Cookie Policy
Understanding how carnilostera uses cookies and tracking technologies to enhance your budgeting experience on carnilostera.com
What Are Cookies and How We Use Them
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. At carnilostera, we use cookies to make your budgeting journey smoother and more personalized. Think of them as helpful notes that remember your preferences – like your preferred currency display or which budget categories you use most often.
When you're tracking expenses or setting up budget goals, cookies help us remember where you left off. This means you won't have to re-enter your settings every time you return to work on your financial planning.
Types of Tracking Technologies We Use
Essential Cookies
These keep your budgeting session secure and functional. Without them, features like saving your expense entries or accessing your budget dashboard wouldn't work properly.
Functional Cookies
Remember your personal preferences like your home currency, preferred chart types for budget visualization, and which financial categories you track most frequently.
Analytics Tracking
Help us understand which budgeting tools are most helpful to our users. We might learn that people spend more time on expense tracking than income planning, which guides our improvements.
Performance Tracking
Monitor how quickly our budget calculators load and whether our expense import features work smoothly across different devices and browsers.
How Cookies Enhance Your Budgeting Experience
Here's what cookies actually do for you when managing your finances on our platform. If you're working on a monthly budget and need to step away, functional cookies remember exactly where you were – including any expense categories you'd customized or budget targets you'd set.
Analytics cookies help us notice patterns. For example, we might discover that most people struggle with the same budgeting step, which tells us where to add better explanations or tutorials. Performance cookies ensure that when you're uploading bank statements or generating financial reports, everything runs smoothly without frustrating delays.
Your Control Over Tracking
You have complete control over which cookies you accept. Essential cookies are necessary for basic functionality, but you can opt out of analytics and marketing cookies if you prefer. Your budgeting tools will still work – you just won't get the personalized experience enhancements.
We never store sensitive financial data like account numbers or passwords in cookies. That information stays encrypted and secure in our main systems.
Data Retention and Storage
Different types of tracking data have different lifespans, depending on their purpose and your needs as a budgeting platform user.
| Cookie Type | Retention Period | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Session Cookies | Until browser closes | Maintain your login and current budgeting session |
| Preference Cookies | 12 months | Remember your currency, display settings, and category preferences |
| Analytics Cookies | 24 months | Understand long-term usage patterns to improve our budgeting tools |
| Performance Tracking | 6 months | Monitor and optimize loading speeds for financial calculators |
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Browser Settings Guide
Every major browser gives you control over cookies. Here's how to manage them in the most popular browsers:
Google Chrome
- Open Chrome Settings menu
- Navigate to Privacy and Security section
- Select Site Settings
- Choose Cookies and site data
- Configure your preferred settings
Mozilla Firefox
- Access Firefox Options menu
- Go to Privacy & Security panel
- Find Cookies and Site Data section
- Adjust settings or manage data
- Save your preferences
Safari
- Open Safari Preferences
- Click Privacy tab
- Choose cookie blocking options
- Manage website data if needed
- Apply changes
Microsoft Edge
- Access Edge Settings
- Select Privacy, search, and services
- Navigate to Cookies section
- Configure tracking prevention
- Review site permissions
Third-Party Services and Integration
Some of our budgeting features work with trusted third-party services to provide you with comprehensive financial tools. For example, when you connect bank accounts for automatic expense tracking, or when we use analytics services to understand how people use our budget calculators.
These integrations may place their own cookies on your device. We carefully select partners who meet our privacy standards, but they operate under their own privacy policies. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services you choose to connect with your budgeting account.
Updates to This Policy
We occasionally update this cookie policy to reflect changes in our budgeting platform or legal requirements. When we make significant changes that affect how we use tracking technologies, we'll notify active users through email or prominent notices on carnilostera.com.
Minor updates, like clarifying existing practices or adding new browser instructions, are updated directly in this policy. We encourage you to review this page periodically, especially if you have specific privacy concerns about financial data tracking.
Questions About Our Cookie Practices?
If you need clarification about how cookies work with your budgeting data, or if you're experiencing issues with cookie settings affecting your financial planning tools, we're here to help.
Our support team understands both the technical and privacy aspects of our tracking systems. They can walk you through cookie settings that maintain your preferred privacy level while keeping your budgeting experience functional.
Contact Information
Reach out to carnilostera for cookie policy questions or privacy concerns
Armadale VIC 3143
Australia