Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites store on your device when you visit them. Think of them as digital notes that help websites remember things about your visit - like your preferences, login status, or what pages you've viewed.

At Spitzlei, we use cookies to make your experience smoother and to understand how our financial services website performs. We believe in being completely transparent about what information we collect and why.

Types of Cookies We Use

We categorize our cookies into different types based on their purpose:

• Essential Cookies: These keep our website functioning properly. They handle things like secure login sessions, form submissions, and basic site navigation. We can't disable these without breaking core functionality.
• Analytics Cookies: These help us understand which pages are most useful, how long people spend reading our tax optimization guides, and where visitors typically exit our site. We use this data to improve our content.
• Performance Cookies: These track loading times and help us identify technical issues that might frustrate visitors trying to access our financial planning resources.
• Marketing Cookies: These track whether our educational content about German tax regulations reaches the right audience and helps us understand which topics generate the most interest.

How Cookies Improve Your Experience

When you allow analytics cookies, you help us understand which of our tax strategy articles are most helpful to business owners in Deutschland. This data guides us in creating more valuable content about topics like corporate tax optimization and compliance requirements.

Performance cookies help us identify when our financial calculator tools load slowly or when certain browsers have compatibility issues with our client assessment forms. This technical data helps us fix problems faster.

We never sell cookie data to third parties, and all analytics information is aggregated - meaning we see overall patterns rather than individual browsing behavior.

Data Retention and Your Rights

Analytics cookies typically expire after 24 months, though you can delete them anytime through your browser settings. Marketing cookies last for 12 months and automatically expire if you don't revisit our site.

You can change your mind about cookie preferences anytime by returning to this page and updating your choices. Your preference is stored locally on your device, so you'll need to set preferences again if you clear your browser data or use a different device.

Under German data protection laws, you have the right to know exactly what information we collect, request copies of any data we store about your visits, and ask us to delete specific tracking data.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our site come from trusted third-party services we use to improve your experience. These include analytics tools that help us understand website performance and security services that protect against malicious activity.

When you reject non-essential cookies, we also disable these third-party tracking cookies. However, some security-related third-party cookies may remain active to protect both you and our website from potential threats.