Cookie Policy

Last updated: 6 October 2026

This page explains what cookies BitWithBite sets, why, and how you can control them. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly.

A cookie is a small text file a site stores in your browser. Some are needed for the site to work at all; others tell us how the site is being used, or are set by Google so that advertising can be shown.

1. What a cookie is used for here

We group the cookies on this site into three kinds. Only the first kind is strictly necessary — the rest can be refused without losing access to the learning material.

2. Strictly necessary

These make the site function. They cannot be switched off from within the site, though your browser can block them.

• Keeping you signed in between pages, and remembering that your session is yours.
• Remembering what you have unlocked or purchased, so paid material opens for you.
• Security: checking that a form submission came from the page it claims to.
• Small preferences such as a chosen tab, a dismissed notice, or your progress through a lesson.

3. Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand which lessons are read, where people give up, and whether a page works on their device. It tells us about pages, not about people — we do not use it to identify you.

You can opt out across every site that uses it with Google's browser add-on.

4. Advertising

This site shows ads through Google AdSense so that the courses, cheatsheets and tools can stay free. Google and its partners set their own cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to limit how often you see the same advert and to measure whether an advert worked.

• Google uses cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other sites.
• You can turn off personalised advertising at adssettings.google.com.
• You can opt out of several vendors at once at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.
• Turning personalisation off does not remove advertising; it makes it less relevant.

5. Things that are not cookies

Some features use your browser's local storage rather than cookies — your place in a course, a draft you have not submitted, a theme you picked. This stays on your device, is not sent to us, and is cleared when you clear site data.

6. How to control cookies

• Visitors in the UK, EU, EEA and Switzerland are asked before any analytics or advertising cookie is set. Until you agree, Google Analytics runs without cookies and AdSense shows only non-personalised ads. You can change your answer at any time: open cookie settings (also linked at the bottom of every page).
• Every major browser can block or delete cookies in its privacy settings.
• Blocking strictly necessary cookies will sign you out and may stop paid content from opening.
• Your cookie choice is kept in your browser's local storage for 12 months; clearing site data removes it and you will be asked again.

7. Changes

If we add a service that sets cookies, this page is updated before or at the same time. The date at the top tells you when it last changed.

8. Questions

Ask through our contact page or email info@bitwithbite.com.