Cookie Policy

Behind Finance (“We”, “Us”, “Our”) operates the website BehindFinance.com (which will be referred to in this policy as “The Websites”).

If your browser is set up to accept them, we use a feature known as a cookie. Cookies contain bits of information that websites transfer to your computer’s hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site.

Some of the cookies listed are managed for us by third parties – where this is the case we don’t allow the third party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the websites, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.

The cookies used across the websites are based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookie categories:

  • Strictly necessary
  • Performance
  • Functionality
  • Targeting

For more information about cookies see the further reading below.

STRICTLY NECESSARY

Strictly Necessary cookies allow you to move around our services and use essential features i.e. they let our services work!

We use Strictly Necessary cookies to remember things like information you’ve entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session.

Strictly Necessary cookies will not be used to gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you, or Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit. Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the services, so if you prevent these cookies we can’t guarantee your security or predict how our website will perform during your visit.

Cookies we’ve defined as Strictly Necessary include:

  • .profileauth
  • .profileauth1
  • .profileauth2
  • ASP.NET_SessionId
  • JSESSIONID
  • __RequestVerificationToken

PERFORMANCE

Performance cookies collect information about how you use our services e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works, understand what interests our users and measure how effective our advertising is.

We use performance cookies to provide statistics on how our services are used; to see how effective our adverts are; to help us improve our services by measuring any errors that occur; and to test different designs.

Performance cookies won’t be used to gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites; remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit; target adverts to you on any other site.

Cookies we’ve defined as Performance include:

Google Analytics & Universal Analytics Cookies

  • __utma
  • __utmb
  • __utmc
  • __utmt
  • __utmz
  • _ga
  • _gat
  • _gid

Google DoubleClick Cookies

  • __gads

Microsoft Azure Cookies

  • ARRAffinity

FUNCTIONALITY

Functionality cookies are used to provide services or to remember settings to improve your visit.

We use Functionality cookies to show when you’re logged in to a service and to display content you’ve expressed a preference to see when you’re logged in to a service.

Functionality cookies will not be used to target you with adverts on other websites.

Cookies we’ve defined as Functionality include:

The promoter or introducer to this service may implement their own cookies and you should look at their individual privacy policies for more details.

Advertising networks that serve ads on our services may also use cookies, but please note that we neither control nor have access to those cookies. These advertisers’ uses of cookies are subject to their own privacy policies and not that of BehindFinance.com Limited.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you’ve received one. If you reject cookies, though, you will not be able to use certain features of our site. For more on managing cookies, we encourage you to read the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK’s discussion on what you can do.

TARGETING

Targeting cookies help to improve user experience by allowing the delivery of advertising and services which are more relevant to you and your interests and also to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. The cookies collect anonymous, non-personal information about your online behaviour, they remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.

Cookies we’ve defined as targeting are listed below:

Unruly Media Cookies – https://unruly.co/privacy/

  • Uid
  • Unruly_u

Google Targeting Cookies – https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/

  • DSID
  • Id
  • IDE

Skim Resources Cookies – https://skimlinks.com/pages/privacy-policy#users

  • SkimCSP
  • Skim GUID
  • skimSESS

Rubicon Project

  • rsid
  • rpb

Teads

  • tt_viewer
  • tt_in
  • tt_ex

Most third party targeting cookie providers offer options to opt-out of targeted advertising through their cookies, and more information can be found by following the links below across the third party demand partners we work with:

General information about targeted advertising and other advertising companies’ privacy practices and opt-out are available from each or any of them you may also go directly to the Digital Advertising Alliance website at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Please note that turning off advertising cookies won’t mean that you are not served any ads, but merely means these ads will not be tailored to your interests.

FURTHER READING

INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES

Useful information about cookies can be found at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org, including how to restrict or block cookies across multiple browsers.

INTERNET ADVERTISING BUREAU

A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE UNITED KINGDOM

Information on the ICC (UK) UK cookie guide can be found on the ICC website section: http://www.international-chamber.co.uk/our-expertise/digitaleconomy