Data Usage Policy

FlareOnPulse employs various tracking technologies to enhance your experience on flareonpulse.com. These tools help us understand how visitors interact with our network management educational content and improve our services accordingly.

When you visit our site, small data files called cookies are stored on your device. We also utilize web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies to gather information about site usage patterns. This data collection happens automatically but can be controlled through your browser settings.

Our tracking technologies serve specific purposes that directly benefit your learning experience. Here's how we put this data to work:

• Personalized Learning Paths: We remember where you left off in course materials and suggest relevant next steps based on your progress through network management fundamentals.
• Technical Issue Resolution: Performance tracking helps us quickly identify and fix problems that might interrupt your studies, like slow video loading or broken interactive elements.
• Content Optimization: Usage analytics show us which topics need clearer explanations or additional examples, allowing us to continuously improve our educational materials.
• Security Enhancement: We monitor for unusual activity patterns that might indicate security threats, helping protect both your data and our educational resources.
• Mobile Experience: Device and browser data helps us optimize content display across different screen sizes and ensure consistent functionality.

Different types of data are retained for varying periods based on their purpose and legal requirements. Essential cookies typically expire when you close your browser, while preference cookies may be stored for up to one year to maintain your personalized settings.

Analytics data is anonymized and retained for two years to identify long-term trends in how students engage with our network management curriculum. Performance monitoring data is kept for six months to track improvement patterns and seasonal usage variations.

You can request information about what data we've collected about your visits, ask for corrections to any inaccurate information, or request deletion of your data at any time. We'll respond to such requests within 30 days.

We work with carefully selected third-party services to provide certain functionality on flareonpulse.com. These include video hosting for our educational content, analytics services for understanding site usage, and security services for protecting against malicious activity.

Each third-party service has its own privacy policy governing how they handle data. We've reviewed these policies to ensure they meet our standards for data protection and user privacy. However, we encourage you to review them directly if you have specific concerns.

We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties. Any data sharing occurs only to provide services you've requested or to comply with legal requirements.