Cookie Policy

1. Introduction Our website, https://budgetfitter.co.uk (“the website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, the information we collect using cookies, how that information is used, and how to control your cookie preferences.

For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Statement.

2. What are Cookies? A cookie is a small, simple text file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are Scripts? A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a Web Beacon? A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. How We Use Cookies We use first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes.

• First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
• Third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

6. Types of Cookies We Use

6.1 Technical or Functional Cookies (Essential Cookies) Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website. For example, these cookies might remember your cookie consent preferences. We may place these cookies without your explicit consent as they are essential for the website’s operation.

6.2 Statistics Cookies (Analytical Cookies) We use statistics cookies to optimise the website experience for our users and to understand website usage. With these statistics cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website (e.g., which pages are visited most often, how users navigate the site). We ask for your permission to place statistics cookies. The data collected is typically aggregated and anonymised.

6.3 Advertising Cookies On this website, we may use advertising cookies. These cookies enable us to gain insights into campaign results and to personalise advertisements. This may happen based on a profile we create based on your behaviour on https://budgetfitter.co.uk and other websites. With these cookies, you, as a website visitor, may be linked to a unique ID for advertising purposes, but these cookies will not profile your behaviour and interests to serve personalised ads unless you consent. Because these cookies are marked as tracking cookies, we ask for your permission to place them.

6.4 Marketing/Tracking Cookies Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. These cookies help us and third parties to track your browsing activity across websites to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. We ask for your permission to place these cookies.

6.5 Social Media Cookies and Content On our website, we may include content from or links to social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, and Facebook to promote web pages (e.g., “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g., “tweet”). This content may be embedded with code derived from these social media platforms, which can place cookies. This embedded content might store and process certain information for personalised advertising or other purposes as determined by the social media provider. Please note that these social media platforms (TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) may be located in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area and have their own privacy and cookie policies, which we do not control. We recommend you read their policies.

7. Placed Cookies

8. Consent Management When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up (cookie banner) with an explanation about cookies. This banner will allow you to choose which categories of cookies you consent to. As soon as you click on “Save preferences” or “Accept All,” you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up (or all cookies if you accept all), as described in this Cookie Policy.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time via the cookie settings link/icon typically found in the footer or corner of our website, or by managing settings in your browser as described below.

9. Enabling/Disabling and Deleting Cookies via Your Browser You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser or visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, some may be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

10. Your Rights with Respect to Personal Data You have certain rights with respect to your personal data. These include the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for, as well as rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and the right to object to processing.

For a detailed explanation of your rights and how to exercise them, please refer to Section 7 of our Privacy Statement.

If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you first. However, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). For residents of Jersey or Guernsey, you may contact your respective local data protection authority (details available in our Privacy Statement).

11. Contact Details For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us through our Contact Us page or by using the following contact details:

FozDigital LTD 124 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX United Kingdom Website: https://budgetfitter.co.uk Email: support@budgetfitter.co.uk