Cookie Policy
Understanding how Eduvoltra uses cookies and tracking technologies to enhance your learning experience
What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. These files contain information that helps websites remember your preferences, understand your usage patterns, and provide a more personalized experience. At Eduvoltra, we use various types of tracking technologies beyond traditional cookies, including web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage mechanisms.
These technologies serve multiple purposes on our platform. They help us remember your login status, track your progress through our quantitative analysis courses, save your preferences for statistical models, and analyze how users interact with our machine learning content. Without these tools, we wouldn't be able to provide the seamless, personalized educational experience that makes learning complex financial concepts more accessible.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are absolutely necessary for our website to function properly. They enable core functionality like secure login, course navigation, and shopping cart functionality for our premium content. You cannot disable these cookies without significantly impairing your ability to use our platform.
Functional Cookies
These enhance your experience by remembering your preferences, language settings, and previously viewed content. They help us provide personalized recommendations for quantitative analysis courses and remember your progress through our machine learning modules.
Analytical Cookies
We use these to understand how visitors interact with our educational content. They help us identify which statistical concepts are most challenging for students, which courses are most popular, and how we can improve our teaching methods for complex financial topics.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies help us deliver relevant advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. They track your interests in specific quantitative finance topics and help us show you content that aligns with your learning goals.
Specific Data We Collect
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
Our tracking technologies directly improve your learning experience in several meaningful ways. When you return to our platform, cookies remember exactly where you left off in your quantitative analysis coursework, maintain your personalized dashboard settings, and provide recommendations for the next logical step in your learning journey.
For example, if you've been working through our machine learning course series, our tracking systems remember your progress and can suggest related statistical concepts that will deepen your understanding. They also help us identify when students are struggling with particular concepts, allowing us to provide additional resources or alternative explanations for complex topics like portfolio optimization or risk modeling.
Our analytical tracking helps us continuously improve our educational content. By understanding which sections students find most challenging, we can create additional support materials, improve our explanations of complex quantitative concepts, and ensure our machine learning tutorials are accessible to learners at different skill levels.
Data Retention and Storage
We retain cookie data for varying periods depending on its purpose. Essential cookies remain active only during your session, while functional cookies may be stored for up to 12 months to remember your preferences. Analytical data is typically retained for 24 months to help us understand long-term learning patterns and improve our course offerings. Marketing cookies generally expire after 90 days, though some may persist longer to measure the effectiveness of our educational campaigns.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have complete control over how cookies are used on your device. Most modern browsers provide built-in tools to manage, block, or delete cookies according to your preferences. Here's how you can take control of your cookie settings:
Browser Settings
Access your browser's privacy or security settings to view, manage, or block cookies from Eduvoltra and other websites. You can typically find these options in your browser's preferences or settings menu.
Selective Blocking
Most browsers allow you to block third-party cookies while still accepting first-party cookies from Eduvoltra. This gives you more control while maintaining essential functionality for our learning platform.
Regular Cleanup
Set your browser to automatically delete cookies when you close it, or manually clear cookies periodically. Keep in mind this will require you to log in again and may reset your learning preferences.
Opt-Out Tools
Use industry opt-out tools for advertising cookies, or adjust your device's privacy settings to limit tracking across websites while still allowing essential functionality on Eduvoltra.
Browser-Specific Instructions
Google Chrome
Go to Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. Here you can block third-party cookies, clear existing cookies, or add specific sites to your allow or block lists.
Mozilla Firefox
Navigate to Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers enhanced tracking protection and detailed cookie management options.
Safari
Open Safari → Preferences → Privacy. Safari includes intelligent tracking prevention and allows you to manage website data and cookies individually.
Microsoft Edge
Go to Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data. Edge provides tracking prevention levels and detailed cookie management controls.
Impact of Disabling Cookies
While you can disable cookies, doing so will significantly impact your experience on Eduvoltra. Without essential cookies, you won't be able to remain logged in, access your course progress, or use our interactive quantitative analysis tools. Disabling functional cookies means you'll lose personalized recommendations and have to reset your preferences each time you visit.
Blocking analytical cookies prevents us from understanding how to improve our educational content and may result in a less optimized learning experience. However, we respect your privacy choices and will continue to provide access to our core educational content regardless of your cookie settings, though some features may be limited.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
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Phone: +27 63 262 4654
Address: 79 Jan Smuts Ave, Greenfields, East London, 5201, South Africa