Effective Date: June 9, 2025
Welcome to Black Founders University (BFU). Our mission is to provide you with a seamless, powerful, and personalized learning experience. To help us do this, we use technology like cookies on our website and related services ("Services").
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, the types of cookies we use, why we use them, and how you can manage your preferences. We believe in being transparent about our practices to build and maintain your trust. This policy should be read in conjunction with our main [Privacy Policy], which provides more detailed information about how we handle your personal data.
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Think of them as memory files for the internet. They allow a website to recognize your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.
Cookies play many different roles, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your login details and preferences, and generally improving your Browse experience. They can also help ensure that the content and advertising you see online are more relevant to you.
At BFU, we use cookies for several key purposes, all aimed at enhancing the Services we provide to our community of Black founders and entrepreneurs:
- To Make Our Site Work: Some cookies are essential for the operation of our platform, enabling core functionalities like account login and secure payment processing.
- To Improve Your Experience: We use cookies to remember your settings and preferences, so you don’t have to re-enter them each time you visit.
- To Analyze and Improve Our Services: Cookies provide us with valuable, anonymous insights into how our community uses BFU. This data helps us identify which content is most helpful, fix any issues, and make informed decisions to improve the platform.
- For Marketing and Outreach: With your consent, we may use cookies to understand your interests and show you relevant BFU promotions or content on other platforms.
We use the following categories of cookies on our Services:
- 1. Strictly Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential for you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like accessing secure areas of your account or making purchases, cannot be provided. You cannot opt-out of these cookies as they are vital for the security and functionality of our platform.
Examples: Managing your session to keep you logged in, enabling payment processing, securing our website. - Performance and Analytics Cookies These cookies collect information about how you use our Services—for instance, which pages you visit most often, how much time you spend on them, and if you get error messages from web pages. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Services work.
Examples: We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics to help us analyze user traffic and improve our platform.
- Functionality (or Preference) Cookies These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username or language preference) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, they can remember your login details so you don't have to sign in every time. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your Browse activity on other websites.
Examples: Remembering your display preferences or whether you’ve already seen a particular pop-up notification.
- Targeting or Marketing Cookies These cookies are used to track your Browse habits and deliver marketing content that is more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Examples: A cookie placed by a social media platform (like Meta or LinkedIn) that allows us to show you relevant BFU content after you've visited our site.
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept most cookies. Here are the ways you can control your cookie preferences:
- Cookie Consent Tool: When you first visit our site, you may be presented with a cookie banner or tool that allows you to customize your non-essential cookie preferences.
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences through their settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or to delete certain cookies. Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies, some essential features of our Services may not work properly.
- You can find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers by visiting their help pages:
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Apple Safari
- Microsoft Edge
- Third-Party Opt-Outs: For third-party analytics and advertising cookies, you can often opt-out directly through their provided tools. For example, you can opt-out of Google Analytics by using their Opt-out Browser Add-on.
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 re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us by visiting our
Contact Us page.
