What are cookies?
Cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies are small files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They have a number of different and useful jobs, like enabling the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
‘Session cookies’ allow us to track your actions during a single browsing session, but they do not remain on your device afterwards.
‘Persistent cookies’ remain on your device between sessions. We use them to authenticate you and to remember your preferences. We can also use them to balance the load on our servers and improve your experience on our site.
We use cookies and other analytical tools for a number of reasons, including to:
- Help us determine if you visited our website before.
- Deliver our pages faster.
- Remember if you participate in our surveys, quizzes, and polls.
- Help us better understand how you use our Services. These analytical tools will place cookies on your computer to collect information. The information collected by these analytical tools will tell us: which search engine referred you to our Services, or how you navigated around our Services, and what you purchased.
This information will help us to better serve you with more personalized information and product offerings.
How can you manage and delete cookies?
You can set your web browser to decline cookies and/or require that you consent to each cookie. You can delete, block, or disable cookies at any time. You can find out details on how this works from your browser’s help function, (most modern browsers). For detailed explanations visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/stop-cookies-installed.html and http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html. Additionally, to learn more about your choices for receiving interest-based advertising or to opt out of, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
Please note that disabling cookies may lead to performance and functional restrictions of our website.