Zenith Academy Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Zenith Academy ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, zenithacademy.edu (the "Website"). This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which provides further details on how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser and will be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the website. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted once you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly. They enable you to navigate the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages are visited most often and if they receive error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our Website works. For example, we use Google Analytics to understand how customers use our site so we can improve the user experience.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting or Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Types of Cookies We Use
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the specific types of cookies you might encounter on Zenith Academy:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. Examples include:
- Session Management Cookies: These help maintain your session while you browse, ensuring you stay logged in and your preferences are remembered as you navigate the site.
- Security Cookies: These are used to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized access.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose. Examples include:
- Google Analytics Cookies: These track website traffic and user behavior, such as pages visited, time spent on each page, and referral sources. This data is aggregated and anonymized.
- Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Examples include:
- Language Preference Cookies: These remember your preferred language so you don't have to select it every time you visit.
- Theme Preference Cookies: If you've selected a dark or light theme, this cookie will remember your choice for future visits.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Currently Zenith Academy does not employ third-party advertising.
How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:
- Browser Settings: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
- Specific Cookie Opt-Outs: For specific cookies, such as those used by Google Analytics, you can use browser add-ons or other tools to opt-out. Google provides a browser add-on that allows you to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Cookie Consent Tools: Some websites use cookie consent tools that allow you to manage your cookie preferences directly on the site. Zenith Academy may implement such a tool in the future.
Please note that if you delete your cookies or use a different browser or computer, you will need to renew your cookie preferences.
Cookies Used on Zenith Academy
The following table lists the cookies we use on our Website, their purpose, and their duration:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 24 hours |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves users states across page requests. | Session |
| language_preference | Remembers the user's selected language. | 1 year |
Changes to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post any changes to this Cookies Policy on our Website and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Cookies Policy periodically to stay informed about our use of cookies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
Zenith Academy
555 Market Street, Suite 1700
San Francisco, CA 94105
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (415) 555-0100
This Cookies Policy was last updated on October 26, 2023.