Cookie Policy

1. What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on a browser or device when a website is visited. Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits, and identifiers used by a website, payment provider, learning platform, analytics service, or embedded media service. In this policy, “cookies” refers collectively to these technologies where appropriate.

Cookies can be temporary and expire when a browser session ends, or persistent and remain until their stated expiration, manual deletion, or replacement. They may be set directly by Westora Learning or by a third party whose service is used on the website.

2. Why cookies may be used

Westora Learning may use cookies to make pages function, protect forms and sessions, remember selections, maintain cart or enrollment state, process payments, measure traffic, identify errors, understand how visitors navigate content, and evaluate whether communications lead visitors to relevant pages.

The technologies actually present may change as website, commerce, learning, or analytics providers are added or removed. A consent interface, where shown, provides the most current categories available for optional control.

3. Strictly necessary cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions such as page delivery, network security, fraud prevention, checkout, session continuity, privacy preferences, load balancing, and access to purchased content. The website may not function correctly without them, so they generally cannot be disabled through a site preference tool.

You may be able to block these cookies in browser settings, but doing so can prevent forms, checkout, saved preferences, accounts, or learning-platform access from working.

4. Functional cookies

Functional cookies may remember settings such as display preferences, media controls, selected program information, or prior choices. They help provide a more consistent experience but are not always required for the basic website to load. Disabling them may cause a preference to be requested again or limit an enhanced function.

5. Analytics and performance cookies

Analytics technologies may collect information about page views, navigation paths, approximate location derived from an internet address, browser type, device category, referring page, time on page, errors, and general interaction. Westora Learning uses this information in aggregate or pseudonymous form to understand site performance and improve content organization.

Analytics cookies are used only when configured and, where required, after consent. Analytics providers may process information under their own terms. Westora Learning does not use website analytics as a substitute for evaluating an individual’s educational ability or professional suitability.

6. Marketing and measurement cookies

If enabled, marketing technologies may help measure whether an advertisement or campaign led to a visit, limit repeated advertising, or present information considered more relevant based on website activity. These technologies may connect activity across sites or devices when permitted by the provider and the user’s settings.

Marketing cookies are optional and should not be set before any consent required by applicable law. Westora Learning does not sell course grades, coaching content, or private assignment responses for targeted advertising.

7. Embedded media and learning tools

Videos, virtual-class tools, payment interfaces, scheduling tools, forms, and learning-platform features may place cookies when loaded or used. These third-party services can receive technical information such as device identifiers and internet addresses. Their own privacy and cookie notices govern their independent processing.

Where practical, optional embedded content may be withheld until a visitor makes an appropriate cookie selection. Some essential service providers may still process limited technical data needed to deliver a requested function.

8. First-party and third-party cookies

A first-party cookie is set for the domain the visitor is using. A third-party cookie is set by another organization that supplies a feature or service. Westora Learning selects providers for practical website and learning functions but does not control every technical decision made by an independent third party.

9. Cookie duration

Duration varies by purpose. Session cookies generally expire after the browser closes. Persistent cookies may remain for days or months, subject to provider configuration, legal requirements, and user deletion. Westora Learning seeks to avoid retaining optional identifiers longer than reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.

10. Managing preferences

When a cookie-preference tool is available, visitors can use it to accept or reject optional categories. Browser controls may also delete stored cookies, block future cookies, or notify the user before storage. Settings must be adjusted separately for each browser, profile, or device.

Deleting cookies may also delete a recorded preference, requiring the website to ask again. Rejecting optional cookies should not block basic public content, though certain media, personalization, or measurement functions may be limited.

11. Do Not Track and opt-out signals

Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not interpreted consistently across the industry. Where legally required and technically supported, Westora Learning will seek to recognize applicable opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for the processing to which the signal applies.

12. Relationship to the Privacy Policy

Cookies can involve personal information. The Privacy Policy explains the categories of information collected, purposes of use, service providers, retention, security, and privacy rights. This Cookie Policy should be read together with that policy.

13. Updates

This policy may be updated when technologies, providers, or legal requirements change. The updated date at the top identifies the current version. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or preference interface where appropriate.