What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. They're basically notes that help the site remember things about you—like what you clicked on, what pages you visited, or preferences you set during previous visits.
Think of them as digital bookmarks. Some disappear when you close your browser (we call those session cookies), while others stick around for weeks or months (persistent cookies). Most modern websites use them because they make browsing faster and more personal.
We use cookies on livraquente.com to improve how our event budget planning platform works for you. Without them, you'd have to re-enter information every time you visited, which would be frustrating.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These keep the site running properly. They help you move around livraquente.com, access secure areas, and use basic features. Without these, our event budget planning tools wouldn't function correctly. You can't opt out of these because they're necessary for the site to work.
Functional Cookies
These remember choices you make to give you a better experience. For example, they'll recall your preferred currency when planning event budgets, or remember if you've used certain features before so we can show you relevant tips next time.
Analytical Cookies
We use these to understand how people use our platform. They tell us which budget planning features get used most, where people spend time, and where they encounter problems. This helps us improve the experience. The data is anonymized—we're looking at patterns, not tracking individuals.
Marketing Cookies
These track your activity across livraquente.com to help us show you relevant information about our educational programs. They also prevent you from seeing the same message repeatedly. If you've already explored our autumn 2025 workshop information, for instance, we'll show you different content next time.
How Cookies Improve Your Experience
Here's what actually happens when cookies work well. Say you're planning a budget for a corporate event in Melbourne. You input some vendors, add venue costs, and start building a timeline. Then you close your browser.
When you come back the next day, your work is still there. That's cookies remembering your session. The currency is still set to AUD, the date format matches Australian standards, and your recent calculations are saved. You don't have to start from scratch.
Or imagine you're browsing our learning resources about budget forecasting. You read an article, watch a planning tutorial, then navigate to another page. Cookies track this journey so we can suggest related content that actually matches what you're interested in—not random stuff you'll ignore.
- Remembering your login status so you don't have to sign in repeatedly during a single session
- Keeping items in your resource library or saved budget templates accessible across visits
- Storing preferences like notification settings or display options you've customized
- Understanding which educational topics interest you so we can recommend relevant courses
- Identifying technical issues that might be affecting your experience on specific pages
- Measuring how long tasks take so we can streamline complex budget calculations
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You're in control. Every modern browser lets you manage cookies—accept them all, reject them all, or pick and choose. Just know that blocking essential cookies will break parts of livraquente.com.
The process varies by browser, but it's usually in Settings under Privacy or Security. You can delete cookies that are already stored, block new ones from specific sites, or set cookies to delete automatically when you close the browser.
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge
If you're using mobile, look for cookie controls in your device settings or within your browser app. iOS and Android both offer granular control over tracking technologies.
How Long We Keep Cookie Data
Session cookies vanish when you close your browser. Functional and analytical cookies typically last between 30 days and 12 months, depending on their purpose. Marketing cookies might persist for up to 24 months. We regularly review and clean up old cookie data to minimize storage.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on livraquente.com come from external services we use—things like analytics platforms or embedded content. We carefully select these partners and ensure they meet Australian privacy standards.
For example, if we embed a video tutorial about event budget planning, the video provider might place cookies to track playback and quality. We don't control these third-party cookies directly, but we only work with reputable providers who respect user privacy.
You can block third-party cookies specifically in most browsers without affecting first-party cookies from livraquente.com itself. This gives you a middle-ground option if you want the site to function smoothly but don't want external tracking.
Your Rights Under Australian Privacy Law
Australian privacy legislation gives you specific rights regarding your data. You can request to see what cookie data we've collected about you, ask us to delete it, or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies at any time.
We're transparent about what we collect and why. If you have concerns about how cookies affect your privacy while using our event budget planning tools, we'll walk you through exactly what's happening and give you options to adjust settings.
Our commitment is to collect only what we need and keep it only as long as necessary. We don't sell cookie data to third parties, and we don't use it for purposes beyond improving livraquente.com and delivering relevant educational content.
Updates to This Policy
We update this policy occasionally—usually when we add new features to livraquente.com or change how we handle data. When we make significant changes, we'll notify you through email or a banner on the site.
Check back here if you want to see what's changed. The "Last Updated" date at the top tells you when we last revised the policy. We don't make changes without good reasons, and we try to improve clarity each time we update.
