Privacy
Care includes protecting what people entrust to us.
A plain-language overview of how the Foundation will use and protect student, supporter and visitor information.
Our privacy commitments
What we collect
Student accounts include identity, contact, enrolment, academic and financial-need information, personal statements, consent records and required documents. Pledge, contact and programme-interest forms collect only the information shown in those forms.
Why we use it
We use information to verify eligibility, administer scholarship periods, review applications, communicate with students and supporters, maintain security, meet governance obligations and improve programmes.
Who can access it
Access is restricted to authorised administrators and reviewers who need the information for Foundation work. Private documents are not made public.
Mental-health programme information
The Foundation’s role is to facilitate and fund access—not to provide clinical care. We may collect the minimum contact, eligibility, scheduling, funding and service-administration information needed to operate the programme.
We will not ask for symptoms, diagnoses, prescriptions, screening answers, therapy notes or medical records through the Foundation website. Assessment, care, informed consent and clinical records remain with the independent professional providing care, under that provider’s own professional and legal obligations.
Clinical confidentiality is not an unconditional promise that information can never be disclosed. An independent provider may have to act where Nigerian law requires disclosure or where a serious and immediate safety concern engages the provider’s professional duties. The final programme notice will be legally reviewed before access opens.
A student’s use or non-use of mental-health support will not be disclosed to scholarship reviewers or used in a scholarship decision.
Retention
Our initial policy is to retain application records for 24 months after the relevant scholarship period closes, then delete private documents and minimise retained personal data unless law or legitimate reporting obligations require longer retention. Programme-interest information will be retained only while it is useful for programme planning and communication, then deleted or minimised.
Your choices
You may ask for access to or correction of your information. Where legally and operationally possible, you may ask for deletion. Withdrawing an application does not create a second submission opportunity in the same period.