Cookie & Tracking Policy
Understanding how FlashSpotFlow uses cookies and tracking technologies
Last Updated: February 15, 2025 | Effective Date: March 1, 2025
What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit flashspotflow.com. These files help us remember your preferences, analyze how you interact with our budget variance analysis platform, and provide you with a personalized experience. We also use similar tracking technologies like web beacons, pixels, and local storage to collect information about your browsing behavior.
Our financial platform relies on various tracking methods to deliver accurate budget analysis tools, remember your dashboard settings, and ensure our variance tracking features work smoothly across your sessions. Think of cookies as digital bookmarks that help our system recognize you and maintain your preferences without requiring constant re-authentication.
Essential Cookies Cannot Be Disabled
Some cookies are absolutely necessary for flashspotflow.com to function properly. These include session cookies for user authentication, security tokens, and cookies that remember your language preferences and basic site functionality. These essential cookies cannot be turned off as they're required for core platform operations.
Types of Tracking We Use
FlashSpotFlow employs different categories of tracking technologies, each serving specific purposes in delivering our budget variance analysis services. Here's what we track and why:
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Functional TrackingRemembers your dashboard layout preferences, chart display settings, and budget comparison tools configuration. This helps maintain your personalized workspace across different sessions and devices when using our financial analysis features.
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Performance AnalyticsMonitors how you navigate through budget variance reports, which analysis tools you use most frequently, and where users typically encounter difficulties. This data helps us improve our financial platform's usability and performance.
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Security MonitoringTracks login patterns, suspicious activity, and potential security threats to protect your financial data. This includes monitoring for unusual access patterns and implementing fraud prevention measures specific to our Vietnam-based operations.
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Marketing IntelligenceAnalyzes which features attract new users to our budget variance analysis platform, tracks referral sources, and measures the effectiveness of our educational content about financial planning and variance tracking methodologies.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
Our tracking technologies work behind the scenes to make flashspotflow.com more intuitive and efficient for budget variance analysis. When you adjust your dashboard to display specific variance metrics, cookies remember these preferences so you don't need to reconfigure everything during your next session.
For example, if you frequently analyze monthly budget variances for specific departments, our system learns this pattern and can preload relevant data faster. Similarly, when you customize chart types or comparison periods, these preferences are stored locally to streamline your workflow during subsequent visits.
Data Retention and Control
Most functional cookies expire after 30 days of inactivity, while analytics data is typically retained for 24 months to identify long-term usage patterns. Marketing cookies expire after 90 days, and you can delete all non-essential cookies at any time using the control button above or through your browser settings. Essential cookies for core functionality remain until you end your session or log out.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
You have complete control over cookie settings through your web browser. While our rejection button above handles FlashSpotFlow-specific cookies, you can also manage all website cookies directly through browser preferences:
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data → See all cookies and site data → Search for "flashspotflow" → Remove or block
Firefox
Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data → Search for "flashspotflow" → Remove selected or remove all
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data → Search for "flashspotflow" → Remove or configure per-site settings
Edge
Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data → See all cookies → Search for "flashspotflow" → Delete specific cookies
Remember that disabling certain cookies may affect your ability to access some features of our budget variance analysis platform. Financial dashboards, saved reports, and personalized settings rely on functional cookies to operate correctly.