Cookie Policy

See which cookies Budget Kicker uses today, which ones are optional, and how your choices affect the site.

Necessary cookies keep the product working. Optional cookies only run when you allow them.

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Cookie Policy

How cookie choices work on Budget Kicker

Budget Kicker uses a small set of cookies to run secure account workflows, remember optional interface choices, and, if you opt in, understand how the site is being used in production. The site should still work normally if you reject non-essential cookies.

Current consent state

Necessary cookies are always active. Preference cookies are currently off, and analytics cookies are currently off.

What the banner does

  • Accept all: allows necessary, preference, and analytics cookies.
  • Reject non-essential: keeps only the cookies needed to run the service and remember your cookie choice.

What does not happen

  • Budget Kicker does not treat scrolling, inactivity, or continued browsing as consent.
  • Optional cookies are not supposed to load before you accept them.
  • Rejecting non-essential cookies should not block normal access to the site.

Necessary cookies

Always active

These cookies keep Budget Kicker working properly. They handle session state, CSRF protection, sign-in flows, and remembering your cookie choices. Protected forms can also load security checks such as reCAPTCHA when needed.

  • budget_kicker_session - keeps your signed-in session active and tied to the server securely.
  • XSRF-TOKEN - helps protect forms and AJAX requests against CSRF attacks.
  • bk_cookie_preferences - stores the cookie categories you accepted or rejected.
  • Google reCAPTCHA may load on login and registration forms to help stop spam and abuse.

Preference cookies

Optional

These cookies remember interface choices so the app feels less repetitive when you come back.

  • theme_preset - remembers the selected AdminLTE colour preset.
  • theme - legacy light or dark fallback used by older theme-aware UI areas.
  • activeCurrency - remembers the last currency tab you opened in budget and reporting views.

Analytics cookies

Optional

If you opt in, Budget Kicker loads Google Analytics 4 in production to understand page usage and improve the product over time.

  • Google Analytics 4 measurement ID: G-GPT29SY9DZ
  • Typical analytics cookie names include _ga, _ga_* and _gid once analytics has been accepted.
  • Analytics only loads after an explicit opt-in through the cookie controls.

Changing or withdrawing consent

You can reopen the cookie controls at any time from the cookie button in the bottom-right corner of the site. If you switch analytics or preference cookies off later, Budget Kicker clears its own optional preference cookies and attempts to disable analytics tracking for future page use.

Updates to this page

This policy should change when Budget Kicker adds new cookie-backed features, new third-party services, or different measurement tools. The goal is to keep this page aligned with what the application actually uses, rather than leaving it as a generic notice.