HOW WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We may use cookies, web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels”) and other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you interact with our Site or emails, including information about your browsing behavior. We may combine this information with other information we collect about you and use it for various purposes, such as improving our Site and your online experience, understanding which areas and features of our sites are popular, counting visits, understanding campaign effectiveness, tailoring our communications with you, determining whether an email has been opened and links within the email have been clicked and for other internal business purposes. We engage third parties to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Site, such as your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Site and other websites and better understand your online activity. We may also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on other websites or platforms.
We use the following categories of cookies on our Services:
- ESSENTIAL COOKIES – These cookies (sometimes referred to as “strictly necessary cookies”) are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide many services that you need on the Site.
- ANALYTICS COOKIES – These cookies collect anonymous information on how you use the Site and our Services. For example, we use third-party cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at our Site, browse or use our Site and highlight areas where we can improve, such as navigation, user experience and interface and marketing campaigns. The data stored by these cookies does not show personal details from which your individual identity can be established. You may opt out of these cookies using your browser settings but it may affect the performance of our Services.
- FUNCTIONALITY OR PREFERENCE COOKIES – During your visit to the Site, these cookies are used to remember information you have entered or choices you make, such as your username, language, or your region, to enhance your browsing experience. These preferences and settings are remembered through the use of persistent cookies, so that the next time you visit the Site, you will not have to set them again, providing you with a more customized and seamless experience. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. You may opt out of these cookies using your browser settings but it may affect the functionality of our Services (see below on how to opt out of the various cookies we use).
- TARGETING COOKIES OR ADVERTISING COOKIES – These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests (this is sometimes called “behavioral” tracking or “targeted” advertising). They are also used to limit the number of times you see ads as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These third-party cookies are placed by third-party advertising platforms or networks. They remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties such as advertisers, to deliver, for example, personalized ads when you are visiting other websites.
- SOCIAL MEDIA COOKIES – These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on the Site on social media such as Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter). These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the respective privacy policies for how their cookies work. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support area on your Internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information about online behavioral advertising and deleting or controlling cookies is available at:
For EU visitors: www.AboutCookies.org
For US visitors: www.NetworkAdvertising.org; www.AboutAds.info
YOUR CONSENT CHOICES
Where required by applicable law, we only place non-essential cookies (such as Analytics Cookies, Targeting or Advertising Cookies, and Social Media Cookies) on your device after you have given your prior, informed consent through the cookie consent banner displayed when you first visit the Site. If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or another jurisdiction that requires opt-in consent for non-essential cookies, you can accept, reject or customize your cookie preferences at any time using that banner or the cookie preference settings available on the Site, in addition to the browser-based controls described below. If you are located in California or another jurisdiction that follows an opt-out model, we honor opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control, as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information through cookies, in addition to the choices described in this Cookies Policy.
How to opt out of cookies
You can generally activate or later de-activate the use of cookies through a functionality built into your web browser. To learn more about how to control cookie settings through your browser:
- Click here to learn more about the “Private Browsing” setting and managing cookie settings in Firefox;
- Click here to learn more about “Incognito” and managing cookie settings in Chrome;
- Click here to learn more about “InPrivate” and managing cookie settings in Microsoft Edge; or
- Click here to learn more about “Private Browsing” and managing cookie settings in Safari.
If you want to learn more about cookies, or how to control, disable or delete them, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance. In addition, certain third-party advertising networks, including Google, permit users to opt out of, or customize, preferences associated with your internet browsing. To learn more about this feature from Google, click here. To disable Google Analytics cookies across all websites, please visit Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
For more information about Internet-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youronlinechoices.eu (in the EU).
Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Services. Opting out does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the company or companies from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns, so you may see a greater number of ads that are irrelevant to you and your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
Many jurisdictions require or recommend that website operators inform users/visitors as to the nature of cookies they utilize and, in certain circumstances, obtain the consent of their users to the placement of certain cookies. The Site includes third-party social media features, such as the Like button on Facebook, and third-party widgets, such as the ‘Share This’ button or interactive mini-programs that run on the Site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Site, and set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the third-party company providing it.