Cookie Policy for London Business Forum

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.

This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse this website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies. A cookie is a tiny file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. 

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.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies...

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 this 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.

The Cookies We Use

Cookies that measure how our website is used

We use analytics tools to better understand how visitors use our website so that we can improve it based on user needs. Without any data it is difficult to make improvements.

These cookies enable us to understand how visitors arrive on our site, what pages they view and what visitors click on the site. All the data is anonymised and we cannot identify any individuals from these cookies.

Cookie  
Google Analytics
_ga

Used to distinguish users.
(expires 2 years)

_gid

Used to distinguish users.
(expires 24 hours)

_gat

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.
(expires 1 minute)

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. 

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

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 is affected by your preferences.
 

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details those third party cookies that you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which 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.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

LinkedIn Insight Tag 2.0

We use LinkedIn Insight Tag 2.0 to understand how our marketing campaigns work and how you interact with our website in order to improve user experience. We also use it for website retargeting, conversion tracking and website demographics. This is what LinkedIn says about Insight Tag: The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to your website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics, timestamp, and page views. This data is encrypted, then de-identified within seven days, and the de-identified data is deleted within 90 days. LinkedIn does not share the personal data with the website owner, it only provides aggregated reports about the website audience and ad performance. LinkedIn also provides retargeting for website visitors, enabling the website owner to show personalised ads off its website by using this data, but without identifying the member. LinkedIn members can control the use of their personal data for advertising purposes through their account settings.

Any data that we collect will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Google's privacy policy.

You can opt out of LinkedIn Insight Tag by visiting http://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

You can opt out of all third party cookie advertising by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/
choices.

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. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

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: [email protected]

Phone: 020 7600 4222

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