What Tracking Technologies Actually Do

Tracking technologies (cookies, pixels, local storage) are small files that help websites remember things about you. Think of them as digital sticky notes that remind us what you were looking at or whether you've logged in before.

When you visit qiravalento.com, these technologies help us recognize you on return visits. They store preferences, keep you logged in, and remember what resources you've already viewed. Without them, you'd need to start fresh every single time you opened the site.

Some tracking happens in your browser (first-party), and some comes from services we use like analytics platforms (third-party). We'll explain which is which as we go.

Types of Tracking We Use

Specific Technologies We Deploy

Here's what's actually running on qiravalento.com:

Session Management

Essential cookies that keep you logged in and maintain security. These expire after 2 hours of inactivity or when you close your browser. They contain encrypted session identifiers – nothing readable or usable outside our system.

Preference Storage

Local storage that remembers your interface choices and content preferences. This stays in your browser until you clear it manually. It doesn't track you across sites or send data anywhere.

Analytics Platform

We use privacy-focused analytics to track page views, time on site, and user flows. This data aggregates automatically after 48 hours. Individual session data becomes part of broader usage patterns that inform our content strategy.

Content Delivery

Third-party tracking from our CDN providers helps load resources faster by caching content closer to you geographically. These cookies identify optimal server locations and expire after 7 days.

How Tracking Improves Your Experience

Concrete examples help more than vague promises. Here's what tracking actually does for you:

• Remembers which learning modules you've completed so you don't see duplicate prompts
• Saves your spot in longer resources so you can pick up where you left off
• Suggests related content based on what you've found useful previously
• Keeps you logged in across different pages without constant re-authentication
• Identifies technical issues affecting specific browsers or devices so we can fix them
• Helps us understand which topics need more detailed coverage based on user engagement

We review analytics quarterly to inform content updates. If we notice people leaving halfway through a particular guide, that tells us it needs revision. If certain resources get heavy traffic, we create more depth around those topics.

Data Retention and Control

Different tracking types stick around for different periods:

• Essential session cookies: 2 hours or until browser close
• Functional preferences: 12 months or until manually cleared
• Analytics data: 24 months in anonymized aggregate form
• Marketing preferences: 6 months, refreshed with each visit

You control this data. Clearing your browser history and cookies wipes most of it immediately. We don't keep backup copies of tracking data beyond our standard database retention (90 days for disaster recovery purposes).

Third-Party Services

We work with a handful of external services that place their own tracking on qiravalento.com. You should know about these:

Analytics Provider

Processes anonymized usage data to generate reports about site traffic and user behavior. This service operates under its own privacy policy and doesn't sell or share data with advertisers.

Content Delivery Network

Caches resources for faster loading. Places cookies to identify optimal server locations. These expire after one week and contain no personal information.

Email Service Platform

If you subscribe to updates, tracking pixels in emails tell us open rates and click-throughs. This helps us understand what content resonates with our audience. You can unsubscribe anytime, which removes you from this tracking completely.

We vet third-party services for privacy practices before integration. If a service changes its policies in ways we disagree with, we switch providers.

Changes to This Policy

We update this policy when we add new tracking technologies or change how we use existing ones. The "last updated" date at the top shows when we made the most recent changes.

Major changes (like adding new third-party services) get announced via email to active users. Minor clarifications or additions don't trigger notifications, but we maintain a changelog at the bottom of this page showing what changed and when.

We don't make retroactive changes. If we add new tracking, it only applies to data collected after the policy update, not to existing information.

Legal Compliance

This policy complies with Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988. We follow these guidelines because they're required by law and because they align with how we think data should be handled.

For Australian users, you have specific rights under privacy legislation, including access to information we hold about you and correction of inaccurate data. These rights extend beyond what we've outlined here – contact us for details specific to your situation.

We don't transfer tracking data outside Australia except to our CDN provider (which operates global infrastructure by nature). Even then, data stays anonymized and aggregated.