Cookie Policy

Last updated: 28 July 2026

1. About This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Instant Media Access uses cookies and similar technologies on BusinessFinance.news.

It explains:

  • What cookies and similar technologies are
  • Why we use them
  • Which categories of cookies may be used
  • Which third parties may place or access cookies
  • How long cookies may remain on your device
  • How you can accept, reject, change or withdraw your consent

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which contains further information about how we process personal data.

2. Website Operator

The website operator responsible for the use of cookies and similar technologies on BusinessFinance.news is:

Instant Media Access
c/o Billo ILY 237-S
Birger Jarlsgatan 37
114 45 Stockholm
Sweden

Organisation number:
Under Registration

Email:
editor@businessfinance.biz

Website:
BusinessFinance.news

3. What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on, or reads from, a visitor’s browser or device.

Cookies may be used to:

  • Deliver requested website functions
  • Maintain website security
  • Remember settings and consent choices
  • Measure website use and performance
  • Display and measure advertising
  • Record affiliate referrals
  • Support embedded videos and other external content

Cookies placed directly through BusinessFinance.news are commonly called first-party cookies. Cookies placed or accessed by external providers are commonly called third-party cookies.

4. Similar Technologies

This policy also applies to technologies that perform functions similar to cookies, including:

  • Local storage
  • Session storage
  • Tracking pixels
  • Web beacons
  • Tags and scripts
  • Device identifiers
  • Advertising identifiers
  • Referral and campaign identifiers
  • Embedded-content technologies

References to cookies in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

5. Session and Persistent Cookies

Session Cookies

Session cookies are generally deleted when you close your browser. They may be used to maintain requested functions during a particular visit.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them. They may be used to remember consent choices, preferences, analytics identifiers, advertising information or referral information between visits.

The applicable storage period for each detected cookie is shown in the Cookie Declaration below.

6. Cookiebot Consent Management

BusinessFinance.news uses Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics to manage cookie consent.

Cookiebot is used to:

  • Scan BusinessFinance.news for cookies and similar technologies
  • Display the cookie-consent banner
  • Provide information about cookie categories and providers
  • Record whether a visitor accepts or rejects particular categories
  • Prevent non-essential technologies from loading before consent
  • Remember the visitor’s current preferences
  • Allow consent to be changed or withdrawn
  • Maintain evidence of submitted consent choices
  • Display an updated Cookie Declaration

When you submit a choice through Cookiebot, information such as a consent identifier, consent status, date and time, website domain, browser information, device information and related technical data may be processed to record and demonstrate your choice.

Further information about this processing is available in our Privacy Policy.

7. Legal Basis for Using Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to transmit communications, provide a function expressly requested by the visitor, maintain website security or remember the visitor’s cookie preferences may be used without consent where permitted by law.

Non-Essential Cookies

We request your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:

  • Audience measurement
  • Analytics
  • Personalisation
  • Advertising measurement
  • Personalised advertising
  • Affiliate tracking
  • Embedded videos and external media
  • Cross-site or cross-service tracking

Non-essential technologies should remain inactive unless and until you provide the relevant consent.

You may reject non-essential cookies without losing access to ordinary editorial content on BusinessFinance.news. Some optional features, including embedded videos or personalised advertising, may not operate after rejection.

8. Cookie Categories

8.1 Necessary

Necessary cookies support the basic operation, delivery and security of the website.

They may be used to:

  • Deliver pages and files
  • Route network traffic
  • Maintain secure connections
  • Prevent malicious or abusive requests
  • Balance server traffic
  • Remember cookie-consent choices
  • Provide functions specifically requested by the visitor

These cookies cannot always be disabled because the website may not operate securely or correctly without them.

8.2 Preferences

Preference cookies allow the website or an external service to remember choices that affect how a service appears or operates.

They may remember:

  • Language
  • Region
  • Display preferences
  • Video-player settings
  • Other optional functionality

Preference cookies that are not strictly necessary are used only after the relevant consent has been provided.

8.3 Statistics

Statistics cookies help us understand how visitors use BusinessFinance.news.

They may collect information about:

  • Pages visited
  • Visit duration
  • Entry and exit pages
  • Referring websites
  • Links selected
  • Approximate geographic region
  • Device and browser categories
  • Website errors
  • Website performance
  • General reader engagement

Statistics cookies are used only after the relevant consent has been provided, unless a particular technology is lawfully configured as strictly necessary and does not require consent.

8.4 Marketing

Marketing cookies may be used by BusinessFinance.news and its advertising, affiliate or commercial partners to:

  • Display advertisements
  • Measure advertising impressions
  • Measure advertisement clicks
  • Prevent advertising fraud
  • Limit how often an advertisement is displayed
  • Attribute referrals or transactions
  • Create or use inferred-interest profiles
  • Personalise advertising
  • Measure advertising or campaign effectiveness

Marketing cookies are used only after the relevant consent has been provided where consent is required.

If you reject marketing cookies, BusinessFinance.news may still display non-personalised or contextual advertising.

8.5 Embedded Media

BusinessFinance.news may embed videos, charts, social-media posts, audio players or other external content.

External-content providers may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Deliver embedded content
  • Remember player settings
  • Measure playback and interactions
  • Determine whether the visitor is signed in to an external account
  • Associate an interaction with an external profile
  • Provide advertising within or around the content

Where embedded content is not strictly necessary, it should remain blocked until you provide the relevant consent or actively choose to load it.

8.6 Unclassified Cookies

Unclassified cookies are cookies or trackers that have not yet been assigned to an appropriate category.

We review detected unclassified technologies and seek to classify them accurately. A newly installed plugin, advertising service or embedded item may occasionally introduce a technology that has not yet been fully classified.

Unclassified technologies are not treated as automatically acceptable merely because they have not yet been categorised.

9. Hosting, Content Delivery and Security

BusinessFinance.news uses Rocket.net for managed WordPress hosting and related technical services.

Rocket.net uses Cloudflare-based infrastructure for services that may include:

  • Content delivery
  • Website caching
  • Traffic routing
  • Connection security
  • Firewall protection
  • Bot detection
  • Distributed-denial-of-service protection
  • Website-performance optimisation

Rocket.net, Cloudflare and associated infrastructure may use necessary technologies or process technical request information to deliver and protect the website.

These services may process information through infrastructure located in more than one country. Further information is provided in our Privacy Policy.

10. Analytics Services

BusinessFinance.news may use analytics services to understand its audience and improve website performance.

Analytics services may process:

  • Online identifiers
  • IP-related information
  • Device and browser information
  • Pages visited
  • Visit duration
  • Referring sources
  • Approximate location
  • Interactions with website elements

Non-essential analytics services remain inactive until statistics consent has been provided.

The currently detected analytics providers and storage periods appear in the Cookie Declaration below.

11. Advertising Technologies

BusinessFinance.news may display advertising supplied by external advertising providers or networks.

Advertising technologies may be used for:

  • Contextual advertising
  • Personalised advertising
  • Advertising delivery
  • Frequency control
  • Fraud prevention
  • Impression measurement
  • Click measurement
  • Conversion attribution
  • Campaign reporting

Advertising that does not rely on non-essential device storage or tracking may be displayed without marketing consent where legally permitted.

Personalised advertising and non-essential advertising measurement technologies are used only after the relevant consent has been obtained.

The advertising providers currently detected on the website appear in the Cookie Declaration below.

12. Affiliate Technologies

Some links on BusinessFinance.news may be affiliate or compensated links.

When you follow an affiliate link, a referral identifier may allow an affiliate network or merchant to determine that a visit or transaction originated from BusinessFinance.news.

Affiliate technologies may process:

  • Click identifiers
  • Campaign identifiers
  • Referring-page information
  • Device and browser information
  • IP-related information
  • Transaction or conversion status
  • Commission-attribution information

Where affiliate attribution relies on non-essential cookies, pixels or similar technologies, the relevant tracking remains inactive until marketing consent has been provided.

A normal link may still take you to an external website after marketing consent has been rejected. The external website’s own privacy and cookie practices apply once you visit it.

13. YouTube and Embedded Video

Articles on BusinessFinance.news may contain videos supplied through YouTube or another external video service.

Loading or playing an embedded video may allow the provider to process information such as:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser and device information
  • The page containing the video
  • Playback activity
  • Cookie identifiers
  • Google or YouTube account information where you are signed in
  • Advertising information

Where appropriate, the video player remains blocked and is replaced by a consent message until the relevant consent has been provided.

Enabling embedded media may allow the provider to use information under its own terms and privacy policy.

14. Google Reader Revenue Manager

BusinessFinance.news may use Google Reader Revenue Manager and related Google Publisher Center services.

Depending on the functions activated, these services may support:

  • Reader registration
  • Sign in with Google
  • Newsletter registration
  • Reader surveys
  • One-time contributions
  • Recurring contributions
  • Paid subscriptions
  • Access entitlements
  • Reader-revenue measurement

Technologies used exclusively to provide a function expressly requested by a reader may be treated differently from technologies used for analytics, advertising or personalisation.

Where Google Reader Revenue Manager or related Google technologies use non-essential cookies or similar identifiers, they are assigned to the appropriate consent category.

Further information about Reader Revenue Manager and the processing of reader information is available in our Privacy Policy and, where payments are activated, our Reader Support or Subscription Terms.

15. Google Consent Mode

BusinessFinance.news may use Google Consent Mode to communicate your Cookiebot choices to compatible Google services.

Consent Mode can communicate whether storage or processing connected with analytics, advertising, personalisation or user data has been granted or denied.

Consent Mode does not replace the requirement to obtain valid consent. Its implementation must reflect the choices made through Cookiebot and must not override a rejection.

16. Social Media and Other External Content

BusinessFinance.news may contain links to, or embeds from, social-media networks and other external platforms.

A normal external link does not necessarily place a cookie on BusinessFinance.news. The destination service may, however, collect information after you follow the link.

An embedded post, widget or sharing tool may allow the external provider to receive information while you remain on BusinessFinance.news. Non-essential embeds and widgets remain inactive until the appropriate consent has been provided.

17. Current Cookies and Trackers

The Cookie Declaration below is generated and updated through Cookiebot. It identifies cookies and trackers detected during Cookiebot scans, including their:

  • Name
  • Provider
  • Purpose
  • Category
  • Maximum storage period
  • Type

The contents of the declaration may change when technologies, plugins, advertising providers or external services are added, removed or updated.

18. Change or Withdraw Your Consent

You may review, change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time.

To reopen your consent settings, click the small Cookiebot privacy icon displayed in the lower-left corner of BusinessFinance.news.

The Cookiebot privacy icon allows you to:

  • Review your current consent choices
  • Accept or reject individual cookie categories
  • Withdraw previously provided consent
  • Save updated preferences

The Cookiebot privacy icon is intended to remain available throughout the website after the consent banner has been closed.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

After you withdraw consent for a category, the relevant non-essential technologies should no longer be activated during subsequent page loads.

Some cookies already stored on your device may remain until they expire or are deleted through your browser settings. Preventing future use of a cookie is not always the same as immediately deleting the cookie file from your device.

19. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies
  • Delete individual cookies
  • Delete all cookies
  • Block cookies from particular websites
  • Block third-party cookies
  • Delete cookies when the browser closes
  • Use private or incognito browsing

Browser controls operate separately from Cookiebot.

Blocking all cookies through your browser may affect necessary website functions and may prevent Cookiebot from remembering your consent choice.

20. Global Privacy Signals

Some browsers and extensions can transmit privacy signals, including Global Privacy Control or similar signals.

Where applicable law requires us or our providers to recognise a supported privacy signal, we will take reasonable steps to honour it.

The availability and effect of such a signal may depend on:

  • Your location
  • The browser or extension used
  • The provider receiving the signal
  • The technical configuration of the website
  • The privacy law applicable to the processing

Visitors may use the Cookiebot privacy icon in the lower-left corner of the website to communicate their cookie choices directly.

21. International Processing

Some providers used by BusinessFinance.news operate international infrastructure or are established outside the European Economic Area.

Information associated with cookies or similar technologies may therefore be processed outside Sweden or the EEA.

Where required, international transfers may be protected through:

  • An adequacy decision
  • The EU–U.S. Data Privacy Framework for an eligible and certified recipient
  • European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses
  • Additional contractual, technical or organisational safeguards
  • Another lawful transfer mechanism

Further information is available in our Privacy Policy.

22. Cookie Scanning and Classification

Cookiebot performs automated scans intended to identify cookies and trackers used on BusinessFinance.news.

Automated scanning helps maintain the Cookie Declaration, but it does not remove our responsibility to:

  • Review scan results
  • Investigate unclassified technologies
  • Correct inaccurate classifications
  • Test whether prior blocking works
  • Review technologies that appear only after a particular interaction
  • Review scripts introduced through plugins or advertising systems
  • Review technologies introduced through embedded content
  • Update this policy when the website changes

The Cookie Declaration reflects the technologies detected and declared at the time of the latest relevant scans and reviews.

23. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

  • A new cookie or tracking technology is introduced
  • A provider is added, removed or replaced
  • Our advertising or affiliate arrangements change
  • Google Reader Revenue Manager features change
  • The Cookiebot configuration changes
  • Applicable law or regulatory guidance changes
  • We improve the description of our practices

The latest revision date appears at the top of this page.

The dynamic Cookie Declaration may update more frequently than the main policy text as Cookiebot detects changes to the technologies used by the website.

24. Contact Us

Questions about cookies or consent choices may be sent to:

Instant Media Access
c/o Billo ILY 237-S
Birger Jarlsgatan 37
114 45 Stockholm
Sweden

Email:
editor@businessfinance.biz

Website:
BusinessFinance.news