In short: we collect what we need to match you with study programs abroad. Partner schools and program partners see an anonymised version of your profile only if you choose to be found, and your name and contact details reach a partner only when you accept an introduction or apply to their program. You can download your data or ask us to delete your account from your dashboard at any time. This policy is written under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10173).
Who we are
StudyEverywhere PH is a matching platform operated by Hoomantek Corporation, a corporation registered under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines. It helps Filipino students find study programs abroad, and helps verified schools, training providers and program partners find them. We are not a recruitment or placement agency.
Hoomantek Corporation is the personal information controller for the data described here.
Contact for privacy matters: hello@studyeverywhere.ph (subject "Data Privacy Request").
What we collect
If you are a student:
- Your account: email address and password (stored only as a secure hash), or the name and email on your Google account if you continue with Google. We never receive your Google password.
- Your profile: name, date of birth, gender, mobile number, city, education, course, TESDA certificate and PRC licence, language levels, preferred destinations and fields, passport status, readiness to relocate, previous visa refusals, work experience, and anything you write under "Brief background".
- Documents you upload: your CV, transcript, passport copy, language certificate and, if you want to, a government ID (for example a UMID, driver's licence or PhilSys ID). All of them are optional.
- Your activity with us: programs you apply to or ask to be notified about, the messages you send with an application, introduction requests and your answers to them, and a log of sign-ins and account changes.
If you represent a partner organisation: the organisation's name, type, country, website and programs; your name, role and phone number; the verification documents you upload (for example a business registration and a government ID); and your introduction requests and notes.
If you only visit the site: the eligibility check on /check.html keeps your answers in your own browser until you create an account. The contact form and the newsletter sign-up send us what you type in them.
You don't have to fill in every field. Some answers are needed to check which programs you qualify for, and we say so where we ask.
Why we use it
- To run your account and show you the programs you qualify for, and why.
- To process your applications and tell you how they are going.
- If you choose to be found, to show an anonymised version of your profile to partner organisations our team has verified. It has no name, contact details, date of birth or documents.
- To introduce you to a partner, but only when you accept that partner's request, or when you apply to their program and agree to share your details.
- To verify partner organisations before they can see any student information.
- To keep the platform secure, prevent misuse, and improve how matching works.
- To send you program news, only if you subscribed to it.
We rely on your consent for being found by partners, for introductions and for the newsletter, and you can withdraw it at any time. We process the rest because it is needed to provide the service you signed up for, or to meet our legal obligations.
Who sees it
- Verified partners: schools, universities, training providers and program partners abroad, and licensed immigration advisers, whose registration documents our team has checked. If you turn on "Visible to partners", they can see your anonymised profile. Your name, email and mobile number reach a partner only when you accept their introduction request, or when you apply to their program and tick the box on the application agreeing to share them. Partners cannot open your uploaded documents in our system; when you apply and agree, our team may send them to that program's partner. Your government ID is handled like your passport copy: only you and our team can open it, and a partner receives it only after you accept that partner's introduction or apply to their program and agree to share your documents. Partners agree, when they register, to use your details only to discuss their program with you, to keep them confidential, and to delete them if you ask.
- Our team, to review applications, introductions and partner verifications.
- Service providers that run the platform for us, only as needed and under their own security and privacy terms: Supabase (database, sign-in and file storage), Resend (emails we send you), Google (sign-in with Google, and the web fonts the site loads), Formspree (the contact form and newsletter sign-up) and Hostinger (website hosting). Some of them store data outside the Philippines.
- Authorities, if the law requires it.
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information, and we never share it with advertisers or with Philippine recruitment agencies.
How long we keep it
- Your account and profile: until you delete your account.
- After you ask us to delete your account, partners stop being able to find you straight away, and within 15 business days we delete your account, profile, uploaded documents, applications and introductions. We keep a record that you asked and when we did it (your email address and the date), and a log of account events without your name or contact details for up to 2 years, for security and accountability, plus anything else the law requires us to keep.
- A partner who already received your details through an introduction or an application keeps its own copy; they have agreed to delete it if you ask them.
- Contact form messages: up to 12 months.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
Your rights under R.A. 10173
- To be informed of how your data is used. That is what this page is for.
- To access your data, and to data portability: in your dashboard, go to Your answers › Your data › Download my data (partners: Account › Your data) for a copy in a standard format (JSON).
- To correct it: change any answer under Your answers, or ask us.
- To object and to withdraw consent: turn off "Visible to partners", decline an introduction, or unsubscribe from the newsletter.
- To erasure: in your dashboard, Your answers › Your data › Delete my account (partners: Account › Your data), or email us. You can cancel the request until we have done it.
- To file a complaint with the National Privacy Commission (privacy.gov.ph) if you believe we mishandled your data.
You can also email hello@studyeverywhere.ph with the subject "Data Privacy Request". We respond within 15 business days.
Cookies and browser storage
We don't use advertising cookies, analytics or tracking pixels. The site keeps a few items in your browser's storage so that it works:
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
Sign-in session (sb-…-auth-token) | Keeps you signed in | Until you sign out |
Notice dismissed (se_cookie_consent) | Stops the storage notice reappearing | Until you clear site data |
Site notice closed (se_notice_dismissed) | Stops a notice you closed showing again | Until you clear site data |
Latest site notice (se_notice_cache) | Saves asking again on every page | This browser tab only, for one minute |
| Eligibility check answers | Carries your /check.html answers into sign-up | Until you finish setting up your account |
| Where you came from (for example a program link) | Opens the right program after sign-up | This browser tab only |
| Notifications last seen | Marks which updates are new | Until you clear site data |
All of these are needed for the site to work, so they don't need your consent. You can clear them at any time in your browser settings; you will be signed out.
How we protect it
- HTTPS on every page of studyeverywhere.ph.
- Access rules enforced in our database: each person can read only their own records; partners see anonymised profiles only after we verify them; contact details are released only through the introduction and application steps described above.
- Uploaded documents are kept in private storage, readable only by you and our team.
- Our team's access is limited to what the work needs, and changes are logged.
No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your data, we will notify you and the National Privacy Commission as the law requires.
Age
StudyEverywhere PH is for people aged 18 or older; sign-up checks your date of birth. If you believe someone under 18 has an account, please email hello@studyeverywhere.ph and we will delete it.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy we update the date at the top of this page. For significant changes, for example a new kind of partner or a new use of your data, we will tell account holders by email or in their dashboard before the change applies.
See also our Terms of Service.
Questions about your privacy?
Write to us and we'll respond within 15 business days.
hello@studyeverywhere.ph