What Are Cookies and How We Use Them
Cookies are small text files stored on your
device when you visit simovetura.com. We use these
along with other tracking technologies to
improve your experience with our financial
forecasting and budgeting tools.
Think of cookies as helpful notes that remember
your preferences - like keeping you logged in or
remembering which currency format you prefer
when viewing your budget projections. Some
cookies are essential for basic site
functionality, while others help us understand
how to make our financial planning tools more
useful.
We're transparent about every type of tracking
we use because your trust matters to us,
especially when you're sharing financial
planning information.
Essential Cookies We Can't Disable
These cookies keep simovetura.com working properly
and secure your financial data:
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Session management - Keeps
you logged in safely while using our
budgeting tools
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Security tokens - Protects
against fraud and unauthorized access to your
financial data
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Load balancing - Ensures our
forecasting calculations run smoothly
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Form data - Prevents loss of
your budget information if connection drops
These stay active regardless of your cookie
preferences because they're necessary for basic
site functionality and data protection.
How We Track User Behavior
Beyond cookies, we use several tracking methods
to understand how people use our financial
tools:
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Page analytics - Which
budgeting features get used most
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Click tracking - How users
navigate through forecasting reports
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Time spent - How long people
spend on different planning sections
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Error logging - Technical
issues that might affect your experience
This information helps us improve our financial
planning interface and add features that
actually matter to Australian businesses
managing their budgets.
Functional Cookies
Remember your dashboard layout preferences,
currency settings, and notification choices.
These make your financial planning workflow more
efficient by keeping your personal setup.
Analytics Cookies
Help us understand which forecasting features
work best and where users encounter problems. We
use this to improve our budgeting tools and add
requested functionality.
Marketing Cookies
Track which content led you to try our financial
planning tools. This helps us create more
relevant resources about budgeting and
forecasting for Australian businesses.
Third-Party Tracking
Some external services we integrate (like
payment processors or chart libraries) may set
their own cookies when you use those specific
features on our platform.
Data Retention and Your Control
Most tracking cookies expire within 12 months,
though some essential ones last up to 24 months for
security purposes. You can clear them anytime
through your browser settings, though this might
reset your dashboard preferences and require you to
log in again.
Managing Browser Settings
Every major browser lets you control cookies:
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Chrome: Settings → Privacy
and Security → Cookies
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Firefox: Preferences →
Privacy & Security → Cookies
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Safari: Preferences →
Privacy → Manage Website Data
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Edge: Settings → Site
Permissions → Cookies
You can block all cookies, but this might break
some functionality in our financial planning
tools, especially features that save your budget
customizations.
What Happens When You Opt Out
If you decline non-essential cookies, here's
what changes:
- We won't track which features you use most
- Your dashboard preferences won't be
remembered between sessions
- You might see less relevant financial
planning content
- Some personalization features may not work
properly
The core budgeting and forecasting tools will
still work perfectly - you just won't get the
personalized experience.
How Tracking Improves Your Experience
Here's some specific ways we use tracking data to
make simovetura.com better for financial planning:
When we notice users frequently switching between
the cash flow forecasting and budget comparison
views, we made those transitions faster and added a
split-screen option. Analytics showed people often
exported reports to PDF, so we improved the
formatting and added more customization options.
We also discovered that many users were manually
calculating certain ratios, so we built those
calculations directly into the dashboard. Without
usage tracking, we wouldn't have known these
features were needed.
Error tracking helps us catch problems before they
affect your financial data - like when server load
might slow down budget calculations during busy
periods.
