SkillForge Academy Cookies Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device by websites that you visit. 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 enable websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How SkillForge Academy Uses Cookies

At SkillForge Academy, we use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. This includes:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our website. They enable you to navigate our site, access secure areas, and use essential features. Without these cookies, our website may not function properly.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often, and if you get error messages from web pages. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) 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.
• Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies, such as those provided by Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors engage with our website. This information is used to improve the website's performance and user experience. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited.

Types of Cookies We Use

Below is a detailed overview of the types of cookies we use on SkillForge Academy:

SkillForge Academy Cookie Types

Cookie Name	Purpose	Duration
PHPSESSID	Maintains user session state.	Session
_ga	Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.	2 years
_gid	Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.	24 hours
_gat	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.	1 minute
cookieConsent	Remembers user's cookie consent preferences.	1 year

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These cookies are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. We do not control these third-party cookies and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party services for more information.

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:

1. Browser Settings: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to refuse 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.
2. Cookie Consent Tool: We may provide a cookie consent tool on our website that allows you to manage your cookie preferences. You can use this tool to accept or reject certain categories of cookies.
3. Opt-Out Tools: Some third-party advertising networks allow you to opt-out of targeted advertising. You can visit the websites of these networks to learn more about their practices and how to opt-out.

More Information

For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.aboutcookies.org .

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 the revised policy will be effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to review this Cookies Policy periodically for any updates or changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, please contact us at:

SkillForge Academy
42 Innovation Drive, Suite 200
Techville, CA 91234
Email: privacy@skillforgeacademy.com
Phone: (555) 123-4567

This Cookies Policy was last updated on October 26, 2025.

Sincerely,

Dr. Vivian Holloway
Data Protection Officer
SkillForge Academy