Learn about how we use cookies and tracking technologies to enhance your learning experience
Last Updated: January 15, 2025
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit websites. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide a better, more personalized user experience. At MakerMind Academy, we use cookies to enhance your learning journey and improve our educational platform.
These small files contain information that websites can read when you visit them again. Cookies help websites remember your preferences, login status, shopping cart contents, and other useful information that makes your browsing experience smoother and more convenient.
We use cookies to provide you with the best possible learning experience, remember your course progress, personalize content recommendations, and analyze how our platform is being used to make continuous improvements.
Cookies serve various purposes on our platform. They can remember your login credentials so you don't have to enter them every time, keep track of items in your course wishlist, remember your language preferences, and help us understand which courses are most popular among our students.
Without cookies, websites would treat every page visit as the first time you've ever visited, which would make for a frustrating and inefficient user experience. Cookies are essential for the modern web to function properly.
MakerMind Academy uses different types of cookies to serve various purposes on our platform. Understanding these different types helps you make informed decisions about your cookie preferences.
Session Cookies: These temporary cookies are deleted when you close your browser. They help maintain your session while you navigate through our courses and platform features.
Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them manually. They remember your preferences and settings for future visits.
First-Party Cookies: Set directly by MakerMind Academy, these cookies are essential for our platform's core functionality and your personalized learning experience.
Third-Party Cookies: Set by external services we use, such as analytics providers, payment processors, and social media platforms to enhance our services.
MakerMind Academy uses cookies for several important purposes that directly benefit your learning experience and help us improve our educational platform.
Cookies help us manage your user account securely by remembering your login status, preventing unauthorized access, and maintaining your session across different pages. This ensures that your course progress and personal information remain protected while providing seamless access to your learning materials.
We use cookies to personalize your learning journey by remembering your course preferences, tracking your progress through different modules, suggesting relevant courses based on your interests, and customizing the interface to match your learning style preferences.
Cookies help us understand how students interact with our platform, which features are most useful, where students might be experiencing difficulties, and how we can improve the overall user experience. This data is crucial for maintaining a high-quality educational platform.
We use cookies to remember your communication preferences, provide context-aware help and support, remember your language and regional settings, and ensure that important notifications reach you appropriately.
These cookies are necessary for basic website functionality and cannot be disabled. They handle user authentication, prevent cross-site request forgery attacks, and maintain secure connections throughout your session.
Duration: Session onlyEssential for tracking your progress through courses, remembering completed lessons, maintaining quiz results, and ensuring that your learning achievements are properly recorded.
Duration: Until course completionRequired for core platform features such as course video playback, file downloads, forum participation, and other interactive elements that are integral to your learning experience.
Duration: Session or up to 30 daysEssential cookies are automatically enabled and cannot be turned off as they are required for the basic operation of our educational platform. Disabling these cookies would prevent you from accessing courses, tracking progress, or using core platform features.
These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our platform, including popular courses, common navigation patterns, and areas where users spend the most time learning.
Duration: Up to 2 yearsHelp us identify technical issues, monitor website load times, track error rates, and ensure that our platform performs optimally across different devices and internet connections.
Duration: Up to 1 yearAllow us to test different versions of pages, features, or course layouts to determine which ones provide the best learning experience for our students.
Duration: Up to 90 daysPerformance cookies help us continuously improve our platform by providing insights into how students learn best, which features are most valuable, and where we can make enhancements to support your educational journey more effectively.
Remember your personal settings such as language preferences, video quality settings, notification preferences, and accessibility options to provide a customized learning experience.
Duration: Up to 1 yearEnable personalized course suggestions based on your learning history, interests, and goals. These cookies help us recommend courses that align with your creative interests and skill level.
Duration: Up to 6 monthsSupport social sharing functionality, community forum participation, and integration with social media platforms when you choose to connect your accounts.
Duration: Up to 30 daysFunctional cookies enhance your user experience by remembering your choices and preferences. While not essential for basic functionality, they significantly improve the usability and personalization of our platform.
Help us show you relevant advertisements for courses and content that match your interests, both on our platform and on other websites you visit. These cookies build a profile of your interests over time.
Duration: Up to 13 monthsTrack the effectiveness of our email campaigns, measure open rates and click-through rates, and help us improve our communication with students about new courses and updates.
Duration: Up to 2 yearsEnable social media sharing features and track engagement when you share course content or achievements on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn.
Duration: Varies by platformMarketing cookies are used with your consent to provide more relevant advertising and promotional content. You can opt out of marketing cookies while still enjoying full access to our educational content and platform features.
MakerMind Academy works with trusted third-party services to enhance our platform functionality and provide you with the best possible learning experience. These services may set their own cookies on your device.
We use Google Analytics and similar services to understand how our platform is used, identify popular content, and improve user experience. These services provide valuable insights while maintaining user privacy through data anonymization and aggregation.
Secure payment processors like Stripe and PayPal use cookies to ensure safe and reliable transaction processing. These cookies help prevent fraud, remember payment preferences, and provide a smooth checkout experience.
Video hosting services, content delivery networks, and media players may set cookies to optimize video streaming quality, remember playback preferences, and provide reliable access to course materials across different devices and internet connections.
Our customer support platform uses cookies to provide efficient help desk services, remember your support history, and enable real-time chat functionality when you need assistance with courses or technical issues.
We carefully select third-party services that meet our privacy and security standards. Each service has its own privacy policy governing how they handle your information.
You have control over how cookies are used on your device. MakerMind Academy provides several ways for you to manage your cookie preferences and maintain your privacy while still enjoying our educational services.
Use our cookie preference center to customize your cookie settings. You can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or select specific categories that you're comfortable with.
Our platform allows you to enable or disable different categories of cookies based on your preferences:
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by accessing the cookie settings from our website footer, visiting your account settings page, or clicking on the cookie notice if it appears on your screen. Changes take effect immediately for future page visits.
Most web browsers provide built-in tools for managing cookies. You can use these browser settings to control how cookies are handled across all websites you visit, not just MakerMind Academy.
Google Chrome: Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data. Here you can block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or manage cookies for specific sites.
Mozilla Firefox: Visit Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers options to block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or use strict privacy protection.
Safari: Navigate to Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data. Safari provides intelligent tracking prevention and options to block all cookies or cross-site tracking.
Microsoft Edge: Go to Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Cookies and site data. Edge offers balanced, strict, or custom cookie blocking options.
Mobile browsers and apps also provide cookie management options. On iOS devices, you can manage cookies through Safari settings in the main Settings app. Android users can control cookies through their browser settings or Chrome app preferences.
Blocking certain types of cookies may impact your experience on MakerMind Academy. Essential cookies are required for basic functionality, while blocking performance or functional cookies may reduce personalization and platform optimization capabilities.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. We are committed to keeping you informed about how we use cookies and tracking technologies.
When we make significant changes to this Cookie Policy, we will notify you through:
We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Policy to stay informed about our practices. Significant changes will be highlighted and explained in plain language to help you understand how they might affect your privacy and user experience.
Your continued use of our platform after cookie policy updates indicates your acceptance of the changes. If you disagree with policy updates, you can adjust your cookie preferences or contact us to discuss your concerns.
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, we're here to help:
Privacy Team: [email protected]
Phone Support: +1 (819) 824-3146
Mail: 490 Chem. de Vassan, Val-d'Or, QC J9P 0C1, Canada
Response Time: We typically respond to cookie-related inquiries within 2 business days.