Cookie Policy
Updated 06/22/2018
This is the Cookie Policy for Strategic Financial Planning, Inc. Our website is strategicfp.com.
What Are Cookies
Almost all professional websites use cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer and are used to improve your experience. This page describes how we use them and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
More Information: HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling/Removing Cookies
You can delete or restrict the use of cookies through your web browser. Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of most websites. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features.
Please review allaboutcookies.org on details regarding cookies.
The Cookies We Set
- Account related cookies
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
- Login related cookies
We use cookies when you are logged in which prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
- Email newsletters related cookies
This site may offer newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Survey related cookies
From time to time we may offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
- Forms related cookies
If you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site preferences cookies
In order to remember your user preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter.
Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle and/or larger changes to the way the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on our site.
Since we are a service provider, it’s important for us to understand statistics about our visitors on our site and conversions. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and service costs to ensure the best possible results.
We may provide partner links on our behalf that may have affiliate tracking cookies. Our affiliate partner(s) use this cookie to associate the visitor with Strategic Financial Planning.
We may also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc. – The ShareThis plugin may set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Google Analytics
The following resources are available for Google Analytics:
Privacy Policy and under Terms of Service
Google Analytics uses cookies developers section
Here is information regarding Instagram’s Privacy Policy
LinkedIn privacy policy. LinkedIn cookie policy
You can review Twitter’s policies on the following links: Privacy Policy and cookie and similar technology
YouTube
YouTube’s data protection provisions, the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google are available here
MailChimp
MailChimp privacy policy. MailChimp cookie policy.
If you elect to opt-out of our newsletter, your personal data will be removed and deleted except as required by information retention policies which are required by law for investment advisors. Strategic Financial Planning automatically regards opting-out as a withdrawal from any further newsletters.
The data protection guideline published by Facebook is available here
eMoney
eMoney privacy policy.
More Information
We hope this helps clarify our cookie use. However, if you are still looking for more information you can contact us at: