree to this data sharing, you can contact QB at questions-data@questbridge.org immediately regarding the exclusion of your information.

Website Providers and Others

We use technical Website providers which may operate the technical infrastructure that we need to provide the QB Website, in particular providers which host, store, manage, and maintain the QB application, its content and the data we process.

We also use technical Website providers to help us communicate with you.

QB Partners and Associates

Generally we use the Personal Information we collect about you in order to provide services such as the College Match or CPS Programs to you, as well as to personalize your account and to allow our network of colleges, universities, scholarship providers, internship programs, and others looking for outstanding students ("Associates") to contact you for the purposes of providing our services or responding to requests by you (e.g., responding to applications).

We may also provide information to our Associates from time to time so that such Associates can contact you in order to make you aware of any opportunities that may be of interest to you or to respond to a service request by you. It is our policy not to disclose to our Associates any Personal Information without your consent (usually obtained via an "opt-in" option that you may select when filling out your application). QB may disclose your registration information for the purposes set forth above to those of our Associates for which you select the "opt-in" option during registration.

QB may also use contact details that you provide to send you information about QB and how to improve your application or to respond to questions you may have. Any Personal Information provided to our Associates, either directly by you or by QB pursuant to your opt-in request, will be subject to our Associates' privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy. As such, we encourage you to review our Associates' privacy policies prior to providing, or opting-in for QB to provide your Personal Information to them.

Academic Researchers

We may share your personal data for activities such as statistical analysis and academic study, but only in a pseudonymised format.

Law Enforcement and Data Protection Authorities

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, we may release your Personal Information to third parties: (1) in order to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (2) in special cases, when we believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of you or any other person.