Datastreamrelay | Master Your Monthly Budget with Expert Financial Guidance

Essential Cookies

Some cookies are necessary for our budgeting platform to work properly. These can't be turned off because they handle things like keeping you logged in, remembering your session, and protecting your financial data from unauthorized access.

Without these, you wouldn't be able to access your budget dashboard or save your monthly planning work.

What We're Talking About Here

When you visit datastreamrelay.com, small data files get stored on your device. We call them cookies, though the technology behind them varies. Some track what pages you visit. Others remember your language preference or whether you've logged in recently.

This document explains what we collect, why we collect it, and what you can do about it. We've been running this budgeting service since early 2024, and we've learned that transparency matters more than fancy marketing talk.

The Types We Actually Use

Functional Tracking

These remember your choices. If you set your budget currency to Thai Baht, we store that preference. When you collapse certain expense categories to focus on others, that gets saved too. Nothing intrusive—just helpful memory so you don't have to reconfigure everything each visit.

Analytics Data

We track which features get used most often. Are people spending more time on the monthly overview or the year-end projections? Do folks abandon the expense input form at a specific step? This helps us fix problems and build better tools.

We don't sell this information. We barely share it internally. Our development team reviews aggregate trends quarterly to prioritize improvements.

Marketing Trackers

If you clicked an ad before landing here, we might track that to see whether our advertising actually works. These cookies also help us show relevant content to people who visited before but didn't sign up yet.

Honest moment: we're a small team serving the Thailand market. Our marketing budget isn't huge, so we need to know what's working and what isn't.

Specific Technologies on Our Platform

Name	Purpose	Duration
session_auth	Keeps you logged into your budget dashboard	Until you close browser
user_prefs	Stores display settings and currency choice	12 months
analytics_id	Anonymous identifier for usage statistics	24 months
campaign_source	Tracks which marketing channel brought you here	30 days

There are a few more technical ones that handle form submissions and error logging, but those four cover most of what happens during a typical visit.

How This Actually Helps You

I know privacy policies usually make grand claims about "enhancing your experience." Let me be specific instead.

Last year, our analytics showed people getting confused on the expense categorization page. The bounce rate was weird—high enough to notice, not high enough to panic. We dug into the data and realized mobile users couldn't see the category descriptions without scrolling horizontally.

Fixed it in two days. That only happened because we could see the problem through tracking data.

Functional cookies save you from re-entering preferences constantly. Marketing cookies help us avoid showing you ads for services you've already signed up for. Analytics help us spot broken features before everyone complains.

None of this requires your name, email, or financial details. We're tracking behavior patterns, not individual identities.

Taking Control Through Your Browser

You can manage this stuff directly through browser settings. Every major browser has a section for cookie management—usually under Privacy or Security settings.

Browser-Level Options

Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Cookies and site data

You can block all third-party tracking, delete existing cookies, or prevent specific sites from storing anything. Just know that blocking everything might break certain features on our budgeting platform.

Most browsers also offer private browsing modes where nothing gets saved after you close the window. Useful if you're checking your budget from a shared computer.

Third-Party Services We Work With

We don't run all tracking ourselves. Some comes from external services we've integrated:

Google Analytics: Standard website analytics that millions of sites use. Tracks page views, session duration, geographic region (never specific location).
Facebook Pixel: Helps us run targeted ads on social platforms. Only active if you've interacted with our Facebook presence.
Hosting Provider CDN: Our web host uses cookies to distribute content efficiently across their network. Mostly technical, not tracking-focused.

Each of these services has its own privacy policy. We don't control what they do with aggregate data, but we've chosen providers with reasonable reputations in the industry.

Data Retention and Deletion

Different tracking data gets kept for different lengths of time. Session cookies disappear when you close your browser. Preference cookies stick around for a year. Analytics data gets anonymized after two years and aggregated into statistical summaries.

If you delete your Datastreamrelay account entirely, we clear all associated tracking data within 30 days. Some aggregate statistics might remain—things like "100 users tried the savings goal feature in March 2025"—but nothing connected to you specifically.

We run automated deletion processes monthly to clear expired tracking data. Not because regulations force us to—though they do—but because storing unnecessary data costs money and creates security risks.

Updates to This Policy

We update this document when we add new tracking technologies or change how existing ones work. Major changes get announced through email to active users. Minor clarifications just get posted here with a revision date at the top.

Last significant update: January 2025, when we added Facebook Pixel tracking for our new ad campaigns targeting Thailand's personal finance community.

You can always check back here to see what's changed. We don't play games with "by continuing to use our service, you agree to whatever we changed" tricks. If something significant shifts, we'll tell you directly.

Your Rights Under Thai and International Law

Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act gives you specific rights regarding your data. So does the EU's GDPR if you're visiting from Europe. Even if you're elsewhere, we generally honor similar principles.

You can request to see what data we've collected about you. You can ask us to delete it. You can withdraw consent for non-essential tracking. You can export your information in a readable format.

For these requests, email us at contact@datastreamrelay.com with "Data Request" in the subject line. We typically respond within five business days and fulfill requests within two weeks unless something unusual comes up.