Data Usage Policy
Understanding how we track and protect your information at billieonline.com
What This Policy Covers
This document explains how Billie GmbH uses tracking technologies on our expense categorization platform. We believe in transparency about data collection, so you'll find straightforward explanations of what we track, why we track it, and how you can control these settings.
Our platform helps businesses organize their financial data more efficiently. To provide this service effectively, we use various tracking methods that enhance functionality and help us understand how users interact with our tools.
Types of Tracking We Use
Essential Tracking
Required for basic site functionality including login sessions, security measures, and core expense categorization features. These cannot be disabled as they're necessary for the platform to work properly.
Functional Enhancement
Remembers your preferences like dashboard layout, categorization rules you've created, and interface customizations. Makes your experience more personalized and efficient over time.
Performance Analytics
Helps us understand which features are most useful, where users encounter difficulties, and how we can improve the expense categorization process. Data is aggregated and anonymized.
Marketing Insights
Tracks how users find our platform and which content resonates with different business types. Helps us create more relevant content about financial management and expense tracking.
How Tracking Enhances Your Experience
When you use our expense categorization tools, tracking technologies help us remember your custom categories, preferred reporting formats, and workflow patterns. This means less time setting up your dashboard each visit and more time focusing on your financial data.
For example, if you frequently categorize software subscriptions, our system learns this pattern and suggests similar categorizations for future transactions, saving you time and reducing manual data entry.
Performance tracking helps us identify when certain features load slowly or cause confusion. In 2024, this data helped us redesign our bulk import process, reducing upload time by 40% for most users.
Data Retention and Control
Session Data
Login sessions and temporary preferences are cleared after 30 days of inactivity to maintain security.
Analytics Information
Usage patterns and performance data are retained for 12 months to help us improve the platform.
Marketing Data
Marketing-related tracking is stored for up to 24 months to understand long-term user engagement patterns.
You can request deletion of your tracking data at any time by contacting our support team. We'll process these requests within 30 days and confirm when your data has been removed from our systems.
Managing Your Browser Settings
Most modern browsers give you control over tracking technologies. In Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, you can access privacy settings to block or delete stored data. However, this might affect how our expense categorization platform functions.
If you disable all tracking, you'll still be able to use basic features, but you'll lose personalized categorization suggestions, dashboard customizations, and streamlined workflows that make financial data management more efficient.
We recommend keeping essential and functional tracking enabled while adjusting analytics and marketing preferences based on your comfort level with data sharing.
Third-Party Integration
Our platform integrates with accounting software, banking APIs, and financial data providers. These connections may involve additional tracking to maintain secure data synchronization and ensure accurate expense categorization across your financial ecosystem.
We work only with reputable financial technology partners who meet strict security standards. Any data shared with these services is limited to what's necessary for functionality and is governed by their respective privacy policies as well as ours.
Questions About Our Data Practices?
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