Cookie Policy
How We Use Tracking Technologies
When you visit clever-cortex.com, we collect certain information automatically through small data files called cookies. These work alongside other tracking methods to help us understand how people interact with our website and services.
Think of cookies as little notes your browser keeps about your visit. Some remember your preferences. Others help us count how many people visit our site. And some tell us which pages you found helpful.
What Tracking Methods We Actually Use
We're pretty straightforward about this. Here's what happens when you browse our site:
- Session cookies that remember your choices while you're browsing
- Analytics tools that show us which pages get the most attention
- Performance trackers that help us spot slow-loading sections
- Local storage for keeping your language and display preferences
- Browser fingerprinting for basic security checks
We don't do anything sneaky here. Most of this stuff just helps us make the site work better for you and everyone else who visits.
The Different Types You'll Encounter
Essential Tracking
These keep the website functioning properly. Without them, certain features won't work at all. We're talking basic stuff like remembering you're logged in or keeping items in your contact form as you fill it out. You can't really turn these off without breaking the site.
Functional Tracking
This category remembers your choices. Maybe you prefer viewing our portfolio in grid layout instead of list view. Or perhaps you want your region set to Taiwan. These cookies save those preferences so you don't have to reset them every single visit.
Analytical Tracking
Here's where we learn what's working and what isn't. We see which service pages get read thoroughly versus which ones people bounce from immediately. This helps us write better content and fix confusing sections. All data gets anonymized before we even look at it.
Marketing Tracking
These help us understand if you came from a specific campaign or referral. They don't follow you around the internet or anything creepy like that. We just want to know if our blog posts or case studies are actually bringing people to the site.
Real Examples of How This Helps
Let me give you some concrete situations where tracking actually makes your experience better:
When you come back to read our design process blog post, functional cookies remember exactly where you scrolled to last time. You don't have to search for your place again.
Or say you're comparing different landing page designs we've created. Analytics show us you spent ten minutes on the e-commerce examples but only thirty seconds on the corporate ones. That tells us to create more retail-focused case studies.
Sometimes we run limited promotions or special consultations. Marketing cookies help us show these offers to people who've already expressed interest in specific services. No point showing WordPress design resources to someone who came here for custom development work.
Managing Your Browser Settings
Take Control of Your Experience
You can adjust cookie settings anytime through your browser. Each browser handles this differently, but they all give you options to block, delete, or restrict tracking technologies.
Just know that blocking essential cookies will probably break some features. You might have trouble submitting contact forms or viewing certain interactive elements on our portfolio pages.
How Long We Keep This Information
Different tracking data has different lifespans. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser. Analytics data gets anonymized after 26 months. Preference cookies stick around for up to a year unless you clear them manually.
We automatically purge old tracking data as part of our regular maintenance. There's no reason to keep information from visits that happened years ago.
Your Rights and Options
You're in control here. Want to see what data we've collected? Ask us. Want it deleted? We'll handle that. Want to opt out of analytics entirely? That's your choice.
Some tracking is necessary for the site to function, but anything beyond that is negotiable. We built this site to showcase our work and help potential clients understand what we do. If the tracking gets in the way of that goal, it's not serving anyone well.
We review our tracking setup every few months to make sure we're not collecting unnecessary information. Technology changes fast, and sometimes tools we thought were essential turn out to be redundant.
Third-Party Tracking
We don't use a ton of external services, but the ones we do use may set their own cookies. For example, if we embed a project video or use a contact form service, those providers might track certain interactions.
We're careful about which third parties we work with. They need to meet our standards for data handling and transparency. But ultimately, their tracking practices fall under their own privacy policies, not ours.
Changes to This Policy
We update this policy when our tracking methods change or when new regulations require different disclosures. Check the date at the top to see when we last revised it.
Major changes get announced through email to anyone on our contact list. Minor clarifications or technical updates just get noted here without fanfare.
Questions About Our Tracking?
Reach out if anything here seems unclear or if you want more specific details about what data we collect.
Clever Cortex
No. 102, Lushui Rd, East District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan 300
Phone: +886 3 954 5551
Email: help@clever-cortex.com