NursingPrep Central

NursingPrep Central

Cookie Policy

Learn how and why we use cookies on our platform.

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What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, NursingPrep Central) are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics).

Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are "session cookies", meaning they exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are "persistent cookies", meaning they survive after your browser is closed and can be used by the website to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the internet again.

How We Use Cookies

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Service to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Service. Third parties serve cookies through our Service for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

  • Authentication cookies: To identify you when you sign in to our Service
  • Security cookies: To help detect fraud and abuse
  • Session cookies: To remember your preferences during your browsing session
  • CSRF tokens: To protect against cross-site request forgery attacks

2. Functional Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.

  • Preference cookies: To remember your settings and preferences (e.g., dark mode, learning assistant toggles)
  • Language cookies: To remember your language preferences
  • User interface cookies: To remember your display preferences

3. Performance and Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Service, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor directly. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

  • Google Analytics: To understand how users interact with our Service
  • Firebase Analytics: To track mobile app usage and performance
  • Performance monitoring: To identify and fix technical issues

4. Advertising and Targeting Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

  • Remarketing cookies: To show you relevant ads on other websites
  • Conversion tracking: To measure the effectiveness of our advertising
  • Social media cookies: To enable social media features and track social sharing

Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

Third-Party Services We Use:

  • Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics gathers information about Service use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our Service. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Firebase: We use Firebase for mobile analytics and performance monitoring. Firebase's privacy policy is available at: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy
  • Microsoft Clarity: We use Microsoft Clarity to understand user behavior through session recordings and heatmaps. Microsoft's privacy policy is available at: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
  • Social Media Platforms: We use cookies from social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) to enable social sharing features and track engagement.

Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you. It may also stop you from saving customized settings like login information.

Browser Controls

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Here are links to cookie management for popular browsers:

Mobile Device Controls

For mobile devices, you can manage cookies and tracking through your device settings:

  • iOS: Settings → Safari → Block All Cookies or Prevent Cross-Site Tracking
  • Android: Settings → Privacy → Clear browsing data or Site settings

Your Choices

When you first visit our Service, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by:

Opting Out of Analytics

You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Opting Out of Targeted Advertising

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, you can contact us: