Last updated: 8 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how FinanceEdge.co.za uses cookies and similar technologies.
It should be read together with the FinanceEdge Privacy Policy.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that websites place on a user’s device.
They can be used to support website functionality, remember preferences, measure website usage, improve performance, support advertising and help protect websites from misuse.
Some cookies are placed directly by FinanceEdge.co.za, while others may be placed by third-party services used on the website.
Types of Cookies We May Use
FinanceEdge.co.za may use the following categories of cookies.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies support functions necessary for the website to operate properly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
- Security
- Fraud prevention
- Website functionality
- Consent management
- Technical session management
These cookies may be required for parts of the website to function correctly.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies may be used to understand how visitors use FinanceEdge.co.za.
They can help measure information such as:
- Pages visited
- Traffic sources
- Device and browser types
- General interaction with the website
- Website performance
This information may be used to improve content, navigation and website performance.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to support the delivery and measurement of advertisements.
They may be used for purposes including:
- Serving advertisements
- Measuring ad performance
- Limiting repeated advertisement exposure
- Preventing invalid or fraudulent activity
- Supporting personalised or non-personalised advertising
Third-party advertising providers may place or read cookies when advertising services are used on FinanceEdge.co.za.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies may be used to remember choices made on the website.
These may include consent preferences or other settings that improve website functionality.
Google AdSense
FinanceEdge.co.za may use Google AdSense to display advertising.
Google may use cookies in connection with advertisements served on websites that use its advertising services. Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to FinanceEdge.co.za or other websites.
Google advertising technologies may also use web beacons, IP addresses or other identifiers in connection with ad delivery, measurement, fraud prevention and related functions.
Where required by applicable law, relevant consent controls will be used before technologies requiring consent are activated.
Personalised Advertising
Where permitted, cookies and similar technologies may be used to support personalised advertising.
Personalised advertising may use information about previous browsing activity, interests or interactions to select advertisements that may be more relevant to a user.
The availability of personalised advertising may depend on location, consent choices and applicable law.
Non-Personalised Advertising
Non-personalised advertisements are selected without using a user’s past behaviour to build or apply an advertising profile.
They may still use information such as:
- The content being viewed
- General location
- Device information
- Frequency information
- Fraud-prevention signals
Cookies or similar technologies may still be used for functions such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting and security.
Consent Management
FinanceEdge.co.za may display a consent notice in regions where consent is required for certain cookies, analytics services or advertising technologies.
Users may be given options to accept, reject or manage different categories of processing.
Where applicable, consent choices may be changed through the privacy or cookie controls available on the website.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services rather than FinanceEdge.co.za.
These services may include providers used for:
- Advertising
- Analytics
- Security
- Website performance
- Content delivery
- Consent management
The use of information collected through third-party cookies may also be governed by the privacy policies of the relevant service provider.
Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies generally expire when the browser is closed.
Persistent cookies may remain on a device for a defined period or until they are deleted.
The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the service that places them.
Managing Cookies
Most web browsers provide controls that allow users to view, block or delete cookies.
Browser settings may also allow users to restrict certain third-party cookies.
Where FinanceEdge.co.za provides a cookie or privacy preferences tool, users may also be able to change their consent choices through that tool.
Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality.
Withdrawing Consent
Where processing is based on consent, that consent may be withdrawn through the available cookie or privacy controls.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Do Not Track and Similar Browser Signals
Browser-based privacy signals and opt-out mechanisms continue to develop.
FinanceEdge.co.za may respond to recognised privacy preference mechanisms where required by applicable law or supported by the technologies used on the website.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated when the website’s use of cookies, advertising services, analytics tools or applicable legal requirements changes.
The current version will be published on this page with the applicable revision date.
Contact
Questions concerning the use of cookies or similar technologies on FinanceEdge.co.za may be submitted through the Contact page.