Effective date: 17 August 2026
Last updated: 6 November 2026
LGLNOW is the website’s publishing and learning brand. Imran Chowdhury remains the site operator. The published imranchowdhury.com email addresses remain the contact channels during the transition to lglnow.com.
1. About this notice
This Cookie Notice explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on lglnow.com, including LGLNOW Academy and its learning services.
This notice should be read together with the site’s Privacy Notice, which explains how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, retained and protected.
The site is operated personally by:
Imran Chowdhury
Doha, Qatar
Privacy email: privacy@imranchowdhury.com
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on or accessed from a computer, phone or other device when a website is visited.
Cookies may allow a website to:
- Deliver requested pages
- Maintain a secure session
- Recognize a logged-in user
- Remember preferences
- Preserve a shopping cart
- Record consent choices
- Understand how the site is used
- Support embedded or third-party content
Some cookies last only for the browser session. Others remain on the device until they expire or are deleted.
3. Similar technologies
This notice also covers technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:
- Local storage
- Session storage
- Pixels
- Tags
- Software development kits
- Device or browser identifiers
- Embedded scripts
- Server-side identifiers
References to “cookies” in this notice include these similar technologies where appropriate.
4. The site’s cookie approach
LGLNOW uses WordPress for the website, LearnPress for course delivery and Jetpack for connected site features. Authentication, security and learning functions may use cookies or similar technologies when you request those services.
WordPress.com statistics scripts load on public pages. The detailed inventory of statistics, learning and third-party technologies is under review. This notice does not represent a completed technical scan of every feature.
Cookie use depends on the page visited and actions taken, such as signing in, enrolling in a course or using externally hosted content. The categories below explain the different purposes.
5. Cookie categories
5.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required to provide a service you request or to maintain the security and essential operation of the site.
They may support:
- Secure page delivery
- Login and authentication
- Account sessions
- Security and fraud prevention
- Learner access
- Course progress
- Shopping-cart and checkout functions
- Privacy and consent preferences
Disabling these cookies may prevent login, learning, checkout or other requested features from working.
Where permitted by applicable law, strictly necessary cookies may be used without optional consent. They will not be used for unrelated analytics, advertising or profiling.
5.2 Preference cookies
Preference cookies remember choices that are not essential to the basic operation of the site, such as:
- Language
- Display settings
- Interface preferences
- Media preferences
These cookies should remain disabled until the appropriate choice or consent has been provided, unless a particular cookie is necessary to deliver a preference explicitly requested by the user.
5.3 Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help understand how visitors use the site. They may record:
- Pages visited
- General navigation paths
- Approximate visit duration
- Referral source
- Browser and device characteristics
- General geographic region
- Interactions with page features
- Error and performance information
Public pages load WordPress.com statistics scripts. Statistics may involve technical and usage information; the specific technologies and their configuration are being reviewed.
The review of statistics and analytics covers:
- The provider will be identified.
- The cookies and durations will be added to this notice.
- The purpose and information collected will be explained.
- The technology will remain blocked until consent where required.
- A visitor will be able to reject analytics without losing access to ordinary public content.
5.4 Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to:
- Measure advertising
- Build audience profiles
- Retarget visitors
- Track activity across websites
- Connect website activity with advertising platforms
Marketing cookies are not part of the stated purpose of the site. Any future marketing integration will be described here before use.
Marketing technologies will not be introduced without updating this notice, assessing the relevant privacy implications and implementing the required user choice.
5.5 Embedded-media cookies
Articles and courses may contain externally hosted:
- Video
- Audio
- Presentations
- Documents
- Interactive content
- Social-media content
The external provider may use cookies or receive technical information when its content loads.
Where the provider uses non-essential cookies, the preferred approach is to display a privacy-enhanced placeholder and load the external content only after the visitor chooses to activate it.
6. WordPress login and preference cookies
The following cookies may be used by WordPress for login, administration and basic operation. Some will appear only when a user visits a login page or signs in.
| Cookie or pattern | Category | Purpose | Typical duration | Used for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
wordpress_test_cookie | Strictly necessary | Checks whether the browser accepts cookies | Session | WordPress login |
wordpress_[hash] | Strictly necessary | Supports authentication within the WordPress administration area | Normally two days, or fourteen days when “Remember Me” is selected | Administrators and authorized users |
wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Strictly necessary | Recognizes a user’s authenticated session on the site | Normally two days, or fourteen days when “Remember Me” is selected | Logged-in users |
wordpress_sec_[hash] | Strictly necessary | Supports secure authentication over HTTPS | Normally two days, or fourteen days when “Remember Me” is selected | Logged-in users |
wp-settings-[user ID] | Strictly necessary or functional | Preserves WordPress interface settings for a registered user | Configuration dependent | Registered users and administrators |
wp-settings-time-[user ID] | Strictly necessary or functional | Records when WordPress interface settings were established | Configuration dependent | Registered users and administrators |
wp_lang | Functional | Remembers the selected language on the WordPress login screen | Session | Users visiting the login screen |
The word [hash] represents a site-specific security value. [user ID] represents the internal identifier of a registered WordPress user.
The table describes standard WordPress cookie patterns. Their presence and duration depend on the functions used and the site configuration; it is not a complete inventory of all technologies.
7. LGLNOW Academy cookies
LGLNOW Academy uses LearnPress within WordPress. Learner authentication relies on the site’s account and session functions. Course progress, quiz responses and completion information are recorded as part of learning administration.
See the Privacy Notice for the types of learner information involved. Additional technologies may be used by connected learning or media features. The complete learning-technology inventory is under review.
8. Payment providers
A payment gateway may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Process a payment
- Authenticate a transaction
- Prevent fraud
- Maintain checkout security
- Apply regulatory security controls
The payment provider and its technologies will be added to the cookie register before paid enrolment is enabled.
Payment technologies used only to complete a purchase requested by the learner may be necessary. Any separate analytics, profiling or marketing technology used by a payment provider must be evaluated independently.
9. Comments
Some course pages offer comments through WordPress.com. Signing in or using those features may involve WordPress.com cookies and its own privacy information. Cookie behavior may differ for signed-in and signed-out visitors.
10. Managing cookie choices
Where optional cookies are available, the consent interface should provide:
- Accept all
- Reject non-essential
- Manage preferences
Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent access to ordinary public content.
A visitor should be able to:
- Make a choice by category
- Refuse optional cookies
- Change an earlier choice
- Withdraw consent
- Access this Cookie Notice before deciding
- Continue using public content without accepting optional tracking
The site will provide a persistent Cookie Settings link in the footer when a consent-management tool is active.
Withdrawing consent will not affect processing that occurred lawfully before the choice was changed.
11. Browser controls
Most browsers allow users to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block all or selected cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Clear site data when the browser closes
- Limit tracking technologies
Browser controls differ by provider and device. Blocking all cookies may prevent login, course access, checkout and other requested functionality from working.
Deleting the consent-preference cookie may cause the site to ask for cookie choices again.
12. Do Not Track and privacy signals
Some browsers send “Do Not Track” or other privacy preference signals.
Technical and legal standards for responding to these signals may differ. The site does not sell personal information and does not intend to use cross-site behavioural advertising on this website.
Where an applicable law requires recognition of a particular privacy signal, the site will be configured to respond accordingly.
13. International processing
Cookie and similar-technology providers may process information in countries other than Qatar or the country from which the site is accessed.
Before a non-essential third-party provider is introduced, its:
- Processing locations
- Privacy terms
- Security measures
- Retention practices
- Transfer safeguards
- Subprocessors
should be evaluated.
Additional information about international processing is available in the Privacy Notice.
14. Changes to this notice
This notice will be reviewed when:
- A plugin is installed, removed or materially updated
- LearnPress or an Academy add-on is introduced
- Analytics is enabled
- A newsletter service is activated
- Third-party media is embedded
- A payment gateway is configured
- Cookie purposes or durations change
- Applicable requirements change
The current version will be identified by the effective and last-updated dates at the top of this page.
15. Contact
Questions or concerns about cookies and similar technologies may be sent to:
Imran Chowdhury
Doha, Qatar
Email: privacy@imranchowdhury.com
For information about broader personal-information practices and individual rights, please review the site’s Privacy Notice.