Browser Tracking & Storage

Cookie Policy.

Last Updated: May 2026

1. Introduction to Digital Storage Mechanisms

To deliver a seamless, state-persistent, and highly responsive Artificial Intelligence experience, SCHOLAR iQ employs various client-side storage technologies, including HTTP Cookies, HTML5 LocalStorage, SessionStorage, and IndexedDB. This policy transparently dictates exactly how, why, and when we deploy these technologies directly to your device browser.

2. Strictly Necessary (Functional) Cookies

These are non-negotiable storage tokens required for the core architectural functioning of the SCHOLAR iQ platform. Without these, the application will structurally fail.

  • Authentication Tokens (JWTs): We utilize HttpOnly, Secure-flagged cookies to store JSON Web Tokens (JWT). This ensures you remain securely logged into your dashboard without needing to re-authenticate on every page reload, while heavily mitigating Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack vectors.
  • AI Context Vectors: SARA AI requires short-term SessionStorage to maintain conversational context across different routes. If you navigate away from the AI Career Path planner and return, these temporary tokens allow the AI to remember the parameters of your previous prompt.
  • Load Balancing: Cookies deployed by our cloud providers (such as AWS ALB or Cloudflare) to ensure your requests are consistently routed to the same backend server node, preventing session degradation during high-traffic periods.

3. Analytical & Performance Telemetry

To continuously refine our machine learning models and improve user experience, we deploy analytical tracking scripts (e.g., Google Analytics 4, Mixpanel, or custom in-house telemetry daemons).

These cookies capture anonymized behavioral data, including which university pages you spend the most time comparing, where you abandon the certification enrollment process, and which specific UI components (like the 3D Hero WebGL canvas) cause frame-rate drops on older mobile devices. This data is strictly aggregated and cannot be reverse-engineered to identify you personally.

4. Third-Party and Marketing Cookies

While SCHOLAR iQ does not sell data to ad-brokers, we do utilize retargeting pixels (such as Meta Pixel or LinkedIn Insight Tag) to deliver highly relevant advertisements regarding our AI certification cohorts on external social media platforms. If you have visited our platform, these third-party cookies may trigger educational advertisements on your feed.

5. Managing Your Storage Preferences

You maintain total sovereign control over your browser. You may configure your browser to block, delete, or alert you about these cookies. Modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) provide native controls to disable third-party tracking.

Warning: If you choose to universally disable all cookies via browser extensions or strict privacy settings, the SCHOLAR iQ authentication mechanism will fail, and you will be entirely unable to log into the student dashboard or interact with SARA AI.