Cookie & Tracking Policy
Last Updated: March 2025
At intelligentconnectnow.com, we use tracking technologies to make your browsing experience better and understand how people interact with our budget negotiation tools. This page explains what we track, why we do it, and how you can control it. We're based in Vietnam but serve clients globally, and we respect your privacy no matter where you are.
What Are Cookies Anyway?
Cookies are small text files that get saved on your device when you visit our site. They help us remember your preferences and recognize you when you come back. Some cookies stick around for months, others disappear when you close your browser.
Besides cookies, we use similar technologies like web beacons and local storage. They all serve the same basic purpose — helping the site work properly and giving us insights into how people use our financial planning resources.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Cookies
These keep the site running. They remember your session, protect forms from spam, and help you navigate between pages. Without them, basic features break. We can't turn these off because they're necessary for the site to function at all.
Functional Cookies
These remember your choices — like language preferences or which budget calculator settings you prefer. They make your experience more convenient but aren't strictly necessary. The site works without them, just less smoothly.
Analytics Cookies
We use these to see which pages get visited most, where people spend time, and where they leave. This helps us figure out what's working and what needs improvement. The data is aggregated, so we're looking at patterns rather than tracking individuals.
Marketing Cookies
These track your browsing across sites to show you relevant ads. If you've visited our budget negotiation pages, you might see our ads elsewhere online. They also help us measure campaign effectiveness and avoid showing you the same ad repeatedly.
How Tracking Improves Your Experience
Here's what cookies actually do for you on our site:
- Remember your budget calculator inputs so you don't have to re-enter everything
- Keep you logged into your account as you move between pages
- Show you content relevant to the Vietnam market if that's where you're located
- Load pages faster by storing certain elements locally
- Help us fix bugs by showing us where errors happen most often
- Improve our tools based on which features get used and which get ignored
Without any tracking, the site becomes significantly less useful. You'd need to log in repeatedly, reconfigure settings every visit, and we'd have no way to know what needs fixing or improving.
Specific Cookies We Set
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| icn_session | Maintains your session across pages | Browser session |
| icn_preferences | Stores your site settings and choices | 12 months |
| icn_analytics | Tracks page views and interactions | 24 months |
| icn_consent | Records your cookie preferences | 12 months |
| icn_marketing | Enables personalized advertising | 6 months |
Control Your Cookie Preferences
Current Status:
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You can reject all non-essential cookies right now. This won't affect essential cookies needed for the site to work, but it will stop analytics and marketing tracking. Your preference gets saved so we remember your choice on future visits.
Essential cookies will remain active to keep the site functional. You can always change this preference by clicking the button again.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Every browser lets you control cookies directly. The exact steps vary, but here's the general approach for popular browsers:
Chrome
Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. You can block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or clear existing cookies here.
Firefox
Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Firefox offers strict tracking protection that blocks most third-party cookies by default.
Safari
Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data. Safari blocks third-party cookies automatically and offers intelligent tracking prevention.
Edge
Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Cookies and site permissions. Edge provides balanced, strict, or custom tracking prevention options.
Keep in mind that blocking all cookies will break many website features. Our site won't remember you're logged in, forms won't submit properly, and preferences won't save. We recommend allowing essential cookies at minimum.
Third-Party Services and Their Cookies
We work with external services that set their own cookies. This includes analytics providers, payment processors, and advertising networks. When you visit our site, you might receive cookies from:
- Google Analytics for visitor tracking and behavior analysis
- Payment gateways when processing transactions
- Advertising networks that show you relevant ads elsewhere
- Social media platforms if you share our content
- Email service providers tracking campaign engagement
These third parties have their own privacy policies. We choose partners carefully, but we don't control their data practices. Check their policies if you want details about how they handle your information.
Data Retention and Your Rights
Cookie data doesn't live forever. Analytics data gets aggregated and anonymized after 26 months. Marketing cookies expire after 6 months. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser.
You can request deletion of your data anytime. Contact us and we'll clear any identifiable information we've collected through cookies. This won't affect anonymous analytics data that's already been aggregated — once data is anonymized, there's no way to identify and remove specific records.
Since our office is in Vietnam at 561 Đ. Bà Triệu, P. Đông Thọ, Thành phố Thanh Hóa, Vietnamese data protection laws apply. However, we also respect international privacy standards and will honor deletion requests regardless of your location.
Updates to This Policy
We update this policy when we add new tracking technologies or change how we use existing ones. Major changes get announced on our homepage. The "Last Updated" date at the top shows when we last modified this document.
Check back occasionally if you're concerned about privacy. We don't make changes often, but when we do, we try to make them clear and explain why they're happening.
Questions About Our Cookie Use?
If something here isn't clear or you have specific privacy concerns, reach out. We're happy to explain our tracking practices in more detail.
Email us at [email protected] or call +84 237 391 0792.
You can also visit our contact page for additional ways to reach us.