Cookie and Data Usage Policy
Effective Date: January 15, 2025
At TechFlowByteOn, we believe in complete transparency about how we collect and use data to enhance your learning experience. This policy explains our approach to tracking technologies and gives you control over your privacy preferences.
Understanding Our Tracking Technologies
Our educational platform uses various tracking technologies to provide you with a personalized and effective learning experience. Think of these as digital tools that help us remember your preferences, track your progress, and improve our services based on how students interact with our content.
We implement these technologies responsibly, focusing on educational enhancement rather than intrusive monitoring. Every piece of data we collect serves a specific purpose in making your server management learning journey more effective and enjoyable.
Essential Cookies
These are absolutely necessary for our platform to function. They handle your login sessions, course progress, and basic security features. Without these, you simply couldn't use our educational services effectively.
Learning Analytics
We track how you interact with course materials to identify areas where students commonly struggle. This helps us improve content and provide better support where it's needed most.
Performance Monitoring
These tools help us monitor site speed, identify technical issues, and ensure our platform runs smoothly across different devices and browsers that our students use.
Functional Enhancement
We remember your preferences like language settings, course bookmarks, and display options to make your return visits more convenient and personalized.
How We Use Your Data
Your data helps us create a better educational experience in several specific ways. When you're working through our server management courses, we track completion rates and time spent on different topics. This isn't about monitoring you personally – it's about understanding which concepts need clearer explanation or additional practice exercises.
Course Improvement
If we notice that 70% of students replay a particular video section multiple times, that tells us the content might need better explanation. We use this insight to create supplementary materials or restructure lessons for clarity.
Technical Optimization
We monitor loading times, error rates, and device compatibility to ensure our platform works well for everyone. Students in Taiwan might have different internet speeds or device preferences, so we optimize accordingly.
- Personalizing your dashboard and course recommendations
- Remembering where you left off in course modules
- Providing relevant study materials based on your progress
- Sending helpful reminders about upcoming assignments or deadlines
- Generating progress reports that help you track your learning journey
- Identifying and fixing technical issues that might disrupt your studies
Data Retention and Your Control
We keep your learning data for as long as you're actively using our platform, plus an additional 12 months after account closure to handle any potential issues. You can request complete data deletion at any time, and we'll process your request within 30 days.
Managing Your Privacy Settings
You have complete control over how we track your activity. While some essential functions require basic cookies to work, you can adjust most other tracking preferences through your browser settings or directly within your TechFlowByteOn account.
Browser-Based Controls
Every major browser gives you tools to manage cookies and tracking. Here's how to access these controls:
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
Firefox
Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
Edge
Settings → Site Permissions → Cookies and stored data
Platform-Specific Controls
Within your TechFlowByteOn account, you can access detailed privacy controls in your profile settings. You can choose to opt out of learning analytics (though this might make your experience less personalized), disable email notifications based on your activity, and control what data appears in your progress reports.
Third-Party Services
We work with a limited number of trusted service providers who help us deliver our educational content effectively. These include video hosting services for our course content, analytics providers who help us understand user behavior, and communication tools for student support.
Each of these partners has been carefully selected based on their privacy practices and compliance with international data protection standards. We don't sell your data to third parties or share it for marketing purposes outside of our educational mission.
Educational Partners
Some of our course content is delivered through partnerships with technology companies and educational institutions. When you interact with these materials, minimal data about your progress may be shared to ensure proper course completion tracking and certification processes.
Questions About Our Data Practices?
We're committed to transparency and are always happy to explain our data practices in more detail. If you have specific questions about how we handle your information or want to exercise your privacy rights, please reach out to us.