1 What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. Think of them as digital sticky notes that help our website remember things about your visit. At DriftingLightWave, we use several types of tracking technologies beyond traditional cookies, including web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage.

These technologies work quietly in the background while you explore our hashing and digital signature educational content. They help us understand how visitors interact with our courses, which topics generate the most interest, and where people might be getting stuck in their learning journey.

2 Types of Tracking We Use

We categorize our tracking technologies into four main types, each serving a different purpose in creating a better educational experience for our visitors in Thailand and beyond.

3 How Tracking Enhances Your Learning Experience

When you visit our digital signature fundamentals page, analytical cookies help us see that many students spend extra time on elliptic curve cryptography concepts. This insight leads us to create additional explanatory videos and interactive examples for that section.

Functional cookies remember where you left off in our multi-part hashing series, so you can pick up exactly where you stopped. They also save your preferred code syntax highlighting for our programming examples, whether you're working with Python implementations of hash functions or exploring blockchain applications.

Marketing cookies help us recommend complementary learning paths. If you've been engaged with our basic cryptography content, we might suggest our upcoming advanced certificate program launching in mid-2025, designed specifically for professionals in Thailand's growing fintech sector.

4 Data Retention and Your Information

Different types of tracking data have different lifespans, depending on their purpose and legal requirements. Here's how long we keep various types of information:

You have control over this timeline. Clearing your browser's stored data resets these timers, and you can adjust settings to automatically delete cookies more frequently if you prefer.

5 Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Every major browser gives you tools to control how cookies and tracking technologies work on your device. The process varies slightly between browsers, but the core functionality remains consistent across platforms.

Keep in mind that blocking essential cookies will affect your ability to log into your student account or access personalized course materials. Functional cookies, while not required, make your learning experience smoother by remembering your preferences between visits.

6 Third-Party Services and External Tracking

Some of our educational tools integrate with external services that have their own tracking policies. Our video hosting platform, for instance, may place its own cookies to remember your playback quality preferences and provide usage statistics.

When you use our interactive coding exercises for hash function implementation, the embedded development environment may store your progress using its own local storage mechanisms. These operate under their respective privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.

We carefully select third-party services that align with our commitment to student privacy and educational excellence. Before integrating any external tool into our platform, we evaluate their data handling practices and ensure they meet our standards for protecting student information.