Cookie Policy
Last updated: July 16, 2025
1. 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 and to provide information to website owners.
Cookies allow us to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions on our website.
2. How We Use Cookies
ForgeX uses cookies to enhance your experience on our platform. We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Functionality: To enable core website functionality such as user authentication, session management, and security features
- Performance and Analytics: To understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and how users navigate through our site
- Personalization: To remember your preferences, settings, and provide personalized content and recommendations
- Security: To protect against fraud and enhance the security of our platform
- Communication: To enable features like chat, notifications, and collaborative tools
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot opt-out of these cookies.
- Session Cookies: Used to maintain your login session and remember your authentication status
- Security Cookies: Used to detect authentication abuses and protect user data
- CSRF Protection: Used to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks
3.2 Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Usage Analytics: Track page views, user interactions, and feature usage
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor website performance and identify areas for improvement
- Error Tracking: Help us identify and fix technical issues
3.3 Functional Cookies
These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your preferences and settings.
- User Preferences: Remember your language, theme, and display preferences
- Feature Settings: Store your editor preferences, project settings, and learning progress
- Notification Settings: Remember your notification preferences
3.4 Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Currently, we do not use targeting or advertising cookies. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and seek your consent where required.
4. Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party services that set their own cookies. These include:
4.1 Authentication Services
When you sign in using Google or other third-party authentication providers, they may set their own cookies to manage the authentication process.
4.2 Content Delivery Networks (CDN)
We use CDNs to deliver static content efficiently. These services may set cookies to optimize content delivery.
4.3 Analytics Services
We may use analytics services to understand user behavior and improve our platform. These services may set their own cookies.
5. Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies:
5.1 Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. They are used for essential functionality like maintaining your login session.
5.2 Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. They are used to remember your preferences and provide a better user experience across visits.
The duration of persistent cookies varies depending on their purpose:
- Authentication cookies: Up to 30 days
- Preference cookies: Up to 1 year
- Analytics cookies: Up to 2 years
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
6.1 Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
- View which cookies are stored on your device
- Delete existing cookies
- Block cookies from being set
- Set preferences for specific websites
6.2 Platform Settings
You can manage some cookie preferences through your account settings on our platform. This includes preferences for analytics and functional cookies.
6.3 Impact of Disabling Cookies
Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact the functionality of our website. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for the website to function properly.
7. Browser-Specific Instructions
Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:
7.1 Google Chrome
Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
7.2 Mozilla Firefox
Go to Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
7.3 Safari
Go to Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
7.4 Microsoft Edge
Go to Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Cookies and site data
8. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on our website and updating the "Last updated" date.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- Email: privacy@forgex.com
- Address: The Elites, Forge X Platform
- Through our contact form
For more information about our data practices, please see our Privacy Policy.