Effective Date: July 31, 2023
This Cookie Notice (“Notice”) explains how The Institute of International Finance (“IIF” or “we”) uses "cookies" or similar technologies on our website and applies to all individuals who access or use this website.
We may change this Notice from time to time, so please review this page periodically for changes. The “Effective Date” provided at the top of this page will indicate when the Notice was most recently updated.
When you first access our website from certain jurisdictions, you may receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept All” you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice. You do not have to accept cookies and your consent can be withdrawn at any time (see “How to Control Cookies” below). You can change your browser settings to refuse or restrict cookies, and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device at any time. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of the website that you access may take more time to work or may not function properly.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files containing a string of characters that we may store on your computer or mobile device when you access the website. When you access the website again, the cookies allow us to recognize your browser. Cookies may store your preferences and other information but cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
Cookies that we, the website owner, set on our website are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable us to provide third party features or functionality through the website (i.e. advertising, social media functions and analytics).
2. The cookies we use
Cookies make the use of our website easier by, among other things, saving your preferences. We may also use cookies to deliver content tailored to your interests. Our cookies may enable us to relate your use of the website to personal data that you previously provided.
The information that we collect with cookies allows us to statistically analyze usage of the website, and to improve and customize our content and other offerings. However, we only disclose information collected with cookies to third parties on an aggregated basis without the use of any information that personally identifies you.
The specific types of cookies placed by our website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below. Various third parties set cookies on our website to provide third party features or functionality. These third parties may include those listed in the table below.
3. How to control cookies
As noted above, when you first access our website from certain jurisdictions, you may receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “Accept All”, you signify that you understand and agree to the use of these technologies, as described in this Notice. If you click “Decline All”, only strictly necessary cookies will be placed on your device.
You do not have to accept cookies and your consent can be withdrawn at any time, although you may not be able to use certain features of our website. You can do this by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse all or some cookies.
Please follow the links below to helpful information for the most popular browsers:
In addition, you can exercise advertising cookie choices by visiting:
4. Web beacons
As well as cookies, we use other technologies to recognize and track your use of our website. A web beacon (also known as a “tracking pixel” or “clear GIF”) is a clear graphic image (typically a one-pixel tag) that is delivered through a web browser or HTML e-mail, typically in conjunction with a cookie.
Web beacons allows us, for example, to monitor how users move from one page within our websites to another, to track access to our communications, to understand whether users have come to our websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to measure how ads have been viewed and to improve site performance.
5. Targeted advertising
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and service that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements.