Data Usage & Tracking Policy

What Are Tracking Technologies?

Think of tracking technologies as small pieces of data that websites store on your device or collect while you browse. They're not inherently bad—most websites use them to remember your preferences or understand visitor behavior.

The most common type is what people call "cookies," but there are other methods too. Some store information directly on your browser, while others collect data on our servers. They all serve different purposes, from keeping you logged in to showing us which pages get the most traffic.

Types of Tracking We Use

Not all tracking serves the same purpose. Here's what we collect and why each type matters for your experience on our platform:

• Essential Tracking: These are necessary for the website to function. They remember your login session, keep your settings active during a visit, and ensure security features work correctly. Without these, you wouldn't be able to access your budget automation dashboard or use basic site features.
• Functional Tracking: These remember your preferences and choices. If you've set your currency to Korean Won or chosen a specific dashboard layout, functional tracking keeps those settings between visits so you don't have to reconfigure everything each time.
• Performance Tracking: We use these to understand how people navigate our site. They tell us which pages load slowly, where visitors spend the most time, and which features get used most often. This helps us prioritize improvements and fix problems you might not even report.
• Analytics Tracking: These give us broader insights about our audience. We learn things like how many people visit from Seoul versus Busan, what devices they use, and which pages lead to the most sign-ups. All this data gets aggregated—we're not watching individual users.
• Marketing Tracking: When we run ads or promotional campaigns, these help us understand if they're working. They can also show you relevant content based on pages you've visited. You have more control over these than other tracking types.

Browser-Level Controls

Every major browser gives you ways to control tracking. Here's where to look:

• Chrome & Edge: Open Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and Site Data. You can block third-party tracking, clear existing data, or see which sites have stored information.
• Firefox: Go to Settings → Privacy & Security. Firefox offers Enhanced Tracking Protection with different levels you can choose based on your comfort level.
• Safari: Open Preferences → Privacy. Safari is aggressive about blocking third-party tracking by default, but you can adjust settings for individual sites.
• Mobile Browsers: On iOS and Android, look for Privacy or Security settings in your browser app. Mobile browsers often have simplified controls but cover the same basics.

What Information Gets Collected

Here's what we actually gather when you use neocastpoint.com. We've broken it down by tracking type so you know exactly what each category collects:

We never collect sensitive personal information through tracking technologies. Financial data, passwords, and personal identification details are handled through separate, encrypted systems that don't rely on browser tracking.

How Tracking Improves Your Experience

Beyond the technical details, here's what tracking actually does for you as someone using our budget automation platform:

When you log in, essential tracking keeps you authenticated as you move between pages. Without it, you'd have to re-enter your credentials every time you clicked to a different part of your dashboard—frustrating and impractical.

Functional tracking remembers things like your preferred view settings. If you've organized your budget categories in a specific way or set custom alerts, those preferences stick around because of tracking. Otherwise you'd be reconfiguring everything each visit.

Performance data helps us spot problems before they become widespread issues. If we notice that users in Daegu experience slower load times than users in Seoul, we can investigate server routing and fix it. That kind of regional optimization only happens when we can see geographic patterns in performance data.

Third-Party Tracking Services

We use some external services that place their own tracking on neocastpoint.com. These companies provide analytics and marketing tools that would be difficult to build ourselves.

Google Analytics helps us understand visitor behavior. They collect data on their own infrastructure and provide us with reports and insights. When you opt out of analytics tracking through our tool above, we signal to Google not to track your visit.

Marketing platforms we occasionally use may track which ads lead to website visits. This helps us spend advertising budget more effectively by showing which messages resonate with people looking for budget automation in South Korea.

These third parties have their own privacy policies, but we only work with services that respect user privacy and comply with data protection standards. We don't share personally identifiable information with marketing platforms—they only see aggregated or anonymized data.

Data Retention and Deletion

We don't keep tracking data forever. Different types have different retention periods based on how useful they remain over time:

Session-based tracking gets deleted when you close your browser or log out. This includes things like your active login state and temporary preferences that only matter during a single visit.

Persistent tracking—like saved preferences or analytics data—stays longer but still has expiration dates. Most preference tracking expires after a year of inactivity. If you don't visit neocastpoint.com for 12 months, those stored preferences get automatically purged.

Aggregated analytics data can stick around for up to two years because longer-term trends help us make strategic decisions about the platform. But this data gets increasingly anonymized as it ages—individual visit patterns get merged into broader statistics.

You can request deletion of your tracking data at any time by contacting us. We'll remove what we can while preserving what's legally required or already fully anonymized.

Updates to This Policy

Tracking technologies and privacy standards evolve. When we make significant changes to how we collect or use data, we'll update this policy and notify active users through email or dashboard notifications.

Minor clarifications or additions might happen without notification, but we'll always update the "Last Updated" date at the bottom of this page. If you're particularly concerned about tracking, checking back occasionally makes sense.

Major changes—like adding entirely new categories of tracking or working with different third-party services—will trigger more prominent notifications. We won't expand data collection in ways that significantly affect your privacy without making sure you know about it.