Privacy Policy

Who operates this site

Best AI Courses Online is operated by David Hornby, the data controller for the processing described in this notice.

Privacy questions and data-rights requests can be sent to privacy@bestaicoursesonline.com. This is a domain-based email-forwarding address managed through IONOS. Its private forwarding destination is not disclosed. No public postal address has been supplied.

Site features and information we handle

This is a static editorial website. It does not currently offer user accounts, comments, a contact form, or a newsletter sign-up. Public course-tracker CSV and JSON files are ordinary downloads and do not ask you to submit information. Email links open your email application; if you choose to write, David Hornby receives the address, contents, and other information you send.

Replit hosts and serves the site. Replit and the site's delivery infrastructure process normal request information for necessary website delivery, operation, and security. This can include an IP address, requested URL, time, browser or device headers, and error or security information. The repository does not establish Replit's exact logging or retention settings.

Consent preference storage

The site stores a versioned analytics choice and the time it was updated in your browser's local storage. Local storage is browser storage, not a cookie. This essential preference remains on that browser until you change it, clear site data, or it is invalidated by a later consent version. The site uses it only to remember your choice.

You can grant or reject analytics in the consent prompt. The permanent “Cookie settings” control in the footer lets you review the choice or withdraw consent.

Optional Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is optional. Its script is not loaded and the site sends no GA4 events before you grant analytics consent. If granted, GA4 can measure page and page-title information, referral and campaign information, browser and device information, approximate location derived by Google, and interactions with affiliate course links. GA4 data can relate to a device or browser, and IP addresses can be processed in the course of providing the service. A sanitized affiliate-click event may include the course, page, link placement, destination host and path, and whether the link is affiliate or direct. It does not contain the complete Impact URL, the Impact query string, or personal identifiers. We use this information to understand which guides are useful, diagnose navigation problems, and measure course-link engagement.

Consent Mode defaults analytics storage to denied. Advertising storage, advertising user data, and advertising personalisation remain denied even if you accept analytics. Withdrawing consent updates analytics storage to denied and stops this site from sending future GA4 events. It does not erase information already sent to Google or necessarily remove a script that was loaded earlier in the visit.

The legal basis for this optional processing is your consent. Google LLC processes GA4 data for the site when consent is granted. The GA4 property is configured to retain event data for 2 months and user data for 14 months. These are separate settings, not a single retention period. Reset on new user activity is On for user data, so qualifying new activity can reset that user-data retention period.

Affiliate links and external providers

Affiliate links work without analytics consent. Current commercial links route through Impact to Coursera and contain attribution parameters, including page, placement and course context. Following one is user-initiated navigation and sends ordinary request and attribution information to Impact and Coursera; those providers may apply their own storage and privacy practices. Ordinary direct links likewise disclose normal request information to the destination. The site does not intentionally put your consent-storage value into those links. Affiliate attribution following that navigation supports the site's commercial interests, subject to the visitor's choices and the providers' own responsibilities.

External media and fonts

Site fonts and video thumbnail images are served from this website rather than requested from Google or YouTube. The beginner guide creates a YouTube privacy-enhanced player from youtube-nocookie.com only after you choose the play button; loading or using it lets Google and YouTube receive normal request information and may allow them to apply their own technologies. This user-initiated request is separate from the site's GA4 consent control.

Retention, transfers, and recipients

The local consent preference remains until changed, cleared, or invalidated by a later consent version. The confirmed GA4 retention settings are stated above. Correspondence may be retained only as reasonably needed for the enquiry, record keeping, or legal obligations. Infrastructure providers may maintain operational and security records under their own documented practices. No exact retention period is stated here for Replit, IONOS, Impact, Coursera, other Google services, or the private destination mailbox. Google, Replit, Impact, Coursera, or their suppliers may process information outside the UK under their applicable terms and safeguards.

Why information is processed

Consent is the basis for optional GA4 analytics. Necessary website operation, security, and delivery are carried out to provide and protect the website. Email enquiries and privacy requests are handled to respond to the sender, administer the enquiry, and meet applicable legal responsibilities. Affiliate attribution can occur after a visitor chooses to follow a commercial link. These descriptions have not received independent legal certification.

Your choices and rights

Depending on the processing and applicable law, you may have rights to ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability, or to object. You can withdraw analytics consent at any time without affecting processing that occurred before withdrawal. Contact us first using the address below. UK users can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Contact

For privacy questions or data-rights requests, contact David Hornby at privacy@bestaicoursesonline.com. The address is a domain-based forwarding address managed through IONOS; its private destination is not disclosed. No public postal address has been supplied.