Privacy should be understandable.
Cookie Coders is a student robotics website. We minimize personal information, do not operate advertising or behavioral analytics on this site, and clearly identify services provided by other organizations.
Effective October 7, 2026
What this site collects
this website is primarily a static informational website. It does not currently provide account registration, a contact form, comments, advertising, online payments, or first-party behavioral analytics.
We do not intentionally ask visitors to submit names, email addresses, phone numbers, school schedules, real-time locations, or other personal information through this site.
Code Lab practice quizzes keep answers only on the current page, without cookies or browser storage. Answers reset when you reload; Cookie Coders does not collect or save quiz results.
Protecting young people
Student safety matters more than publicity. We do not intentionally publish student personal contact information, birth dates, home addresses, class schedules, travel itineraries, or real-time locations.
Student names, images, biographies, or attributed work should be published only with appropriate team and family approval. Public technical work should focus on learning and engineering evidence rather than unnecessary personal details.
Embeds and external links
The Code Lab and FTC Resources pages include embedded YouTube videos. Course previews use YouTube's privacy-enhanced player; this still connects to YouTube/Google, and playback may use cookies according to their policies. The FTC Resources page also embeds the FIRST Tech Challenge Competition Manual Assistant. Loading that embed connects your browser to FIRST or its service providers. These providers may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser details, and referring page.
Score calculator: The FTC Resources page links to FIRST's official BIOBUZZ score calculator in a new tab; it is not embedded on this website. Calculator inputs and privacy practices are controlled by FIRST and its service providers. Cookie Coders does not save your calculator inputs.
The site also links to FIRST, FTC Events, FTC SIM, and external engineering tools. Their privacy practices are controlled by those services, not Cookie Coders.
Competition Manual Assistant: Do not enter personal data or sensitive information into the assistant. Its generated answers are not official rulings and should be checked against current official sources.
Technical records
The publishing configuration is intended for Cloudflare Pages. When hosted there, Cloudflare may process limited technical and security information needed to deliver the site, prevent abuse, diagnose failures, and protect its network. Cookie Coders does not use those infrastructure records to create advertising profiles.
No website can promise perfect security. We limit risk by collecting little information, avoiding public submission forms, and keeping sensitive team data off the public website.
Control third-party connections
You may use browser privacy controls, block third-party cookies, decline the embedded assistant's cookie prompt, or open external resources in a separate browser profile. If you do not want embedded content to load, you can use the locally hosted program lessons and glossary instead of the Code Lab overview and FTC Resources page.
When the site changes
We will update this page if this website adds forms, analytics, account features, payment tools, or materially different third-party services. The effective date at the top will change when the policy is revised.
Do not send student records or sensitive information through external resource links. Approved team contact information will be published only when ready.