Cookie Policy
Understanding Our Cookie Usage
Back in 2018, one of our instructors was preparing a financial planning masterclass when a student asked why she had to log in every single time she visited the site. That simple question sparked a conversation that led us to implement cookies properly.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our platform. They help us remember your preferences, keep you logged in, and understand how you interact with our courses. Think of them as digital sticky notes that make your learning experience smoother.
Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies These keep the platform running. They remember your login status, your course progress, and security settings. Without these, you'd have to start fresh every time you visit.
- Functional Cookies These remember your choices like video quality preferences, subtitle settings, and which courses you've bookmarked. They make your return visits feel personalized.
- Analytics Cookies We use these to see which course sections get rewatched most often, where students pause videos, and which resources get downloaded. This helps our instructors improve their teaching.
- Performance Cookies These monitor loading times and streaming quality to ensure videos play smoothly and pages load quickly across different devices and connection speeds.
One of our family finance instructors noticed through analytics that students often paused during the retirement planning module to take notes. She now builds in intentional pauses at key moments, giving everyone time to process complex calculations.
Third-Party Cookies
We integrate with video hosting platforms and educational tools that may set their own cookies. For example, when you watch a masterclass video, the video provider uses cookies to remember your playback position and quality settings.
Our payment processor also uses cookies during checkout to secure your transaction and prevent fraud. These third parties have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.
Your Control Over Cookies
Sarah, a taxation masterclass participant from Sydney, contacted us wanting to disable analytics cookies while keeping her course progress saved. Her request helped us build better cookie controls that give you genuine choices.
Browser Settings
You can configure your browser to reject all cookies, accept only certain types, or notify you when a cookie is being set. Most browsers have detailed cookie management in their privacy settings.
Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our platform, you'll see options to customize which cookie categories you accept. You can change these preferences anytime through your account settings.
Essential Functions
Blocking all cookies will prevent you from logging in, enrolling in courses, or tracking your progress. Some features simply need cookies to work properly.
Do Not Track
We respect Do Not Track signals from your browser. When enabled, we disable all non-essential cookies and limit data collection to only what's necessary for course delivery.
Mobile Devices
On mobile devices, cookie management works through your browser app settings. Both iOS and Android browsers offer granular control over what cookies sites can store.
Clearing Cookies
You can delete stored cookies anytime through your browser. Just know this will log you out and reset your preferences, requiring you to set everything up again.
How Cookie Choices Affect Your Experience
Marcus, who teaches our investment basics masterclass, ran an informal study with students who disabled different cookie types. Those who blocked functional cookies had to reset video quality every session. Those who blocked analytics cookies still got the full course experience but their feedback data didn't help improve future versions.
Essential cookies must remain active for the platform to function. Everything else is your choice, though each decision comes with trade-offs in convenience and personalization.
Questions About Cookies?
We update this policy when we add new cookie types or change how we use existing ones. Major changes get announced to all active students via email, with explanations of what's different and how it affects you.