What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be either "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
Think of cookies like little notes that a website leaves on your computer. These notes help the website remember you, your preferences, and how you interacted with it. This allows for a more personalized and efficient browsing experience. For instance, cookies can remember your login details so you don't have to enter them every time you visit a specific page.
How We Use Cookies
Apex Learning Academy uses cookies for several reasons, including:
- Essential Website Functionality: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for, like secure login areas, cannot be provided.
- Performance and Analytics: We use cookies to analyze how our website is accessed, used, or is performing. We use this information to maintain, operate, and continually improve our website. For example, these cookies allow us to track which pages are most popular, identify patterns of usage, and detect and address technical issues.
- Personalization: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use our website, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our website which you can customize. The goal of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience so that you don't have to reset your preferences each time you visit our website.
- Advertising: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
The data collected through cookies helps us understand our students' needs better, enabling us to refine our course offerings, improve the website's user interface, and tailor marketing campaigns more effectively. At Apex Learning Academy, we strive to provide a seamless and beneficial learning experience for all our students.
Types of Cookies We Use
The following types of cookies may be used when you visit the Apex Learning Academy website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Without these, the website cannot function correctly.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Specifically, some cookies we use include:
- Google Analytics: Used to track website traffic and user behavior. Google Privacy Policy
- Session Cookies: Essential for managing user sessions and maintaining state during navigation.
- Preference Cookies: Used to remember user preferences such as language and theme settings.
We regularly review and update the cookies we use to ensure they are relevant and necessary. You can find a detailed list of the cookies currently in use on our website, along with their purpose and expiration date, in the settings section of your browser or by contacting our support team at [email protected].
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings within your web browser.
- Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Specific Cookies: If you wish to disable specific cookies, you may need to do so through the settings provided by the third-party provider. For example, to opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website and your experience while browsing. We encourage you to consider the benefits of cookies for personalization and improved performance before making a decision.
By continuing to use our website without changing your cookie settings, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookies Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, please adjust your browser settings accordingly.
Updates to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Cookies Policy on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Apex Learning Academy
600 Congress Ave, Suite 1400, Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 555-0101
Email: [email protected]