WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are a commonly used tracking technology, comprised of 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.
WHY USE TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
There are five main purposes for using 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 need to obtain your consent in order to use some of 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
These Tracking Technologies include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” or “Share” buttons, or third party log‑in services. 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.
STORING TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We store Tracking Technologies when you visit or access our Services (typically, 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) – 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?
| Tracking Technology Partner |
Type |
Purpose |
| Functional Cookies |
1st & 3rdParty Tracking Technology |
Strictly necessary Tracking TechnologiesThese unlisted Tracking Technologies 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 can include your login credentials. |
| Analytics Cookies |
1st & 3rdParty Tracking Technology |
Functionality Tracking Technologies; Performance Tracking TechnologiesThese unlisted 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. |
| Facebook |
1st & 3rdParty |
Functionality Tracking Technologies; Performance Tracking Technologies;Marketing / Advertising & Social Media TrackingThese unlisted 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. |
| Google Tag Manager |
3rd Party |
Performance Tracking TechnologiesThis cookie is associated with Google Tag Manager which we use to load scripts into our website pages. More information can be found on Google’s Privacy Policy |
| Google Analytics |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Performance Tracking TechnologiesThis cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Platform. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Platform, where visitors have come to the Platform from and the pages they visited. You can read more on Google’s Privacy Policy |
| Moat (by Oracle) |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesMoat’s services enables website publishers to measure various parameters regarding their site, ads and to maintain quality benchmarks as set by the The Media Ratings Council. More information can be found here. |
| Facebook Connect, Twitter, Instagram, Linkedin |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Social Media Tracking TechnologiesOur website includes sharing buttons on social networks. All these platforms use their own cookies to recognize you if you are browsing after being connected to your accounts. For more information, please visit Facebook ‘s Privacy Policy, Google’s Privacy Policy, Twitter’s Privacy Policy, Linkedin’s Privacy Policy, and Instagram’s Privacy Policy. |
| DoubleClick (by Google) |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesDoubleClick 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. |
| Google Adsense |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesAdSense is the Google Display Network, a collection of millions of websites and mobile applications that are powered by display advertising, including many Google services. To learn more about how Google collects and uses information for online advertising, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy. |
| Google Audiences |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesGoogle Audiences uses insights and data collected with Google Analytics, in order to personalize and improve the relevancy of advertisements. More information can be found in the Google Audiences page and on Google’s Privacy Policy. |
| Amazon Associates |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesAmazon’s advertising API provides this site with programmatic access to Amazon’s product selection and discovery functionality so that it can advertise Amazon products. More information can be found on Amazon’s Privacy Notice. |
| Appnexus |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesAppNexus is a technology company whose cloud‑based software platform powers and optimizes the programmatic sale and purchase of digital advertising. You can read more on AppNexus’s Privacy Policy. |
| Criteo |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesCriteo provides a performance marketing engine. Compiling actual sales data and an unmatched network of global publishers, to make sense of digital user behavior across any device to deliver relevant, personalized ads that drive incremental sales. You can read more on their Privacy Policy. |
| Index Exchange |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesIndex Exchange provides technology to create a neutral, transparent exchange that enables digital publishers and suppliers to sell their ad impressions programmatically and in real‑time. You can read more on their Privacy Policy. |
| Optimizely |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesOptimizely… their Privacy Policy. |
| Media.net |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesMedia.net is a technology company whose cloud‑based software platform powers and optimizes the programmatic sale and purchase of digital advertising. You can read more on Media.net’s Privacy Policy. |
| SalesForce/Krux |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesSalesForce/Krux… their Privacy Policy. |
| HotJar |
3Rd Party Tracking Technology |
Marketing or Advertising Tracking TechnologiesHotjar… their Privacy Policy. |
HOW TO MANAGE YOUR COOKIE SETTINGS
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:
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
- Turning off third party cookies
