Cookie & Tracking Policy
Last Updated: January 15, 2025
How We Use Tracking Technologies
At Mindyo, we use various tracking technologies to enhance your experience while learning about 3D game lighting and texture design. These technologies help us understand how our educational platform performs and how we can make it better for aspiring game developers.
When you visit mindyo.com, we collect certain information automatically through cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. This happens whether you're browsing our course materials, watching tutorial previews, or exploring our learning programs scheduled for autumn 2025.
We want to be transparent about what data we collect and why. Our tracking helps us improve course delivery, understand which lighting techniques resonate most with students, and optimize our educational content for different learning styles.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Cookies
These are necessary for basic website functionality. They remember your login status, course progress, and preferences as you navigate through our 3D lighting tutorials.
Without these cookies, features like saving your progress through shader lessons or maintaining your course enrollment wouldn't work properly.
Performance Analytics
We track how you interact with our educational content to understand what works best for learning complex lighting concepts in game development.
This includes measuring how long students spend on texture mapping exercises and which lighting scenarios create the most engagement.
Learning Optimization
These help us personalize your educational experience by remembering your skill level, preferred learning pace, and areas where you might need additional support.
For example, if you struggle with ambient occlusion concepts, we can suggest additional resources or practice exercises.
Course Enhancement
We analyze which course materials perform best to continuously improve our curriculum for upcoming programs starting in late 2025.
This data helps us refine everything from basic lighting principles to advanced real-time rendering techniques.
What Information We Collect
- Page views and time spent on different sections of our course materials
- Which 3D lighting tutorials you access and complete
- Your progress through texture design exercises and practical assignments
- Browser type and device information to optimize our learning platform
- Geographic location (country level) to understand our global student community
- Referral sources to understand how students discover our programs
- Course completion rates and quiz performance for curriculum improvement
- Forum participation and peer interaction patterns in our learning community
Managing Your Privacy Settings
Browser Controls
You have control over most tracking technologies through your browser settings. Here's how to manage cookies and tracking in popular browsers:
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
Choose to block third-party cookies or clear existing data
Firefox
Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
Select custom settings to control specific tracking elements
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
Block all cookies or remove data from specific sites
Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data
Configure tracking prevention levels and cookie management
Data Retention and Your Rights
How Long We Keep Your Data
Most tracking data is retained for 26 months to help us understand long-term learning patterns and course effectiveness.
Essential cookies expire when you close your browser or after 30 days of inactivity.
Course progress and learning analytics are kept for up to 3 years to support your continued education journey.
You can request access to the data we've collected about your learning activities on our platform. This includes your course progress, quiz results, and interaction patterns with our 3D lighting and texture design materials.
If you decide to delete your account, we'll remove your personal learning data within 30 days. However, some aggregated, anonymized data may be retained for course improvement purposes.
Students from Slovenia and other EU countries have additional rights under GDPR, including the right to data portability and the right to restrict processing of their educational data.
Third-Party Services
We work with select third-party services to enhance your learning experience. These include analytics providers who help us understand course effectiveness and content delivery networks that ensure fast loading of our 3D rendering examples.
Some of our video tutorials and interactive lighting demonstrations use embedded content that may set their own cookies. We carefully vet these services to ensure they meet our privacy standards.
When you interact with our course forums or collaborative projects, additional tracking may occur to prevent spam and maintain a positive learning environment for all students.