What Are Tracking Technologies?

When you visit contestperform.com, we use small data files called cookies and similar tracking technologies to remember your preferences and improve how our website works for you. Think of these as helpful notes that remember whether you prefer certain budget categories or which event planning tools you use most often.

These technologies help us understand which parts of our financial planning platform are most useful, so we can focus our development efforts where they matter most. We also use them to remember your login status and keep your budget calculations secure during your session.

Types of Data Collection We Use

How This Improves Your Experience

Here's what tracking does for you practically: When you return to our budget calculator, it remembers your preferred event categories and expense breakdown format. If you're working on multiple event budgets, our system can keep track of where you left off in each project.

We also use this data to spot patterns - like noticing that many Hong Kong event planners struggle with venue cost estimation, which led us to develop our comparative pricing tool. Your anonymous usage data helps us build features that solve real problems you face.

The performance data shows us if our budget templates load quickly enough or if certain calculations are taking too long. This isn't about watching individual users - it's about making sure our platform works efficiently for everyone.

Data Retention and Your Control

You can delete most of this data anytime through your browser settings or by contacting us directly. Some essential security data needs to stay active while you're logged in, but that gets cleared when you end your session.

Managing Your Browser Settings

Keep in mind that blocking all cookies might affect some functionality. Our budget calculator needs to remember your input data during your session, and our learning platform tracks your progress through courses. But you can always choose what feels comfortable for your privacy needs.

Third-Party Services and Partners

We work with a few trusted services that help us provide better budget planning tools. For example, our currency conversion data comes from financial data providers, and our educational video content uses hosting services that may set their own tracking pixels.

These partners only receive data that's necessary for their specific service - like location data for currency rates or video viewing statistics for content optimization. We don't share your personal budget details or financial information with analytics companies.

When you use features like our venue cost comparison tool, we might pull data from partner databases, but this happens anonymously. Your individual event budgets and planning details stay within our secure system.

Updates and Changes

As we add new budget planning features or educational tools, we might need to update how we collect and use data. We'll always let you know about significant changes through email notifications and announcements on our platform.

Small technical updates - like improving how we track which budget templates are most popular - usually don't require notification. But anything that affects what data we collect or how long we keep it will be communicated clearly.

You can always check this page for the most current information about our data practices. We believe in transparency about how your information helps us build better financial planning tools for the Hong Kong events community.