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Cookie Policy
Last updated: 15 January 2025
This policy explains how firoxelia uses tracking technologies on firoxelia.com to improve your experience and provide better budgeting tools for entrepreneurs across the United Kingdom.
We believe in transparency. You'll find everything about what we track, why we track it, and how you can control it right here.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. They help websites remember your preferences and understand how you interact with content. Think of them as digital bookmarks that help us provide you with a personalized experience.
Some cookies disappear when you close your browser (session cookies), while others stick around for months or even years (persistent cookies). We use both types, and each serves a specific purpose in making your budgeting journey smoother.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Cookies
These are the ones we can't turn off because they make the website actually work. They handle things like keeping you logged in, remembering your session, and making sure our security features protect your data. Without these, firoxelia.com wouldn't function properly.
Functional Cookies
These remember your preferences, like your preferred currency display or whether you want tips shown when you log in. They're about making your experience feel tailored to you rather than generic.
Analytics Cookies
We use these to understand which features entrepreneurs actually use and which ones need improvement. They tell us things like how long people spend on the budgeting calculator or where they get stuck in our learning resources. All data is anonymized.
Marketing Cookies
These help us show you relevant content about our services when you browse other websites. They also prevent you from seeing the same advertisement repeatedly. You can reject these entirely without affecting core functionality.
Specific Cookies We Deploy
Here's a breakdown of the actual cookies you'll find on firoxelia.com and what they do:
- session_id – Keeps track of your login session so you don't get logged out every time you click a link. Expires when you close your browser.
- user_preferences – Stores your display settings and interface choices. Lasts for 12 months.
- _ga and _gid – Google Analytics cookies that help us understand traffic patterns and popular content. These last 2 years and 24 hours respectively.
- consent_status – Remembers your cookie preferences so we don't ask you again every visit. Lasts 12 months.
- feature_tour – Tracks whether you've seen our feature introductions so we don't show them repeatedly. Expires after 6 months.
Manage Your Cookie Preferences
Current Status:
All Cookies Accepted
How Tracking Improves Your Experience
Let me be specific about what this means in practice. When you use our budgeting calculator, functional cookies remember the expense categories you created last time. When you come back a week later, they're still there.
Analytics cookies help us see that 70% of entrepreneurs struggle with the same step in our cash flow planner. That tells us where to add better guidance or video tutorials. Without that data, we'd be guessing about what needs improvement.
Marketing cookies mean you might see our article about quarterly tax planning when you're reading business news elsewhere online – and that's probably more useful than a random advert for something you'd never need.
Browser-Level Cookie Control
You can also manage cookies directly through your browser settings. Here's how to do it in common browsers:
- Chrome: Navigate to Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data. You can block all cookies or just third-party ones.
- Firefox: Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers strict tracking protection by default.
- Safari: Head to Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data. Safari automatically blocks many third-party cookies.
- Edge: Visit Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies. Edge gives you granular control over exceptions.
Data Retention
Different cookies have different lifespans based on their purpose. Session cookies vanish the moment you close your browser. Preference cookies typically last 12 months because that gives us a reasonable balance between remembering your choices and keeping data fresh.
Analytics data gets aggregated and anonymized after 26 months. We keep it that long because seasonal business patterns matter for entrepreneurs – comparing January 2025 to January 2024 helps us understand cyclical challenges.
You can clear all cookies manually at any time through your browser settings. Just know that doing so means you'll need to set your preferences again when you return.
Third-Party Services
We work with a few external services that place their own cookies. Google Analytics is the main one. We've configured it to anonymize IP addresses and respect Do Not Track signals where possible.
If you use our live chat support feature, that service places a cookie to maintain your conversation history during your session. Our email newsletter platform also uses a tracking pixel to tell us which content resonates with entrepreneurs.
These third parties have their own privacy policies, and we recommend reviewing them if you want complete visibility into how your data moves around.
Changes to This Policy
Technology changes, and so do tracking methods. We'll update this policy when we add new cookie types or change how we use existing ones. The "last updated" date at the top tells you when we made the most recent changes.
Major changes will be communicated through email to existing users. Minor clarifications or additions might just appear here without specific notification, so it's worth checking back occasionally.
Questions About Our Cookie Usage?
If something isn't clear or you want to know more about specific tracking technologies we use, get in touch with our team.
2 Coles Cottages, Colebrook Plympton, Plymouth PL7 4AH, United Kingdom
+447811225591
help@firoxelia.com