Terms & Conditions

House of Student Inc. (also referred as “we”, “our”, “us”) operates houseofstudent.com (also referred as “our Website”, “platform”, “site”).
 
A “cookie” is a small piece of information that’s stored on your device eg: phone, computer,  etc, when you visit any website. Cookies can make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while visiting a website. For example, a cookie could allow our Platform to recognize your browser, while another could store your preferences and other information. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information supplied by the you. A cookie cannot read data from your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites.  The use of cookies is an industry standard that can be found on most major websites.

In this Cookie Policy, we outline information about how we treat information stored in cookies, and process it with an aim to provide you a better experience when you browse our website. By accessing our Site, using our services and, where relevant expressly accepting this policy, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to the terms of this Cookie Policy. If you choose not to accept this Cookie Policy, some parts of our platform may not work as intended or work at all.

Why Do We Use These Cookies

Our platform uses these cookies for various purposes:

• To distinguish you from other users or registered members. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our Site.
• To tailor our services better to your needs. Many improvements and updates to our Site and services are based on such data and insights gathered.
• To show you content that is relevant to your needs and requirements in order to make experience of browsing our website easier for you.
• To monitor and analyse performance and effectiveness of our platform for our users.

The Cookies That We Use

• Cookies that are necessary are integral for the use of our website. These allow you to log into the secure sections of our website, eg: your personal portal.
• Cookies that used to recognize you when you return to our site. This means that you do not need to login each time you visit our website and allows us to customize our content to suit you needs.
• The cookies that record the number of visitors to our website and to monitor how the users use our website and move around different sections and pages. This helps us improve the way our site works and ensures that we give you the information you are looking for in the places you are looking.
• Cookies that allow us to compile visitor statistics such as how many people visit our Site, how they reach our Site, what type of technology they use, how much time they spend on our Site, what pages they look at, etc. This helps us to continuously improve our Site.
• Cookies that record when you visit our Site, the pages you visit and the links you follow. The information gathered through cookies is used by us and the third parties to make our Site and the advertisements displayed on it relevant to your interests. This information may also be shared with third parties for the same purpose.

Third Party Cookies

Our site may use third party cookies for advertisements displayed on our Site, which may are delivered by a third party such as an advertising management service. When you visit a page on our Website with such advertisements, the third party may retrieve a cookie from your device, if your cookies are enabled. Our third party marketing partners (e.g. Google, Facebook etc.) will use cookies to better target our paid channels.

The third parties may use cookies over which we have no control. These cookies are mostly for analytical purposes to track performance of advertisements on our website and show you relevant information.

Our Site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties and disabling the cookies may mean you cannot access the functions offered by these third parties. 

When you access our Site through social media or when we provide links to social media sites from our Site, be aware that the privacy implications vary for various social media platforms and will depend on the privacy settings you have chosen on these sites. Please refer to the social media site’s privacy and cookie policy for more information.

As a consequence of improving the user experience of the Site with third-party tools, third-party cookies from these services may be set while you visit the Site:

• Search Engines
• Social Networks
• Analytics
• Other platforms enabling display advertisements and other modes of advertisements

Note that some third-party cookies change over time and location, for example, A/B tests and display advertising cookies vary based on the user’s location and other attributes.

Your Options

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may alter your browser settings to decline these. The Help function within your browser should tell you how to do this. Doing so however is likely to limit the functionality of our site. Turning off or declining the Cookies may also mean that you may not be able to sign in, customize, or use some of the interactive features of the Platform.

Choosing to decline the cookie policy may mean that some parts of our platform may not work as intended or work at all.

Changes

We reserve the right to modify or amend the use of cookies at any time and for any reason. Any changes will be posted on our website and will take effect as soon as they are posted. By continuing to use our Site after any changes are posted you are indicating your acceptance of those changes.

This policy was last updated on 15 January 2025.