BusinessesForSale.com Cookie Policy

What Is A Cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at:

www.allaboutcookies.org

www.youronlinechoices.eu/

For a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies/

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.

They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Cookies are placed on your device by the website you are on (first party) or by another domain/website (third party)

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.

Session cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies on BusinessesForSale.com

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.

(1) Strictly Necessary Cookies

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...

• Remember previous actions for example when you enter information into a form and then navigate to different pages in a single web browser session
• Remember the goods and services you selected when you get to the payment page
• Identify you as being logged in to the website
• Make sure you connect to the right service on our website when we make any changes to the way the website works

Cookie	Name	Purpose	Other information
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.

(2) Performance Cookies

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...

• Provide statistics on how our website is used (this is for our internal use only)
• See how effective our adverts are (we don't use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites)
• Provide feedback to partners that one of our visitors also visited their website. This can include details of any products bought. This lets our partners improve their website, but we don't allow our partners to reuse this information for further advertising
• Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
• Test different designs of our website

Cookie	Name	Purpose	Other information
Google Analytics (3rd Party)	_utma _utmb _utmc _utmz	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)	mmid mmcore.pd  mmcore.srv	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.

(3) Functionality Cookies

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...

• Remember settings you've applied such as layout, text size, preferences and colours
• Remember when you have told us you don’t want to see something like a survey or a pop up
• Provide proactive live chat sessions to offer you support
• Show you when you're logged in to the website
• Share information with partners to provide a service on our website. The information shared is only to be used to provide the service, product or function and not for any other purpose
• Process a request from a user to submit a comment on a blog or forum post

Cookie	Name	Purpose	Other information
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)	__lc.visitor_id.1064783 __lc.server.1064783	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.

(4) Targeting, Tracking and Advertising Cookies

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...

• Link to social networks like Facebook, who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
• Provide advertising agencies with information on your visit so that they can present you with adverts that you may be interested in

Cookie	Name	Purpose	Other information
Bizo (3rd Party)	_bizo_bzid _bizo_cksm _bizo_np_stats	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)	_utma _utmb _utmc _utmz	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.

If you are concerned about behaviourally targeted advertising cookies (which serve you advertisements based on your use of BusinessesForSale.com and other websites), all users can visit www.evidon.com/, users based in the European Union can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu and users based in the US can visit www.aboutads.info/choices/ to opt out of these third party cookies.

The above websites are not Dynamis Ltd websites and we are not responsible for their content.

How to manage cookies

You can change settings in your web browser to prevent cookies being placed on your device however this may interrupt or restrict your use of the website.

Enabling changes to Firefox:

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button and then select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
4. Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them.
   1. If you are troubleshooting problems with cookies, make sure Accept third party cookies is also not set to Never. For more information, see Disable third-party cookies in Firefox to stop some types of tracking by advertisers.
5. Choose how long cookies are allowed to be stored:
   1. Keep until: they expire: Each cookie will be removed when it reaches its expiration date, which is set by the site that sent the cookie.
   2. Keep until: I close Firefox: The cookies that are stored on your computer will be removed when Firefox is closed.
   3. Keep until: ask me every time: Displays an alert every time a website tries to send a cookie, and asks you whether or not you want to store it.
6. Click OK to close the Options window.

Enabling Changes to Chrome:

1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings.
3. Click Show advanced settings.
4. In the "Privacy" section, click the Content settings button.
5. In the "Cookies" section, you can change the following cookies settings:
   1. Delete cookies
   2. Block cookies by default
   3. Allow cookies by default
   4. Keep cookies and site data by default until you quit your browser
   5. Make exceptions for cookies from specific websites or domains

Enable Changes to Safari:

If you are concerned about cookies, you can set how you want Safari to handle them.

Important: Changing your cookie preferences or removing cookies in Safari may change or remove them in other applications, including Dashboard.

1. Open Safari if it is not already open.
2. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Privacy.
3. In the “Block cookies” section, specify if and when Safari should accept cookies from websites. To see an explanation of the options, click the Help button (question mark).
4. If you want to see which websites store cookies on your computer, click Details.

If you set Safari to block cookies, you may need to temporarily accept cookies to open a page. Repeat the above steps, selecting Never. When you’re done with the page, block cookies again, and then remove the page’s cookies.

Enable changes to IE 10:

To delete cookies in Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer for the desktop.
2. Tap or click the Tools button, point to Safety, and then tap or click Delete browsing history.
3. Select the Cookies check box, and then tap or click Delete.

To block or allow cookies

1. Open Internet Explorer for the desktop.
2. Tap or click the Tools button, and then tap or click Internet options.
3. Tap or click the Privacy tab, and then, under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or the bottom to allow all cookies, and then tap or click OK.

Blocking cookies might prevent some pages from displaying correctly.

Enable changes to IE 9:

To delete cookies in Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click the Tools button, point to Safety, and then click Delete browsing history.
3. Select the Cookies check box, and then click Delete.

To block or allow cookies

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
3. Click the Privacy tab, and then, under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or the bottom to allow all cookies, and then click OK.

Blocking cookies might prevent some pages from displaying correctly.

Enable changes to IE 8:

To delete cookies in Internet Explorer

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click the Safety button, and then click Delete Browsing History.
3. Select the check box next to Cookies.
4. Select the Preserve Favourites website data check box if you don't want to delete the cookies associated with websites in your Favourites list.
5. Click Delete.

Enable changes to IE 7:

You can configure your privacy settings in Internet Explorer 7 by clicking Internet Options on the Tools menu, and then clicking the Privacy tab.

NOTE: An administrator can customize your privacy settings and remove the Privacy tab from the interface in the Internet Options dialog box. If the Privacy tab is not available, contact your administrator, or see the "Information for Advanced Users and IT Professionals" section.

These settings replace the cookies settings on the Security tab in Internet Explorer 4 and 5 (and the Advanced tab in Internet Explorer 3). The Privacy settings slider has six settings: Block All Cookies, High, Medium High, Medium (default level), Low, and Accept All Cookies.

The following Privacy settings are available with the slider:

• Block All Cookies: Cookies from all Web sites will be blocked, and existing cookies on your computer cannot be read by the Web sites that created them. Per-site privacy actions do not override these settings.
• High: Blocks cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that have a compact privacy policy which specifies that personally identifiable information is used without your explicit consent. Cookies that were already on your computer before you installed Internet Explorer 7 are leashed (restricted so that they can only be read in the first-party context). Per-site privacy actions override these settings.
• Medium High: Blocks third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that use personally identifiable information without your explicit consent. Blocks first-party cookies that have a compact privacy policy which specifies that personally identifiable information is used without your implicit consent. First-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy and cookies that were already on your computer before you installed Internet Explorer 7 are leashed (restricted so that they can only be read in the first-party context). Per-site privacy actions override these settings.
• Medium (default level): Blocks third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that have a compact privacy policy which specifies that personally identifiable information is used without your implicit consent. First-party cookies that have a compact privacy policy which specifies that personally identifiable information is used without your implicit consent are downgraded (deleted when you close Internet Explorer). First-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy are leashed (restricted so that they can only be read in the first-party context). Cookies that were already on your computer before you installed Internet Explorer 7 are also leashed. Per-site privacy actions override these settings.
• Low: First-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy are leashed (restricted so that they can only be read in the first-party context). Cookies that were already on your computer before you installed Internet Explorer 7 are also leashed. Third-party cookies that do not have a compact privacy policy or that have a compact privacy policy which specifies that personally identifiable information is used without your implicit consent are downgraded (deleted when you close Internet Explorer). Per-site privacy actions override these settings.
• Accept All Cookies: All cookies will be saved on your computer, and existing cookies on your computer can be read by the Web sites that created them. Per-site privacy actions do not override these settings.

NOTE: Changing your privacy preferences does not affect the cookie acceptance policy for cookies that have already been set unless you move the slider to Accept All Cookies or Block All Cookies.

Internet Explorer displays a Privacy dialog box the first time that a cookie is restricted based on your privacy preferences. This dialog box appears only one time, unless you clear the Don't show this message again check box. The Privacy dialog box explains that a new status icon (the Privacy Report icon) is added to the status bar when you visit a Web site that does not meet your privacy preferences. You can double-click this icon to view a privacy report that explains how the Web site either has privacy practices that conflict with your preferences or has no published privacy policy. You can also view a privacy report for any site by clicking Privacy Report on the View menu.

NOTE: The Privacy slider works only in the Internet zone. All cookies are automatically accepted from Web sites in both the Local Intranet and Trusted zones, and all cookies are automatically blocked from Web sites in the Restricted zone.

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

Further Reading

Information about cookies
Useful information about cookies can be found at:
www.allaboutcookies.org

Internet Advertising Bureau
A guide to behavioural advertising and online privacy has been produced by the internet advertising industry which can be found at:
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:
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
www.ico.gov.uk/