Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files (composed only of letters and numbers) that a web server places on your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage. When used, the cookie can help make our Services more user-friendly, for example by remembering your language preferences and settings. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work in an efficient way. The use of cookies allows you to navigate between pages efficiently. Cookies remember your preferences, and make the interaction between you and the Services smoother and more efficient. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see online are relevant to you and your interests.

Storing Tracking Technologies

We store Tracking Technologies when you visit or access our Services (for example when you are visiting our websites) – these are called “First Party Tracking Technologies”. In addition, Tracking Technologies are stored by other third parties (for example our analytics service providers, business partners and advertisers) who run content on our Services – these are called “Third Party Tracking Technologies”.

Both types of Tracking Technologies may be stored either for the duration of your visit on our Services or for repeat visits.

What types of Tracking Technologies do we use?

There are five main types of Tracking Technologies:

• Strictly necessary Tracking Technologies –
  These Tracking Technologies are essential to enable you to login, navigate around and use the features of our Services, or to provide a service requested by you (such as your username). We do not need to obtain your consent in order to use these Tracking Technologies. These Tracking Technologies can be used for security and integrity reasons – for example to detect violation of our policies and for support or security features.
• Functionality Tracking Technologies –
  These Tracking Technologies allow our Services to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced and personalized features. For example, these Tracking Technologies are used for authentication (to remember when you are logged-in) and support other features of our Services.
• Performance Tracking Technologies –
  These Tracking Technologies collect information about your online activity (for example the duration of your visit on our Services), including behavioral data and content engagement metrics. These Tracking Technologies are used for analytics, research and to perform statistics (based on aggregated information).
• Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies –
  These Tracking Technologies are used to deliver tailored offers and advertisements to you, based on your derived interests, as well as to perform email marketing campaigns. They can also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by our advertisers (for example advertising networks) and provide them insights about the people who see and interact with their ads, visit their websites or use their app.
• Social media Tracking Technologies –
  Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” or “Share” buttons. These features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing these features.

 

Tracking Technologies	Type	Purpose
Analytics Cookies	First party Tracking Technology	Performance Tracking Technologies   These Tracking Technologies are used to collect information regarding how you interact with the content on our Services, attribution purposes (for example, the referral URL), etc. We use the information to compile reports, calculate the revenues due to us and, help us improve the Services and to offer personalized products and content.
DoubleClick (by Google)	Third party Tracking Technology	Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies DoubleClick uses cookies to improve advertising. Some common applications are to target advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance, and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. You can read more on Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s Cookie Policy
YouTube	Third party Tracking Technology	Functionality/ Performance Tracking Technologies   The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. For more information about Google cookies, please read the Google Privacy Policy.
Outbrain	Third party Tracking Technology	Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies This Tracking Technology is used to collect data used for recommending relevant related content. Outbrain Privacy Policy
Google Analytics and Data Studio	Third party Tracking Technology	Performance Tracking Technologies This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our Services. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Services. The cookies collect the number of visitors to the Services, where visitors have come to the Services from and the pages they visited, and other data. Google Privacy Policy
Google AdWords	Third party Tracking Technology	Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies   We use Google AdWords which uses cookies to help us determine how many people who clicked on our Google Ads end up contacting us through our websites. This tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click on a Google Ad and these cookies help us increase the website’s effectiveness for our visitors. Google Privacy Policy
Other cookies	First and Third party Tracking Technology	Strictly necessary Tracking Technologies – these unlisted cookies might be in use on internal sections of the Services, in order to customize and simplify the user experience on the site by remembering choices you made and your log in credentials.

 

How to manage your cookie settings

Please note that we do not recognize or respond to automated browser signals regarding Tracking Technologies, including “Do Not Track” requests. However, there are various ways in which you can manage and control your cookie settings. Please remember that, by deleting or blocking cookies, some of the features of the Services may not work properly or as effectively.

• Turning off cookies via your web browser
  Most web browsers will provide you with some general information about cookies, enable you to see what cookies are stored on your device, allow you to delete them all or on an individual basis, and enable you to block or allow cookies for all websites or individually selected websites. You can also normally turn off third party cookies separately. Please note that the settings offered by a browser or device often only apply to that particular browser or device.
• Information about cookies is usually found in the “Help” section of the web browser. Below are some links to some commonly used web browsers:
  • Chrome
  • Chrome for mobile
  • Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Safari
• Turning off third party cookies
  You can turn off certain third party targeting/advertising cookies by visiting the following link: Network Advertising Initiative.