What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our website or use our platform. They help us provide you with a better experience by remembering your preferences, maintaining your session, and ensuring the security of your account.

This Cookie Policy explains how Bt Vision uses cookies and similar technologies on our invitation-only executive risk analytics platform. By using our services, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the platform to function properly and cannot be disabled. They include:

• Authentication Cookies: Keep you logged in during your session
• Security Cookies: Protect against unauthorized access and security threats
• Session Cookies: Maintain your session state and preferences
• Load Balancing Cookies: Ensure optimal platform performance
• CSRF Protection Cookies: Prevent cross-site request forgery attacks
• API Authentication Cookies: Secure communication with our backend services

Functional Cookies

These cookies enhance your experience by remembering your choices and preferences:

• Dashboard Configuration: Remember your custom dashboard layouts
• User Preferences: Store your display settings and notification preferences
• Language Settings: Remember your preferred language and regional settings
• Accessibility Options: Maintain your accessibility preferences
• Theme Preferences: Store your chosen color scheme and interface theme
• Filter Settings: Remember your data filtering and sorting preferences
• Widget Configurations: Maintain your customized widget arrangements
• Timezone Settings: Store your preferred timezone for data display

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how you use our platform to improve our services:

• Usage Analytics: Track feature usage and platform performance
• Error Tracking: Identify and resolve technical issues
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor platform speed and reliability
• User Journey Analysis: Understand how executives navigate the platform
• Feature Adoption Metrics: Track which features are most valuable to users
• Session Duration Tracking: Monitor user engagement and session patterns
• Click-through Analysis: Understand user interaction patterns
• Conversion Tracking: Measure the effectiveness of platform features
• A/B Testing Cookies: Support platform optimization experiments

Security Cookies

These cookies are essential for maintaining the security of your corporate data:

• Fraud Prevention: Detect and prevent unauthorized access attempts
• Multi-Factor Authentication: Support secure login processes
• Session Security: Protect against session hijacking and CSRF attacks
• Audit Trail: Maintain security logs for compliance purposes
• Anomaly Detection: Identify unusual access patterns or behaviors
• IP Validation: Verify authorized access locations
• Device Fingerprinting: Recognize trusted devices and detect anomalies
• Brute Force Protection: Prevent automated attack attempts

Performance Cookies

These cookies help optimize platform performance and user experience:

• Caching Preferences: Optimize data loading and reduce latency
• Bandwidth Optimization: Adjust content delivery based on connection speed
• Resource Loading: Prioritize critical platform components
• CDN Optimization: Route requests to the nearest content delivery nodes
• Database Query Optimization: Cache frequently accessed data

Compliance Cookies

These cookies support regulatory compliance and audit requirements:

• Audit Logging: Track user actions for compliance reporting
• Data Access Tracking: Monitor data access patterns for regulatory purposes
• Consent Management: Record user consent preferences
• Regulatory Reporting: Support automated compliance report generation
• Data Retention Tracking: Monitor data lifecycle for compliance purposes

How We Use Cookies

Platform Functionality

We use cookies to provide core platform functionality:

• Maintaining your login session across multiple browser tabs
• Preserving your dashboard configurations and customizations
• Enabling real-time data updates and notifications
• Supporting collaborative features for leadership teams

Security and Compliance

Cookies play a crucial role in maintaining platform security:

• Verifying user identity and preventing unauthorized access
• Detecting suspicious activity and potential security threats
• Maintaining audit trails for compliance reporting
• Ensuring data integrity and preventing tampering

Performance Optimization

We use cookies to optimize platform performance:

• Caching frequently accessed data to reduce load times
• Balancing server loads for optimal response times
• Monitoring system performance and identifying bottlenecks
• Optimizing data delivery based on usage patterns

Third-Party Cookies

We may use carefully selected third-party services that set their own cookies to support our platform operations:

Infrastructure Providers

• Cloud Services: Cookies from our cloud infrastructure providers for load balancing and performance
• Content Delivery Networks: Cookies to optimize content delivery and reduce latency
• Security Services: Cookies from security providers for threat detection and prevention

Analytics Services

• Platform Analytics: Cookies to understand platform usage and performance
• Error Monitoring: Cookies from error tracking services to identify and resolve issues
• Performance Monitoring: Cookies to monitor system performance and uptime

Note: All third-party services are carefully vetted and must meet our strict security and privacy standards. They are bound by confidentiality agreements and cannot access your corporate data.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

Browser Settings

You can control cookies through your browser settings:

• Block All Cookies: Prevent all cookies from being stored (may affect platform functionality)
• Block Third-Party Cookies: Allow only first-party cookies from our platform
• Delete Existing Cookies: Remove cookies that have already been stored
• Cookie Notifications: Receive alerts when websites want to store cookies

Platform Cookie Settings

Within our platform, you can manage certain cookie preferences:

• Analytics and performance tracking cookies
• Functional cookies for enhanced features
• Notification and communication preferences

Important Considerations

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect platform functionality:

• Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are required for security and basic functionality
• Disabling functional cookies may reset your preferences and customizations
• Blocking analytics cookies may prevent us from identifying and resolving performance issues

Cookie Retention and Expiration

Session Cookies

These cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser or log out of the platform.

Persistent Cookies

These cookies remain on your device for a specified period:

• Authentication Cookies: Expire after 24 hours of inactivity
• Preference Cookies: Expire after 1 year or when updated
• Analytics Cookies: Expire after 2 years
• Security Cookies: Expire after 30 days

Cookie Cleanup

We regularly review and clean up unnecessary cookies to minimize data storage and maintain optimal performance.

Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal and regulatory reasons. When we make significant changes, we will:

• Notify you through the platform or via email
• Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy
• Provide a summary of key changes
• Allow you to review and accept the updated policy

Your continued use of our platform after the effective date of any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Cookie Policy.