Cookies Policy

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+Last updated: May 27th, 2021
+Last updated: March 27th, 2025
+If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions in this cookie policy, by following the 'opt-out' links provided below or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from our Websites cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device.
+This Cookies Policy supplements and is incorporated into our Privacy Policy. For information on our privacy practices generally, including, without limitation, our use of analytics and advertising tools and technologies, please see our [Privacy Policy](https://www.entrepreneur.com/privacy-policy). Entrepreneur Media, LLC (**"EM**", "**Company**", "**we**", "**our**", or "**us**") uses cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs, and similar files or technologies to collect and store the information we automatically collect about your computer, device, and use of _www.entrepreneur.com_, together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, **"our Website"**). You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below.
+If you do not accept the use of these cookies, you must stop using our Website, or disable them using the instructions in this Cookie Policy, by following the 'opt-out' links provided below or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from our Website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device.
 ## 1\. What is a cookie?
+Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a certain webpage. Cookies are then sent back to the originating webpage on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make the Website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information Entrepreneur Media, LLC ("EMI") as the owner of our Websites.
+Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a certain webpage. Cookies are then sent back to the originating webpage on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make our Website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to EM as the owner of our Website. We use cookies to learn and track how you access and use our Website, including when and how users visit our Website and how popular particular Website pages are and aren't. We also use cookies to recognize who visits our Website ("**our** **Website Visitors**"), to help display information on our Website, to improve your enjoyment and the usefulness of our Website (for example, by remembering and displaying certain information), and to provide you with targeted advertising more relevant to your interests.
+Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Websites before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
+As noted above and throughout this Cookies Policy, cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
 There are two broad categories of cookies:
 - **First-party cookies,** served directly by us to your computer or mobile device.
+- **Third-party cookies,** which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third- party cookies for functionality, performance / analytics, advertising and social media purposes.
+- **Third-party cookies,** which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third- party cookies for those purposes described in Section 3 below.
+Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. Session cookies are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are "permanent cookies", meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. Permanent cookies can be used by our Websites to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
+Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. Session cookies are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are "permanent cookies", meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. Permanent cookies can be used by our Website to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
+## 2\. How do we use cookies?
+## **2\. How do we use cookies?**
+- track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with our Websites;
+- understand the total number of visitors to our Website on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac OS) used by our visitors;
+- monitor the performance of our Websites and to continually improve them;
+- customize and enhance your online experience; and
+- enable EMI and third parties to advertise both on and off our Websites.
+- track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with our Website, and how visitors are using our Website;
+- understand the total number of our Website Visitors on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac OS) used by our Website Visitors;
+- understand general analytics about our Website and to learn insights into how our Website is used;
+- monitor the performance of our Website and to continually improve it;
+- help display information on our Website;
+- recognize our Website Visitors;
+- track and understand interactions with our promotional and marketing emails and links within such emails; and
+- customize and enhance your online experience.
+## 3\. What types of cookies do we use?
+For more information about our use of analytics, targeted advertising and other retargeting tools and service providers, please see the "The Advertising on Our Website" portion of our [Privacy](https://www.entrepreneur.com/privacy-policy) [Policy](https://www.entrepreneur.com/privacy-policy).
+The types of cookies used by us and our partners in connection with our Websites can be classified into one of five categories, namely "Essential Cookies", "Functionality Cookies", "Performance/Analytics Cookies", "Advertising/Tracking Cookies", and "Social Media Cookies". We've set out some further information about each category, and the purposes of the cookies we and third parties set in the following table.
+## **3\. What types of cookies do we use?**
+<table><tbody><tr><td><b>Type of cookie</b></td><td><b>What it does</b></td><td><b>How to block</b></td></tr><tr><td><b>Cookies necessary for essential Website purposes ("Essential Cookies")</b></td><td>These cookies are essential to provide you access to our Websites and any services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.</td><td>Please see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</td></tr><tr><td><b>Functionality Cookies</b></td><td><p>Functionality cookies record information about choices you've made and allow us to tailor our Websites to you. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to our Websites, we can provide you with our services as you have asked for them to be provided. For example, these cookies allow us to:</p><ul><li>Save your location preference if you have set your location on your homepage, if applicable, in order to receive a local weather forecast;</li><li>Remember settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors;</li><li>Show you when you are logged in; and</li><li>Store accessibility options.</li></ul></td><td>Please see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</td></tr><tr><td><b>Performance/Analytics Cookies</b></td><td><p>We use performance/analytics cookies to analyze how our Websites are being accessed, used, or are performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve our Websites. For example, these cookies allow us to:</p><ul><li>Better understand our Website visitors so that we can improve how we present our content;</li><li>Test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our homepage;</li><li>Collect information about our Website visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using;</li><li>Identifying the devices used by our Website visitors;</li><li>Determine the number of unique users of our Websites;</li><li>Improve our Websites by measuring any errors that occur; and</li><li>Conduct research and diagnostics to improve product offerings.</li></ul></td><td>Please also see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</td></tr><tr><td><b>Advertising/ Tracking Cookies</b></td><td><p>As you use our Websites, you will notice that they feature advertising. We allow third-party companies, including advertising companies, to place cookies on our Websites. These cookies enable such companies to track your activity across various sites where they display ads and record your activities so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse the Internet. These cookies are anonymous -- they store information about the content you are browsing, but not about who you are.</p><p>Cookies also allow us and third parties to know whether you've seen an ad or a type of ad, and how long it has been since you've last seen it. This information is used for frequency capping purposes to avoid you seeing the same ad multiple times, to help tailor the ads you see, to detect and prevent click fraud, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.</p></td><td><p>All the ad companies or networks that we work with have their own privacy policies and offer a mechanism for users to opt out of tracking and behavioral targeting available through the ad itself or through the opt out mechanisms listed in the "How to control or delete cookies" section below.</p></td></tr><tr><td><b>Social Media Cookies</b></td><td><p>On some pages of our Websites, third parties that provide applications through our Websites may set their own anonymous cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Websites (e.g., Twitter or Facebook), the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages of our Websites may also contain embedded content, such as video content from YouTube or Vimeo, and these sites may set their own cookies.</p></td><td><p>Please see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
+The types of cookies used by us and our partners in connection with our Website can be classified into one of four categories, namely "Essential Cookies", "Personalization Cookies", "Analytical Cookies", and "Marketing Cookies". We've set out some further information about each category, and the purposes of the cookies we and third parties use in the following table.
+## 4\. How to control or delete cookies
+<table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Type of cookie</strong></td><td><strong>What it does</strong></td><td><strong>How to block</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Essential Cookies</strong></td><td>Essential Cookies are essential to provide you access to our Website and any services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.</td><td>Cannot block as they are necessary to provide access to our Website and its features.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Personalization &nbsp;Cookies</strong></td><td>Personalization Cookies record information about choices you've made and allow us to tailor our Website to you. These cookies mean that, when you continue to use or come back to our Website, we can provide you with our services as you have asked for them to be provided. For example, these cookies allow us to: Save your location preference if you have set your location on your homepage, if applicable, in order to receive a local weather forecast; Remember settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors; Show you when you are logged in; and Store accessibility options. On some pages of our Website, third parties that provide applications through our Website may set their own anonymous cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Website (e.g., Twitter or Facebook), the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these third-party cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages of our Website may also contain embedded content, such as video content from YouTube or Vimeo, and these sites may set their own cookies.&nbsp;</td><td>Please see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Analytical Cookies</strong></td><td>We use Analytical Cookies to analyze how our Website is being accessed, used, or is performing, in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve our Website. For example, these cookies allow us to: Better understand our Website Visitors so that we can improve how we present our content; Test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our homepage; Collect information about our Website Visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using; Identifying the devices used by our Website Visitors; Determine the number of unique visitors to our Website; Improve our Website by measuring any errors that occur; and Conduct research and diagnostics to improve product offerings.</td><td>Please also see the instructions set out in "How to control or delete cookies" below.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Marketing Cookies</strong></td><td>As you use our Website, you will notice that they feature advertising. We allow third-party companies, including advertising companies, to place cookies on our Website. These Marketing Cookies &nbsp;enable such companies to track your activity on our Website, so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse our Website. These cookies are anonymous - they store information about the content you are browsing, but not about who you are.Marketing Cookies also allow us and third parties to know whether you've seen an ad or a type of ad, and how long it has been since you've last seen it. This information is used for frequency capping purposes to avoid you seeing the same ad multiple times, to help tailor the ads you see, to detect and prevent click fraud, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.</td><td>All the ad companies or networks that we work with have their own privacy policies and offer a mechanism for our Website Visitors to opt out of tracking and behavioral targeting available through the ad itself or through the opt out mechanisms listed in the "How to control or delete cookies" section below.</td></tr></tbody></table>
+You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies and we have explained how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Websites.
+Our Website may also use the following types of tracking technologies: web beacons (also called clear GIFs) and pixels (also called pixel tags). Web beacons are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that function similar to how cookies function but, in contrast to cookies, web beacons are embedded invisibly on our Website. Additionally, as noted above, pixel tags can be placed on our Website or within emails to track your interactions with our Website and when emails are opened.
+Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the "Help" option in your browser for more details.
+## **4\. How to control or delete cookies**
+- [Cookie settings in Internet Explorer](https://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9)
+Most browsers automatically accept cookies. Browsers generally also allow website visitors to manage cookies in the browser's settings. For example, a browser may allow you to reject cookies from certain pages, or certain types of cookies, on our Website, or reject or disable all cookies from all of our Website pages. As a result, our Website may not be able to be personalized for you, may no longer capture or remember your preferences or other choices you have made on our Website in the past, and may not remember your name or contact information or other information you have entered using our Website, and our Website may not recognize the device(s) you use to access our Website.
+Changing your cookie preferences in one browser will not necessarily carry over to other browsers, so you may need to adjust your preferences each time you get a new device, install a new browser, upgrade an existing browser, or alter or delete a browser's cookie file.
+Please note that if you choose to delete or reject cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Website.
+Most browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. To better understand these settings and how they work, the following links may be helpful, in addition to using the "Help" option in your browser for more details:
 - [Cookie settings in Firefox](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies)
 - [Cookie settings in Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647)
 - [Cookie settings in Safari web](https://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042) and [iOS](https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677).
+If you only want to limit third party advertising cookies, you can turn such cookies off by visiting the following links:
+If you only want to limit third-party advertising cookies, you can turn such cookies off by visiting the following platforms:
 - Your Online Choices ([https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/](https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/))
 - Network Advertising Initiative ([https://www.networkadvertising.org/](https://www.networkadvertising.org/))
 - Digital Advertising Alliance ([https://www.aboutads.info/consumers](https://www.aboutads.info/consumers))
+- Federal Trade Commission ([https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking](https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking))
+Please bear in mind that there are many more companies listed on these sites than those that drop cookies via our Websites.
+## **5\. How We Respond to Do-Not-Track and Opt-Out Preference Signals**
+All cookies controlled by EMI automatically expire within a period of up to 6 months from acceptance, unless you as the user delete them sooner.
+We do not track your online activities across the Internet. We only track your activity within our Website. To that end and in order to protect your privacy preferences, we honor Do Not Track ("DNT") browser settings as a way to control how the data we collect about you, including your personal information, gets used. Do Not Track is a browser setting that sends a signal to the website that a visitor to that websitehas opted out of having his or her activities tracked and the information concerning those activities stored on that device. For more information about how to turn on your DNT browser settings, please check the links in Section 4 above, or use the "Help" option in your browser for more details.
+### 5\. Changes to this Cookie Policy
+In addition, residents of certain U.S. states may also opt out of having their online activities tracked by broadcasting an Opt-Out Preference Signal under applicable law, including the Global Privacy Control (GPC), depending on which browsers and/or browser extensions you use that may support such a signal. To look at extensions and browsers supporting the GPC browser signal, visit here: [https://globalprivacycontrol.org/](https://globalprivacycontrol.org/). Note that if you choose to use the GPC signal, you will need to turn it on for each supported browser or browser extension you use.
+We will occasionally update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Cookie Policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Cookie Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Websites. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookie Policy or any of our other policies.
+## **6\. Changes to this Cookies Policy**
+## 6\. Need More Information?
+We will occasionally update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this Cookies Policy, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Cookies Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Website. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookies Policy or any of our other policies.
+## **7\. Need More Information?**
 If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
 - [All About Cookies](https://www.allaboutcookies.org/)
 - [youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk](https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/)
+- [https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking](https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking)
+## 7\. Cookies that have been set in the past
+## **8\. Cookies that have been set in the past**
+If you have disabled one or more Cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
+If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set. However, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
+## 8\. Contact us
+If you have any questions or comments about this Cookies Policy, or privacy matters generally, please email us at [_legal@entrepreneur.com_](mailto:legal@entrepreneur.com) or at the following address:
+If you have any questions or comments about this cookies policy, or privacy matters generally, please email us at [_legal@entrepreneur.com_](mailto:legal@entrepreneur.com) or at the following address:
 Entrepreneur Media, LLC
 Attn.: Privacy Policy Issues
 East Fourth Street
 Suite 125
 Santa Ana, Ca 92701
 USA