This Cookie Policy explains how Best Fax ("Company," "we," "us," and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at https://bestfax.com ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information or information that becomes personal information when combined with other data.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Best Fax) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for our Website and Services to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies help us understand use of the Website, improve the user experience, measure advertising, and show relevant advertising. This is described in more detail below.
How can I control cookies?
Visitors in the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland see a consent banner on their first visit and can accept or decline non-essential cookies. Essential cookies remain available because they are necessary to provide the Website and Services. Visitors in US states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia — can opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information at any time using the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link in the website footer. Where a visitor's browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we honor it automatically as an opt-out of non-essential cookies — this honoring is not limited to visitors from those states. For visitors in the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, the consent banner governs non-essential cookies: they stay off until you accept, and GPC does not override an explicit choice you make in the banner (which you can change at any time). Visitors in the United States do not see a cookie banner; the footer "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link and GPC honoring apply to all US visitors.
All visitors can use their browser settings to block or delete cookies and clear local storage. Blocking essential cookies may prevent sign-in, checkout, or other Service features from working. You can also opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The cookies and similar storage technologies used through our Website may vary by the pages and features you use. Our principal first-party technologies are:
Essential and preference technologies
sid — a bestfax.com HTTP-only session cookie used to maintain an authenticated session and protect account access.
access_token — a bestfax.com HTTP-only authentication cookie used to authorize account requests; it expires after approximately 15 minutes.
refresh_token — a bestfax.com HTTP-only authentication cookie used to renew account access; it expires after up to 60 days.
theme-mode (and the legacy theme value) — bestfax.com local storage used to remember your light, dark, or system theme preference.
bf_privacy_consent — bestfax.com local storage used to remember a consent or opt-out choice.
bf_privacy_regime — bestfax.com local storage used temporarily to remember which regional consent rules apply.
Analytics, advertising, and payment technologies
Subject to the regional consent and opt-out controls described above, we use Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising (Bing UET), and Microsoft Clarity for analytics, advertising measurement, and site improvement. Representative cookies include _ga and _ga_* (Google Analytics), _gcl_au (Google Ads), _uetvid and _uetsid (Microsoft Advertising), and _clck and _clsk (Microsoft Clarity). These providers may change their cookie names or expiration periods.
Stripe may set cookies such as __stripe_mid and __stripe_sid when payment or fraud-prevention features are used. These cookies support payment processing and fraud prevention. See Stripe's privacy notice at https://stripe.com/privacy.
How can I control cookies on my browser?
As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at support@bestfax.com or by post to:
Best Fax 1968 Pacific Coast Hwy #1921 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 United States Phone: (US) (551) 237-8329