What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. They help websites remember your preferences, recognize you on return visits, and improve your overall experience. Most modern websites use cookies in some form.

These files typically contain a unique identifier and information about your interaction with the site. They can be stored for different lengths of time, from a single session to several years, depending on their purpose.

When you visit Archivalcontext, we use cookies to provide essential functionality, analyze how students interact with our platform, and personalize the learning experience. This helps us continuously improve our courses and identify where students might need additional support.

How We Use Cookies

We implement cookies across our platform for several practical purposes. Understanding how these work helps you make informed decisions about your privacy preferences.

Essential Site Operations

Some cookies are necessary for basic functions like keeping you logged in during a session, remembering items in your course cart, or maintaining your quiz progress. Without these, you'd need to re-authenticate every time you navigate to a new page, which would make learning frustrating and inefficient.

Learning Experience Enhancement

We track which course sections you've completed, where you paused videos, and which quiz questions took longer to answer. This lets us pick up right where you left off and helps our instructors identify topics that might need clearer explanation.

Platform Performance Analysis

By monitoring how students navigate through courses, we identify bottlenecks in the learning flow. If many students abandon a particular section, that signals we need to rework the content or adjust the difficulty curve. These insights directly influence how we structure new courses.

Security and Fraud Prevention

Cookies help us detect unusual patterns that might indicate account sharing, unauthorized access, or automated bots attempting to scrape content. This protects both your personal information and our educational materials.

Types of Cookies We Use

Different cookies serve different purposes on our platform. Here's what each category does and why we use it:

Session cookies expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device until they reach their expiration date or you manually delete them. Most of our cookies fall into the persistent category because they need to remember your progress between study sessions.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our platform come from external services we integrate to provide better functionality. We carefully select these partners and only work with services that meet our privacy standards.

Video Hosting and Streaming

Our course videos are hosted through specialized platforms that optimize streaming quality based on your connection speed. These services use cookies to remember your playback preferences and reduce buffering times.

Analytics Services

We use professional analytics tools to understand how students interact with our platform. These services aggregate data across multiple sites, but we only receive anonymized reports about Archivalcontext specifically. We don't access any information about your activities on other websites.

Payment Processing

When you enroll in a course, our payment processor uses cookies to secure your transaction and prevent fraud. These are necessary for safe online commerce and expire shortly after your purchase completes.

We review our third-party integrations regularly and remove any that don't provide clear value to students. If a service doesn't directly improve your learning experience or platform security, we don't use it.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You control how cookies work on your device. While we recommend allowing cookies for the best learning experience, you have several options for managing them.

Browser Settings

All modern browsers let you view, manage, and delete cookies through their settings menu. You can typically block all cookies, allow only first-party cookies, or set exceptions for specific sites. Each browser handles this differently, so check your browser's help documentation for specific instructions.

Platform Preferences

Within your Archivalcontext account settings, you can adjust certain cookie preferences related to optional features. Essential cookies that enable core functionality cannot be disabled, but you have control over analytics and personalization features.

Impact of Blocking Cookies

Disabling cookies affects how our platform functions. You'll need to log in more frequently, your course progress might not save properly, and personalized recommendations won't work. Video playback settings will reset each session, and you may encounter errors during enrollment.

Mobile Device Settings

If you access Archivalcontext through a mobile browser, you can manage cookies through your device's browser settings. Native mobile apps don't use traditional browser cookies, but they do store similar data locally. Check your device's app permissions to control what information apps can access.

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies and site permissions