This Cookie Policy explains how Sagacity Insights uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website. We believe in transparency about data collection and want you to understand exactly what information we gather, why we collect it, and how you can control your experience on our platform.
What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences and improve your browsing experience. Beyond traditional cookies, we also use web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies to collect usage data.
These technologies work by storing information about your interactions with our site — which pages you visit, how long you stay, and what features you use. Think of them as digital breadcrumbs that help us understand how people navigate through our film editing resources.
Types of Tracking We Use
We categorize our tracking technologies into four main types, each serving different purposes on sagacity-insights.com:
Essential Cookies
These keep our website functioning properly. They remember your login status, maintain your session, and ensure security features work correctly. You can't disable these without affecting basic site functionality.
Functional Cookies
These remember your preferences like video quality settings, course bookmarks, and interface customizations. They make your return visits more convenient by preserving your personal choices.
Analytical Cookies
We use these to understand how visitors interact with our content. They track which tutorials are most popular, where users spend time, and help us identify areas for improvement in our educational materials.
Marketing Cookies
These help us show relevant course recommendations and track the effectiveness of our educational campaigns. They enable us to personalize content suggestions based on your interests in film editing techniques.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
The data we collect serves specific purposes that directly benefit your learning journey on our platform. Here's how tracking technologies improve your experience with our film editing education resources:
- Remembering which video tutorials you've completed so you can pick up where you left off
- Suggesting relevant editing techniques based on your current skill level and interests
- Optimizing video streaming quality based on your connection speed and device capabilities
- Providing personalized course recommendations that match your learning pace
- Enabling seamless switching between different editing software tutorials
- Tracking your progress through multi-part lesson series
- Maintaining your preferred interface settings across sessions
Without these technologies, you'd need to manually adjust settings every visit and lose track of your learning progress. We use this data responsibly to create a more intuitive and personalized educational environment.
Data Retention and Your Control
We retain different types of data for varying periods based on their purpose. Essential cookies typically last for your session, while preference cookies may persist for up to one year. Analytical data is anonymized after 90 days, and marketing cookies expire after six months.
You have several options for controlling how we track your activity. You can adjust cookie settings in your browser, use private browsing modes, or contact us directly to request data deletion. Some features may not work optimally if you restrict all tracking, but basic access to our educational content remains available.
Managing Your Browser Settings
Most browsers allow you to control cookie behavior through their settings. Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data. Choose your preferred level of cookie blocking or create exceptions for specific sites.
Firefox
Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Select standard, strict, or custom tracking protection levels.
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data. Block all cookies, allow from current website only, or allow from websites you visit.
Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data. Choose to block all cookies, third-party cookies, or manage exceptions.
Third-Party Services and Integrations
Some tracking technologies on our site come from third-party services we use to enhance your educational experience. These include video hosting platforms for our tutorials, analytics services to understand user behavior, and payment processors for course enrollment.
Each third-party service has its own privacy practices and cookie policies. While we carefully select partners who maintain high privacy standards, we recommend reviewing their policies if you have specific concerns about data handling.
