Cookie policy
Last updated 2 November 2026
1. Introduction
Our website, https://checkfinance.co.uk (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies may also be placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple 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. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly. Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, may place a strictly necessary security cookie (for up to 30 minutes) to protect the website from bots and attacks. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies (Google Analytics: _ga and _ga_*, kept for up to two years) to see how people use our website, so we can improve it. We ask your permission before placing them. Google Analytics is set up so that it does not use Google signals or ad personalisation.
5.3 Advertising and marketing/tracking cookies
We do not use advertising or marketing/tracking cookies on this website.
6. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we show a bar at the bottom of the page explaining our use of cookies, with equal buttons to Accept or Reject. Statistics cookies are only placed if you click “Accept”. We remember your choice in a strictly necessary cookie (cf_ck, six months). You can change your mind at any time using “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page.
7. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
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.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled.
8. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
9. Contact details
We have appointed a Data Protection Lead to oversee compliance with this cookies policy. If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this policy please contact our Data Protection Lead at compliance@checkfinance.co.uk. This is in addition to your right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office if you are unsatisfied with our response to any issues you raise at ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.