Cookie Policy

Our Cookie Policy for our SITE(s), (collectively, the "SITES", or individually, a "SITE", the "SERVICE" or "we/our").

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, Flash cookies, etc.) are small (text) files (containing a string of characters) that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for? Cookies allow a site or services to know if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.

What types of cookies does we use?

There are generally four categories of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” We routinely uses all four categories of cookies on the SITE. You can find out more about each cookie category below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential, as they enable you to move around the SITE and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.
Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the SITE, for example, information related to the unique username you have provided, so that less strain is placed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have logged in so that we can serve you fresher content than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and changes on the SITE. The information collected is used to improve how the SITE works.
Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, whether you chose to no longer see advertisements, whether you made an edit to an article on the SITE while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of SITE tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the SITE to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the SITE in other ways, such as customizing the toolbars we offer in the right column of every page. The information these cookies collect may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activity on other sites or services.
Targeting Cookies. We, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on other sites or services other than SITE. This information may be shared with organizations outside SITE, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate SITE usage statistics and aggregate SITE testing.

How long will cookies stay on my device?

The length of time a cookie will stay on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

First and third party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to SITE, third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our SITE. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for SITE, for example to help us understand how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet.

How to control and delete cookies

If you want to delete cookies follow the instructions from your browser manual. If you wish to disable your browser from receiving cookies follow the instructions from your browser manual. Note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain parts of our SITE and other parts of our SITE may not work properly.