Understanding Cookies: What Are They?
Welcome to brightnow.me. To make your experience on our website as smooth and relevant as possible, we use small data files called "cookies." These are tiny text files that are downloaded to your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit our site. Cookies help us remember your preferences, understand how you interact with our content across Future & Markets, Planet & Design, Money & Ethics, and People & Purpose, and ultimately improve your overall browsing experience. They do not store personally identifiable information directly but can be linked to other data we hold about you.
Types of Cookies We Utilize
At brightnow.me, we employ different categories of cookies, each serving a unique purpose to enhance our service and your interaction with our insights.
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are absolutely necessary for the brightnow.me website to function correctly. Without them, you wouldn't be able to navigate the site or use fundamental features like accessing secure areas or remembering items in a shopping cart (if applicable). They are usually set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms.
- Functionality Cookies: Functionality cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. For instance, they can remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of our web pages. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use brightnow.me, 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 and to understand what content performs best within our categories like Future & Markets and People & Purpose.
- Marketing and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements 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 our permission. They remember that you have visited our website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. This helps us ensure our content, from Money & Ethics to Planet & Design, reaches the right audience.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the freedom to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This might prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Here's how you can generally manage cookies through your browser settings:
- Open your browser settings (often found under 'Options', 'Preferences', or a similar menu).
- Look for a section related to 'Privacy' or 'Security'.
- Find options for 'Cookies' or 'Site Data'.
- From there, you can choose to block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or delete cookies when you close your browser.
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
brightnow.me may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, data protection laws, or our data handling practices. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. The date at the bottom of this page indicates when the policy was last revised. Your continued use of our site after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please do not hesitate to reach out. We're here to help you navigate our content on Future & Markets, Planet & Design, Money & Ethics, and People & Purpose with confidence. You can contact us via our Contact Page.
