Privacy Policy

Narton Atlas (narton-atlas.com) is a free educational resource directory. We curate links to free courses, videos, and learning materials. We do not sell courses, charge for access, or sell your data.

We collect minimal data to operate the site:

• Account data — if you register, we store your username, email address (optional), and a hashed password.
• Microsoft sign-in — if you choose "Log in with Microsoft", Microsoft shares your name, email address and an account ID with us. We never see your Microsoft password.
• Usage data — bookmarks, ratings, and course progress you save to your profile.
• Classes — if you join a teacher's class with its code, that teacher can see your name and username, the practice lessons you have tried, the answers you submitted in practice exercises and when you last practised. They cannot see your password, email address, bookmarks or ratings. You can leave a class at any time, which ends their access.
• Analytics — if you accept cookies, we use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the site (pages visited, general location, device type). This data is anonymised and aggregated.

• Session cookie — keeps you logged in. Strictly necessary; no consent required.
• cookie_consent — stores your cookie preference for 1 year.
• Google Analytics — only set if you accept analytics cookies. Used to measure site traffic anonymously. Google's privacy policy →

You can change your cookie preference at any time using the link in the footer.

If you are in the EU/EEA you have the right to:

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at nartonmedia@gmail.com.

Account data is retained until you delete your account. Analytics data is retained for 14 months by Google Analytics, after which it is automatically deleted.

• Google Analytics — analytics (EU consent required)
• Microsoft — optional sign-in with a Microsoft account Microsoft's privacy statement →
• Amazon S3 — image storage
• Heroku — hosting (servers located in the EU)

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