How We Use Tracking on This Website

Understanding the technology that helps us deliver a better experience while respecting your privacy choices.

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What Are These Tracking Technologies?

When you visit thywainesliri.com, we use small data files stored on your device. Think of them as digital notes that help our website remember things about your visit. Some make sure the site works properly, while others help us understand how people use our services.

We're being straight with you here. Most financial websites use these tools, and we're no different. But we believe you should know exactly what's happening and have real control over it.

The Different Categories We Use

Essential Functions

These keep the website running. They remember if you're logged in, protect your session from security risks, and maintain your preferences as you move between pages. Without these, you couldn't actually use the budgeting tools or access your account. That's why we can't turn these off.

Performance Analysis

We use these to see which features people actually use and which ones get ignored. For instance, if everyone's struggling with a particular budgeting tool, we want to know so we can fix it. This data gets aggregated, so we're looking at patterns, not individuals.

Functional Enhancements

These remember things like your preferred currency display or whether you like the dark theme. They make the site feel more personalized without us needing to store everything on our servers. When you come back next week, your settings are still there.

Marketing and Outreach

These track whether you came from a particular ad or partner site. They help us figure out which marketing actually works and which is wasting money. Some also help us show you relevant information about features you might find useful based on how you use the site.

How Long We Keep This Information

Different tracking serves different purposes, so we keep them for varying lengths. Here's what that actually looks like:

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Session Duration Only

Some data disappears the moment you close your browser. These handle temporary things like keeping you logged in during your visit or remembering items you've added to comparison lists.

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30 to 90 Days

Short-term tracking that helps us understand recent patterns. This includes things like which pages you visited during your last few trips to the site. Useful for improving navigation without holding onto data indefinitely.

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Up to 12 Months

Longer-term preferences and analysis data. This lets us spot seasonal trends in how Australians manage their finances and maintain your personalized settings across the year. Think of it as remembering that you prefer weekly budget reviews, not daily ones.

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Up to 24 Months

Marketing and partnership tracking that helps us measure long-term campaign effectiveness. These are typically set by third-party services we work with, and you can reject these using the button above.

About Essential Tracking

The essential category can't be disabled because they're literally required for the website to function. If we turned these off, you wouldn't be able to log in, save your budget data, or move between secure pages.

These include things like session identifiers, security tokens, and load balancing markers. They don't track your behavior across sites or build advertising profiles.

Taking Control Through Your Browser

While the button above handles our tracking specifically, you can also manage this at the browser level. Every modern browser lets you view, delete, and block tracking technologies.

Chrome users can find these settings under Privacy and Security, then Cookies and other site data. You'll see options to block third-party tracking or clear everything from specific time periods.
Firefox calls their section Enhanced Tracking Protection. They actually block a lot of stuff by default, which is why some sites complain when you visit them.
Safari on both Mac and iPhone has Intelligent Tracking Prevention built in. Go to Preferences, then Privacy to see your options and manage cross-site tracking.
Edge users should look under Settings, then Privacy, search, and services. Microsoft's been adding more privacy controls lately, including tracking prevention levels.

Keep in mind that blocking everything might break parts of websites. You'll need to experiment a bit to find the right balance between privacy and functionality.

Third-Party Services We Work With

We don't do all this tracking ourselves. Like most websites in 2025, we use specialized services for analytics, marketing, and functionality. These companies have their own privacy policies, and some of them track across multiple sites.

When you reject tracking above, we signal to these services that you've opted out. Most reputable ones respect this preference, though you might want to check their individual opt-out processes for extra certainty.

For Australian users specifically, these services generally comply with Privacy Act requirements, but they may store data on international servers.

Changes to This Approach

We update this document when we add new tracking technologies or change how we use existing ones. Any major changes get announced through email to active users, though we'd recommend checking back here occasionally if you're privacy-conscious.

The tracking landscape changes pretty regularly. New privacy regulations come into effect, browsers add new blocking features, and technology evolves. We try to stay current while being transparent about what we're actually doing.

Questions About Our Tracking?

We're based at 2B Cuthbert Rd, Reservoir VIC 3073, Australia

Call us: +61 401 835 422

Email: support@thywainesliri.com

Last updated: March 2025