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Cookie Policy

Understanding how FlashDigitalNext uses tracking technologies

Last Updated: This policy was last revised in February 2025 to reflect current data practices and user control options.

What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. Think of them as digital notes that help websites remember information about your visit. At FlashDigitalNext, we use various tracking technologies beyond just cookies – including web beacons, pixels, and local storage – to enhance your experience with our budget calendar planning platform.

These technologies work behind the scenes to remember your preferences, keep you logged in, and help us understand how people use our financial planning tools. Some are absolutely essential for the website to function properly, while others help us improve our services or provide more relevant content.

Types of Tracking We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are absolutely necessary for flashdigitalnext.com to work properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and form submissions. Without these, our budget planning platform simply wouldn't function.
What we use these for:
  • Keeping you logged into your account
  • Remembering items in your budget planning workspace
  • Maintaining security during your session
  • Storing language and currency preferences

Functional Cookies

These enhance your experience by remembering choices you make. They're not essential, but they make using our financial planning tools much more convenient and personalized to your needs.
Examples include:
  • Your preferred dashboard layout and view settings
  • Custom categories you've created for expenses
  • Notification preferences and display options
  • Recently accessed budget templates

Analytics Cookies

We use analytics tools to understand how people interact with our platform. This helps us identify which features are most useful, where people might be getting stuck, and how we can improve the overall user experience.
This data helps us:
  • Understand which budget planning features are most popular
  • Identify technical issues or slow-loading pages
  • See how people navigate through our learning resources
  • Measure overall platform performance and usage patterns

Marketing Cookies

These cookies help us deliver more relevant content and educational resources based on your interests. They also help us measure the effectiveness of our outreach efforts and educational content.
Used for:
  • Showing relevant financial planning tips and resources
  • Measuring engagement with our educational content
  • Personalizing content based on your interests
  • Tracking which learning materials are most helpful

Control Your Cookie Preferences

You can choose to decline all non-essential cookies while still using our platform. Essential cookies will remain active to ensure the website functions properly, but all tracking, analytics, and marketing cookies will be removed from your browser.

Data Retention and Storage

How Long We Keep Tracking Data

Different types of cookies and tracking data are stored for different periods based on their purpose:

  • Session cookies: Deleted automatically when you close your browser
  • Functional preferences: Stored for up to 12 months or until you clear them
  • Analytics data: Aggregated and anonymized after 26 months
  • Marketing cookies: Typically expire after 30-90 days

We regularly review and clean up old tracking data to ensure we're not keeping information longer than necessary. You can also clear all cookies at any time through your browser settings.

Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Every web browser gives you control over cookies. Here's how to manage them in the most popular browsers:

Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. You can block all cookies or set exceptions for specific sites.
Firefox
Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Choose standard, strict, or custom tracking protection.
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data. Safari blocks third-party cookies by default.
Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data. Set tracking prevention levels.

Keep in mind that blocking all cookies may affect how our budget planning platform works. Some features might not function properly without certain cookies enabled.

Technical Implementation Details

For developers and technically minded users, here are some additional details about our tracking implementation:

  • We use secure, HTTP-only cookies for sensitive authentication data
  • All tracking cookies include SameSite attributes for enhanced security
  • Third-party analytics services are configured with privacy-enhanced settings
  • Local storage is used sparingly and only for improving user experience
  • We implement Content Security Policy headers to control script execution

Our tracking systems are designed with privacy by design principles, collecting only the minimum data necessary to provide and improve our services.

Third-Party Services

Some of our tracking technologies come from third-party services that help us provide better experiences. These include analytics platforms, content delivery networks, and customer support tools. Each of these services has its own privacy policy and cookie practices.

When you use flashdigitalnext.com, these third-party services may set their own cookies on your device. We choose service providers carefully and work with companies that maintain strong privacy standards, but we encourage you to review their policies as well.

You can opt out of many third-party tracking services through industry opt-out pages or by using browser settings and extensions that block tracking scripts.

Questions About Our Cookie Policy?

If you have questions about how we use cookies or want to discuss your privacy options, we're here to help.
Contact us at info@flashdigitalnext.com
or call us at +842143848029