Cookie Policy
Understanding how transcendentiora uses tracking technologies to enhance your experience
Last updated: January 15, 2025
What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?
Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. Think of them as digital sticky notes that help websites remember information about your visit. At transcendentiora, we use various tracking technologies including cookies, web beacons, and local storage to make your experience with our financial modeling platform more personalized and efficient.
These technologies work behind the scenes to remember your preferences, keep you logged in, and help us understand how you interact with our platform. Without them, you'd have to start from scratch every time you visit our site – entering your preferences, logging in repeatedly, and losing your work progress.
Why This Matters for Financial Professionals
As a financial modeling platform serving analysts across Canada, we understand that your work often involves sensitive data and complex calculations. Our tracking technologies help us maintain the security and functionality that professionals like you depend on, while also helping us improve our tools based on how they're actually used.
Types of Tracking Technologies We Use
Essential Cookies
These are absolutely necessary for our platform to function properly. They handle your login sessions, security protocols, and basic site functionality. You can't disable these without breaking the site's core features.
Functional Cookies
These remember your choices and preferences – like your preferred dashboard layout, calculation settings, or language preferences. They make your experience more personalized and efficient.
Analytics Cookies
We use these to understand how you navigate through our platform, which features you use most, and where you might encounter difficulties. This helps us improve our tools and user experience.
Marketing Cookies
These help us deliver relevant content and measure the effectiveness of our educational resources and communication. They also prevent you from seeing the same information repeatedly.
How We Use Tracking Data
Platform Enhancement
Your interaction data helps us identify which financial modeling tools are most valuable to analysts like yourself. For example, if we notice that users frequently switch between certain calculation modules, we might redesign the interface to make those transitions smoother.
Security and Fraud Prevention
We monitor usage patterns to detect unusual activity that might indicate unauthorized access to accounts. This is particularly important given the sensitive nature of financial data that our users work with regularly.
Personalized Learning Experience
Our tracking helps us understand your skill level and learning preferences, allowing us to suggest relevant educational content and advanced features that match your expertise level.
Specific Cookies Used on transcendentiora.com
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domain_session
Maintains your login session and ensures secure access to your account and saved work.
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user_preferences
Stores your dashboard layout, calculation settings, and other personalization choices.
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analytics_tracking
Helps us understand platform usage patterns and improve our financial modeling tools.
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feature_flags
Manages access to new features and A/B testing for platform improvements.
Data Retention and Storage
Cookie Type | Retention Period | Storage Location |
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Essential Cookies | Session duration | Your browser |
Functional Cookies | 1 year | Your browser |
Analytics Cookies | 2 years | Your browser & our secure servers |
Marketing Cookies | 1 year | Your browser |
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for controlling how cookies work on your device. However, keep in mind that disabling certain cookies may affect your ability to use some features of our platform effectively.
Browser Settings
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. Here's how to manage them in popular browsers:
Google Chrome
Go to Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data. You can choose to block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or allow all cookies.
Mozilla Firefox
Go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Use the dropdown to select your preferred level of cookie protection.
Safari
Go to Safari → Preferences → Privacy. You can choose to block all cookies or just cross-site tracking cookies.
Microsoft Edge
Go to Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Cookies and site data. Choose your preferred level of cookie blocking.
Third-Party Services
We work with selected third-party services to provide analytics and improve our platform. These services may use their own cookies and tracking technologies. Some of the key services we use include:
Analytics Partners
We use analytics services to understand how our platform is used and to identify areas for improvement. These services collect data about your interactions with our site, but this information is aggregated and doesn't identify you personally.
Your Rights and Choices
Under Canadian privacy legislation, you have several rights regarding your personal data and how it's collected through tracking technologies. You can request information about what data we've collected, ask us to correct inaccurate information, or request deletion of your data.
If you're concerned about tracking across multiple websites, you can also use browser features like Do Not Track settings or install privacy-focused browser extensions that block tracking cookies.
Updates to This Policy
We review and update this cookie policy regularly to reflect changes in our practices, technology, and legal requirements. When we make significant changes, we'll notify you through our platform or by email. The "last updated" date at the top of this policy indicates when the most recent changes were made.
We encourage you to review this policy periodically, especially if you have concerns about how your data is being used. Our goal is to be transparent about our practices while providing you with the tools and information you need to make informed decisions about your privacy.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
If you have questions about how we use cookies or tracking technologies, or if you'd like to exercise your privacy rights, we're here to help. Our team is committed to transparency and will work with you to address any concerns.
Contact us at info@transcendentiora.sbs or reach out to our Halifax office at +1 (438) 403-2998