Last Updated : July 27, 2019
What are Cookies and How do we use them?
Cookies are small pieces of data sent from us and stored on the your web browser. Cookies facilitate and enhance communication and interaction with the Platform. We use cookies to customize your visit for authentication, functional services (such as survey and chats), analytics, and advertising.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to ensure that You have the best possible experience while using our Platform. These technologies may provide us with personal information, information about devices and networks you utilize to access our Websites, and other information regarding your interactions with our Websites.
Different cookies are used to perform different functions:
- Essential Cookies: Some cookies are essential and enable you to move around the Platform and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the Platform. Without these cookies, you may not be able to use the platform and its features.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make on our websites (such as your preferred language or the region you are in).
- Personalization Cookies: We use cookies to change the way our Platform behaves or looks in order to personalize your experience from information we infer from your behavior on our Services or information we may already know about you because, for example, you are a registered user. These cookies may be used to tailor the Services or the content, look and feel delivered to you on subsequent sessions to our Services. For example, if you personalize or use specific parts of the Platform, a cookie helps our server recall your specific information. When you next use the Services, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Services features that you previously chose.
- Analytics Cookies: We use our own cookies and/or third-party cookies and other identifiers (such as web beacons) to see how you use our Services in order to enhance their performance and develop them according to the preferences of our customers and visitors. For example, cookies and web beacons may be used to: maintain a consistent look and feel across our Services; track and provide trend analysis on how our users interact with our Services; track errors and measure the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Services, your opening and review of our emails, the pages you have visited, and the links you have clicked. They gather information about your browsing habits and remember that you have visited a website. We or our service providers may use this information to make advertisements more relevant to you.
- Cross-Device Cookies: Sometimes, we may use cookies in combination with the information we collect, for instance, usernames, IP addresses and unique mobile device identifiers, to locate or try to locate the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones or tablets), or work with service providers that do this, in order to save your preferences across devices and analyze usage of the Services.
WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND CONSENT, NEITHER WE NOR OUR TRUSTED ADVERTISERS/BUSINESS PARTNERS USE COOKIES TO AUTOMATICALLY RETRIEVE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
Third Party Cookies
We feature third-party widgets of social media service providers to enable the subscriber to integrate with them. These third-parties may also use cookies to function correctly. You may review their privacy policies to understand why they use these cookies.
We use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites after you visited our website. We may also use and place third-party cookies on your browser from third-party vendors in connection with the service or association with our advertising and marketing. Our trusted third-party partners (including for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) such as Google, Facebook, and Adroll use cookies to inform, optimize and serve advertisements based on your past visits to our website.
We also use Google Analytics on our Services to help us analyze how our Services are used. Google Analytics uses performance cookies to track visitor interactions. For example, by using cookies, Google can tell us which pages our users view, which are most popular, what time of day our websites are visited, whether visitors have been to our websites before, what website referred the visitor to our websites, and other similar information.
We have little control over these “third party” cookies, so we suggest that you check the respective policies of these external services to help you understand what data these organizations hold about you and what they do with it.
Controlling and Opting out of Cookies
We obtain your consent before placing cookies on your browser. There are a number of ways you can manage what cookies are set on you devices. You have an option to restrict the placement of cookies on your browser or remove them from your browser by changing your browser settings.
Essential cookies, however, cannot be disabled. If you do not allow certain cookies to be installed, the Services may not be accessible to you and/or the performance, features, or Services of the website may be compromised.
You can disable and/or delete most types of cookies by using your browser settings. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access parts of our or others’ services.
Our third-party partners such as Google, Facebook, and AdRoll provide an opt-out option for their visitors on their respective websites. The Help feature on most standard browsers offers information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.
If you wish to opt out of our ability to track you across devices, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here.
If you have any questions about how we use cookies, you can contact us at [email protected].