Cookies on our services
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your browser by websites you visit. Cookies help websites remember information about your visit. That information makes it easier to visit the site again as well as make the site more relevant to you. Other technologies, such as unique identifiers used to identify an app or device, pixels, browser, and local storage, can also be used for these purposes. Cookies and other technologies as described throughout this page can be used for the purposes described below.
When you use our Services, your browser may receive cookies or other aforementioned similar technologies from us and the third parties that collect information on our Services. We use cookies to ensure that we provide you a high-quality experience on our Services and to show you advertising that is relevant to you.
However, if you prefer, you can change your cookie settings. For example, some browsers have bulti-in options that allow the you to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify you each time a cookie is sent or received. You may elect to reject cookies by adjusting these settings, but doing so may limit the range of features available to you on our Services and other major websites that use cookies.
There are four types of cookies used on our Services. They are:
- Essential cookies – These cookies enable you to use our Services. They are essential to enable you to browse our Services as well as use certain features. Disabling them may prevent you from using certain parts of our Services. They also serve to keep our Services safe and secure.
- Preference cookies – These cookies store information such as your preferred country and website preferences. Without these cookies, our Services may not be able to remember certain choices you’ve made or personalize your browsing experience by providing you with the most relevant information. These cookies can also be used to recognize devices so that you do not have to provide the same information more than once.
- Performance cookies – These cookies collect information about how you use our Services such as which pages and posts you visit regularly. These cookies are used to provide you with a high-quality experience by tracking page load time, site response times, and any error messages received.
- Content / advertising cookies – These cookies gather information about your use of our Services so we can continue to improve your experience and provide you with the most relevant content and advertising. They remember that you’ve visited our Services and help us understand the overall usage of our Services. Some of these cookies are from third parties that collect information about users of our Services in order to provide advertising (which may be on our Services and elsewhere) based on users’ online activities (so-called “interest-based advertising”) on our Services and elsewhere online. The third parties involved in interest-based advertising collect internet browsing information (e.g., websites visited, time spent visiting) across different websites and over various amounts of time, and they may use the information they collect on our Services to provide you ads (from us and other companies) across other websites.