Cookie Policy

Last updated: June 8, 2025

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. These files allow us to recognize your browser and capture certain information about your preferences and usage patterns. Cookies play an essential role in providing you with a personalized and efficient learning experience on the Economic Mastery Platform.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are absolutely necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Essential cookies include session management, user authentication, and security features that protect your personal information during course enrollment and participation.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, including which pages are visited most often and if users receive error messages. These cookies help us understand user behavior patterns, optimize our educational content delivery, and improve the overall functionality of our platform. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. These may include remembering your preferred language settings, course progress tracking, and customized dashboard layouts. These cookies enhance your learning experience by maintaining your preferences across multiple sessions and devices.

Marketing and Targeting Cookies

These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant educational content and course recommendations. These cookies also help measure the effectiveness of our educational outreach and marketing campaigns.

How We Use Cookie Information

The information gathered through cookies serves multiple purposes in enhancing your educational journey. We use this data to personalize your learning experience, recommend relevant courses based on your interests and progress, maintain your session security, and analyze website performance to continuously improve our educational platform.

Cookie data helps us understand which educational content is most valuable to our students, allowing us to refine our curriculum and develop new courses that meet emerging market demands. This information also enables us to provide technical support more effectively and ensure optimal platform performance across different devices and browsers.

Third-Party Cookies

Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site to provide specialized services such as analytics, payment processing, and educational content delivery. These third-party cookies are governed by the respective privacy policies of these external service providers. We carefully select our partners to ensure they maintain high standards of data protection and user privacy.

Third-party educational technology providers may also use cookies to enhance interactive learning features, track course completion rates, and provide advanced assessment tools. These cookies enable us to offer a more comprehensive and engaging educational experience while maintaining strict privacy standards.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have complete control over your cookie preferences and can manage them through your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to block or delete cookies, although doing so may impact certain functionalities of our educational platform. You can typically find cookie management options in your browser's privacy or security settings.

If you choose to disable certain types of cookies, some features of our platform may not function as intended. For example, disabling functionality cookies may reset your preferences each time you visit, while blocking performance cookies may prevent us from optimizing your learning experience based on usage patterns.

Cookie Retention Periods

Different types of cookies have varying retention periods based on their purpose and functionality. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies may remain on your device for months or years, depending on their specific function and your browser settings.

Essential cookies typically remain active only during your browsing session, while preference and functionality cookies may be stored for extended periods to maintain your customized settings. Performance and analytics cookies generally have retention periods ranging from several months to two years, allowing us to analyze long-term usage trends and platform improvements.

International Data Transfers

Some cookie data may be processed and stored on servers located outside of Sri Lanka, particularly when utilizing international educational technology platforms and analytics services. We ensure that all international data transfers comply with applicable privacy regulations and maintain appropriate security safeguards to protect your information.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or legal requirements. When we make significant changes, we will notify you through prominent notices on our website or direct communication methods. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies to enhance your educational experience.

Technical Implementation

Our cookie implementation follows industry best practices for security and privacy protection. We use secure transmission protocols, implement proper encryption for sensitive data, and regularly audit our cookie usage to ensure compliance with current privacy standards and regulations.

The technical architecture of our cookie system is designed to minimize data collection while maximizing educational value. We employ advanced techniques to anonymize and aggregate data wherever possible, ensuring that individual user privacy is maintained while still providing valuable insights for platform improvement.