Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.

Finance Cornerstone uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, remember your preferences, and provide personalized content and advertisements.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and form submissions. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

• Session cookies: Maintain your session while browsing
• Security cookies: Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use
• Load balancing cookies: Distribute website traffic across servers

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website and services.

• Google Analytics: Tracks website usage and performance
• Course progress tracking: Monitors learning progress and engagement
• User behavior analysis: Helps optimize user experience

Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

• Advertising cookies: Display relevant ads based on interests
• Social media cookies: Enable social sharing features
• Remarketing cookies: Show targeted ads on other websites

Preference Cookies

These cookies remember your preferences and settings to provide a more personalized experience on future visits.

• Language preferences: Remember your preferred language
• Course preferences: Save your learning preferences
• Display settings: Remember your display and accessibility preferences

3. Third-Party Cookies

We may also use third-party cookies from trusted partners to enhance our services:

• Google Analytics: For website analytics and reporting
• Google Ads: For advertising and remarketing
• Facebook Pixel: For social media advertising
• YouTube: For embedded educational videos
• Payment processors: For secure payment processing

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have several options to manage cookies:

Cookie Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie banner allowing you to:

• Accept all cookies
• Accept only necessary cookies
• Customize your cookie preferences

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can:

• View cookies stored on your device
• Delete existing cookies
• Block future cookies
• Set preferences for specific websites

Cookie Management Tool

You can access our cookie management tool at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in our website footer to modify your preferences.

5. Impact of Disabling Cookies

While you can disable cookies, please note that this may affect your experience on our website:

• Some features may not work properly
• You may need to re-enter information frequently
• Personalized content and recommendations may not be available
• Course progress may not be saved properly
• Login functionality may be impaired

6. Cookie Retention

Different cookies have different retention periods:

• Session cookies: Deleted when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies: Remain for a specified period (typically 1-24 months)
• Analytics cookies: Usually retained for 24 months
• Marketing cookies: Typically retained for 3-12 months

7. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will notify you of any material changes by:

• Posting the updated policy on our website
• Updating the "Last updated" date
• Sending email notifications for significant changes
• Displaying a notification banner on our website

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us: