What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. These files contain information that can be retrieved during subsequent visits to enhance your browsing experience. Beyond traditional cookies, we also employ various other tracking technologies that serve similar purposes.

Our website utilizes several types of tracking mechanisms, each serving specific functions to improve your experience with our cooking skills platform. These technologies help us understand how visitors interact with our content, remember your preferences, and provide personalized learning experiences.

The tracking technologies we use include traditional HTTP cookies, local storage objects, web beacons, pixel tags, and session identifiers. Each technology has specific characteristics and purposes in creating a seamless user experience on our platform.

Types of Cookies We Use

We categorize our tracking technologies into several types based on their function and necessity for website operation. Understanding these categories helps you make informed decisions about your privacy preferences.

How We Use Tracking Information

The information collected through our tracking technologies serves multiple purposes in enhancing your learning experience on our cooking skills platform. We use this data responsibly and in accordance with privacy best practices.

• Personalizing content recommendations based on your learning interests and progress through different cooking modules
• Remembering your account preferences, including notification settings, preferred cooking categories, and lesson bookmarks
• Analyzing website performance to identify popular recipes, successful learning paths, and areas needing improvement
• Providing technical functionality such as maintaining your login session and ensuring secure access to premium content
• Measuring engagement with our educational content to develop more effective cooking tutorials and skill-building exercises
• Delivering relevant promotional content about new courses, seasonal recipes, and special learning opportunities
• Preventing fraudulent activity and maintaining the security of user accounts and payment information
• Conducting research and analysis to improve our teaching methodologies and course effectiveness

We also use aggregated, non-personally identifiable information from tracking technologies to understand broader trends in cooking education and skill development. This helps us stay current with learner needs and industry developments.

Data Retention and Storage

Different types of tracking technologies have varying retention periods based on their purpose and legal requirements. We maintain clear policies about how long we store different categories of tracking information.

Essential cookies typically remain active only during your browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser. However, some essential cookies may persist for up to 30 days to maintain basic functionality across visits.

Functional cookies generally have longer retention periods, often lasting between 6 months to 2 years, depending on the specific functionality they support. These extended periods allow us to remember your preferences and provide consistent experiences across multiple visits.

Analytical cookies usually have retention periods ranging from 1 month to 2 years. This duration allows us to analyze trends and patterns in website usage while balancing privacy considerations with the need for meaningful data analysis.

Marketing cookies typically have shorter retention periods, usually between 30 days to 1 year, though this can vary based on the specific advertising partners and campaign requirements.

Third-Party Tracking Technologies

Our website may include tracking technologies from third-party service providers that help us deliver enhanced functionality and analyze website performance. These partners have their own privacy policies and cookie practices.

Third-party analytics providers help us understand user behavior patterns and website performance metrics. While we carefully select these partners based on their privacy practices, they may collect information according to their own policies.

Social media platforms may place tracking technologies on our site if we include social sharing buttons or embedded content. These technologies operate under the privacy policies of the respective social media companies.

Advertising networks and marketing platforms may use tracking technologies to deliver relevant advertisements and measure campaign effectiveness. We work only with reputable partners who comply with industry privacy standards.

We regularly review our third-party partnerships to ensure they align with our commitment to user privacy and data protection. However, we recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with through our website.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our tracking practices, legal requirements, or service improvements. When we make significant changes, we will notify users through prominent website notices or email communications.

Minor updates, such as clarifications or formatting improvements, may be made without advance notice. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about our tracking practices.

The effective date at the top of this policy indicates when the current version was last updated. Continued use of our website after policy updates constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

If you have questions about policy changes or need clarification about how updates might affect you, please contact us using the information provided below.