Cookie Policy
Last updated: Dec 2019
The Beyond Budgeting Institute (BBI) uses cookies on the website www.bbrt.org. By using BBI’s
website, Knowledge Base (powered by WordPress), newsletter (powered by Mailchimp), Twitterand YouTube channel, you consent to the use of cookies, including third-party cookies. Whenusing our website, Twitter account and YouTube channel, please note that these sites may
have other cookies and its own cookie policy. You should always make sure to read such otherpolicies.
You can find Mailchimp’s cookie policy here.
You can find Google Analytics’ cookie policy here.
You can find WordPress’ cookie policy here.
You can find Twitter’s cookie policy here.
You can find YouTube’s cookie policy here.
Our Privacy Policy explains in detail how we collect and use information from you and what are
your rights as a data subject. Our Cookie Policy explains more about what cookies are, how weuse cookies, how third parties use cookies on our website, your choices regarding cookies andprovides further information about cookies.
We use cookies in order to provide you with a better, enhanced browsing experience andservice adapted to your particular needs and interests. Some of the cookies are necessary inorder for you to log in to your account or Knowledge Base, to store your preferences and for theproper display of our web pages. Other cookies offer valuable feedback on how the websites
are used via Google Statistics, which enables us to increase efficiency and accessibility.
What is a “cookie”?
Cookies are small text files stored on the hard drive by your web browser when you use
websites. A cookie file allows BBI or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit
easier and the website more useful to you. In this policy, we use the term “cookies” to refer toall files that collect information in this way.
Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can remember usernames, any promotioncode(s), preferences and analyse how well our website is performing, or even allow us torecommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.
Certain cookies contain personal information, but most cookies will collect more general
information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.

What is the lifecycle of a cookie?
Cookies are administered by web servers. The lifecycle of a cookie may vary significantly,
depending on the purpose for which it was placed. It can be removed manually when you
delete it, or it expires. From a technical perspective, only the web server sending the cookie may
access it again when you return to the website associated to the web server. For example, asmentioned above, certain cookies are exclusively used during a single session (“sessioncookies”) and are not remembered after you leave the website. Other cookies are remembered
and reused each time you return to the respective website (“persistent cookies”). Persistentcookies include cookies placed by a website different than our Website also known as “thirdparty cookies”, which may be used anonymously to memorize your interests so that it delivers
relevant advertising content.
Nevertheless, cookies may be deleted by you at any moment by accessing the browser
settings.
How do we use cookies?
When you use and access our websites (homepage, your personal account, and Knowledge
Base), we place a number of cookie files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the website, toprovide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including
behavioural advertising. We use both session and persistent cookies on the website, and weuse different types of cookies to run the websites and provide analytics on newsletters and thewebsite.
What cookies do we use?
We use “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies, depending on the purpose for which they
are used.
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Essential cookies – used to efficiently and quickly load the pages and offer features by
distributing the workload across several computers, to authenticate you and to ensure
your secure connection and prevent fraudulent use of your account or detect othermalicious activity on the website.
Analytical/performance cookies – we utilize other cookies to analyse how our visitors
use our websites and to monitor website performance. We count the number of users
on our website in order to recognize you when you visit the website again and to help
us improve your experience on our website depending on how it is used. This allows us
to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifyingand fixing any issues that arise by developing new features. We might also use thesecookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you
based on your usage of the website.
Behaviourally targeted advertising cookies – these cookies are used to record yourbehaviour online and can be used to provide you with offers and services you might beinterested in. BBI and our advertisers use cookies to serve you with advertisementsthat we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You might see theseadvertisements on other sites that you visit. We do not tell our advertisers who you are.
Functionality cookies – these cookies are used in order to enhance your user
experience and to remember your preferences such as your language preference, andthese cookies are necessary for the playback of media content and can autofill a form
for you. We also use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services suchas allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.

What are third party cookies?
Depending on the website or domain placing the cookie, a cookie is ‘first’ or ‘third’ party. A firstparty cookie is set by a website visited by you directly. Third party cookies are set by thirdparties’ domains or websites which can place cookies through the website you visit, hence theirname “third party cookies”. These third parties are other entities than BBI and they can besession or persistent cookies.
What third party cookies do we use?
The websites also use social media plug-ins such as YouTube and Twitter to allow updates
and news from BBI’s Twitter account and videos from BBI’s YouTube channel, to link content toyour social media account, and to personalize your advertising.
The use of log files and web beacons
A web beacon is a technique used on web pages or in email addresses to show that a user hasaccessed content, such as opened an e-mail or accessed a link. We gather some information
automatically and store it in log files. This is mostly anonymous usage data such as a browser,
an internet service provider, clickstream data, an operating system or a time stamp.
Personalize browser settings for cookies
If you are not bothered by the use of cookies and you are the only person using the computer,you may set longer expiration periods for the storage of the browsing history. If you shareaccess to a computer, you may want to take into consideration setting the browser to delete
personal browsing data each time you close the browser.
How can I stop cookies?
If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies,
please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able
to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some ofour pages might not display properly.
You can control the use of cookies by configuring your browser’s privacy settings (please referto your browser’s help function to learn more about cookie controls). You may withdraw yourconsent for the use of cookies at any time by sending us an email to info@bbrt.org or byconfiguring your browser settings. Disabling or not allowing cookies may affect your visit or
use of our website. You can change cookie settings in the “Options” section or in the“Preferences” menu of your browser.

BBI’s use of cookies
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