Cookie Usage Policy
Understanding how we track and enhance your experience on vaxilora.com
At vaxilora, we're committed to being transparent about the tracking technologies we use on our financial model building education platform. This policy explains what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage your preferences. We believe in giving you control over your data while creating a better learning experience.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help sites remember your preferences and understand how you interact with content. Think of them as digital bookmarks that make your next visit smoother. Most websites today use them—not to spy on you, but to remember things like your login status or language preference. On vaxilora.com, we use cookies to improve how our financial education platform serves you.
Essential Cookies
These are the non-negotiables. Without them, basic functions like course access and secure logins wouldn't work properly. They're active during your session and disappear when you close your browser.
Keep you logged into your account, remember items in your learning cart, maintain secure connections throughout your session, enable navigation between course modules
Functional Cookies
These remember your choices to make your experience more personal. They stick around between visits so we can recall your preferences and settings.
Remember your preferred learning dashboard layout, save your progress in financial model tutorials, recall which courses you've bookmarked, store your timezone and regional settings
Analytical Cookies
We use these to understand how people interact with our course content. The data helps us spot what works well and what needs improvement, making our platform more effective for everyone.
Track which course modules are most popular, measure how long students spend on different topics, identify technical issues or confusing navigation, understand completion rates for different learning paths
Marketing Cookies
These track your journey across our site to show you relevant course recommendations and content that matches your interests. They help us avoid showing you information about courses you've already completed.
Suggest courses based on your learning history, remember which promotions you've seen, show content relevant to your skill level, prevent duplicate course recommendations
How We Use Cookies on vaxilora
Course Experience Enhancement
When you're working through complex financial modeling concepts, we save your progress automatically. If you close your browser mid-lesson, cookies help you pick up exactly where you left off—even if that's three days later.
Learning Pattern Analysis
We look at which sections students revisit most often. That tells us what topics need clearer explanations or additional examples. If everyone's rewatching the same video segment on DCF modeling, that's a signal we need to improve that content.
Platform Performance Monitoring
Cookies help us track page load times and identify technical glitches. When our video player acts up or a calculation tool freezes, we want to know about it before it affects too many students.
Personalized Learning Paths
By remembering your skill assessments and completed modules, we can recommend the next logical step in your financial education journey. Someone who's mastered basic Excel formulas gets different suggestions than someone starting from scratch.
Security and Fraud Prevention
Some cookies help us detect unusual login patterns or suspicious activity on your account. They're part of keeping your course access and personal information secure.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You're not stuck with our default settings. Most browsers let you control cookies through their privacy settings. Here's how to adjust things in common browsers:
Google Chrome
Navigate to Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. From there, you can block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or clear existing cookies. Keep in mind that blocking all cookies might break some features on vaxilora.com.
Mozilla Firefox
Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers enhanced tracking protection that blocks many third-party cookies by default. You can customize this to be stricter or more permissive.
Safari
Open Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data. Safari blocks most third-party cookies automatically. You can view and remove stored cookies individually or clear everything at once.
Microsoft Edge
Access Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies. Edge gives you granular control over which sites can store cookies and lets you create exception lists for trusted sites like vaxilora.com.
How Long Cookies Stay Active
Different cookies have different lifespans depending on their purpose. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser, while persistent cookies stick around until they expire or you delete them manually.
Here's a breakdown of our typical retention periods:
| Cookie Type | Typical Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Session Authentication | Until browser closes | Keeps you logged in while browsing |
| Learning Progress | 12 months | Remembers completed modules and assessments |
| User Preferences | 24 months | Stores dashboard layout and display settings |
| Analytics Tracking | 6 months | Helps us understand platform usage patterns |
| Marketing Optimization | 3 months | Improves course recommendation accuracy |
Third-Party Services
We work with external services to deliver certain features. For example, we use video hosting platforms for course content and analytics tools to measure engagement. These services may set their own cookies when you interact with embedded content on vaxilora.com. We choose partners carefully, but they operate under their own privacy policies. If you're concerned about specific third-party cookies, check those companies' policies directly or use browser extensions that block third-party tracking.
Updates to This Policy
As we add new features or adjust how we track usage, this policy might change. When we make significant updates, we'll notify active users through email and display a notice on the platform. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this page shows when we last revised the policy. We recommend checking back occasionally, especially if you're particular about privacy settings. Continuing to use vaxilora.com after policy updates means you accept the changes, so staying informed helps you maintain control over your data.
Questions About Our Cookie Usage?
If something in this policy isn't clear or you want to discuss your data preferences, reach out to us directly.