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Privacy Policy

How Budget Leashed collects, uses, protects, and retains your information.

Last Updated: October 19, 2026

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This Privacy Policy describes how Budget Leashed LLC, a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Texas ("Budget Leashed", "we", "our", or "us"), collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you use our web-based budgeting platform available at www.budgetleashed.com.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information when you use Budget Leashed:

a. Account Information

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Hashed password (never stored in plain text)
  • Email-confirmation status and trial start, expiry, and retention dates

b. Financial Data You Provide

  • Income sources and amounts
  • Expenses and categories
  • Payment reminders and scheduling
  • Notes and other budgeting-related entries
  • Imported transactions (e.g., via CSV files)

Note: We do not connect to your bank accounts. You provide financial data through manual entry or CSV import. If you enable automatic entries for scheduled income and expenses, those entries are based on the information and schedules you provide.

c. Subscription and Billing Data

No payment details are required to sign up or start your trial. When you choose to subscribe, we send your email address and an account identifier to Stripe to associate checkout with your account. Stripe collects and processes your payment details. We store Stripe customer, checkout, and subscription identifiers, your plan and price, subscription status, billing dates, and cancellation details to manage billing and product access. We do not store full payment card numbers or security codes.

d. Usage and Measurement Data

We collect information to understand usage, improve the service, and measure signup and subscription campaigns, such as:

  • Browser and device type
  • Pages visited and interaction data
  • Session duration and general usage patterns
  • Trial-start and completed paid-checkout events, including a hashed checkout reference used to avoid counting the same checkout twice

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your data to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve the platform and its features
  • Send reminders and alerts based on your preferences and entries
  • Generate reports and insights related to your budgeting activity
  • Provide customer support and respond to inquiries
  • Send important service-related communications
  • Confirm your email, manage your trial and subscription, and apply account retention rules
  • Measure trial starts and completed paid checkouts to understand the effectiveness of signup and subscription campaigns

If you are located in the EEA or UK, we process personal data under the following legal bases:

  • Contract: To provide and maintain the services you request.
  • Legitimate interests: To secure and improve the platform and prevent misuse.
  • Consent: For optional features or communications where applicable.
  • Legal obligations: To comply with applicable laws.

4. How We Protect Your Data

  • All data transfers are protected using TLS encryption (HTTPS).
  • Passwords are securely hashed and never stored in plain text.
  • We do not sell or rent your personal or financial data. Our use of billing and measurement providers is described in Section 6.
  • Access to user data is restricted to authorized personnel for operational needs only.

5. Data Storage and Retention

Your data is stored securely within our cloud infrastructure. You may delete your account at any time, which will permanently remove your data following a short processing period. We may retain limited information as required by law (e.g., billing or tax records).

Unconfirmed registrations may be removed after the email-confirmation window expires. The confirmation page shows that deadline; the full trial starts only after email confirmation.

For new trial accounts that have never subscribed, the full trial lasts 14 days from email confirmation. We retain the account and budget for at least another seven (7) days so you can sign in and subscribe through My Account; this period does not extend product access. After that period, the account and budget are eligible for permanent deletion. We send reminders before trial expiry and a warning with the possible deletion date, allowing at least seven (7) days after a deletion notice is sent. The notice and My Account show the applicable date. Deletion may occur later than this deadline. This trial cleanup does not apply to accounts that have previously subscribed.

6. Third-Party Services

We use third-party providers for service delivery, billing, and measurement. For example:

  • Stripe (Payments): Used when you choose to subscribe, to process checkout, manage recurring billing, and provide the customer portal. Starting a free trial does not require a Stripe subscription. Stripe processes payment data in accordance with its own privacy policy: stripe.com/privacy.
  • Google Analytics, Google Ads / Google Tag Manager: We use Google Tag Manager to manage measurement tags, Google Analytics to understand usage and improve performance, and Google Ads conversion tracking to measure advertising campaigns. Google may receive page URLs, IP addresses, browser and device information, cookie or session identifiers, and campaign interaction data; its tags may set or read cookies. We also send trial-start and completed paid-checkout events for campaign measurement, including on the corresponding account confirmation and checkout landing pages. Checkout measurement uses a hashed reference to avoid duplicate counts; these events do not include your name, email, payment card details, or budget entries. A subscription started with no amount due at checkout is not counted as a completed paid-checkout event. Learn more at Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services.
  • Meta Pixel (Advertising Measurement): We use the Meta Pixel on selected public marketing pages to measure visits from Facebook and Instagram campaigns. Meta may receive the public page URL, IP address, browser and device information, and cookie identifiers. Our Meta tag does not run on account, signup, login, or budget pages and does not send form entries, names, email addresses, payment details, or budget records. We do not enable automatic advanced matching or automatic event collection for this tag. The tag does not load when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal or an enabled Do Not Track signal. Learn more at Meta's Privacy Policy.

These providers process data only as necessary to deliver their services and are contractually required to protect your information.

7. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies to:

  • Maintain user sessions
  • Ensure basic platform functionality
  • Improve performance and usability
  • Measure usage and signup/subscription campaigns (see Section 6)

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain features. Google also provides advertising preferences and a Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on; advertising preferences do not disable all measurement.

8. Email Communications

We send email-confirmation messages and essential account communications, including trial-expiry and possible-deletion notices. These are sent even if you turn off budget reminders. Budget reminders and notifications follow your account preferences. Marketing emails, if introduced, will be optional and include opt-out options.

9. Children’s Privacy

Budget Leashed is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.

10. International Data Transfers

If you access the Service from outside the country where our systems are hosted, your data may be processed in other jurisdictions. We take appropriate safeguards to protect your data in accordance with applicable laws.

11. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access and review your personal data
  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Delete your account and associated data
  • Object to or restrict certain processing (where applicable)
  • Export your data (CSV export is available from your registries and reports)

To exercise these rights, contact us at contact@budgetleashed.com.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If material changes occur, we will notify you via email or in-app notice. Continued use of the Service constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact us at contact@budgetleashed.com or through our contact page.