Last updated: September 27, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Handy Backup ("Handy Backup", "we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the Handy Backup website. It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They can be used to make a website function correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the website, measure advertising performance, and attribute visits or purchases to advertising or referral sources.
We may also use similar technologies, including browser storage, pixels, tags, and advertising or referral identifiers. In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as "cookies".
These cookies are required for the website to operate securely and correctly. They may be used for website security, fraud prevention, traffic management, payment processing, and storing your cookie preferences.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie preference settings because some website functions may not work correctly without them.
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Handy Backup website, including which pages are visited, how visitors reach the website, and how users interact with its content.
We use this information to analyze website performance and improve content, navigation, and usability.
Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies are used only after you provide consent.
Advertising cookies help us measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, attribute conversions to advertisements, and support advertising features where permitted.
These technologies may be associated with advertising platforms such as Google Ads and Meta.
Where required by applicable law, advertising cookies are used only after you provide consent.
We may use cookies to identify visitors who arrive through an affiliate or referral link. These cookies allow us to determine whether a purchase or other conversion should be attributed to an affiliate or referral partner.
Where required by applicable law, affiliate and referral cookies are used only after you provide consent.
| Provider | Purpose | Category | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handy Backup | Cookie preferences and website functions | Necessary | May vary |
| Cloudflare | Website security, bot detection and traffic management | Necessary | __cf_bm, cf_clearance, _cfuvid |
| Google Analytics | Website usage statistics and analytics | Analytics | _ga, _ga_* |
| Google Ads | Advertising and conversion measurement | Advertising | _gcl_* |
| Meta / Facebook | Advertising and conversion measurement | Advertising | _fbp and related identifiers |
| Stripe | Payment processing, security and fraud prevention | Necessary / Payment | May vary |
| PromoteKit | Affiliate and referral attribution | Advertising / Referral | Referral identifiers may vary |
The exact cookies used may change over time as we update our website, change service configurations, or as third-party providers modify their technologies.
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with the Handy Backup website.
Google Analytics may process information such as pages visited, session activity, traffic source, browser and device information, approximate geographic location, and interactions with website content.
Google Analytics commonly uses cookies including:
The actual duration and use of these cookies may depend on our Google Analytics configuration and your consent choices.
Google Privacy Policy
Google Terms of Service
How Google Uses Cookies
We use Google Ads to advertise Handy Backup and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
Google Ads may use cookies and similar technologies to determine whether a visitor arrived after clicking an advertisement, measure conversions, attribute purchases or other actions to advertising campaigns, prevent duplicate conversion counting, and measure advertising performance.
Google advertising technologies may use first-party cookies beginning with _gcl_. These cookies may store information associated with an advertising click or conversion.
Google may also process advertising identifiers contained in advertising URLs, such as Google Click Identifiers, depending on our configuration and your consent settings.
Google Privacy Policy
Advertising and Privacy
How Google Uses Cookies
We may use Meta Business Tools, including the Meta Pixel, to measure the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook and Instagram.
Where enabled, Meta technologies may process information about actions performed on the Handy Backup website, such as page visits and conversions.
Meta technologies may be used to measure advertising conversions, create advertising reports, attribute website activity to advertising campaigns, and support advertising or remarketing features where permitted.
Cookies associated with Meta technologies may include _fbp and other identifiers used by Meta.
Where required by applicable law, Meta advertising technologies are not activated until you provide the appropriate consent.
Meta Privacy Policy
Meta Cookies Policy
Meta Terms of Service
Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to help secure and accelerate websites.
We use Cloudflare for website availability, network performance, and security. Cloudflare may use cookies required for bot detection, security challenges, rate limiting, traffic management, and other security functions.
Depending on the Cloudflare services enabled on our website, these cookies may include:
Cloudflare security cookies are generally treated as strictly necessary because they support website security and availability.
Terms and Conditions
Privacy Policy and Data Subject Rights
Cloudflare Cookie Information
We use Stripe to process payments for Handy Backup products and services.
When you interact with Stripe payment functionality or a Stripe-hosted payment page, Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies for payment processing, authentication, fraud detection and prevention, security, and other payment-related functions.
Some Stripe cookies and technologies are required to provide secure payment functionality. Stripe may also use additional technologies on its own websites and payment interfaces according to its own policies.
Payment information submitted through Stripe is processed by Stripe according to its privacy and security practices.
Stripe Privacy Policy
Stripe Cookie Policy
Stripe Legal Information
We use PromoteKit to operate and measure affiliate and referral activity.
When a visitor arrives through an affiliate or referral link, PromoteKit may store referral information so that an eligible purchase can be attributed to the appropriate referral partner.
Depending on the configuration of the referral program, PromoteKit may process information such as referral identifiers, conversion information, transaction metadata, and technical information required to perform referral attribution.
Referral cookies may remain available for a limited period so that a later purchase can be associated with the original referral. The actual duration may depend on the configuration of the referral program.
Data Processing Agreement
Service and Tracking Documentation
Where required by applicable law, we request your consent before storing or accessing non-essential cookies on your device.
You may be able to choose between the following options:
Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they are required to provide website, security, payment, or preference-management functions.
Your consent choices may also be communicated to third-party services through supported consent mechanisms, including Google Consent Mode where applicable.
We use Google Consent Mode to communicate your cookie choice to Google services. The table below shows what each setting means when you select Necessary Only or Accept.
| Setting | What it controls | Necessary Only | Accept |
|---|---|---|---|
analytics_storage |
Google Analytics cookies and identifiers | Analytics cookies are not stored or read. | Google Analytics may store and read analytics cookies. |
ad_storage |
Google advertising cookies and identifiers | Advertising cookies are not stored or read. | Google advertising cookies may be stored and read. |
ad_user_data |
Use of user data sent to Google for advertising purposes | User data is not used for Google advertising purposes. | User data may be used for Google advertising measurement. |
ad_personalization |
Personalized advertising and remarketing | Personalized advertising and remarketing are disabled. | Personalized advertising and remarketing may be enabled. |
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time through the Cookie Settings available on the Handy Backup website.
Changing your cookie preferences does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before your consent was withdrawn.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent some parts of the website, security functions, or payment functionality from working correctly.
Some cookies and similar technologies used on the Handy Backup website are provided by third-party service providers.
These providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy, cookie, and data processing policies. Depending on the provider, service configuration, and applicable legal framework, information may be processed outside your country of residence, including in the United States.
Third-party services used by the Handy Backup website may include:
We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie information published by these providers for more information about how they process data.
We may update this Cookie Policy when we change the technologies used on the website, introduce new services, modify existing integrations, or need to reflect changes in applicable law.
When this policy is updated, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will also be changed.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, the use of cookies on the Handy Backup website, or your privacy choices, please contact us using the contact information provided in our Privacy Policy or on the Contact Us page.