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Understanding how Xcrog uses tracking technologies to enhance your quantum cryptography learning experience

Last updated: March 2025

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How We Use Tracking Technologies

At Xcrog, we use various tracking technologies to make your quantum cryptography learning experience more personalized and effective. Think of these as digital tools that help us remember your preferences and understand how our educational platform works best for different learners.

When you visit xcrog.com, small data files get stored on your device. These help us recognize you on return visits, remember where you left off in our quantum cryptography courses, and show you relevant learning materials based on your progress.

Session Tracking

Remembers your login status and course progress during your learning session. This prevents you from losing work when navigating between lessons.

Performance Analytics

Helps us understand which quantum concepts are most challenging for students, so we can improve our teaching methods and course materials.

Preference Storage

Saves your preferred learning pace, notification settings, and interface customizations to create a personalized educational environment.

Types of Tracking We Use

We organize our tracking technologies into different categories based on their purpose. Here's what each type does and how it benefits your learning experience:

  • Functional Tracking

    These remember your course bookmarks, preferred video playback speed, and whether you like captions enabled during our quantum physics demonstrations. Without these, you'd need to reset your preferences every visit.

  • Learning Analytics

    We track which parts of our quantum cryptography curriculum students find most engaging. This helps us identify when learners might need additional support with complex topics like quantum key distribution.

  • Communication Enhancement

    These help us show you relevant course announcements and updates about new quantum computing developments that relate to your current studies.

Essential Functions We Can't Disable

Required for Basic Operation

Some tracking is necessary for our educational platform to function properly. These essential cookies handle your login authentication, prevent security issues, and maintain your active session during lab exercises with quantum simulation software.

Essential tracking includes security tokens that protect your account, session identifiers that keep you logged in while working through multi-part quantum algorithms, and preference storage that prevents the site from breaking when you return.

We also need to track basic navigation patterns to ensure our course platform loads correctly across different devices. Students access our quantum cryptography materials from various browsers and operating systems, so this technical tracking helps maintain compatibility.

Managing Your Browser Settings

You have control over how your browser handles tracking technologies. Here's how to adjust settings in the most common browsers our students use:

Chrome

Go to Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data. Choose "Block third-party cookies" or "Block all cookies" depending on your preference. Note that blocking all cookies may affect course functionality.

Firefox

Open Preferences → Privacy & Security. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, select "Strict" to block most trackers, or "Custom" to choose specific categories you want to block.

Safari

Safari → Preferences → Privacy. Check "Prevent cross-site tracking" and choose your cookie acceptance level. Safari blocks many trackers by default.

How Long We Keep Your Data

Different types of tracking data have different retention periods based on their purpose and your interaction with our quantum cryptography courses:

  • Session Duration

    Login tokens and active session data expire when you close your browser or after 24 hours of inactivity, whichever comes first.

  • 30 Days

    Course progress tracking and preference settings remain active for one month to support continuous learning even with breaks between study sessions.

  • 12 Months

    Learning analytics and performance data help us improve course content over time. This longer retention helps us identify trends in how students progress through quantum concepts.

  • 24 Months

    General website analytics about page views and user paths through our educational content. This helps us optimize the overall learning experience and course structure.

Questions About Our Cookie Policy?

If you need clarification about how we use tracking technologies or want to discuss your data preferences, contact our team at contact@xcrog.com or call us at +1-573-378-5762.