A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed onto your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps examine web traffic or lets you know when you visit a site.
Essentially, cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does NOT give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies to your preference. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
BISM uses cookies on our website and we assume you are ok with this otherwise please disable cookies in your browser or navigate away and clear cookies set by the website.
Cookies on this website are used for:
- Analytical/performance purposes – this allows us to recognize and calculate the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate around the website when they are using it. Therefore, helping us improve the way our website functionality for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality purposes – to help us recognize you when you return to our website. This allows us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences and settings.
- Marketing purposes – to help us match cookie addresses with mailing addresses. This allows us to work with third-party vendors to send special offers through the mail on our behalf. Our company never receives or stores any of this information and our third parties do not provide or sell this information to any other company or service.
If you have any questions regarding our Cookie Policy then please email us.
To opt-out of receiving our direct mail, you may send us an email at development@bism.org, call us at (410) 737-2600, or send a written request to BISM Development, 3345 Washington Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21227. We will honor those requests, but please understand that it may take 30 days for such mailings to end.”
