Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?

When you visit zelvastudio.com, we use various tracking technologies to enhance your experience and provide our corporate finance services more effectively. Think of cookies as small digital notes that help our website remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our platform.

These technologies include traditional HTTP cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage mechanisms. Each serves a specific purpose in delivering our financial analysis tools and educational resources to corporate finance analysts across South Africa and beyond.

Types of Tracking Technologies We Use

• Essential Cookies

  These cookies are absolutely necessary for zelvastudio.com to function properly. They enable basic features like secure login to your analyst dashboard, maintaining your session while you navigate between financial reports, and ensuring our payment processing works correctly.

• Functional Cookies

  These enhance your experience by remembering your preferences, such as your preferred currency display, dashboard layout, or the specific financial metrics you've customized for your analysis work.

• Analytical Cookies

  We use these to understand how analysts interact with our platform. This helps us identify which financial tools are most valuable, where users encounter difficulties, and how we can improve our corporate finance resources.

• Marketing Cookies

  These cookies help us deliver relevant content about our financial analysis courses and corporate finance updates. They also help us measure the effectiveness of our educational campaigns and professional development programs.

How Tracking Enhances Your Experience

Our tracking technologies directly improve how you use zelvastudio's corporate finance platform. For instance, when you're working on a complex financial model, functional cookies ensure your work is saved and your preferred calculation methods are remembered for next time.

Analytical tracking helps us understand that many users access specific valuation tools during market volatility periods. This insight allows us to optimize these tools' performance and add relevant market commentary when it's most needed.

Marketing cookies enable us to show you information about advanced finance courses that align with the tools you use most frequently. If you regularly access our cash flow analysis features, you might see content about our advanced DCF modeling workshops.

Data Retention and Storage

Different types of data are retained for different periods based on their purpose and legal requirements. Here's how long we keep various types of information:

We regularly review and purge data that's no longer needed. Our systems automatically delete expired cookies and anonymize analytical data after the retention period ends.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have complete control over how cookies and tracking technologies work on your device. Most web browsers allow you to manage these preferences through their settings menu. Here's what you can do:

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect your ability to use some features of our corporate finance platform. Essential cookies cannot be disabled if you want to use zelvastudio.com, but you can control functional, analytical, and marketing cookies according to your preferences.

Third-Party Services and Partners

zelvastudio works with trusted third-party services to provide comprehensive corporate finance solutions. These partners may also use tracking technologies when you interact with their integrated features on our platform.

For example, our financial data providers use cookies to ensure you receive real-time market information securely. Our learning management system partner uses tracking to remember your course progress and provide personalized recommendations for your professional development.

We carefully vet all third-party partners to ensure they meet our privacy standards and comply with applicable data protection regulations. You can find links to their individual privacy policies in our main Privacy Policy document.

Updates and Changes

As we continue to improve our corporate finance platform and introduce new features for analysts, we may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our tracking practices or legal requirements.

We'll notify you of significant changes through email or prominent notices on zelvastudio.com. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use tracking technologies to enhance your experience with our financial analysis tools.

Minor updates, such as clarifications or formatting changes, may be made without advance notice. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy indicates when the most recent changes were made.