Cookie Policy
I. WHAT ARE COOKIES
II. HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?
III. WHAT KINDS OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES DO WE USE?
A. PERSISTENT AND SESSION COOKIES
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
2. Performance Cookies
3. Functional Cookies
B. THIRD PARTY COOKIES
In addition to the first party cookies set by us, we also allow third parties to set cookies on our Websites. Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, scripts and other similar tracking technologies to enable the third party’s features or functionalities to be provided through the Website you are using. The third party setting these cookies can recognize your device both when it visits our Website and when it visits certain other websites or services. For example, our paid endorsers, or affiliates, may use third party cookies to identify you as a referral so they can be compensated if you sign up for services from us as a result of visiting one of our paid endorsers. For example, third party vendors such as Google may use cookies or other device identifiers to provide you with targeted advertisements based on your past visits to our Website.
1. Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners, who may be separate controllers of the data obtained. The cookies work primarily through uniquely identifying your device (e.g., advertising ID, IP address, geolocation), and used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on our sites and other sites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
C. CROSS-DEVICE TRACKING
We may perform cross-device tracking which allows us to provide more relevant advertising to you on multiple devices. We may do this by identifying browsing activity on your smartphones, tablets, desktop computers and other devices connected to the same IP address or logged into the same account to better understand the products and services that might be of interest to you.
D. LOCAL STORAGE OBJECTS
We also may use Local Storage Objects (LSOs), such as HTML5, to, among other things, optimize screen presentation, video and other preference information.
E. GOOGLE ANALYTICS
We may use Google Analytics which is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with our Websites. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our Website. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Websites. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors.
IV. WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
We use the following types of cookies for the reasons described below. These cookies may be set by us or a third party service provider to perform the functions described below:
- Required: These cookies and tracking technologies are required to help our websites work correctly. For example, these cookies allow you to navigate our Website and use essential features, including secure areas and shopping baskets.
- Analytics: These cookies and tracking technologies help us understand how customers and visitors interact with our Websites. They provide us with information about areas of our Websites visited, time spent on our Websites, transactions performed, and any error messages you receive. These cookies allow us to improve the performance of our Websites. They may collect your IP address but only for the purpose of identifying general locations of visitors and identifying fraudulent or spam traffic.
- Functional: These cookies and tracking technologies allow our Websites to remember choices you make to give you better functionality and a personalized experience.
- Advertising. These cookies and tracking technologies allow us to deliver content, including advertisements, relevant to your specific interests. This content may be delivered on our Websites or on third party websites or services. They allow us to understand and improve the relevancy of our advertisements. They may track personal information, including your IP address.
V. HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?
- Delete your cookies;
- Block cookies, including third party cookies;
- Switch internet browsers;
- Change computers; or
- Upgrade your web browser.
- If you delete all your cookies, you will have to update your settings with us again.
- If you use a different device or browser, you will have to tell us your settings again.
You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers without affecting how you visit or use our Website. For more information on opting out of Google’s use of cookies across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated. To provide you with more choice on how your data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed an opt-out browser add-on, which is available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and enables you to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
Further information about our advertisers’ use of cookies can be found at:
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
- Internet Advertising Bureau (US): https://www.iab.com/
- Internet Advertising Bureau (EU): https://www.iabeurope.eu/
VI. HOW CAN I GET FURTHER INFORMATION?