Cookie Policy
Effective Date: September 20, 2018
Last Updated: June 28, 2026
Prosper Consulting Inc., doing business as The Tech Academy ("The Tech Academy," "we," "us," or "our"), uses cookies and similar technologies on its websites, landing pages, forms, portals, and online services.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, what types of cookies may be used, how third parties may use cookies on our websites, and how you can manage or reject cookies.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with The Tech Academy's Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
1. Websites Covered by This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy applies to websites, landing pages, forms, portals, and online services owned or operated by Prosper Consulting Inc. and its DBAs, including The Tech Academy, The Sales Academy, and Prosper I.T. Consulting.
This may include, without limitation:
- https://thetech.academy
- https://thetechacademy.us
- https://techacademy.international
- https://salesacademy.us
- Related subdomains, landing pages, student portals, forms, and online services owned or operated by Prosper Consulting Inc.
2. What Are Cookies?
A session is a span of time in which a web browser maintains a connection to a particular web server. In simple terms, a session is the period of time you spend interacting with a website before closing your browser, logging out, or ending that visit.
When you visit a website, it can be useful for the website to remember certain information about your visit. This can help the website work properly, load faster, keep you logged in, remember your preferences, protect forms from misuse, measure website traffic, or personalize parts of your experience.
A cookie is a small file or set of data that a website stores on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device through your web browser. Cookies are managed by your browser and can be used during a session or saved for a longer period of time, depending on the type of cookie.
Cookies can help a website display properly, remember information you entered, understand how visitors use the site, improve website performance, support security, and assist with advertising or marketing measurement.
In general, there are two common types of cookies:
Temporary cookies, also called session cookies, expire when a web browser session ends. This usually happens when the browser is closed. Session cookie data is not intended to be stored permanently on your device.
Persistent cookies remain stored on your device for a specific period of time. Persistent cookies have expiration dates and are erased after their expiration date unless you manually delete them sooner.
Not all websites use cookies in the same way. It is considered good practice for a website to explain whether it uses cookies and how those cookies may be used.
For example, if you regularly visit a shopping website, that website may use a cookie to remember the types of products you viewed or purchased so similar products can be displayed more easily the next time you visit.
3. Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, The Tech Academy may use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, local storage, session storage, analytics identifiers, advertising identifiers, conversion tracking tools, and device identifiers.
For simplicity, this Cookie Policy refers to cookies and similar technologies collectively as "cookies."
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are cookies set directly by The Tech Academy websites.
Third-party cookies are cookies set by other companies whose tools, content, or services appear on or interact with our websites. These may include analytics providers, advertising platforms, social media platforms, video platforms, search engines, customer relationship management tools, communication tools, and embedded content providers.
Third-party providers may use their cookies according to their own privacy policies and cookie policies. The Tech Academy does not control every cookie used by third-party providers.
5. How We Use Cookies
The Tech Academy may use cookies for the following purposes:
- To operate our websites and online services;
- To keep websites secure;
- To support website forms and account access;
- To protect against fraudulent or unauthorized submissions;
- To remember browser or website preferences;
- To improve website performance;
- To understand how visitors use our websites;
- To measure website traffic and page activity;
- To evaluate advertising and marketing performance;
- To measure form submissions and conversions;
- To support social media, video, or embedded content;
- To improve admissions, marketing, and user experience;
- To detect, prevent, and investigate website misuse, errors, fraud, or security issues;
- To comply with legal, regulatory, and business obligations.
6. Categories of Cookies We Use
The Tech Academy uses cookies in the following general categories:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They may support security, form submissions, anti-forgery protection, page navigation, load balancing, account access, and session management.
Because these cookies are necessary, they generally cannot be disabled through website cookie controls. You may be able to block them through your browser settings, but some parts of the website may not work properly.
Functional Cookies
These cookies help provide improved website functionality. They may remember preferences, support embedded features, improve user experience, or allow website tools to work as intended.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use our websites. They may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, browser type, device type, referring websites, and general usage patterns.
The Tech Academy may use analytics tools such as Google Analytics or similar services to measure traffic, monitor site performance, and improve the website.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
These cookies may help measure advertising performance, track conversions, prevent repetitive ads, support retargeting, and help show relevant advertisements on third-party platforms.
Depending on applicable law, certain advertising cookies, pixels, or tracking technologies may be considered "targeted advertising," "sharing," or a "sale" of personal information, even if no money is exchanged.
Social Media and Embedded Content Cookies
Our websites may include embedded videos, social media buttons, maps, forms, reviews, chat tools, or other third-party content. These providers may set cookies when you interact with their content or visit a page where their content is embedded.
Examples may include cookies from providers such as Google, YouTube, Facebook/Meta, DoubleClick, or similar platforms.
7. Cookies and Personal Information
Cookies may collect or connect to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked with a person, device, household, browser, or online activity.
This may include IP address, device identifiers, browser identifiers, cookie IDs, advertising IDs, pages visited, referral source, form activity, general location, and interaction data.
For more information about how The Tech Academy collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information, please review The Tech Academy's Privacy Policy.
8. How to Reject or Manage Cookies
You can control cookies through your internet browser settings. While settings vary by browser, most browsers allow you to:
- Delete cookies;
- Block all cookies;
- Block third-party cookies;
- Allow cookies from specific websites;
- Receive a notification before a cookie is stored;
- View cookies stored on your device.
If you decide that you do not want cookies to be set on your device by The Tech Academy or our third-party partners, you can adjust the settings in your browser and choose the cookie settings that best meet your preferences.
Please keep in mind that cookies may be required for certain website functions. If you block or delete cookies, you may limit your ability to access certain parts, features, forms, portals, or functions of our websites and platforms.
9. Managing Cookies in Google Chrome
If you use Google Chrome, you can manage cookies by opening Chrome and going to:
Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies
From there, you can choose how Chrome handles cookies, including whether to allow cookies, block third-party cookies, or manage site-specific cookie permissions.
You can also review Chrome's help documentation for current instructions, since browser settings may change over time.
10. Deleting Cookies
Cookies are set for varying lengths of time. You may manually delete cookies at any time through your browser settings.
Deleting cookies may remove saved preferences and may require you to log in again or re-enter information.
Deleting cookies does not necessarily prevent new cookies from being placed in the future. To prevent future cookies, you must adjust your browser settings, use available cookie preference tools, or use other applicable opt-out methods.
11. Cookie Consent and Preference Management
Where required by applicable law, The Tech Academy may ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device.
You may be able to manage cookie preferences through a cookie banner, cookie settings tool, privacy preference center, browser settings, or other available privacy controls.
Your available choices may include accepting cookies, rejecting non-essential cookies, or customizing cookie categories.
12. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising Opt-Out Rights
The Tech Academy does not sell personal information for money.
However, some privacy laws define "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" broadly. Under those laws, certain analytics, advertising, retargeting, pixel, or tracking activities may be considered a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising.
Where required by law, you may opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, or certain tracking activities by using available cookie controls, browser privacy settings, legally recognized opt-out signals, or by contacting The Tech Academy.
13. Global Privacy Control and Browser-Based Opt-Out Signals
Where required by applicable law, The Tech Academy will honor legally recognized browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, if our systems are able to detect and process them.
A browser-based opt-out signal may apply only to the browser or device from which it is sent and may not apply across all devices, browsers, or accounts.
14. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because there is not a uniform industry standard for responding to Do Not Track signals, our websites may not respond to them.
The Tech Academy may respond to other legally required browser privacy signals where applicable.
15. Detailed List of Tech Academy Cookies
The following table is based on The Tech Academy's existing cookie list and includes the cookie name or technology, domain, expiration or maximum age, HTTP-only status where identified, general category, and general purpose.
Cookie names, domains, expiration periods, and purposes may change over time due to website updates, browser changes, provider updates, software changes, analytics tools, advertising tools, and third-party platform changes.
| Cookie / Technology | Domain | Expiration / Max Age | HTTP Only | Category | General Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Facebook session cookie | facebook.com | Session | Not listed | Advertising / Social Media | May support Facebook/Meta functionality, advertising, measurement, or embedded social features. |
| fr | .facebook.com | 90 days | Yes | Advertising / Social Media | May support Facebook/Meta advertising delivery, measurement, and relevance. |
| SIDCC | .google.com | 90 days | Not listed | Security / Functional / Google Services | May support Google service security, preferences, or protection against unauthorized access. |
| 1P_JAR | .google.com | 28 days | Not listed | Advertising / Analytics / Google Services | May support Google advertising, analytics, preferences, or measurement. |
| SAPISID | .google.com | 365 days | Not listed | Functional / Advertising / Google Services | May support Google services, preferences, authentication-related functionality, or advertising personalization. |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | .google.com | 182 days | Not listed | Security / Functional / Google Services | May help Google manage SameSite browser behavior and protect cross-site requests. |
| APISID | .google.com | 365 days | Not listed | Functional / Advertising / Google Services | May support Google services, preferences, embedded content, or advertising personalization. |
| SAPISID | .youtube.com | 365 days | Not listed | Functional / Advertising / Video | May support YouTube embedded video functionality, preferences, or advertising personalization. |
| NID | .google.com | Session | Yes | Functional / Advertising / Google Services | May support Google preferences, services, advertising, or security. |
| __asc | thetech.academy | 1 day | Not listed | Analytics | May support website analytics and visitor activity measurement. |
| SSID | .google.com | 365 days | Yes | Functional / Advertising / Google Services | May support Google services, preferences, security, or advertising personalization. |
| SSID | .youtube.com | 365 days | Yes | Functional / Advertising / Video | May support YouTube embedded video functionality, preferences, or advertising personalization. |
| DSID | .doubleclick.net | 20 days | Yes | Advertising / Marketing | May support Google/DoubleClick advertising, ad measurement, and conversion tracking. |
| HSID | .google.com | 365 days | Yes | Security / Functional / Google Services | May support Google account security, authentication-related functionality, and fraud prevention. |
| HSID | .youtube.com | 365 days | Yes | Security / Functional / Video | May support YouTube or Google security, embedded video functionality, and authentication-related features. |
| UULE | www.google.com | 2 days | Not listed | Functional / Google Services | May support Google location or search-related functionality. |
| _gid | .thetech.academy | 2 days | Not listed | Analytics | Helps distinguish users and measure website traffic through Google Analytics or similar analytics tools. |
| SID | .google.com | 365 days | Not listed | Security / Functional / Google Services | May support Google account security, preferences, and authentication-related functionality. |
| SID | .youtube.com | 365 days | Not listed | Security / Functional / Video | May support YouTube or Google security, preferences, and embedded video functionality. |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | 365 days | Yes | Advertising / Marketing | May support Google/DoubleClick advertising, ad personalization, campaign measurement, and conversion tracking. |
| __RequestVerificationToken | thetech.academy | Session | Yes | Strictly Necessary / Security | Helps protect website forms and requests from unauthorized or fraudulent submissions. |
| ARRAffinity | .thetech.academy | Session | Yes | Strictly Necessary / Performance | Helps route website traffic, support load balancing, and maintain website functionality. |
| _ga | .thetech.academy | 1 day | Not listed | Analytics | Helps distinguish users and measure website traffic through Google Analytics or similar analytics tools. |
| _fbp | .thetech.academy | 90 days | Not listed | Advertising / Marketing | May support Facebook/Meta advertising, conversion tracking, retargeting, and campaign measurement. |
| __auc | .thetech.academy | 1 day | Not listed | Analytics | May support website analytics and visitor activity measurement. |
| APISID | .youtube.com | 365 days | Not listed | Functional / Advertising / Video | May support YouTube embedded video functionality, preferences, or advertising personalization. |
16. Third-Party Providers
Some cookies listed above are set by third-party providers, including Google, YouTube, Facebook/Meta, and DoubleClick. These third parties may use cookies and similar technologies according to their own privacy policies, cookie policies, and platform terms.
The Tech Academy is not responsible for the privacy practices, cookie practices, security, or content of third-party websites or services.
17. Updates to This Cookie Policy
The Tech Academy may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our websites, technologies, vendors, business practices, privacy practices, or legal requirements.
The updated version will be posted on our website with a revised "Last Updated" date. Changes are effective when posted unless otherwise stated.
Your continued use of our websites after updates are posted means you acknowledge the updated Cookie Policy.
18. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or wish to exercise privacy choices related to cookies, please contact us:
Prosper Consulting Inc., DBA The Tech Academy
The Tech Academy
310 SW 4th Ave, Suite 440
Portland, Oregon 97204
Phone: 503.206.6915
Email: [email protected]