User agent
To keep college details correct, the Admissions Guide reads the public web pages of colleges and universities: contact pages, notices, admission dates, addresses and logos. When it does, it identifies itself with this user agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
What it reads
- Only public pages anyone can open: home, contact, about, affiliation, notices and admission pages, and the college's logo.
- It never logs in, fills in forms, submits applications or downloads anything behind a password.
- It follows each website's robots.txt. Pages a site disallows are not read.
How often
- A handful of pages per college, only when its details are being checked or updated.
- At least 3 seconds between two requests to the same website.
- Some sites block simple scripts. Then the same pages are opened once in a normal browser, with the same user agent.
What is kept
- Only the institution's own details: office phone numbers, institution or office email addresses, website, codes, dates and address.
- Personal email addresses and a person's own phone number are left off, even if a website lists them.
- Details are checked by hand before they appear on this site.
Contact
To ask us to stop reading your website, correct a detail, or report a problem, write to [email protected]. Please include your website's address.
Maps and route data come from OpenStreetMap services, which are contacted with a separate agent that names this guide, as their usage policy asks.