What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. On brainstep.org, active in areas like Investments, Asset Management, and Financial Planning, cookies serve a variety of purposes, from remembering your preferences to analyzing site usage.
How We Use Cookies
At brainstep.org, we believe in transparency regarding your data. We utilize cookies to enhance your browsing experience, understand how our visitors interact with our financial content, and for our Personal Wealth and Financial Strategies sections. This helps us to continually improve our services and tailor information to your needs.
Types of Cookies We Use
We categorize the cookies used on brainstep.org into several main types to help you understand their purpose:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function properly. Without them, you would not be able to navigate the site or use key features such as logging into secure areas or processing investment information. They enable core functionality.
- Functionality Cookies: Functionality cookies allow us to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. For example, they can remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit most often and if you encounter error messages from certain pages. They help us understand and analyze web traffic and improve the performance of our site, benefiting all users interested in Asset Management and Financial Planning.
- Marketing and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver more relevant advertisements to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They may be placed by us or by third-party advertising networks with our permission.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the power to control and manage cookies. Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of brainstep.org, particularly those related to personalized Financial Strategies, may not function as intended.
To learn more about how to manage cookies for your specific browser, please refer to your browser's help documentation. Additionally, you can learn more about behavioral advertising and opt-out of cookies from relevant advertisers by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance website.
Updates to Our Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy whenever you visit brainstep.org to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies for Investments and Personal Wealth. The "Last Updated" date at the bottom of this page indicates when the policy was last revised.
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns about our Cookie Policy or our data practices regarding Investments, Asset Management, Financial Planning, Personal Wealth, and Financial Strategies, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. You can find more ways to connect with us on our Contact Page.
Last Updated: October 26, 2023
