Cookie Policy
How Houston Career Institute handles optional Analytics and Advertising tracking on this website.
Regional tracking choices
In the EEA, United Kingdom, and strict fallback locations, Analytics and Advertising stay off unless you allow them. In the United States, they may begin only after HCI verifies the regional policy, and you can opt out immediately using Your Privacy Choices in the website or landing-page footer; no automatic U.S. banner is shown. Global Privacy Control keeps Advertising off in every regional mode; Analytics remains a separate choice. HCI's first-party collector also sends no event while Global Privacy Control is active. An unrecognized or unavailable location policy always falls back to opt-in. Visiting, scrolling, navigating or submitting a form does not create explicit tracking consent.
Technology we use
| Category | Purpose and providers | Choice |
|---|---|---|
| Website services | HCI stores one versioned, host-only preference cookie so the website remembers your choice. HCI also uses necessary services for forms, chat, authentication, and security, including Supabase, ChatDrive, and Cloudflare Turnstile where those features are present. | Not a tracking choice |
| Analytics | Controls HCI first-party behavioral analytics, analytics identifiers and attribution, analytics-purpose dataLayer activity, and analytics tags delivered through Google Tag Manager. When permitted, pre-submission signals may also be summarized into internal engagement features used only to prioritize follow-up after a person requests information. Those features exclude contact identifiers and raw advertising click IDs and are never used to decide admission, financial aid, eligibility, or pricing, or to make an automated denial. | Regional choice |
| Advertising | Controls approved advertising tags and HCI's configured Google Ads Enhanced Conversions, offline conversion imports, Meta Conversions API and OpenAI conversion measurement. Permitted inquiry, qualified-lead and enrollment events can include SHA-256-hashed email and phone identifiers for matching; hashes remain personal information. These measurement events are distinct from uploading customer-list audiences. Advertising sharing can constitute sale/sharing for cross-context targeted advertising; turn Advertising off to opt out. Social links or visible social-media content are not controlled here. The reviewed HCI server-outcome implementation does not enable TikTok or Reddit delivery. | Regional choice; GPC honored |
Preference storage
The preference cookie contains the site and policy versions, your explicit Analytics and Advertising choices, decision dates, and whether you saved it from the banner or settings panel. It does not contain your name, contact details, visitor or session identifiers, web address, referrer, campaign information, or form entries. It is limited to the HCI website where you made the choice and uses Secure on HTTPS, SameSite=Lax, and Path=/ with no Domain attribute. HCI does not store your country or regional mode in the cookie.
HCI currently retains the preference for up to 180 days. An expired, invalid, or out-of-date preference fails safely and does not become a U.S. policy-default allowance.
Tracking-only scope
These choices control tracking only. They do not control website typography, ChatDrive, embedded maps, social-media links, visible video content, forms, Turnstile, phone, email, or FAFSA links, authentication, navigation, lead delivery, or page content. Those features and providers may have separate privacy terms, but there are no Functional, Personalization, Maps, Chat, Fonts, or Video choices in this system.
Change or withdraw your choice
Open Your Privacy Choices at any time to change Analytics or Advertising. Withdrawing a category stops future tracking in that category from the website. Withdrawing Analytics also clears HCI's current browser analytics identifiers and excludes Analytics-derived engagement features from future model-training exports. Withdrawing Advertising clears current browser advertising-matching state and withdraws linked authorization for future server advertising conversions. It does not erase information you intentionally submitted through a form, retract events already delivered to a provider, or delete records collected before you withdrew. Contact HCI about records not linked to this browser.
Questions
For more information about HCI's handling of personal information, read our Privacy Policy. You may also contact Houston Career Institute.