Cookie & Data Usage Policy
Understanding how Gluptron uses tracking technologies to enhance your culinary learning experience
Essential Cookies Cannot Be Disabled
Some cookies are necessary for basic website functionality, including login sessions, shopping cart contents, and security features. These essential cookies remain active to ensure Gluptron.com operates properly for all users.
What Are Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit websites. At Gluptron, we use various tracking technologies to understand how our culinary education platform serves our community. These technologies help us remember your preferences, analyze which cooking tutorials are most popular, and improve our recipe recommendations.
Beyond traditional cookies, we employ web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage mechanisms. These tools collect information about your interactions with our cooking videos, recipe downloads, and learning progress. This data helps us create better educational experiences for aspiring chefs and culinary enthusiasts.
How Gluptron Uses Your Data
Our tracking helps create personalized culinary learning paths. When you watch a knife skills video or bookmark a pasta recipe, we note these preferences to suggest relevant content. If you're consistently engaging with baking tutorials, our system learns to prioritize pastry-related courses in your recommendations.
We analyze completion rates for cooking lessons to identify areas where students struggle. This information guides our instructors to create additional support materials or modify teaching approaches. Your interaction patterns help us understand whether visual demonstrations work better than written instructions for specific techniques.
| Data Type | Purpose | Retention Period |
|---|---|---|
| Course Progress | Track learning advancement and resume sessions | Duration of enrollment + 2 years |
| Recipe Interactions | Personalize content recommendations | 24 months from last activity |
| Video Engagement | Optimize tutorial length and content quality | 18 months |
| Search Queries | Improve recipe database and search functionality | 12 months |
| Device Information | Ensure compatibility and optimize performance | 6 months |
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have control over your cookie settings through multiple methods. Browser-level controls affect all websites you visit, while our platform-specific settings only apply to your Gluptron experience. Most browsers allow you to view, delete, or block cookies entirely, though this may impact website functionality.
Browser Settings
Access your browser's privacy settings to view all cookies, delete specific ones, or configure automatic blocking rules for future visits.
Platform Controls
Use the rejection button above to decline all non-essential tracking while maintaining core website functionality.
Third-Party Tools
Consider browser extensions or privacy tools that provide granular control over tracking technologies across all websites.
Impact of Blocking Cookies
Disabling all cookies may prevent you from accessing your course dashboard, saving recipe favorites, or receiving personalized learning recommendations. Essential functionality like login sessions and secure payments require basic cookie support to function properly.
Data Sharing & Third Parties
Gluptron partners with educational technology providers, video hosting services, and analytics platforms to deliver our culinary programs. These partners may place their own cookies when you interact with embedded content or use certain features on our platform.
Our payment processors use cookies to ensure secure transactions during course enrollment. Video streaming partners may track viewing behavior to optimize content delivery and prevent unauthorized sharing of our cooking tutorials. We require all partners to maintain privacy standards consistent with our own policies.
Social media integration features may activate cookies from platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube when you share recipes or cooking achievements. These cookies operate according to those platforms' privacy policies rather than ours.
Your Rights Regarding Personal Data
You can request access to the personal information we've collected through cookies, ask for corrections to inaccurate data, or request deletion of your tracking profile. Contact our support team to exercise these rights or learn more about data processing activities.
Updates & Policy Changes
As Gluptron expands our culinary education offerings, we may implement new tracking technologies or modify existing data collection practices. Significant changes to this policy will be communicated through email notifications to active users and prominent notices on our platform.
We review our cookie practices annually to ensure compliance with evolving privacy regulations and to assess whether our data collection serves genuine educational purposes. Users can always access the current version of this policy through the footer links on our website.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
For specific questions about data collection or to request information about your tracking profile, reach out to our privacy team at help@gluptron.com or contact us at our Gainesville office: 7515 SW 26 Pl, Gainesville, FL 32608.