Data Usage Policy
Understanding how FlashKinetic uses tracking technologies on our website
What This Policy Covers
This policy explains how FlashKinetic uses various tracking technologies on our website to enhance your learning experience and improve our educational services. We believe in transparency about data collection and want you to understand exactly what happens when you visit our site.
Our tracking methods help us understand how students interact with our hashing and digital signatures content, which pages are most helpful for learning, and how we can improve our educational platform. Think of it as getting feedback from a classroom — we want to know what works and what doesn't.
Types of Tracking Technologies We Use
Essential Tracking
These are necessary for basic website functionality. They remember your login status, course progress, and essential preferences. Without these, our learning platform simply wouldn't work properly.
Functional Tracking
These enhance your experience by remembering your language preferences, display settings, and where you left off in courses. They make returning to our site smoother and more personalized.
Analytical Tracking
We use these to understand which educational content resonates most with students. This helps us identify popular topics, common learning paths, and areas where students might need additional support.
Performance Tracking
These monitor how quickly our pages load and identify technical issues. Since our cryptography demonstrations can be resource-intensive, performance tracking helps us optimize the learning experience.
Information We Collect
When you visit flashkinetic.com, our tracking technologies collect several types of information to improve your educational experience:
- Pages you visit and time spent on educational content
- Your progress through our hashing and digital signature courses
- Device type and browser information for compatibility
- Geographic location (country level) to customize content
- Interaction patterns with our cryptography demonstrations
- Search terms used within our educational platform
- Download activity for course materials and resources
- Error messages and technical issues you encounter
This information helps us understand learning patterns and improve our educational approach. For example, if many students struggle with a particular hashing algorithm explanation, we know to create additional supporting materials.
How Tracking Enhances Your Learning
Personalized Learning Paths
Our tracking helps create customized course recommendations based on your interests and progress. If you're particularly engaged with SHA-256 content, we might suggest advanced cryptographic hash function topics.
Progress Preservation
We save your place in courses, quiz results, and bookmarked sections. This means you can start a digital signature lesson on your laptop and continue seamlessly on your phone later.
Content Optimization
By analyzing how students interact with our materials, we continuously improve explanations, add helpful examples, and restructure content for better comprehension. Real student behavior drives our educational improvements.
Technical Performance
Our cryptographic demonstrations require smooth performance. Tracking helps us identify when hash calculations are running slowly or when digital signature verifications are taking too long on certain devices.
Managing Your Tracking Preferences
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and Security → Site Settings → Cookies and site data
Firefox
Preferences → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
Edge
Settings → Site permissions → Cookies and site data
Note that disabling certain tracking may limit some features of our learning platform.
Data Retention and Your Control
We retain different types of tracking data for varying periods based on their purpose:
Short-term Data (30 days)
Session information, temporary preferences, and basic interaction data are kept for one month. This covers most day-to-day tracking that helps with immediate user experience improvements.
Medium-term Data (1 year)
Learning progress, course completion data, and educational analytics are retained for up to a year. This longer period helps us understand learning patterns and seasonal trends in our educational content.
Long-term Data (2 years)
Anonymized performance metrics and aggregated usage statistics may be kept for two years to support long-term educational research and platform development.
You have the right to request deletion of your tracking data at any time. Simply contact our support team, and we'll remove your information from our systems within 30 days.
Third-Party Tracking
FlashKinetic works with select educational partners and service providers who may use their own tracking technologies on our site. These partnerships help us deliver better educational content and maintain our platform.
Our current third-party partners include educational analytics services that help us understand learning effectiveness and technical service providers that ensure our cryptographic demonstrations run smoothly across different devices.
Each partner must meet our data protection standards and agree to use collected information solely for improving educational services. We regularly review these relationships to ensure they align with our commitment to student privacy.
Updates and Changes
As we enhance our educational platform and introduce new features, our tracking practices may evolve. We'll update this policy whenever significant changes occur and notify active users through our platform.
Recent updates in 2025 have focused on improving performance tracking for our interactive cryptography tools and enhancing privacy controls for student data. We're committed to staying current with both educational technology and privacy best practices.
You can always find the most current version of this policy at flashkinetic.com/cookie-policy. We recommend checking periodically, especially if you're an active student using our platform regularly.
Questions About Our Tracking Practices?
We're here to help you understand exactly how we handle your data. Our team believes in complete transparency about tracking technologies and data usage.
Contact us at support@flashkinetic.com or call +54 260 423 0432
FlashKinetic | Pelagio B. Luna 529, F5300 La Rioja, Argentina
Last updated: March 2025