Cookie & Data Usage Policy
Understanding how ByteOnWaveHub uses tracking technologies to enhance your learning experience and improve our educational platform.
How We Use Tracking Technologies
ByteOnWaveHub uses various tracking technologies including cookies, web beacons, and local storage to provide you with a personalized educational experience. These tools help us remember your progress through our front-end development courses, optimize our website performance, and understand how students interact with our learning materials.
When you visit our platform, these technologies work behind the scenes to ensure seamless navigation between lessons, save your coding preferences, and maintain your login session. We believe in transparency about how these tools function and what data they collect during your learning journey.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for basic website functionality and cannot be disabled. They enable core features like user authentication and course progress tracking.
What they do:
- Maintain your login session
- Remember your course enrollment
- Store your learning preferences
- Enable secure form submissions
Functional Cookies
These enhance your learning experience by remembering choices you make, such as your preferred code editor theme or video playback speed.
Examples include:
- Code editor customization settings
- Video player preferences
- Language and region settings
- Accessibility options you've selected
Analytics Cookies
We use these to understand how students navigate our courses and identify areas where we can improve the learning experience.
They help us track:
- Most popular course sections
- Time spent on different lessons
- Common points where students pause
- Device and browser compatibility
How Your Data Enhances Learning
The information we collect through tracking technologies directly improves your educational experience. Here's how different types of data collection work to benefit your learning journey at ByteOnWaveHub.
Essential Data Collection
This data is crucial for delivering our core educational services. Without it, you wouldn't be able to access your courses or track your progress.
Functional Enhancements
These tracking methods remember your preferences and choices, making each visit to ByteOnWaveHub feel familiar and tailored to your learning style.
Learning Analytics
We analyze anonymized usage patterns to improve our curriculum and identify where students might need additional support or resources.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have complete control over how tracking technologies work on your device. Most browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies according to your preferences. Here's how to access these controls in popular browsers.
Google Chrome
- Click the three dots menu → Settings
- Navigate to Privacy and security
- Select Cookies and other site data
- Choose your preferred settings
- Use "See all cookies and site data" for detailed control
Mozilla Firefox
- Open menu → Settings → Privacy & Security
- Scroll to Cookies and Site Data
- Click "Manage Data" for specific sites
- Adjust Enhanced Tracking Protection settings
- Set exceptions for trusted educational sites
Safari
- Safari menu → Preferences → Privacy
- Choose cookie blocking preferences
- Click "Manage Website Data"
- Remove or allow specific sites
- Enable "Prevent cross-site tracking" if desired
Microsoft Edge
- Settings menu → Cookies and site permissions
- Select "Cookies and site data"
- Choose blocking level and exceptions
- Use "See all cookies and site data" for management
- Configure tracking prevention settings
Data Retention and Your Control
Different types of information are kept for varying periods based on their purpose and legal requirements. We believe you should know exactly how long we retain different categories of data and how you can request changes.
Months Maximum Retention
Data Retention Schedule
- Essential cookies Session only
- Learning progress data Account lifetime
- Analytics data 24 months
- Preference settings 12 months
- Support interactions 36 months
You can request deletion of your data at any time by contacting our support team. Some essential records may be retained longer for legal compliance, but we'll explain any exceptions clearly.
Questions About Our Data Practices?
We're committed to transparency about how we use tracking technologies. If you have questions about this policy, need help managing your preferences, or want to understand more about our data practices, we're here to help.
Nantun District, Taichung City
Taiwan 40854