Cookie & Data Usage Policy

Understanding how NextGenTechPortal uses tracking technologies to enhance your learning experience

What Are Tracking Technologies?

When you visit nextgentechportal.com, we use various tracking technologies to understand how you interact with our educational platform. These small data files help us remember your preferences, track your learning progress, and improve our UX design curriculum.

Think of these technologies as digital bookmarks that help us create a personalized learning environment. They remember whether you prefer video tutorials over reading materials, which design principles you've already mastered, and where you left off in your coursework.

Types of Tracking We Use

Essential Functionality

These keep our platform running smoothly. They remember your login status, course selections, and basic site preferences. Without these, you'd have to re-enter information every time you visit a new page.

Learning Analytics

We track which design concepts you find challenging and which tutorials you revisit most often. This helps us adjust our teaching methods and identify areas where students typically need extra support.

Performance Monitoring

These help us understand how quickly our pages load and which features cause difficulties. When students struggle with our prototyping tools, we know to improve them.

Educational Outreach

We occasionally show information about advanced UX workshops or specialized design courses that match your interests and skill level. These aren't random ads but carefully selected educational opportunities.

How This Improves Your Experience

Here's what this tracking actually does for you as a design student. When you're working through our wireframing exercises, we notice if you consistently struggle with certain aspects. Maybe you excel at user research but find information architecture challenging.

This data helps us suggest additional resources, connect you with study groups facing similar challenges, or recommend prerequisite materials that might fill knowledge gaps. It's like having a teaching assistant who notices your learning patterns and adapts accordingly.

We also use this information to improve our curriculum. If many students abandon a particular tutorial halfway through, we know it needs restructuring. If certain design principles consistently cause confusion, we develop better explanations or more practical examples.

Managing Your Privacy Settings

You have control over most tracking technologies through your browser settings. Here's how to adjust them in different browsers:

  • Chrome
    Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data. You can block third-party cookies or clear existing data from specific sites.
  • Firefox
    Navigate to Preferences > Privacy & Security. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, you can choose Standard, Strict, or Custom settings.
  • Safari
    Open Safari > Preferences > Privacy. You can prevent cross-site tracking and manage cookies from here.
  • Edge
    Click the three dots menu > Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Choose your tracking prevention level and manage exceptions.

Data Retention and Your Rights

Learning Progress Data: Stored for the duration of your enrollment plus two years

We keep your course progress, assignment submissions, and feedback for two years after you complete or leave our program. This allows us to provide transcripts, portfolio reviews, or references if needed.

Website Usage Analytics: Aggregated data retained for three years

Information about how students use our platform gets combined into anonymous statistics. We use this for long-term curriculum planning and platform improvements.

Marketing and Communication Preferences: Until you opt out

If you've signed up for course updates or design industry newsletters, we'll continue sending them until you unsubscribe or request removal.

Third-Party Educational Tools

Our UX design program integrates with several industry-standard tools that have their own tracking policies. When you use Figma for prototyping exercises, Adobe Creative Suite for design projects, or Miro for collaboration workshops, those platforms collect their own usage data.

We've chosen these tools because they're what professional designers actually use in the workplace. However, each has its own privacy policy that you should review. We don't have control over their data collection practices, but we do try to minimize unnecessary data sharing between platforms.

This policy was last updated in January 2025 and reflects our current practices for the 2025 academic year

Questions About Our Data Practices?

If you need clarification about how we handle your information or want to exercise any privacy rights, reach out to our student services team.

Email: contact@nextgentechportal.com

Phone: +886224240885

Office: 300, Taiwan, Hsinchu City, East District, 科學園路115號