Cookie Policy for The Business Forum

Effective Date: April 22, 2024

1. What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, https://thebusinessforum.org ("Site") uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the Site’s functionality.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to the Site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

• Traffic log cookies. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our Site in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

4. Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this Site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

5. The Cookies We Set

• Site preferences cookies. In order to provide you with a great experience on this Site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this Site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

6. Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this Site:

• Google Analytics: This is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the Site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the Site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

7. More Information

Hopefully, that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our Site. However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Email: tbf@thebusinessforum.org