Summary
We or our authorized service providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies for storing information when you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools, or messaging in order to give you a better, faster, and safer experience, for marketing purposes, and to recognize you across devices.
This page is intended to give you more information about these technologies and how we use them in our products, services, applications, and websites. The essential points about our use of such technologies are outlined in the section below.
Different purposes are served by our cookies and related technologies. They either are essential to the operation of our services, assist us in optimizing them, provide you with extra features, or enable us to provide relevant and targeted advertisements to you. We use both cookies and similar technologies that are only stored on your device during the time that your browser is open (sessions) and those that are stored on your device for a longer period of time (persistent). If your device enables it, you are free to disable, uninstall, or prohibit these technologies. In the settings of your browser or device, you can control your cookies and cookie preferences.
What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?
We use technologies, which are essentially small data files installed on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other device (referred to collectively as a "device"), like most websites do, to enable us to record specific pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools.
The precise names and varieties of the cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and other technologies we use to gather information (such as about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising, or in the content of emails we send you) may change from time to time. The following limited terms and definitions have been offered in order to assist you better understand this Policy and how we use such technologies:
Cookies:
Tiny text files that are downloaded into the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or see a message and are often made up of letters and numbers. Cookies enable a website to identify a certain browser or device. Cookies come in a variety of forms:1. We can associate your actions during a specific browser session thanks to session cookies, which expire at the end of your browser session.
2. In order to remember your preferences or actions across different sites, persistent cookies are stored on your device between browser sessions.
3. The website you are viewing sets first-party cookies.
4. Third-party cookies are those that have been set by a website other than the one you are now viewing.
Most commercial browsers include with facilities that can disable or delete cookies. You will need to set the preferences individually for each browser you use, because every browser has a unique collection of options and capability.
Web beacons:
These tiny graphic images, sometimes known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs," may be present on our websites, applications, messaging, and other tools. They frequently function in tandem with cookies to recognize our users and their browsing habits.Similar technologies:
Technologies that use local shared objects or local storage to store data in your browser or device, including flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software techniques. All of your browsers can use these technologies, albeit in some cases your browser may not be able to manage them entirely and you may need to control them directly through your installed programs or device. We do not save information using these technologies in order to target advertising to you on or off our sites.In our policies, we may use the terms "cookies" or "similar technologies" to refer to any technology we may use to store data on your browser or device, collect data, or assist us in identifying you as mentioned above.
Your choice and our use of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies
We provide specific website functions, services, applications, and tools that can only be accessed by utilizing these technologies. In the event that your browser, installed application, or device supports it, you are always free to prevent, delete, or disable these technologies. However, you might not be able to use specific site features, services, applications, or tools if you reject cookies or other similar technologies. During your surfing session, you might also need to enter your password more frequently. Please check the options on your browser or device for further details on how to prevent, remove, or disable these technologies.
Typically, these technologies enable our websites, services, applications, and tools to store pertinent data in your browser or device and then read that data to identify you to our servers or internal systems. Where appropriate, we provide our cookies and other similar technologies a special identifier that can only be read by us, so that only we and/or our approved service providers can understand them. None of our cookies or other similar technology contain any of your personal information.
These are the broad categories in which we use such technologies:
1. Operationally Essential Our websites, services, applications, and tools may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to function properly. Included in this are technologies that give you access to our websites, services, applications, and tools; are necessary to detect abnormal site behavior, stop fraud, and improve security; or give you access to features like shopping carts, saved searches, and related features;
2. Related to performance. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our websites, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our websites, determine whether you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our website content, applications, services, or tools, we may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies;
3. Relationship to Function. When you visit or use our sites, services, applications, or tools, we may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to give you a better user experience. This may entail recognizing you when you log into our sites or keeping track of your stated preferences, interests, or previously seen products in order for us to improve the way that material is presented on our sites;
4. Related to advertising or targeting. For the purpose of delivering content, such as adverts tailored to your interests on our sites or on those of third parties, we may use first-party or third-party cookies as well as web beacons. This includes utilizing technology to ascertain whether the adverts and content that have been sent to you have been valuable to you, such as by determining whether you have clicked on an advertisement.
See the section below titled "Ad Networks and Exchanges operated by Authorized Third Parties" for information on how to disable the usage of third-party advertising-related cookies and web beacons. You may still see our advertisements even if you choose to reject our first-party advertising-related cookies, third-party advertising-related cookies, and web beacons (as described below), but they won't be specifically tailored to you using first- or third-party cookies, web beacons, or other related technologies.
You can choose not to use any additional technologies we use on our websites, services, applications, or tools by blocking, uninstalling, or disabling them in accordance with the capabilities of your browser or device.
The management of ad networks and exchanges by authorized third parties
To be able to serve you advertisements, we might cooperate with third parties such ad networks and exchanges. These third-party ad networks and exchange service providers may gather data via third-party cookies, web beacons, or related technologies. Additionally, they might gather information about your device, IP address, or identification for marketing (IDFA). The data that these third parties gather may be used, as previously mentioned, to help us deliver to you more pertinent advertising on our sites or elsewhere on the internet. The privacy policies of the third parties apply to third party cookies.
Please visit the following third-party website for additional details about third-party advertising-related cookies and how to opt-out of them:
https://www.youronlinechoices.eu
Cookie Policy updated 2nd January 2023