See the BNI Podcast Privacy Policy for more details about information we collect on this website and how we use it.
What Are Cookies?
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Use of cookies on our websites
When you visit our sites, we may use one or more cookies to make our sites easier for you to use and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our sites, such as the web pages you visit, the links you click, and the amount of time you spend on the website. You can remove or block cookies using your settings in most browsers, but if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use some of the features offered on our sites.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to the cookies set by the bnipodcast.com website, third-party services we use, such as Facebook, Google Analytics, and Twitter also store cookies.
Blubrry
Our podcast media (MP3 file) hosting company, Blubrry, sets three Google Analytics cookies in order to help them tell us how many episodes have been downloaded and/or played with the media player.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
__utma |
2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmz |
6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
Read Blubrry’s complete privacy policy.
The BNI Podcast website uses a social sharing plugin to facilitate sharing to Facebook and also displays a Facebook Page widget in the sidebar that links to (and allows you to “like”) Ivan Misner’s Facebook page. If you use private browsing/incognito mode, you will not see the Facebook page embed.
Google Analytics
The BNI Podcast website uses Google Analytics to track visits to the website so we can determine things like which episodes are most popular, how many people come to the website, and where our visitors come from. Twitter and Blubrry also use Google Analytics cookies on the site.
See the Google Analytics Cookie Usage page for more details.
Marketo
Marketo is the email marketing platform that BNI uses for the BNI Podcast new episode emails. We have a Marketo form embedded in the sidebar for email signups, which sets the following cookies.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
bIPS |
Session | These encrypted cookies provide load balancing. |
Read Marketo’s complete cookie policy.
When you view Twitter content or Twitter products integrated into other websites using Twitter for Websites, Twitter may receive information including the web page you visited, your IP address, browser type, operating system, and cookie information. This information helps Twitter to improve its products and services, including personalized suggestions and personalized ads. Learn more about the information Twitter receives and how Twitter uses that informaion in their privacy policy and cookies use.
Twitter stores 3 Google Analytics cookies in addition to its own cookies.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
__utma |
2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmz |
6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
How do I change my cookie settings?
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