What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work and improve the usability of those sites. The cookies used on Foundational Narratives – abensourandpartners.com are based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookie categories: i)Strictly necessary ii)Performance iii)Functionality iv)Targeting.

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies enable you to move around our site and use essential features. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.

These cookies will not

– Gather information that could be used to advertise products or services to you.
– Remember your preferences or username beyond your current visit.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website. If you disable them we cannot guarantee your security during your visit.

Performance

Performance cookies collect information about how you use our website ie what pages you visit and how you navigate to the pages that you are most interested in. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and the information is only used to help us improve our overall website experience.

We use these cookies to

– Provide vital statistics on how our website is used.
– Help us improve our site by evaluating site performance.
– Test different designs and functional areas.
– Evaluate how effective our advertising is (n.b. we don’t use this information to target adverts when you visit other sites).

We don’t use these cookies to

– Gather any personal information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites.

In some cases these cookies are managed by 3rd parties but they do not use them for any other purposes than those listed above.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website. If you disable these cookies we cannot guarantee how the site will perform for you.

Functionality

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

We use these cookies to

– Keep you logged in.
– Remember your preferences for the next time you access the site.
– Enable functionalities such as subscription.
– Integrate with social networking sites such as LinkedIn to allow you to share content from our site on theirs.

We don’t use these cookies to

– Gather any personal information that could be used to advertise products or services to you on other websites.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website. If you decide to disable them it may mean we cannot offer you certain services and impact how the site performs.

Targeting or advertising cookies

Whilst we do not actively participate in the use of these cookies certain ‘Functional’ 3rd party cookies such as the ones from Google may also be used by the 3rd party to target advertising. For more information regarding 3rd Party cookies from Google please refer to https://policies.google.com/privacy

What are targeting or advertising cookies?

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also 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 organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organistation.

You can control the use of these cookies either by changing the settings in your web browser or by using the 3rd parties own tools.