Course Shortlist PDF

Eccho Overseas

Privacy Policy

Effective & last updated:

Local-first privacy summary: Eccho Overseas — Course Shortlist PDF parses your Excel files, generates personalised A4 PDFs, and saves interactive checklist selections strictly inside your own browser. Student names, spreadsheets, and checklist answers are never transmitted to Eccho Overseas or any third-party server.

1. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Eccho Overseas — Course Shortlist Converter web application (hosted at ecchooverseas.co.in) and the companion Google Chrome extension Eccho Overseas — Course Shortlist PDF.

2. Data You Provide & How It Is Used

To prepare your personalised UK university shortlist PDF, the tool works strictly with the files and entries you provide during your browser session:

  • Student Name: Used locally to label the PDF header (Prepared for [Student Name]), guidance pages, document checklist, and downloaded PDF filename.
  • Excel Course Shortlist (.xlsx / .xlsm): Read in browser memory to extract university names, website URLs, course titles, campus locations, tuition fees, scholarships, academic entry criteria, and English language requirements.
  • Checklist Selections & Optional Uploaded Logos: Used locally to populate pre-ticked checkboxes inside your downloaded PDF and optionally display your uploaded agency or university logo files.

The application does not collect, ask for, or store passport numbers, bank statements, financial evidence, passwords, payment cards, or personal student documents.

3. Local Storage & Chrome Permissions

The web application holds active session data only in memory while the tab is open. Inside the Chrome extension, permissions are scoped to the minimum needed for functionality:

  • storage permission (Chrome Extension): Uses chrome.storage.session on your device solely to preserve your current shortlist, student name, checklist state, and loaded logos if you reload or switch back to the converter tab within the same browser session. We do not use chrome.storage.sync, so data is never synced to Google servers.
  • Optional website host access (https://*/*, http://*/*): Requested only on demand when you import a shortlist inside the extension and explicitly click Grant Host Access & Find Logos (or Allow for an image host). Access is used strictly to fetch public official university logos from their homepage HTML, stylesheets, and image URLs so logos can be embedded offline inside your PDF.

Logo discovery requests use cookie-free anonymous GET requests and never send student names, course details, or spreadsheet contents to university websites.

Summary of Data Processing & Retention
Category Purpose Shared Externally Retention
Student Name & Excel Data Local PDF generation & preview Never transmitted Memory / Chrome session only; cleared on Reset or tab close
Checklist Ticks & Uploaded Images Pre-populate interactive PDF form & branding Never transmitted Memory / Chrome session only; cleared on Reset or tab close
University Website URLs Fetch public official university logo bytes (opt-in) Anonymous GET only to that domain Cached in browser session memory until Reset or tab close
Analytics, Ads & Tracking Cookies Not used None None collected

4. Third-Party Services & Links

This application and Chrome extension do not use third-party analytics, crash-reporting SDKs, advertising networks, cookies, or external font/script CDNs. All PDF fonts and processing libraries run locally inside the bundled application.

Generated PDFs and the UK Application Process guide contain clickable external links to official government resources (such as GOV.UK and UKCISA) and to the universities listed in your shortlist. Opening those links takes you directly to third-party websites governed by their own privacy policies.

5. Retention & Your Controls

  • Clear session immediately: Click Reset in the converter header to wipe the entered Student Name, imported workbook, checklist state, uploaded images, and cached logos right away.
  • Automatic session cleanup: Closing the web page or closing all extension converter tabs automatically clears browser memory and chrome.storage.session.
  • Revoke Chrome site access: In Chrome, open chrome://extensions → Eccho Overseas — Course Shortlist PDF → Details → Site access to review or revoke permission for any university domain, or uninstall the extension to remove all extension data.

6. Updates to This Privacy Policy

If we update features, extension permissions, or data-handling practices in a future release, we will update this page and revise the Effective & last updated date at the top before publishing the updated release.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions or privacy requests regarding the Eccho Overseas Course Shortlist Converter or Chrome extension, please contact us:

Organisation
Eccho Overseas
Email
info@ecchouk.co.uk
Website
https://www.ecchooverseas.co.in/