What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device. They help us remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our financial analysis platform. Think of them as digital bookmarks that make your next visit smoother.

Most professional websites use these. We're not doing anything unusual here – just standard web technology that's been around since the late 1990s. The difference is in how we use them and how transparent we are about it.

Types of Tracking We Use

Why We Track Your Activity

Being honest here – we need to understand how professionals use our financial analysis tools. Are you spending hours on equity valuation models but ignoring the fixed income section? That tells us where to focus development resources.

We track which data visualization formats work best, which research reports get downloaded most, and where users get stuck in our interface. This isn't about surveillance. It's about building a platform that actually serves investment professionals instead of frustrating them.

How Long We Keep This Data

Essential cookies last as long as your session – usually until you close your browser. Functional preferences stick around for up to 12 months so you don't have to reconfigure your dashboard every visit.

Analytics data gets aggregated and anonymized after 26 months. We're not building permanent profiles of individual users. After that period, your specific browsing patterns get rolled into aggregate statistics that help us spot broad trends.

Marketing cookies (if you don't reject them) expire after 90 days. That's the industry standard, though we honestly question whether we even need them for a professional B2B platform.

Managing Your Browser Settings

Every major browser lets you control cookies. The rejection button above handles our site specifically, but you can also set broader policies through your browser settings. Here's where to look:

Look for "Privacy" or "Security" sections in your browser preferences. Most browsers now have options to block third-party cookies by default while allowing first-party ones (which is what we primarily use anyway).

Third-Party Services

We use Google Analytics for understanding site usage. They're a third party with their own tracking methods and privacy policies. We've configured it to anonymize IP addresses and respect "Do Not Track" browser signals when possible.

If we integrate financial data providers or research aggregators in the future, those services might place their own cookies. You'll see those listed here when that happens. For now, it's mainly us and Google Analytics.

Your Rights and Control

You can reject non-essential cookies anytime using the button at the top of this page. That preference gets saved in localStorage (ironically, a browser storage method), so we remember your choice without needing another cookie.

Under Philippine data protection regulations and international standards, you have rights to access what data we've collected, request deletion, and understand how it's being used. We take those obligations seriously because they align with how we want to operate anyway.

If you want specifics about what data we've collected during your visits, contact us at info@wise-logicdrift.com. We'll provide what we have in a readable format within a reasonable timeframe.