Cookie & Data Usage Policy

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 breadcrumbs that help us remember your preferences and improve your experience on godotengine.xyz. But cookies aren't the only way we gather information about how you use our platform.

We also use web beacons, pixel tags, and similar tracking technologies. These work alongside cookies to give us insights into which parts of our game development courses are most helpful, how long you spend on different lessons, and what challenges you might be facing as you learn.

Data We Collect Through Tracking

When you use Thinkmor Haven, we collect various types of information to enhance your learning experience and improve our platform. Here's what we gather and why it matters for your game development journey:

How Tracking Enhances Your Experience

The data we collect isn't just sitting in a database somewhere — we actively use it to make your game development learning experience better. Here are specific ways tracking benefits you as a student:

Personalized Learning Paths: By analyzing which programming concepts you grasp quickly and which ones need more practice, we can suggest additional resources or skip ahead when you're ready for more advanced topics.

Technical Optimization: When we notice students using older browsers struggling with our 3D game demos, we create alternative versions or provide specific guidance for better compatibility.

Content Improvements: If analytics show that many students abandon a particular tutorial halfway through, we investigate why and often find ways to make the explanations clearer or break complex topics into smaller chunks.

Community Features: Tracking helps us connect you with other students working on similar projects or facing comparable challenges in their game development journey.

Data Retention and Storage

We don't keep your data forever. Different types of information have different retention periods based on their purpose and legal requirements:

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have complete control over how cookies and tracking technologies work on your device. While some essential cookies are necessary for basic platform functionality, you can adjust settings for others based on your comfort level.

Remember that blocking certain cookies might affect your experience on Thinkmor Haven. For example, if you block functional cookies, you might need to re-select your preferred programming language every time you visit, and your lesson progress might not save properly between sessions.

Third-Party Services and Integration

Some features on our platform work with external services that have their own tracking practices. When you use these integrated tools, you're subject to both our privacy practices and theirs:

Code Repositories: When you connect your GitHub account to submit projects, GitHub's own tracking and privacy policies apply to that interaction.

Game Engine Integration: Our Unity and Unreal Engine tutorials may load resources directly from those companies' servers, which could involve their tracking technologies.

Community Features: Discussion forums and student collaboration tools may use third-party platforms with their own data collection practices.

We carefully vet all third-party integrations to ensure they meet reasonable privacy standards, but we encourage you to review their policies if you have specific concerns about data handling.

Updates and Changes

Technology evolves, and so do our practices. When we make significant changes to how we collect or use data, we'll update this policy and notify active users through email and prominent notices on our platform.

Minor clarifications or additions to this policy happen regularly as we encounter new situations or receive questions from students. We always err on the side of transparency and will explain changes in plain English rather than legal jargon.

You can always find the most current version of this policy at godotengine.xyz/cookie-policy, and we maintain an archive of previous versions so you can see exactly what has changed over time.