Cookie Notice

About Cookies

When you access our websites and applications, we collect and process your Personal Information in accordance with our Privacy Notice. This Cookie Notice supplements our Privacy Notice with additional information regarding how we, and our third-party service providers may collect information automatically through cookies, beacons, pixels, tags, scripts, and HTML5, as well as log files.

This Notice is part of, and must be read in the context of, our Privacy Notice.

How We Use Cookies

Like most websites, we use cookies and similar technologies for a variety of purposes.

Cookies and Automated Information Collection

We and our service providers may automatically gather about your use of our Sites and Services. These processes include cookies, web beacons, javascript, log files, pixels, and other similar technologies. The information collected includes: your domain name or Internet service provider, browser type, browser language preference, device type and operating system, page views and links you click within the Sites, IP address, device ID or advertising identifier (or other similar unique device-related identifier), date and time stamp, time spent using the Services, referring URL, your activity within the Sites, and device geolocation information (where permitted by your device settings or via IP address geolocation services).

We also collect information from analytic services, including Google Analytics, to compile and analyze information derived from the use of our Sites and Services, such as aggregate usage patterns, user preferences, peak demand times, preferred content and other information.

We use this information to better understand how you use our Sites, to monitor the overall performance of our Sites for troubleshooting and maintenance, and to identify and protect against misuse, abuse, or security threats to our systems. We may also use it to personalize your experience on our Site or to remember your settings or preferences. We do not sell this information or share it with any third party for any purposes other than those described here.

You may use browser settings or tools to block the use of cookies, or the other automated methods described above. It is your right to do so, however certain features or aspects of our Sites may not function properly if you do so. If you experience difficulties using our Sites, please bear this in mind.

Cookies

Cookies are small files with a unique identifier that are transferred to your browser through our websites. These technologies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on our Sites, pages visited, language preferences, and your relationship with us.

We can use this information to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, measure the effectiveness of our communications, tailor our advertising to you, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. These technologies may provide us with information about devices and networks you utilize to access our Services, and other information regarding your interactions with our Services. We, or our service providers, may combine this information with other information, including personal information we collect about you, to record your preferences, gather information about the use of our Services, identify when our emails are viewed, personalize content and ads and track information about the performance of our advertisements.

Pixels, Web Beacons, Clear GIFs

These are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies that we use to track the online movements of users of our web pages and our Ad Services, and to personalize content, and to identify when our emails are viewed or forwarded. Our third-party partners may use Local Shared Objects, such as Flash cookies, to embed features on our sites. To manage Flash cookies, please click here.

“Do Not Track” Preferences

Our Site does not recognize do-not-track signals; however, we do not use your personal information to track your online activities across different Sites. We only track your activity within a Site to the extent you log into your account. Therefore, our practices remain the same whether or not you enable the “Do Not Track” feature. For more information about do-not-track signals, please click here. In addition, some of our advertising partners, may use standard technologies, such as cookies, pixel tags, and web beacons, to collect information about your Internet activities across websites. We do not share your personal information with those services; any information we provide is in an anonymized or de-identified format. You may be able to disable certain third-party cross-site tracking as described here.

Third-Party Analytics

We also use automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics (more info here) to evaluate use of our Services. We use these tools to gather non-personal information about users to help us improve our Services and user experiences. These analytics providers may use cookies and other technologies to perform their services on our behalf.

Targeted Advertising

We may partner with third-party ad networks and third-party ad companies to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partners use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you personalized advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you do not wish to have cookies used in this way, you may opt out using the instructions below.

Opting Out of Ad Networks

How to opt out. If you wish to not have this cross-site information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out of many ad networks by visiting the DAA WebChoices Tool (or if located in the European Union, by visit Your Online Choices). You will continue to receive ads on the sites you visit, but the ad networks from which you have opted out will no longer target ads to you based upon your activities on other sites.

Please note, however, that these opt-out mechanisms are cookie-based, so if you delete all of your cookies, block cookies, or use another device, your opt-out choice will no longer be effective. For more information about Interest Based Advertising, please visit Your Ad Choices.

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