Cookie Notice

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Understanding Cookies and Tracking Tools

Our websites and applications employ cookies—small data files stored on your device—that enable us and our partners to track your engagement with our sites, emails, and other digital services to optimize your experience. We may also use related technologies, including web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, location-detection tools, and logging systems, which we collectively term “cookies.”

How We Use Cookies

Together with our partners, we use cookies to collect details about your interactions with our websites, mobile apps, emails, and additional online services. This helps us enhance your experience and analyze how our services are utilized.

The data we automatically collect includes:

Information about your device and software, like your operating system and browser.
Details of your visits and usage, such as pages viewed and time spent.
With your approval, we may track email opens and clicks to confirm receipt and interaction.
Analytical tools might be used to identify usage patterns and better understand our audience.
Your approximate location might be determined via your IP address.

Cookie Categories

Essential Cookies: These are critical for core functions like security and navigation. Disabling them may disrupt our website’s performance. We rely on them due to our legitimate interest in maintaining our services.
Functional Cookies: These store your selections (e.g., language or region) to customize your experience. Their use aligns with our legitimate interest in service provision.
Performance Cookies: These allow us to count visitors and analyze navigation patterns, improving our services and ease of access. We’ll only use them with your consent.
Targeting Cookies: These monitor your site visits, pages viewed, and links clicked for tracking and advertising purposes. We’ll request your consent, which you may freely decline.

Cookie Sources

First-Party Cookies: Generated by our website, these are accessible only to us and typically remember settings like language or location to improve your experience.
Third-Party Cookies: Placed by external partners integrated into our site, these support functions like analytics, ads, and social media features.

Cookie Duration

Session Cookies: Temporary, these disappear when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: These stay on your device for a set time, defined by us or the cookie, even after your browser shuts down.

Purposes of Using Cookies

We deploy cookies for several reasons:

To differentiate you from other users, ensuring a smooth browsing experience and supporting site improvements.
To better grasp your preferences and show ads relevant to your activity on our sites.
To gather usage data that drives service enhancements.
To strengthen security by countering fraud and misuse.
To track your preferences and activity for seamless site operation and tailored content.
To log your language, browsing habits, device details, and favored items for relevant content delivery.
To provide appropriate details based on your access method, such as via search engines or affiliates.

Controlling Cookie and Ad Preferences

You have options to oversee cookies and their advertising uses. Here’s how:

Browser Settings

Most browsers let you tweak cookie preferences, including:

Notifications when cookies are sent, allowing you to accept or reject them.
Deletion of existing cookies on your device.
Automatic rejection of all cookies.

Note that disabling cookies might hinder this site and others, reducing functionality. To limit interest-based ads, visit optout.aboutads.info or networkadvertising.org/choices.

Mobile Devices

On iOS, enable “Limit Ad Tracking”; on Android, choose “Opt out of Ads Personalization.”

Email Settings

Modify your email client to block automatic image loading, which may include tracking tools that report email interactions.

Google Analytics and Ads

Opt out of Google Analytics with their browser add-on, and adjust Google’s interest-based ads via Ads Settings.

Interest-Based Ads

Visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com to stop ads based on your browsing habits.

Depending on your device and system, fully blocking or deleting all cookies may not be possible. To reject cookies across all devices and browsers, adjust settings on each one individually.