Cookie Policy
Understanding How Velithe Uses Tracking Technologies
Last Updated: March 15, 2025
At Velithe, we believe transparency is essential when it comes to how we collect and use information about your interactions with our budgeting platform. This policy explains the various tracking technologies we employ on velithe.com and how they enhance your experience while respecting your privacy choices.
What Are Tracking Technologies?
Tracking technologies are small data files and scripts that help websites function properly and provide personalized experiences. When you visit velithe.com, these technologies collect information about your browsing patterns, preferences, and interactions to help us deliver better financial education content and budgeting tools.
Think of these technologies as digital assistants that remember your preferences – like your preferred language settings, login status, or which budgeting categories you use most frequently. They work behind the scenes to make your experience smoother and more relevant to your financial goals.
Types of Tracking Technologies We Use
Essential Cookies
These are absolutely necessary for velithe.com to function properly. They enable basic features like secure login, account access, and navigation between pages. Without these, you wouldn't be able to use core budgeting features or access your financial data securely.
Functional Cookies
These enhance your experience by remembering your preferences and choices. They store information like your preferred dashboard layout, notification settings, and customized budgeting categories, so you don't have to reconfigure everything each time you visit.
Analytical Cookies
These help us understand how you interact with our platform so we can improve it. They collect anonymous data about which features are most popular, where users encounter difficulties, and how we can make budgeting tools more intuitive and effective.
Marketing Cookies
These track your interests to show you relevant content about financial education and budgeting resources. They help us understand which topics interest you most and deliver personalized recommendations for courses, tools, and financial guidance.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
Personalized Financial Guidance
By understanding your browsing patterns and interests, we can recommend budgeting strategies, educational content, and financial tools that align with your specific situation. For example, if you frequently visit content about debt management, we might suggest relevant courses or calculators.
Our tracking technologies also help us identify common pain points in the budgeting process. If we notice many users struggling with a particular feature, we can improve it or provide better guidance. This creates a continuously improving experience for everyone using our platform.
Security is another crucial benefit – these technologies help us detect suspicious activity and protect your financial information from unauthorized access. They enable features like automatic logout after periods of inactivity and alerts for unusual account activity.
Data Retention and Storage
Session Duration
Essential cookies for login and security are deleted when you close your browser or log out of your account.
30 Days
Functional preferences and basic analytics data are retained for one month to maintain your customized experience.
12 Months
Aggregated usage patterns and performance data are kept for up to one year to inform long-term platform improvements.
All stored data is anonymized and aggregated wherever possible. We never retain personally identifiable information longer than necessary for the specific purpose it was collected. Your financial data and personal information are subject to separate, more stringent retention policies outlined in our Privacy Policy.
Managing Your Preferences
Browser Settings
Your browser provides built-in controls for managing tracking technologies. You can block certain types, clear existing data, or set preferences for how sites handle your information.
Account Preferences
Within your Velithe account settings, you can control marketing preferences, notification settings, and data sharing options. These settings override default tracking behaviors.
Selective Blocking
You can choose to block non-essential tracking while still allowing functional cookies that enhance your budgeting experience. This gives you control while maintaining platform usability.
Browser-Specific Instructions
Google Chrome
Go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data. Here you can block third-party cookies, clear existing data, or manage site-specific permissions.
Mozilla Firefox
Access Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers enhanced tracking protection and detailed control over different types of tracking technologies.
Safari
Navigate to Preferences > Privacy. Safari includes intelligent tracking prevention and allows you to block all cookies or just cross-site tracking.
Microsoft Edge
Go to Settings > Cookies and site permissions. Edge provides three levels of tracking prevention: Basic, Balanced, and Strict, each offering different levels of privacy protection.
Important Considerations
Blocking all tracking technologies may affect your ability to use certain features of velithe.com. Essential cookies are necessary for login and account access, while functional cookies enhance your budgeting experience. We recommend allowing these while controlling marketing and analytical tracking based on your preferences.
Third-Party Services
Some tracking technologies on velithe.com are provided by trusted third-party services that help us analyze website performance and deliver better experiences. These include analytics providers, security services, and content delivery networks that help our platform load faster and more reliably.
We carefully vet all third-party services to ensure they meet our privacy and security standards. However, these services may have their own privacy policies and tracking practices. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party services you interact with through our platform.
- Analytics services that help us understand user behavior and improve our platform
- Security services that protect against fraud and unauthorized access
- Content delivery networks that ensure fast, reliable access to our budgeting tools
- Customer support tools that help us provide better assistance with your financial questions
Updates and Changes
As we continue to improve velithe.com and add new features, our use of tracking technologies may evolve. We'll update this policy to reflect any significant changes and notify you through your account or email when important updates occur.
We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we're using tracking technologies to enhance your budgeting experience. You can always find the most current version of this policy on our website, along with the last updated date at the top of this page.
Your privacy is important to us, and we're committed to being transparent about our data practices. If you have questions about how we use tracking technologies or want to exercise your rights regarding your data, please don't hesitate to reach out to our team.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
If you have questions about how we use tracking technologies or need help managing your preferences, our team is here to help.
Email: contact@velithe.com
Phone: +1 (519) 400-9583
Address: 1 Huron St 2nd Floor, Stratford, ON N5A 5S4, Canada