Effective date: [2026-10-19]

Who we are

Degree in China (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates the website https://degreeinchina.com (the “Site”). The Site provides guides, planning tools, and reference materials for international students who are considering or attending university in China.

For any privacy question, contact us at: [INSERT EMAIL] or through our Contact page: https://degreeinchina.com/contact/

2. What data we collect

We collect only what is needed to operate and improve the Site.

Cookies and similar technologies: See Section 4.

Comments: If you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comment form (name, email, comment text), plus your IP address and browser user-agent string to help with spam detection.

Contact messages: If you message us, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.

Tool inputs: Text or selections you enter into our interactive tools (for example the cost calculator, scholarship checker, and Chinese text annotator) are processed in your browser to generate your result. Inputs are not transmitted to or stored on our servers, and we do not sell this data.

Analytics: We use privacy-respecting analytics to understand aggregate usage, such as pages viewed, approximate region, and device type. This is not used to identify you personally.

3. How we use your data

  • To display, maintain, and improve the Site
  • To respond to your messages
  • To moderate comments and prevent spam
  • To measure, in aggregate, how the Site is used

We do not sell your personal data. We do not share it with third parties except as described in this policy.

4. Cookies and advertising

We use cookies and similar technologies. Some are essential for the Site to function; others help us understand usage or serve advertising.

Advertising (Google AdSense). We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on the Site. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies — including the DART cookie — to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.

If you are in the EEA, UK, or another region with a comparable requirement, we request consent for non-essential cookies and personalized advertising through our cookie consent banner before they are set.

5. Third-party content and links

Some pages may embed content from other websites (for example maps or videos). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that website directly. We also link to official sources such as university admissions pages and government portals; those sites have their own privacy policies.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example the GDPR in the EEA, the UK GDPR in the United Kingdom, and the CCPA/CPRA in California), you have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data, and to object to or restrict its processing. To exercise any of these rights, contact [INSERT EMAIL]. We respond within the timeframes required by applicable law.

7. Data retention

  • Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
  • Contact-form messages are kept only as long as needed to handle your inquiry, after which they are deleted or anonymized.
  • Analytics data is kept in aggregate, anonymized form.

8. Children

The Site is intended for prospective university students, who are generally adults. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 without parental consent.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of this page shows the latest revision.

10. Contact

Questions about this privacy policy can be sent to [degreeinchina@hotmail.com] or through our Contact page: https://degreeinchina.com/contact/