Our cookies policy
In compliance with the
European Union legislation, we inform you that our website will store some
information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file
called a ‘cookie’.
A cookie is a small
piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer
or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions
or preferences over time.
You can delete all
cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers
to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have
to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some
services and functionalities may not work.
Most browsers support
cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can
delete them whenever they like. A third-party website called
aboutcookies.org has been setup to help you with instructions how you can
do that on various browsers.
We use cookies to:
1) Identify you as a
returning user and to count your visits in our traffic statistics analysis;
2) remember your
custom display preferences;
3) Suggest any recent
searches you’ve made on our site
4) Other usability
features including tracking whether you’ve already given your consent to cookies.
Enabling cookies from our
website is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it
will provide you with a better browsing experience.
The cookie-related
information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is
fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other
than those described here.
There may also be
other types of cookies created after you’ve visited our website. We
use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google,
Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the
site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our
website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by
Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for
the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on
website activity and providing other services relating to website activity
and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third
parties where required to do so by law, or where such third
parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not
to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Third Party
Advertising
We may have
third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit our
website.
These companies may
store information about your visits to our website and to other websites
in order to provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and
services.
These companies may
employ cookies and other identifiers to gather information which measures
advertising effectiveness. The information is generally not personally
identifiable unless, for example, you provide personally identifiable
information to them through an ad or an e-mail message.
Information
Gathered by Third Party Advertisers
Cookies enable
advertisers to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other
actions you take on our site and other sites. This allows
advertisers to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. For example,
if they know what ads you are shown while visiting our site, they can be
careful not to show you the same ones repeatedly. They do not associate your
interaction with unaffiliated sites with your identity in providing you
with interest-based ads.
We do not provide any
personal information to advertisers or to third party sites. Advertisers
and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies,
and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who
interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the
group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, readers in the
Pacific Northwest who read certain types of articles). Also, some
third-party cookies may provide them with information about you (such as
the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from
offline and online sources that they may use to provide you more relevant
and useful advertising.
If you would like to
learn more about what options you have about limiting the gathering of information
by third-party ad networks, you can consult the website of the Network
Advertising Initiative.
You can opt out of
participating in interest-based advertising networks but opting out does
not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that
the companies from which you opted out will no longer customize ads based
on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based technology.
Type and Purpose of
Collection
We collect information
at various points in the Website to facilitate its use by our
customers. Non-Personal Information: Upon accessing the Website, certain
non-personal information will be automatically collected without your
knowledge or consent, such as your IP address, location data (which is anonymous)
and the referring website (“Non-Personal Information”). We
use Non-Personal Information to examine our traffic and to view how our
customers use the Website. This type of information will not allow you to
be personally identified. For example, we use “cookies”, which contains
only certain statistical information. You can instruct your computer to
inform you whenever a cookie is being sent, or you can disallow cookies
through your web browser. If you do choose to disallow cookies, your
experience on the Website may be diminished, or your ability to choose
some of the options on the Website may be limited.
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Sharing Information
We will not sell, rent
or disclose to outside parties the information we collect, save and
except that we may share the collected information with other parties as
follows:
(a) Affiliated Service
Providers: We have agreements with various affiliated service providers
to facilitate the functioning of the Website, with whom we may share the
information we have collected. For example, we may share your credit card
information with the credit card service provider to process your
purchase. All administrative service providers that we use are required to
have the same level of privacy protection as we have, and therefore we expect
that your information will be handled with the same level of care that we
employ. Additionally, for example, we may use analytic or marketing
services such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Taboola, or RevContent,
to which collection you hereby unconditionally consent.
(b) Where required by
law: We may share the collected information where required by
law, specifically in response to a demand from government authorities
where such demand meets the legal requirements.
(c) Statistical
Analysis: We may share Non-Personal Information and aggregated
information with third parties, including but not limited to for
advertising or marketing purposes. No Personal Information will be shared
in this manner.
(d) Transactions: In
connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of
company assets, financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where
Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred as one of our
business assets.
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Choices and How To
Opt Out Of Interest-Based Advertising
(a) Opting Out of
Interest-Based Advertising Services
This website is a
member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and adheres to the NAI
Codes of Conduct as described on the NAI website. This website also
adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA)
Self-Regulatory Principles. For a description of the DAA Program, please
visit the DAA website. As described above, this website may use or
transfer Device Data that it directly collects or that it receives from
this website’s Customers, who may use cookies or non-cookie technologies, to
enable advertising that is more tailored to Consumers’ inferred interests,
preferences, and locations. This practice is known as interest-based
advertising.
(b) Opting Out of
Interest-Based Advertising by Third Parties
This website may
permit third parties to collect information on its Site and combine
that information with other information collected on non-affiliated
websites or applications over time. These third parties may use
technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect information
about Consumers’ or Customers’ use of the Site in order to analyze, report on,
or customize content or advertising on the this website or on other sites,
or to help us operate and improve the Site. To find out more about interest-based
advertising in the web environment, and how to opt-out of information
collection for this purpose by companies that participate in the Network
Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit NAI’s opt-out
page or DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.