Cookies allow websites, including InvestingGuide, to easily access, store, or use information and resources on users’ devices as they interact with the Website. They are small text files that track your activities and store helpful information about your visit and interaction with the site. Website owners like us use this data to enhance user experience by providing user-centered information. This Cookie policy informs you, “Users,” how we, “InvestingGuide”, use such technologies and access and store such information or use resources, for example, by running a script on a User’s device as they interact with this Website.
To use these cookies, InvestingGuide automatically stores information, such as your IP address, desktop/mobile device, and operating system, on your devices. We also use data from your browser and system settings, unique device identifiers, and clickstream data.
Here is how we collect this information:
- Automated technologies & interactions—Using cookies and similar technologies, InvestingGuide automatically collects technical data relating to your device, browser, and browsing actions and patterns when you visit us or our partner websites.
- Registration—You will provide us with personally identifying information by filling out forms when commenting on our pages or communicating with us via email or phone.
- Third parties or data collection platforms—We may get your data from third parties and public sources, including analytics providers like Google, Twitter, and Meta. These services let you interact with data collection platforms directly from our website. They can collect your browsing and usage data from our website, even if you don’t actively use them.
How We Use Cookies
InvestingGuide uses cookies, so when you visit us, you automatically permit us to use cookies, including HTTP, HTML5, and other types of local storage, to improve the functionality of our platform and serve you better.
Sometimes, we need your consent to use cookies. However, you can agree or decline at any time. You are also at liberty to disable them entirely, but this might affect how some features of InvestingGuide work.
Before we even dig further, here is how we use the information our cookies collect:
- Deliver the products and services users request.
- User support through addressing requests, questions, concerns and other assistance services.
- Optimize the site’s performance and show content relevant to your interests.
- Personalize advertising content and offers based on your online interests and activities.
- Perform site analysis through data analytics, trend analysis, and market and customer research.
- Safeguard users and the platform against fraud, identity theft, and other criminal activities.
- Comply with our policies, applicable legal requirements, and law enforcement requests.
- Help us work with third-party web analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to analyze and improve our services.
As you can see, all these functions are crucial. But they require us, as website owners, to count visitors, understand how they move around the site, and track our email engagement. If we send hundreds or thousands of emails, we need to know how many clients open them. But we can only do all these if we track and collect this data. So, our pages and emails have automated technologies like web beacons.
All information we collect, no matter its significance, is governed by our privacy policies or those of our affiliate partners.
Types of Cookies We Use
InvestingGuide employs technical cookies and other similar trackers to ensure proper functionality. Some of these cookies include:
- Strictly necessary cookies—These cookies enable us to identify sessions and users who log into our platform. They include session cookies and help users fully enjoy our product or service.
- Analytics cookies—As their name suggests, analytics cookies are performance cookies. They help us analyze the number of visitors we receive and how they use the site. Such metrics are important in improving our performance.
- Functionality cookies—These help InvestingGuide cookies remember your preferences when you next visit. They also help us personalize our content to your preferences.
- Targeting cookies—The name says it all! They track your movements across various pages. To do this, they mark the links you follow, and analyze what interests you to know what ads to display ads relevant to you. As a platform, this ensures that it doesn’t show you ads irrelevant to your interests. We share such targeting metrics with our third-party affiliates for the same purpose. On this, you can also review our privacy policy page for more information on how we use your data and transfer your personal data.
Managing Cookie Preferences
Cookies are easy to manage since we store them on your device’s browser. If you opt in, you can adjust your browser’s settings to prevent the use or storage of cookies.
Since some cookies require your consent before we use them, we may ask for your permission. It’s your choice to accept or decline. If you choose to limit cookie access, you may not maximize your experience at InvestingGuidemay, as some features may not work as intended.
Also, you can allow cookies or trackers and later delete them through your browsing history.
We, however, don’t control third-party cookies. But you can manage your preferences using the related opt-out link. In case you opt-in, review their privacy policy.
Market Expansion and Cookie Adaptation
InvestingGuide maintains flexibility and inclusivity. As such, our cookie practice accommodates the evolving needs of our global audience. So, our cookie policy remains adaptable for diverse audiences and geographical locations. As InvestingGuide expands its reach, we may adjust the policy based on the user’s location.