Cookie & Tracking Policy
Understanding how Mindula uses tracking technologies
What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?
When you visit mindula.com, we use various tracking technologies to enhance your experience and improve our financial forecasting platform. Think of cookies as tiny digital notes that help our website remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our services.
These technologies include traditional HTTP cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, local storage, and session identifiers. Each serves a specific purpose in making your interaction with Mindula more personalized and efficient. We're transparent about how these work because your privacy matters to us.
At Mindula, we believe in giving you control over your digital footprint while providing the financial tools you need to succeed.
Types of Tracking We Use
Our tracking technologies fall into four main categories, each designed to serve you better while respecting your privacy choices.
Essential Cookies
These keep mindula.com running smoothly. They handle your login sessions, remember your security preferences, and ensure our financial calculators work properly. Without these, basic website functions wouldn't operate.
Functional Cookies
These remember your dashboard layout, currency preferences, and notification settings. They make your return visits more convenient by keeping your personal Mindula experience just the way you like it.
Analytical Cookies
We use these to understand which features help you most with financial planning. This data helps us improve our forecasting tools and create better resources for South African businesses.
Marketing Cookies
These help us show you relevant content about financial planning and business growth. They also measure how effective our educational content is in helping users understand financial forecasting.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
Here's what happens behind the scenes to make your Mindula experience better:
When you use our financial forecasting tools, tracking helps us understand which features are most valuable. This means we can focus our development efforts on the tools that actually help South African businesses grow and plan better.
Data Retention and Your Control
Different types of tracking data have different lifespans, and you have various levels of control over each:
You can delete most of this data anytime by clearing your browser's stored data or adjusting your account settings. Some essential security cookies will recreate themselves to protect your account, but all optional tracking respects your choices.
Managing Your Browser Settings
Every major browser gives you control over cookies and tracking. Here's how to adjust settings in the most common browsers:
Remember that blocking certain cookies might affect how well mindula.com works for you. Essential cookies are necessary for basic functionality, but you can experiment with different settings to find what works best.
Third-Party Services and Partners
Mindula works with trusted partners to provide better services. These might include analytics providers, security services, and customer support tools. Each partner has their own privacy practices, and we choose partners who respect user privacy.
Some examples include payment processors for subscription billing, cloud hosting services for data storage, and analytics tools that help us understand user behavior. We don't share personal information unnecessarily, and we require our partners to protect any data they process on our behalf.
We regularly review our third-party relationships to ensure they meet our privacy standards and South African data protection requirements.
Updates and Changes
As Mindula grows and technology evolves, we may update this policy. We'll notify you of significant changes through your account dashboard or email. Minor clarifications and updates will be posted here with a new date.
We encourage you to review this policy periodically, especially if you have concerns about privacy or if you notice changes in how our website behaves. Your continued use of mindula.com after policy updates means you accept the changes.