Cookie Policy

Use of Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

Our website may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – places on the user’s device to remember information about the user, such as the user’s language preference or login information.

This type of cookie is set by us and is referred to as a “first-party cookies.” Our website uses first-party cookies primarily to make the website work as you expect it to. For example, we use the information we collect through first-party cookies to allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, analyze how well our website is performing, and understand the content that you spent the most time reviewing. In some cases, we use first-party cookies to store information that we use for targeted advertising.

We also incorporate cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and web beacons, from outside our website’s domain (“third-party cookies”). Third-party cookies gather information to enable our vendors to provide a range of services to us, including targeted advertising and measuring the success of our advertising campaigns.

Below is a detailed list of the categories of first- and third-party cookies we use on our website. You can prevent the collection of data by non-necessary preference, statistics, and marketing cookies by clicking on [INSERT LINK FOR COOKIE PREFERENCE CENTER FOR OPT-OUT] in our website footer and toggling off the related functionality.

How we use cookies

We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:

  • Provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features
  • Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts
  • Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website
  • Compile data about website traffic and how users use the website to offer a better website experience
  • Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits, such as remembering your login details or language preference, to provide you with a more personal experience, or to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website
  • Track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, including advertising by third parties on our website

Necessary Cookies  

Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to a site visitor’s request for services, such as a visitor setting their privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but blocking these cookies will prevent the website from working correctly or might prevent the Website from working at all.

Non-Necessary Cookies

Non-Necessary cookies are not essential to the website functionality but serve some other unique purpose in three subcategories:

  1. “Statistics” cookies (sometimes referred to as static cookies) collect information about the user’s behavior on the website without collecting personal information, for example:
  • Pages the user visits.
  • Ads the user views.
  • Ads or site features that the user clicks.
  • “Preference” cookies (sometimes called functional cookies) track and remember the user’s preferences and past choices on the website to provide a personalized user experience. For example, functional cookies can collect:
  • Usernames
  • Passwords
  • Regions
  • “Marketing” cookies (sometimes called tracking or advertising cookies) can track:
  • Content the user views
  • Links the user follows
  • The user’s browser and device information and IP address

Please note: Organizations can use marketing cookies to track and influence users by building user profiles or displaying advertisements.

Information on Some of the Cookies in Use on our Site

For information on some of the cookies we use on our site, please review the policies from some of our vendors:

Cookie Management

You can control and manage cookies associated with your browser. If you are interested in controlling and managing cookies from your browser including any set by our Website, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on different ways to configure your browser’s cookie settings.

If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three third party programs that clean out tracking cookies.

You may delete cookies from your web browser at any time or block cookies on your equipment, but this may affect the functioning of or even block the website. You can prevent saving of cookies (disable and delete them) by changing your browser settings accordingly at any time. It is possible that some functions will not be available on our website when use of cookies is deactivated. Check the settings of your browser. Below you can find some guidance:

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals with the exception of Global Privacy Controls as explained above in the section of this policy on “Opt-Out Preference Signals”.

You can adjust your advertising preferences on mobile devices through your device settings. Below you can find guidance based on your mobile device type:

DAA and NAI

Many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), both of which maintain self-regulatory programs along with websites where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by each organization’s respective participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/, or visit the NAI’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

  • To opt-out of data collection for interest-based advertising across mobile applications by participating companies, download the DAA’s AppChoices mobile application opt-out offering found here: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

Non-Participant Opt-Out Options

Some devices and apps do not have access to web-based browser cookie opt-outs. To learn more about the advertising opt-outs provided by your mobile device’s operating system (like iOS and Android) or the device manufacture, click here.

Some of our vendors do not participate in the DAA or NAI self-regulatory programs for online behavioral advertising or have developed their own processes for allowing consumers to opt-out: https://branch.app.link/optout

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