Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

1.1. This Cookie Policy explains how Grant Fund LLC uses cookies and similar technologies on the Grant Fund website, application, dashboard, checkout pages, support pages, and related online services.

1.2. This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Privacy Policy. Capitalised terms not defined in this Cookie Policy have the meaning given in the Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy.

2. What cookies are

2.1. Cookies are small text files stored on a user's device by a website or application. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, device identifiers, and other technologies that store or access information on a user's device.

2.2. Cookies may be first-party cookies set by Grant Fund or third-party cookies set by service providers. Cookies may be session cookies that expire when the browser closes or persistent cookies that remain for a defined period.

3. Cookie categories

3.1. Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are necessary to provide the website and application, authenticate users, maintain sessions, remember security settings, process checkout sessions, prevent fraud, apply load balancing, and enable core functionality. These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary under applicable law.

3.2. Authentication and security cookies. These cookies help log users into the Service, maintain secure sessions, prevent unauthorised access, detect abuse, protect against bots, and support account-integrity controls.

3.3. Billing and session cookies. These cookies support checkout, subscription management, VAT or invoice flows, payment sessions, fraud prevention, and payment-provider integration.

3.4. Preference cookies. These cookies remember user choices such as language, region, display preferences, cookie settings, and dashboard settings. Where not strictly necessary, they may be used only with consent where required.

3.5. Analytics cookies. These cookies help Grant Fund understand website and product usage, performance, feature adoption, error patterns, traffic sources, and aggregate usage trends. Analytics cookies are used only where permitted by law and, where required, after consent.

3.6. Product analytics technologies. These technologies may be used inside the application to understand feature usage, debug workflows, improve the Passport flow, identify technical problems, and improve the Service. Where required by law, non-essential product analytics technologies are subject to consent.

3.7. Fraud-prevention technologies. These technologies may be used to detect fraudulent accounts, suspicious payment activity, credential abuse, bots, scraping, chargeback abuse, and other misuse. Some fraud-prevention technologies may be necessary for security and legal compliance.

3.8. Marketing cookies. These cookies may be used to measure marketing campaigns, remember advertising interactions, build or limit advertising audiences, and measure conversions. Marketing cookies are used only where permitted by law and, where required, after consent.

4. Third-party cookies and providers

4.1. Grant Fund may use third-party providers for hosting, security, authentication, payments, billing, fraud prevention, analytics, product analytics, customer support, communications, and marketing.

4.2. Third-party providers may set or access cookies or similar technologies when providing their services. Where such providers act as independent controllers, their own privacy and cookie notices may also apply.

4.3. Grant Fund may update cookie providers, cookie names, cookie duration, and cookie purposes over time. The categories currently in use, and the controls for them, are shown in your cookie settings.

5. Consent requirements

5.1. Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent where they are essential to provide a service requested by the user or necessary for security, authentication, billing, or legal compliance.

5.2. Non-essential cookies, including analytics cookies, product analytics cookies, preference cookies that are not strictly necessary, and marketing cookies, will be used only where permitted by applicable law and, where required, after the user has provided informed consent.

5.3. Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous. Refusing non-essential cookies must not prevent access to the Service except where a cookie is technically necessary for the requested functionality.

6. Managing or withdrawing consent

6.1. Users may manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner, cookie settings panel, account settings, or other consent-management tool made available by Grant Fund.

6.2. Users may withdraw consent at any time for non-essential cookies. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before withdrawal.

6.3. If a user disables certain cookies, some website or application features may not function correctly.

7. Browser controls

7.1. Most browsers allow users to block, delete, or manage cookies through browser settings.

7.2. Browser controls may not affect all similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, SDKs, or server-side analytics. Users should use Grant Fund's cookie settings where available in addition to browser controls.

8. Retention periods

8.1. Session cookies expire when the browser session ends or after a short session period.

8.2. Persistent cookies remain for the period specified in the cookie settings interface or provider documentation, unless deleted earlier by the user.

8.3. Non-essential cookies should not be retained longer than necessary for their purpose. Specific retention periods may vary by provider and are shown in your cookie settings.

9. Changes to cookie providers

9.1. Grant Fund may add, remove, or change cookie providers as the Service changes.

9.2. Material changes to non-essential cookie use may be reflected in the cookie banner, cookie settings panel, Privacy Policy, this Cookie Policy, or other appropriate notice.

10. Relationship with the privacy policy

10.1. Where cookies or similar technologies involve personal data, the Privacy Policy explains the categories of data processed, purposes, legal bases, recipients, transfers, retention, and data-subject rights.

11. Contact

11.1. Cookie and privacy questions may be sent to Grant Fund LLC at privacy@grant.fund.