Privacy policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently and provide basic functionality such as remembering preferences or filling out forms. They are also used to provide information and insights to the owners of the site that help to improve performance and offer a better user experience.

We use cookies and similar tools (collectively, “cookies”) for the purposes described below.

Operational Cookies

We use cookies to provide our services, for example:

• Recognising you when you sign-in to use our services.
• Recognising if you are a Big Associates member and providing other customised features and services.
• Displaying features, products, and services which might be of interest to you, including ads on our services if they are for products and services available within Big Associates.
• Preventing fraudulent activity.
• Improving security.
• Keeping track of your preferences such as currency and language.

We also use cookies to understand how visitors use our services so we can make improvements. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve Big Associates’ content, products, and services, and to measure and understand the performance of our services.

Advertising Cookies

We use cookies to serve certain types of ads, including for products and services not available on Big Associates and for certain ads relevant to your interests.

Approved third parties may also set cookies when you interact with Big Associate’s services. Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies. Third parties use cookies in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Big Associates.

Additional Information

Operational cookies will remain on your browser for 13 months from your last visit to our services, except for cookies used to remember your privacy settings (such as Advertising Preferences), which may remain on your browser for up to 5 years. Other cookies remain on your browser for 13 months after you provide us with your consent to use these cookies.

The settings on your browser will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, how to disable and remove cookies, and when cookies will expire.

Operational cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Big Associates essential features. If you block or otherwise reject operational cookies through your browser settings some features and services may not work. You may also need to manually adjust some of your preferences every time you visit one of our services.

Third party links

This Privacy Policy only applies to this website, big-associates.com. This website may include links to third party websites, plugins and applications. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements and how they use your data. Example of third party produces include Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google fonts or Adobe fonts.

Internet browsers typically accept cookies by default, but it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies.

Cookies on big-associates.com

This site uses cookies. The table below explains the cookies we use and why. We will not use any of this data to personally identify you.

Cookie	Name ( Expiry )	Purpose
Session cookies	PHPSESSID( Expiry: Session ) JSESSIONID ( Expiry: Session )	These cookies are used for the website to function and to improve the performance of the website.
Preference Cookies	wfvt_# ( Expiry: 30 minutes)	These cookies are used to remember your preferences.
Security Cookies	wordfence_verifiedHuman ( Expiry: 24 hours ) wf-waf-* ( Expiry: 24 hours )	These cookies necessary and are used to keep this website secure. It collects your IP address to monitor activity in order to prevent access to any malicious IP addresses.
Google Analytics	_ga ( Expiry: 2 years ) _gat ( Expiry: 1 minute ) _gid ( Expiry: 24 hours ) Collect ( Expiry: session )	These cookies are used to collect information about how you use our website. The information collected includes number of visitors, pages visited and time spent on the website. The information is collected by Google Analytics an aggregated and anonymous form, and we use the data to help us make improvements to the website. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Click here for more information about Google Analytics and your privacy.

 

Disabling cookies

You can manage your cookie settings by clicking the icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. You can also prevent the use of cookies by adjusting your browser settings.

Please be aware that some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. If you disable these cookies in your browser, parts of the website may not work correctly. For more information about cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/