Cookies Policy
Last Updated: January 2025
Hopusu ("we," "us," or "our") operates a mathematics tutoring website. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. By continuing to browse and use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, remember your preferences, and improve your overall user experience.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser and are used when you make subsequent visits to our website. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several important purposes to enhance your experience on our mathematics tutoring website:
- Essential Website Functionality: These cookies are necessary for our website to function properly and cannot be disabled in our systems. They enable core features such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and form submissions for tutoring inquiries.
- Performance and Analytics: We use cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website, including which pages are visited most frequently and how users navigate through our tutoring resources. This helps us improve our content and services.
- Personalization: Cookies help us remember your preferences, such as language settings, location for finding local tutors, and customized content based on your mathematical learning needs.
- Security: We use cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent activity, and protect both our users and our website from potential security threats.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like accessing secure areas of the website or submitting tutoring request forms would not be possible. These cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes.
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and whether users receive error messages. These cookies help us improve how our website works by understanding user behavior patterns and identifying areas for enhancement in our mathematics tutoring services.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language preference, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies can also remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of web pages.
Targeting or Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of our website, deliver advertisements on and through our website, and enhance the functionality of our tutoring services. These third parties may include:
- Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics) to help us understand website traffic and user behavior
- Social media platforms to enable sharing of our mathematics resources and tutoring content
- Advertising networks to deliver relevant educational content and tutoring services
- Payment processors to facilitate secure transactions for tutoring services
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. Here are some options for managing cookies:
- Browser Settings: You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly, and your user experience may be affected.
- Cookie Preference Center: When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to choose which types of cookies you wish to accept.
- Opt-Out Tools: You can opt out of certain third-party cookies through industry opt-out platforms such as the Digital Advertising Alliance or the Network Advertising Initiative.
Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on our website with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this Cookies Policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies and protect your information.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding cookies and personal data collected through cookies. These rights may include the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to object to certain types of processing and to data portability. To exercise these rights or if you have questions about our cookie practices, please contact us using the information provided below.