Cookie Policy 

Last Updated: November 01, 2024

Polkadot Blockchain Academy (we, us, our) uses cookies and similar technologies on polkadot.academy and affiliated sites (Site) to distinguish you from other users and to help us provide you with a great experience when you browse our Site.

This Cookies Policy (Policy) explains how and why we use cookies in connection with your visits to our Site. It will also tell you which cookies we use and give you some information about cookies placed on our Site by third parties. Please read this Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal data and your rights in respect of your data.

Throughout our Site we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional information, products and services available to you. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate policies. For privacy information relating to these third-party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that, if you agree to, we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or your other devices (Devices) and which let us make your experience with the Site and our services better, more efficient, and generally more relevant to you. The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them on our Site and through your browser (see the How to manage cookies section below).

Types of cookies.

There are different types of cookies.

• Session Cookies. Session cookies are stored temporarily on the memory of your Devices while you are visiting the Site and are erased once you close your browser.
• Persistent Cookies. Persistent cookies are stored for a predetermined amount of time, which varies from cookie to cookie. Persistent cookies are stored longer than the session cookies, but ultimately expire after their preset timespan. Persistent Cookies help us to understand whether you have previously visited our Site.
• First Party and Third-Party Cookies. First Party cookies are set directly by the Site or by any of the subdomains of the Site. Third Party cookies are set by websites and other third parties not managed by us, such as other data processors or other technology partners (See below).

How do we use cookies?

The following list is merely for illustrative purposes and is not intended to be exhaustive.

• Authenticating you as a user on the Site, keeping your login session active, and remembering how you prefer to store your login information on the Site or otherwise in connection with your use of our services.
• Gathering information necessary to track the tab or specific part of the Site you are accessing.
• Providing specific content to you as part of your particular geographic region and/or to keep track of applicable time zone settings.
• To identify your language preferences so that the Site can choose and remember the language in which material should be shown to you.
• Identifying and assessing the capability of your device to deliver various content depending on the browser or device you use.

What categories of cookies do we use?

• Essential cookies. We may store cookies on your device if they are necessary to enable us to operate the Site or offer and provide our services. These cookies are required for you to navigate through the Site and benefit from all its features. They cannot be switched off and are set for very basic options on the Site, such as logging in, forms and set preferences such as time zone or language.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies are used to help us learn how you interact with the Site and its features, which parts you use the most, and how you otherwise engage with any services we offer. This helps us track various usage statistics and enables us to better understand the amount of time you spend on the Site and interact with us. These statistics are intended to help us to improve the Site and our services.
• Functional Cookies. These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example your choice of language or region).
• Social Media Cookies. These cookies are set for social media services. They enable you to share parts of the Site on various social media platforms. These cookies can track some of your actions which helps to build up a profile of your interests with the goal of improving your experience.
• Targeting or Advertising Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Site, the content and the advertising displayed more relevant to your interest. We may also share this information with selected third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with the relevant advertising on their websites.
• Cookies are also used to collect information about your interests and preferences for the purposes of what is called “interest-based advertising”. It is used by third party companies to send you offers about products and services tailored to your inferred interests. You may turn off these cookies in which case you may still receive advertisements, but they are not likely to be specifically tailored to your interests.

You can find more about the individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them in the table below.

 

Elementor - Essential Cookie
Google Analytics- Analytical & Performance Cookie
Google Analytics - Essential Cookie
WordPress_[hash] - Essential Cookie
wordpress_logged_in_[hash]: - Essential Cookie
wp-settings-{time}-[UID]: - Essential Cookie
wordpress_test_cookie - Essential Cookie
capterra - Analytical & Performance Cookie

 Our Site uses third-party embedded content or allows certain features from external providers as described below. Please be aware that if you click, view or interact with third party content in any way additional third-party cookies may be placed on your browser or Devices by them. These external third parties have their own terms and conditions and cookie policies, over which we have no control. We do not directly place these cookies or receive any information about them.

Our Site uses the following external providers:

• YouTube
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Medium.com
• Github
• Polkadot.com
• Web3 Foundation
• Parity.io
• Discord
• Academic Partners

How to manage cookies.

You may stop or restrict the placement of non-necessary cookies and other tracking technologies. You can do this by clicking on the cookie consent management tool on our Site. You can also block them on your Devices or remove them and adjust the cookies preferences setting on your browser. Please visit the individual help pages of your browser for assistance with this.

Please note that if you delete, reject or refuse to accept cookies, parts of our Site may become unavailable to you, may not function properly or you may be unable to log into or store preferences.

More detail on how we and/or other companies use cookies is available at www.cookiesandyou.com.

CONTACT US:
If you have any queries regarding this Policy, please contact us via [email protected]. We will be happy to answer any questions you may have about this Policy.