What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. At phelanorvixa, we use various tracking technologies including HTTP cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience and understand how you interact with our platform.
These technologies help us remember your preferences, analyze website performance, and provide personalized content. We believe in transparency about how these tools work and what information they collect.
Types of Tracking Technologies We Use
Essential Cookies We Cannot Disable
How We Use Tracking Information
The data collected through cookies helps us improve your experience in several ways. We analyze traffic patterns to identify which content is most valuable to our users, optimize loading speeds, and ensure our platform works smoothly across different devices and browsers.
For functional purposes, cookies remember your account preferences, course progress, and interface customizations. This means you don't have to reset your preferences each time you visit our site.
Analytics data helps us understand which educational resources are most effective, where users encounter difficulties, and how we can enhance our learning platform. This information is aggregated and doesn't identify individual users personally.
Data Retention and Storage
Different types of cookies have varying lifespans. Session cookies expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device for predetermined periods ranging from 30 days to 2 years, depending on their purpose.
Essential cookies typically last for the duration of your session, while preference cookies may be stored for up to one year. Analytics and marketing cookies generally have longer retention periods to provide meaningful insights and campaign tracking.
You can manually delete cookies through your browser settings at any time, though this may affect your user experience and require you to re-enter preferences and login information.
Managing Your Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookie behavior through their settings menus. You can choose to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or receive notifications before cookies are set.
Popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge each have different methods for managing cookies. Generally, you'll find these options under "Privacy" or "Security" settings in your browser's preferences menu.
Be aware that blocking all cookies may limit website functionality. Some features of phelanorvixa.com may not work properly if essential cookies are disabled, though most browsers allow exceptions for necessary cookies.
Third-Party Services and Integration
Our website integrates with various third-party services for analytics, customer support, and enhanced functionality. These services may set their own cookies with separate privacy policies and retention periods.
We work with reputable service providers who maintain high data protection standards. However, we recommend reviewing the privacy policies of these third-party services to understand their specific data handling practices.
When you reject non-essential cookies through our preference center, we also signal to compliant third-party services to respect your privacy choices where technically possible.