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There are two types of cookies – session and persistent. Persistent cookies these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
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The cookies used on BusinessesForSale.com have been categorised according to the International Chamber of Commerce UK Cookie Guide April 2012 and they are detailed below.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website – i.e. logging into your account. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like an order summary page or online billing, cannot be provided.
We may use these strictly necessary cookies to...
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User ID (1st Party) |
UID | This cookie is used to identify a user once logged in to provide personalisation. | |
ASP.NET (1st Party) |
ASP.NET_SessionId | ASP.NET issues a cookie called ASP.NET_SessionId. This cookie contains the user's session ID and the cookie will expire at the end of the session (when you close your browser). This cookie does not store personal data about you. |
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our website works.
We may use performance cookies to...
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Google Analytics (3rd Party) |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
Maxymiser (3rd Party) |
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These 3 cookies are used to store anonymous identifiers. They enable the optimisation platform to remember a visitor and to serve them with the appropriate content while ensuring a fast load of the web page. |
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, we’ll show you content related to the country you are in by storing in a cookie the country/region in which you are currently located.
These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
We may use functionality cookies to...
Cookie | Name | Purpose | Other information |
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Login Preferences (1st Party) |
preferences | This cookie is used to set the login preferences of the user. | |
Default Country Version (1st Party) |
Lifecookie | This cookie used to confirm which the default version of the site is preferable to the user. | |
Shortlist (1st Party) |
shortListSessionID | This cookie is used to help identify which business for sale listings have been put on the shortlist. | |
Marketing Alert (1st Party) |
marketingBox | Marketing promotional box that appears at the top of BusinessesForsale.com above the header. The cookie is used to determine when you have chosen not to see it. | |
Personalisation (1st Party) |
sessionCookie | This cookie is used to provide improvements to various user specific features. | |
Franchise Request List (1st Party) |
requestList | This cookie is used to persist franchise opportunities which have been added to the request list. | |
ASP.NET (1st Party) |
ASP.NET_SessionId | ASP.NET issues a cookie called ASP.NET_SessionId. This cookie contains the user's session ID and the cookie will expire at the end of the session (when you close your browser). This cookie does not store personal data about you. | |
Live Chat (3rd Party) |
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Cookies used for the 'live chat' function allowing Website visitors can talk to us via a 'live chat' window. This is supported by a separate server which needs to keep track of sessions. |
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They can also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. 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.
We may use targeting or advertising cookies to...
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Bizo (3rd Party) |
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Bizo, Inc. ("Bizo") is a provider of business targeting technologies and services to online marketers and websites and considers the protection of your privacy and full disclosure of the use of your information to be of utmost importance. We operate services relating to the Bizographic Targeting Network (BTN), an online advertising network for business marketers and websites. This Privacy Policy has been created to describe and disclose how we use and collect user data in providing these services. | www.bizo.com/businessProfessionals/privacy_policy |
Google Analytics (3rd Party) |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
The Digital Partnership/Open AdStream/247 Media (3rd Party) |
OAX | Unique Identifier for 24/7 Open AdStream. This cookie identifies unique users across the network, for purposes of reporting, including reach and frequency for conversion tracking. It last for one year. | To amend your ad preferences from this network please visit: www.evidon.com |
RMF with extensions S, D, L, M | Controls user's exposure to an ad. It can limit the amount of times the ad is served, exclude the user from seeing the ad or retarget an user who already has seen a particular ad. | ||
RMFS | A session cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is served to a specific user per session. | ||
RMFH | This is an hour cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is shown to a specific user per hour. | ||
RMFD | This is a day cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is served to a specific user per day. | ||
RMFW | This is a week cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is served to a specific user per week. | ||
RMFM | This is a month cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is served to a specific user per month. | ||
RMFL | This is cookie that limits the number of times a particular ad is served to a specific user per lifetime of the campaign. | ||
Optimizely | optimizelyBuckets | Stores the experiment and variation id for the visitor, set at the top level. It lasts for 10 years. | In addition to the first party cookies referred to above, a number of third party cookies are dropped by Optimizely from the log3.optimizely.com domain for the purpose of performing split testing. Further information about Optimizely's use of user data is available in their privacy policy at www.optimizely.com/privacy. Details on how to opt out of all Optimizely tracking are available at www.optimizely.com/opt_out. |
optimizelyEndUserId | The unique user id used to de-duplicate tracking events on the server side, set at the top level. It lasts for 10 years. | ||
optimizelyPendingLogEvents | Stores events that are triggered by the system in case it can't send the tracking call as soon as the event happens. These events are logged and sent whenever the snippet is loaded again. It's done for redundancy so as not to lose any tracking events. Overwritten each time events are sent off. | ||
optimizelyCustomEvents | Stores custom events triggered by the user. It lasts for 10 years. | ||
Perfect Audience | adnxs | This cookie decides how many impressions to serve users in a given day | |
prfct.co | This cookie decides which users to serve impressions to. |
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For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 282846 Privacy Tab Settings Only Affect Internet Zone
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Internet Advertising Bureau
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www.youronlinechoices.eu
International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom
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www.international-chamber.co.uk/our-expertise/digitaleconomy
www.international-chamber.co.uk/components/com_wordpress/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/icc_uk_cookie_guide.pdf
The Information Commissioner’s Office
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