1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a site stores in your browser so it can recognise the browser on a later request. Related technologies — local storage, session storage and pixels — do a similar job. This policy covers all of them.
2. What 4bizs.com stores
Nothing. This marketing website is a set of static pages served from a content delivery network. It contains no analytics tag, no advertising pixel, no session recorder, and no cross-site tracker, and it writes nothing to your browser’s storage.
The one third-party request the pages make is to Google Fonts, to fetch the typefaces the site is set in. Google receives the request as part of serving those files, including your IP address and user agent, in the same way any request for an asset does. It does not set a cookie for that request.
3. What the 4bizs platform uses
The signed-in platform — the application behind an account, not this website — uses a small number of cookies that are strictly necessary to operate it. They cannot be switched off without the service failing, and none of them are used for advertising.
| Purpose | Why it exists | Typical life |
|---|---|---|
| Session | Keeps you signed in as you move between capabilities without signing in again. | Session, or until sign-out |
| Security token | Protects form submissions against cross-site request forgery. | Session |
| Business context | Remembers which business, site or location you were last working in. | Up to 12 months |
| Preferences | Stores language, timezone and interface choices so they survive a reload. | Up to 12 months |
| Load balancing | Keeps a request on a consistent backend during a multi-step operation. | Session |
4. Sites published by businesses on 4bizs
A storefront, restaurant site, listing portal or booking page published through 4bizs belongs to the business that runs it. That business controls which analytics, marketing and payment technologies its own site uses, and is responsible for its own cookie notice and consent handling. This policy does not cover those sites.
5. How to control cookies
Every major browser lets you view, block and delete cookies and site data, usually under Settings → Privacy. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will prevent you from signing in to the platform. It has no effect on this website, which does not use any.
We honour the Global Privacy Control signal where it applies. Since we neither sell personal information nor share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, there is nothing for the signal to switch off.
6. Changes to this policy
If we ever add analytics or any other non-essential technology to this website, we will update this page and introduce a consent mechanism before it starts collecting anything.
7. Contact
Questions about this policy: cwang@digitrend.ca, Digitrend Consulting Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.