Data Usage Policy
Last updated: February 2025
We're being upfront with you here. This page explains what tracking technologies we use on mintraveqol.com and what they actually do. No confusing legal jargon—just honest information about the data bits stored on your device when you visit our site.
Look, we get it. These policies can feel invasive. But there's practical reasons we track certain activity, mostly around making the site function properly and understanding which business planning resources people actually find useful versus what gets ignored.
Control Your Privacy
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Essential Site Functions
Some tracking is necessary for mintraveqol.com to work at all. These can't be turned off without breaking basic functionality:
- Session authentication—remembering you're logged in as you move between pages
- Form data persistence—keeping your input when you navigate back to a partially completed form
- Security tokens—preventing cross-site request forgery attacks
- Load balancing—distributing your requests across our servers efficiently
These essential elements expire when you close your browser or after your session ends.
Types of Tracking We Use
Functional Tracking
These remember your preferences—like which business plan template format you prefer or if you've dismissed certain notifications. They make repeat visits less annoying because you're not constantly resetting your choices. Stored for up to 12 months.
Performance Analytics
We track how people navigate the site. Which pages get read thoroughly versus skimmed? Where do users give up on our business plan builder? This stuff helps us fix what's broken and improve what's working. Data gets anonymized and aggregated—we're not tracking your individual journey in detail.
Marketing Tags
These track whether you arrived from an ad or social media post. Honestly, they help us figure out which outreach efforts bring people to our financial planning resources versus which campaigns waste money. You can block these entirely without affecting your experience on our site.
Third-Party Content
When we embed videos or interactive calculators from other platforms, those services might set their own tracking. We've minimized this where possible, but some embedded tools require it to function. Check those providers' policies for specifics.
Managing Tracking Through Your Browser
You've got control here beyond just clicking our rejection button. Modern browsers let you block or delete tracking data directly. The specific steps vary depending on what you're using:
Keep in mind that blocking everything might break certain features. Our business plan comparison tool, for example, needs functional tracking to remember which options you've selected as you navigate between comparison pages.
How Long We Keep This Data
Different types stick around for different periods. Session data disappears when you close your browser. Functional preferences last up to a year. Analytics data gets anonymized after 90 days and then aggregated for trend analysis.
Marketing tags typically expire after 30 days, though some advertising platforms extend this to 180 days for conversion tracking. You can clear everything manually through browser settings whenever you want.
What Happens When You Decline
Hit that rejection button above and we'll immediately clear non-essential tracking data and signal to analytics platforms that you've opted out. Your preference gets saved in local storage so we remember your choice on future visits.
The site continues working normally. You'll still access all our financial planning resources, business templates, and educational content. You just won't be contributing to our usage statistics or seeing retargeted ads based on your visit here.
Questions about our data practices or need to request information about what we've collected? Reach us at info@mintraveqol.com or call +61400350161.
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