Welcome to the CCIE Academy Privacy Policy, where your privacy is our priority. This page explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit our website. For more details on our services, please visit our Courses page or learn about our Contact Information.
At CCIE Academy, your privacy is our priority. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit and interact with our website.
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. For details on how Gravatar handles your data, please see their Privacy Policy. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible publicly alongside your comment.
If you upload images to our website, please avoid uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download images and extract any location data contained within.
To improve your experience:
When you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
Upon logging in, we set cookies to save your login status and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved with the post ID you edited. This expires after one day and contains no personal data.
Our articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from other websites. These behave as if you visited the external site directly.
Such websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content, especially if you have an account and are logged in on those sites.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate follow-up comment approval without delay.
For registered users (if any), we store personal information provided in user profiles. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except usernames). Website administrators have access to this information as well.
If you have an account or have left comments, you may request an exported copy of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request deletion of your personal data, except where retention is required for legal, administrative, or security reasons.
Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services to protect our site from spam.
