Cookie Policy for Forefind.com

 

Last Updated: July 26, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Forefind.com (the “Site,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

 

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Forefind.com) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics).

3. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our platform. For example, we use cookies to understand which franchise categories are popular and how users navigate our directory. This helps us fulfill our mission of providing a user-friendly and informative platform.

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Site and the purposes they perform are described below:

a) Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like user accounts or saved franchise lists, cannot be provided.

b) Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Site is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are. This allows us to:

  • Analyze traffic to our Site and understand visitor demographics.

  • Identify the most and least popular franchise listings and pages.

  • See how visitors move around the site to improve navigation and user experience.

  • We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose.

c) Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. They enable us to personalize our content for you, remember your preferences (for example, your choice of region or your saved search filters), and enhance your experience.

d) Advertising and Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They may be used to track your Browse activity across our Site to infer your interests for interest-based advertising. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing and ensuring that ads are properly displayed. We may share this information with third parties for this purpose.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on. These may include:

  • Google Analytics: To analyze the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

  • Advertising Networks: Third-party ad networks may use cookies to deliver targeted advertising.

  • Social Media Platforms: If you use social media buttons on our Site (e.g., “Share on Facebook”), the respective platform will set a cookie.

5. Your Choices: How to Manage Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:

  • Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. Below are links for popular browsers:

  • Opting Out of Targeted Advertising: Many advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. For more information, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the [suspicious link removed].

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

 

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.