A cookie is a small text file of letters and numbers stored on your browser or device. When you interact with the Sites, we try to make that experience simple and meaningful. Our Sites use Cookies to distinguish you from other visitors to our Sites. This helps us to provide website functionality to you, understand our visitors, and improve our Sites.
When you visit our Sites, both first-party and third-party Cookies may be placed on your browser or device. First-party Cookies are those placed directly by us or from our website domain. Third-party Cookies are those placed by our vendors or partners, which may include social networking services. Both types of Cookies allow us or our vendors or partners to access information about your device and visit. We use both persistent Cookies and session Cookies. Persistent Cookies stay on your browser until they are deleted or expire. Session Cookies last until you close our Sites or your browser.
We also use pixels, JavaScript tags, and similar tracking technologies on our Sites. Pixels (also known as clear GIFs) are tiny images embedded in a webpage and can be used to place cookies on a browser or device. JavaScript tags are snippets of code that are embedded in a webpage. Both pixels and JavaScript tags require calling a server (a computer that delivers web pages), which provides us or our vendor or partner with information about your device and visit. Similarly, our website and email campaigns use tracking URLs (also known as tracking links), which are used to track the performance of marketing and advertising campaigns across websites and engagement channels. If you use our mobile application, we may also use mobile device identifiers consisting of numbers and letters to recognize your device.
We use Cookies to collect information about your access to and use of the Sites, including to: (1) allow you to navigate and use all the features provided by our Sites; (2) customize elements of the layout and/or content within the Sites and remember that you have visited us before; (3) identify the number of unique visitors we receive; (4) improve the Sites and learn which functions of the Sites are most popular with users; (5) understand how you use the Sites (e.g., by learning how long you spend on the Sites and where you have come to the Sites from) and (6) marketing our Sites and other services to you.
We use web analytics vendors on our Sites, such as those of Google Analytics, to help us analyze how users use the Sites, including by noting the website from which you arrive, and providing certain features to you including Google Signal features such as user ID tracking, dynamic remarketing, interest-based advertising, audience targeting, behavioral reporting, demographics and interests reporting, user segment analysis, device reporting, display advertising, and video ads reporting. The information collected by the technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these vendors, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Sites. This may result in you seeing advertisements for our Sites when you visit other websites.
We use vendors to help us understand and analyze how visitors use our services, and to improve the Sites. They may collect the following types of information from users of our Sites: device IP Address, device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location, preferred language used to display the Sites, and details about your use of the Sites.
You may choose to disable Cookies we use that are not essential. If you disable or opt out of our use of Cookies, some or all of our Sites may not work as intended. Some web and mobile device browsers automatically accept Cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. We do not control any of the above third-party mechanisms or opt-out links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. If your browsers are configured to reject Cookies when you visit these opt-out pages, or you subsequently erase your Cookies, use a different computer, or change web browsers, your opt-out may no longer be effective.
Please note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.