Last updated: 28 September 2026
money.com.my is a Malaysian personal finance guide. We help Malaysians make better money decisions through guides, analysis, and financial tools. This policy explains what data we collect, why, where it is stored, and the choices you have.
You can read everything on the site without an account. We do not sell your data, and we do not show targeted advertising.
What we collect depends on what you use. Simply reading the site involves only analytics and server logs, plus a video preview image from YouTube on pages that show our video analyses, all described below. Everything else applies only if you choose to use that feature.
Accounts and sign-in
We don't offer sign-in on money.com.my at the moment, and we are not creating accounts, so no new sign-in records are created.
Our sign-in service (Supabase) is shared with other applications we operate. It is set up so that creating an account also copies the account ID, the email address and a display name made from the first part of the email address into records used by those applications. As no accounts are being created, this does not happen at the moment.
Your Money Score
The Money Health Check works out your Money Score in your browser. Your answers are not sent to us or stored. The account version of the Money Score, which stored your answers, isn't offered at the moment.
Saved products
Saving products isn't offered at the moment. If you saved products on this device before, that list stays only in your browser until you clear this site's data.
Newsletter sign-ups
If you sign up, we store your email address and where on the site you signed up. Our newsletter has not launched yet, so we have not sent any emails. When it launches, we will use your address only to send you our emails. To have your address removed, email hello@money.com.my and we will delete it.
If our database fails when you sign up, your sign-up is not saved and you will see an error. When that happens, your email address and where you signed up are also written to our hosting provider's error logs (Vercel).
Feedback on guides
If you answer “Was this helpful?” on a guide, we store your answer, which guide it was about, and any comment you type. This is not linked to your email address. Your browser remembers that you answered, so we do not ask again.
Clicks through to banks and providers
When you click through to a bank or provider, we record which product and page it was, the link you followed, your browser's identification string (user agent) and the page you clicked from. For that page we keep only its path, never anything after the “?”, so none of the figures you entered in a calculator are recorded. We do not record your IP address with it. This tells us which comparisons people find useful.
How you found us
If you first arrive from another website, or through a link with campaign tags (such as utm_source), your browser remembers those tags, the page you landed on, the page that referred you, and when. We receive this only when someone completes the account version of the Money Score, which isn't offered at the moment. When we do receive it, we keep the referring site and page but nothing after the “?”, and never your name or email address.
Analytics (Google Analytics 4)
We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used: which pages are visited and how long visits last. We also send it a few events of our own:
GA4 records this against a pseudonymous ID, not your name. Google states that GA4 does not log or store IP addresses.
Our calculators keep your figures in the page address, so that you can share a result. We now remove that part of the address before anything is sent to Google Analytics, keeping only campaign tags such as utm_source. Until the evening of 27 September 2026 the figures were sent, and our Google Analytics reports still contain them. When you use the Product Finder, we count only which type of product you looked for, not your answers.
Before you make a cookie choice, and if you decline, Google Analytics sets no cookies. It still sends a basic measurement without cookies: the page address (with your figures removed, as above) and title, the page you came from, your screen size, your browser language, your browser, operating system and device details, what happened (for example, a page view), how long you spent on the page, and a random ID that is replaced each time a page fully loads.
If you accept, Google Analytics sets its analytics cookies so it can recognise return visits. Accepting does not turn on any advertising or personalisation features. Google processes this data under its privacy policy. We do not combine analytics data with your email address.
Cookie-free visit counts (Plausible Analytics)
We also use Plausible Analytics to count page views. Plausible sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, and it does not keep your IP address or your browser's full identification string. It records the page you visit, where you came from, your approximate location (country, region and city), your browser, operating system and device type, and how far you scroll and how long you stay on the page. It counts visits with an identifier that is reset every 24 hours and is different for every website, so it cannot follow you from one day to the next or across other sites. Plausible receives the full page address, including any figures in a calculator's address, but stores only the site and path: it discards everything after the “?” except campaign and referral tags such as utm_source. Plausible stores this data in the EU. See Plausible's data policy.
Our widgets on other websites
Other websites can show our exchange-rate and OPR widgets. When a widget loads, it sends Google Analytics the cookie-free measurement described above (no cookie banner appears inside a widget, so Google Analytics never sets cookies there), and Plausible counts the view. Both can receive the address of the page the widget is shown on, if that website's settings allow it.
Server logs
Our hosting provider (Vercel) automatically logs standard request data including IP addresses, request timestamps, and URLs visited. On our plan Vercel keeps these logs for 1 day. They are used for security and performance monitoring. See Vercel's privacy notice.
Protecting our forms from abuse
To stop automated abuse, we use your IP address to count requests: at most 5 newsletter sign-ups every 15 minutes, and 60 tracked clicks a minute, from one address. These counts are held briefly by our rate-limiting service (Upstash) and are not stored with anything else you give us.
We use a small number of cookies and items stored in your browser. None of them are used for advertising.
cookie_consent (browser storage): remembers your cookie choice._ga and _ga_* (cookies, only if you accept): let Google Analytics recognise return visits. They expire 13 months after your last visit.moneymy_pending_saves (browser storage): products saved on this device when saving was offered.moneymy_attribution (browser storage): how you first found us.moneymy_checklist_fhc (browser storage): your ticks on the financial health checklist.money_feedback_…(browser storage): that you answered “Was this helpful?” on a guide.best-sticky-dismissed:…, sticky-apply-dismissed:… and exit-intent-newsletter-dismissed (cleared when you close the tab): remember that you closed a bar or pop-up.Plausible sets no cookies. Video preview images from YouTube set no cookies, and the video itself loads only when you press play (see Third-party embeds).
You can block or delete cookies and browser storage in your browser settings. The site will continue to function normally, but it will not remember your choices.
The cookie banner lets you accept or decline analytics cookies. Accept lets Google Analytics set its cookies; Decline keeps them off, and Google Analytics then sends only the cookie-free measurement described above. To change your choice, clear this site's data in your browser and the banner will appear again.
We use these services to run the site:
Some of these services store data outside Malaysia, including in the United States and the EU.
Pages that show our video analyses include YouTube videos. The preview image loads from YouTube (img.youtube.com) as soon as the page opens. Like any image request, that sends YouTube your IP address and browser details, but it sets no cookies. The video itself loads only when you press play, from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com). Once it plays, Google may collect data under Google's privacy policy.
Our guides link to external websites including bank product pages, government portals, and financial institutions. Some of these may be affiliate links — these are always disclosed on the page. Once you leave money.com.my, the privacy practices of the destination site apply. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of any site you visit.
Under Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA), you can:
The PDPA does not give a general right to have your data deleted, but we will delete your newsletter sign-up, or any other personal data we hold about you, if you ask.
To make any of these requests, email hello@money.com.my. We will respond within 21 days.
If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
For privacy-related enquiries or data requests: hello@money.com.my