Last updated: March 2026 | Version 1.0
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website when you visit it. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, to remember your preferences, and to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies cannot run programs or deliver viruses to your device.
We use cookies in accordance with the EU ePrivacy Directive and GDPR. When you first visit CalcWhizz, you are shown a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept, reject or customise which categories of cookies are set on your device.
We categorise the cookies on CalcWhizz into four groups: Essential, Analytics, Advertising and Functional. The table below summarises each category.
| Category | Required | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Always on | Site functionality and consent storage |
| Analytics | Optional | Understanding how visitors use the site |
| Functional | Optional | Remembering your preferences |
These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function and cannot be disabled. They include:
No personal data beyond your consent choices is stored in essential cookies.
With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) with Consent Mode v2 to collect anonymised data about how visitors interact with CalcWhizz. This helps us understand which calculators are most popular, how users navigate the site, and where we can improve.
Data collected includes: pages visited, time spent on site, approximate geographic region (country/city level), device type and browser. IP addresses are anonymised before storage. No personally identifiable information is collected.
Google Analytics cookies include: _ga, _ga_*. These expire after 13 months.
You can learn more about how Google uses data at Google's Privacy Policy.
With your consent, functional cookies allow CalcWhizz to remember preferences such as currency selection, calculator settings, and live rate cache. These improve your experience by not requiring you to re-enter preferences on each visit.
Functional cookies we set include: cw_rates_v2 (cached live rate data, expires after 1 hour). All functional cookies are set by CalcWhizz and contain no personal data.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking Manage Cookie Preferences. This will reopen the cookie preference panel where you can enable or disable each optional category.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings:
Please note that disabling cookies through your browser may affect the functionality of CalcWhizz and other websites.
Some cookies on CalcWhizz are set by third parties (Google Analytics, Google AdSense). CalcWhizz does not control these third-party cookies and they are subject to the respective third-party privacy policies. We do not sell or share any personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us.