Cookie and Data Usage Policy
Last updated: February 15, 2025
Understanding Our Tracking Technologies
At imgivelinked.com, we use various tracking technologies to enhance your experience while learning about capital budgeting and financial planning. These small data files help us understand how you interact with our educational content and improve our services accordingly.
What exactly are cookies? Think of them as digital bookmarks that remember your preferences and activities on our site. When you visit our capital budgeting resources, these files note which topics interest you most, helping us customize your learning journey.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Functionality
These keep our platform running smoothly. They remember if you're logged into your account, maintain your session during financial calculations, and ensure our budgeting tools work properly. Cannot be disabled.
Learning Analytics
We track which capital budgeting topics you spend time on, which calculators you use most, and where students typically need extra help. This helps us improve our educational content and identify popular learning paths.
Performance Monitoring
These measure how fast our pages load, which financial tools work best, and if there are technical issues affecting your learning experience. Helps us maintain reliable service for all students.
Educational Personalization
Based on your interaction with our finance courses, we suggest relevant topics, remember your progress through modules, and customize the learning interface to match your preferences.
Essential Cookies We Must Use
Some cookies are absolutely necessary for imgivelinked.com to function. These include authentication tokens that keep you logged in, session identifiers for our financial calculators, security measures that protect against fraudulent activity, and temporary storage for your calculation results.
Without these essential cookies, you wouldn't be able to access your account, save your progress through our capital budgeting courses, or use our interactive financial planning tools. They contain no personal information and exist only during your session.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
Here's what tracking actually does for you as a student. When you're working through our NPV calculator for the third time, we remember your previous inputs and can suggest related capital budgeting concepts you might find interesting.
If you frequently access our cash flow analysis tools, we'll prioritize showing you advanced tutorials on discounted cash flow methods. Students who spend time on risk assessment materials often benefit from our scenario planning modules, so we make those connections visible.
Practical examples: Your progress through our financial modeling course stays saved between sessions. The system remembers which formulas you've mastered and which concepts need more practice. When you return, you pick up exactly where you left off without losing any work.
Data Retention and Your Control
Different types of data stay with us for different periods, depending on their purpose and legal requirements. Here's the realistic timeline:
- Session cookies: Deleted immediately when you close your browser
- Learning progress tracking: Kept for 2 years to maintain your educational history
- Analytics data: Aggregated and anonymized after 18 months
- Account preferences: Stored until you delete your account or request removal
- Technical performance logs: Automatically purged after 6 months
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Every browser handles cookies differently. While our rejection button above covers most tracking, you can also control cookies directly through your browser settings.
Google Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. Choose "Block third-party cookies" or "Block all cookies" for maximum control.
Mozilla Firefox
Options → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection. Select "Strict" mode to block most tracking technologies automatically.
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Prevent cross-site tracking. Enable "Block all cookies" if you want maximum privacy protection.
Microsoft Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage cookies. Choose "Block third-party cookies" or customize specific site permissions.
Third-Party Services and Integration
Some of our educational tools integrate with external services to provide better functionality. Our financial calculator widgets may load components from trusted CDNs, and our video tutorials might use embedded players from established platforms.
When you interact with these elements, those third-party services may place their own cookies. For example, if you watch an embedded video about capital budgeting techniques, the video platform might remember your playback preferences and viewing history.
We carefully select our third-party partners based on their privacy practices, but you should be aware that they operate under their own privacy policies, not ours.