Last updated: October 22, 2026
Budgeluck.com uses or may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website and, where enabled, understand its audience and support advertising. This Cookie Policy explains what those technologies are, why they may be used, and how you can manage your choices. The specific cookies present depend on the services currently enabled, your browser, and your consent preferences.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Similar technologies include local storage, tags and pixels. Some cookies expire when your browser session ends; others remain for a defined period or until you remove them.
First-party cookies are set by our website. Third-party cookies may be set by external services integrated into the website, subject to browser rules and applicable consent requirements.
2. Categories of cookies
| Category | Purpose | How it is used |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Basic website operation, security, sign-in sessions and storing privacy choices. | Used only where needed for an active feature. |
| Analytics / performance | Understanding traffic, visits and how content performs. | Only where an analytics service is enabled and its use is permitted by applicable law and your choices. |
| Advertising | Ad delivery, frequency management, fraud prevention and measurement; potentially personalization. | Only when advertising services are enabled and required consent or other lawful conditions are satisfied. |
| Third-party content | Displaying or interacting with content or features supplied by other websites. | May apply if you interact with an embedded service or an enabled integration. |
3. WordPress and essential website functions
Budgeluck uses WordPress. WordPress may set cookies for administrator logins, browser compatibility checks and other active features. Examples include wordpress_test_cookie and wordpress_logged_in_*. These are examples of possible WordPress cookies, not a claim that every visitor receives them.
Additional strictly necessary technologies may be used by our hosting, security or consent tools if those features are enabled.
4. Analytics cookies
If Google Analytics or another analytics service is enabled, it may use cookies to measure how visitors use the website and help us improve our content. For example, Google Analytics 4 may use cookies with names such as _ga and _ga_*. Cookie availability and retention depend on the service configuration. We do not represent these examples as a verified inventory of cookies currently set on Budgeluck.
More information: How Google uses cookies.
5. Google AdSense and advertising
If advertising through Google AdSense or other advertising partners is enabled, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, measure their effectiveness and prevent misuse. Depending on applicable law and your choices, ads may be personalized using information about your visits to this website and other websites.
Google and other advertising technology providers may collect or receive information such as online identifiers, approximate location, device data and ad interactions. Where applicable law requires consent, non-essential technologies must not be activated until the appropriate consent has been obtained. Non-personalized advertising may still use cookies or other identifiers for purposes such as reporting and fraud prevention, subject to applicable requirements.
You can learn about Google's processing in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and manage Google ad personalization in My Ad Center. Further advertising opt-out information may be available from YourAdChoices.
6. Pinterest, affiliate links and third-party websites
Our articles may link to Pinterest, merchants, affiliate partners or other external websites. Clicking a link takes you to another service, which may set its own cookies and process data according to its own privacy policy. If external content is embedded directly on Budgeluck, related technology may be used according to the way that embed is configured and any applicable consent requirements.
We encourage you to read the privacy and cookie notices of third parties before using their services.
7. How long cookies remain
Some cookies are session-based and are removed when your browser session ends. Others remain for a longer period that depends on their purpose, provider, browser settings and configuration. Cookies can also be deleted earlier using your browser controls. Because third-party configurations can change, an exact list of cookie names and lifetimes should reflect the cookies actually deployed on the website.
8. Your consent and choices
Where required by law, non-essential cookies and comparable technologies should only operate after the necessary choice or consent has been obtained. Where an on-site consent-management dialog is available, you can use it to accept, reject or adjust the categories offered, and to change your choices later using that tool's privacy settings control.
You can also manage or delete cookies using your browser's settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the availability or functionality of some site features. Browser settings do not necessarily replace an on-site consent choice for every provider or processing purpose.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, advertising consent should be managed through an appropriately configured consent management platform where required. A written policy by itself does not collect or enforce consent.
9. Your personal data and rights
For further information about personal data, purposes of processing, recipients, your rights and how to contact us, please read our Privacy Policy.
10. Contact
Website operator: Marek Kadrnožka
For questions about cookies or privacy, email info@budgeluck.com.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy if our website, advertising or analytics services, or legal obligations change. Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised date.