Last Updated: October 16, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how CNCForge Institute ("we," "our," or "us"), located at Turan Ave 89, Astana, Kazakhstan Z05H0B8, uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our educational platform dedicated to 3D modeling, CNC programming, CAD/CAM systems, and milling technology. This policy provides detailed information about what cookies are, why we use them, the types of cookies we employ, and how you can control them.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Similar technologies include web beacons, pixels, local storage, and other tracking mechanisms that serve similar purposes. By using our platform, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, you should adjust your browser settings accordingly or refrain from using our website.
We categorize cookies based on their function and duration. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of our platform, enabling core functionality such as user authentication, security features, access to member areas, and remembering your cookie preferences. These cookies cannot be disabled as they are critical for the website to function properly.
Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our platform by collecting information about pages visited, time spent on pages, error messages, and navigation patterns. This data helps us improve our educational content and user experience. Functional cookies enable enhanced features and personalization, such as remembering your language preferences, video player settings, course progress tracking, and customized dashboard layouts. These cookies enhance your learning experience but are not essential for basic platform operation. Marketing and targeting cookies may be used to deliver relevant advertisements, track campaign effectiveness, and understand which content resonates with different audience segments. These cookies help us promote our courses in 3D modeling, CNC programming, and CAD/CAM systems more effectively.
First-party cookies are set directly by CNCForge Institute and are used to provide core functionality, remember your preferences, and collect analytics about your usage of our platform. These cookies are essential for delivering our educational services and improving your learning experience. We have full control over first-party cookies and the data they collect, which is subject to our Privacy Policy.
Third-party cookies are set by external service providers that we partner with to enhance our platform's functionality. These may include analytics providers like Google Analytics for understanding user behavior and platform performance; video hosting services for delivering course content; payment processors for secure transaction handling; social media platforms for sharing features and integration; and advertising networks for marketing our courses. While we carefully select our third-party partners and require them to handle data responsibly, these cookies are governed by the respective third parties' privacy policies. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of these services to understand how they use cookies and collect information.
Our platform uses several specific cookie technologies to provide optimal functionality. Authentication cookies verify your identity and maintain your logged-in status throughout your session, preventing the need to repeatedly enter credentials. Security cookies help us detect and prevent fraudulent activity, protect against cross-site request forgery attacks, and ensure secure data transmission. These cookies are critical for maintaining the integrity of your account and protecting your personal information.
Load balancing cookies distribute user traffic across our servers to optimize performance and prevent overload, ensuring smooth access to course materials and interactive features. Analytics cookies, primarily through Google Analytics, track metrics such as unique visitors, page views, bounce rates, session duration, and user flow through our educational content. Video player cookies remember your playback preferences, track video progress for course completion tracking, and optimize streaming quality. Forum and community cookies maintain your preferences in discussion areas, track read and unread posts, and remember your notification settings for collaborative learning features.
Cookies serve multiple important purposes that enhance your experience on our platform. They enable us to provide essential functionality including secure login processes, maintaining your session while navigating between courses, remembering items in your course cart, and saving your learning progress. Without these cookies, many core features of our educational platform would not function properly, requiring you to repeatedly authenticate and reconfigure settings.
Cookies help us personalize your learning journey by remembering your preferred language, customizing your dashboard with relevant course recommendations, displaying content appropriate to your skill level in 3D modeling or CNC programming, and resuming courses where you left off. Performance optimization through cookies allows us to identify and fix technical issues, improve page load times, optimize content delivery networks, and understand which courses and features are most valuable to learners. Marketing cookies help us understand campaign effectiveness, avoid showing you irrelevant advertisements, and focus our efforts on developing content that meets the needs of professionals in industrial design, mechanical engineering, and toolpath optimization.
Different cookies have varying lifespans based on their purpose. Session cookies are temporary and expire when you close your browser, typically used for maintaining your active session and temporary preferences during a single visit. Short-term persistent cookies last from a few days to a few weeks, commonly used for remembering login credentials and recent activity. Medium-term persistent cookies remain for several months, used for tracking course progress, maintaining user preferences, and analytics purposes.
Long-term persistent cookies can last up to one or two years and are typically used for long-term preferences, marketing attribution, and comprehensive user behavior analysis. You can delete cookies at any time through your browser settings, which will reset your preferences and may require you to log in again. The specific duration of each cookie type is set based on its intended function and the legitimate need to retain the information. We regularly review our cookie usage to ensure retention periods are appropriate and minimize data collection to what is necessary for providing and improving our educational services in 3D modeling, CNC programming, and milling technology.
You have several options for controlling cookies on your device. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies or alert you when a cookie is being sent. Browser controls typically allow you to view and delete cookies, block third-party cookies, block cookies from specific websites, and block all cookies entirely. Please note that disabling certain cookies may limit your ability to use all features of our platform.
Instructions for managing cookies vary by browser: For Chrome, go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data. For Firefox, access Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data. For Safari, use Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data. For Edge, navigate to Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Additionally, you can use our cookie consent banner that appears when you first visit our site to customize your preferences. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For mobile devices, adjust privacy settings in your device's settings menu. Remember that blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent essential platform features from functioning, and you may need to re-enter preferences each time you visit if you delete cookies regularly.
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers to indicate that they do not want their online activity tracked. While we respect user privacy choices, there is currently no universal standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. Different browsers implement DNT differently, and there is no industry consensus on how to interpret and respond to these signals.
At CNCForge Institute, we are committed to respecting your privacy preferences. Where technically feasible and legally required, we honor DNT signals and similar browser-based privacy controls. However, enabling DNT may affect certain functionalities on our platform, particularly those related to personalization and analytics. We continuously monitor developments in browser privacy technologies and industry standards, and we may update our practices as consensus emerges on DNT implementation. If you enable DNT or similar privacy controls, some third-party cookies may still be set, as we do not have direct control over third-party services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of our third-party partners to understand their DNT practices.
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology developments, legal requirements, or business operations. When we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by posting the updated policy on our website with a new "Last Updated" date at the top. For registered users, we may also send email notifications about significant changes that affect how we use cookies or your ability to control them.
We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. Your continued use of our platform after any modifications to this policy constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. If you do not agree with any changes, you should adjust your browser settings to block cookies or discontinue using our services. Changes to this policy become effective immediately upon posting unless otherwise stated. For questions about updates or to request clarification about specific changes, please contact us at [email protected]. We are committed to transparency in our data practices and welcome feedback from our community of learners, educators, and professionals in the fields of 3D modeling, CNC programming, CAD/CAM systems, and mechanical engineering.
If you have questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us: