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Cookie & Tracking Policy

Understanding how Drive-profile.com uses tracking technologies to enhance your financial planning experience

Last Updated: March 2025

What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

When you visit drive-profile.com, we use several types of tracking technologies to improve your experience with our financial forecasting platform. Think of cookies as small digital notes that help our website remember your preferences and provide personalized budgeting insights.

These technologies work quietly in the background, helping us understand how you interact with our financial tools. For instance, when you're building a budget forecast, cookies help us save your progress so you don't lose work if you need to step away from your computer.

Essential vs Optional: Some tracking is necessary for basic website functionality, like keeping you logged into your account. Other tracking helps us improve our services but isn't required for the site to work properly.

Managing Your Browser Settings

Every modern browser gives you control over cookies and tracking. Here's how to adjust your settings in popular browsers. Keep in mind that disabling certain cookies might affect how our financial planning tools work.

Google Chrome
Click the three dots menu → Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. You can block third-party cookies or clear all cookies here.
Mozilla Firefox
Click the hamburger menu → Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers enhanced tracking protection by default.
Safari
Safari menu → Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data. Safari automatically blocks many third-party trackers.
Microsoft Edge
Click the three dots → Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data. Edge offers tracking prevention levels.
Impact on Financial Tools: If you disable functional cookies, you might need to re-enter your budget preferences each visit. Analytics cookies help us fix bugs in our forecasting calculations, so disabling them might mean slower improvements to the platform.

How Tracking Enhances Your Financial Planning

Our tracking helps create a more personalized financial planning experience. When you're working on complex budget forecasts or multi-year financial plans, cookies ensure your progress is saved and your preferences are remembered.

For example, if you typically work with AUD and prefer quarterly budget reviews, our functional cookies remember these settings. Analytics cookies help us understand that users often struggle with certain forecasting features, leading us to improve those tools.

We also use tracking to understand seasonal patterns in how Australians approach budgeting. This helps us time our educational content better and develop features that match real financial planning cycles.

Data Retention: Most cookies expire within 12 months. Essential cookies last only as long as your browser session. We regularly review and clean up stored data to keep only what's necessary for improving your experience.

Your Privacy and Control Options

We believe you should have clear control over your data. That's why we've made cookie management straightforward and transparent. You can change your preferences at any time without affecting your ability to use our core financial planning tools.

If you're concerned about privacy but still want to use our budgeting features effectively, we recommend allowing essential and functional cookies while disabling analytics and marketing cookies. This gives you a personalized experience while limiting data collection.

Remember that completely blocking cookies might prevent you from saving budget templates, maintaining login sessions, or receiving important security updates. We've designed our platform to be as functional as possible even with restricted cookie settings.

Third-Party Services: Some features integrate with external services like bank data feeds or investment tracking. These services may have their own cookie policies, which we encourage you to review separately.

Questions About Our Cookie Policy?

If you need clarification about how we use tracking technologies or want to discuss your privacy preferences, we're here to help.

help@drive-profile.com
+61403189660
28 Ainslie Ave, Canberra ACT 2601