Learnworlds

Overview

LearnWorlds is a white-label online course platform that enables course creators and educational institutions to build branded learning experiences. It primarily hosts complete course sites on its own infrastructure, but also offers embeddable widgets — enrollment buttons, course previews, and video lesson previews — that can be placed on external marketing or landing pages. The LearnWorlds script appears in third-party contexts when these widgets are deployed.

What This Script Does

LearnWorlds embeds are loaded from the creator's LearnWorlds subdomain or custom domain, typically rendering a course preview player or enrollment call-to-action within an iframe or injected script.

Authentication cookies: When a visitor is already enrolled and logged into the LearnWorlds school, authentication cookies maintain their session state across the embedded widget. These cookies are scoped to the LearnWorlds school domain.

Progress tracking: Lesson completion and quiz results are tracked per authenticated user. This data is stored server-side in LearnWorlds' database, not in client-side cookies, though session tokens in cookies facilitate the tracking.

Data collected: The embedded script may collect page referrer and URL to support enrollment attribution, linking a conversion back to the originating marketing page. If the video preview player loads, playback events may be logged.

Network requests: All content loads from the creator's LearnWorlds domain. Standard video content may be served via an integrated video host. Payment processing for enrollment uses Stripe or PayPal, which load their own scripts.

Consent & Compliance

GDPR and ePrivacy Directive: Authentication and session cookies are necessary to provide the enrolled learner with access to course content — these fall under the strict necessity exemption from prior consent under ePrivacy. Referral attribution cookies are not strictly necessary and should be disclosed. Third-party payment scripts (Stripe, PayPal) loaded during enrollment require their own consent assessment.

CCPA/CPRA: LearnWorlds processes learner data as a service provider to the course creator, who acts as the data controller. Enrollment transaction data is not sold to third parties.

Consent category: functional. LearnWorlds serves an education delivery function. Its cookies support authenticated access to paid content rather than behavioral advertising.

Should You Block This Without Consent?

No.

LearnWorlds scripts enable enrolled students to access course content they have paid for. Blocking them would deny students their purchased access. Classify under functional and load with other session management scripts.