This policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website. It is important that you understand what cookies are and how to use them.
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data — like a username and password — that are used to identify your computer as you use a network. Specific cookies are used to identify specific users and improve their web browsing experience. Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labelled with an ID unique to you and your computer. When the cookie is exchanged between your computer and the network server, the server reads the ID and knows what information to specifically serve you.
Types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies are cookies required for the website to function and provide the basic information requested by the website user. These cookies are exempt from collecting user consent and can be set regardless.
- Functional cookies help you as a website owner to personalize your end-users browsing experience. Unlike necessary cookies, these cookies support additional functionality that enhances your site. These cookies are anonymous and don’t track browsing activity across other websites.
- Marketing cookies are usually third-party persistent cookies that track visitor web activity to provide targeted advertisement. These cookies, unlike statistical cookies, are used to support online marketing by collecting information about the users to promote products through partners and other platforms.
- First-party cookies are set and stored by the visited website itself. The data collected by these cookies are usually only available to the website owner.
- Third-party cookies are created and set by a service that differs from the one the user is visiting. Third-party services set these cookies, and the data collected can usually be accessed on any website that utilises the same service.
- Social media cookies are cookies used to connect a website to a third-party social media platform. They remember a user's details after the user signs in to a social media account from a website. Many social media cookies are set through plugins, widgets, and sharing buttons.
We and our service providers may collect certain information automatically as you navigate around the Service. Except where allowed by applicable law, we place cookies after having received your consent through the cookie banner or preference center. We and our service providers may also automatically collect and use information in the following ways as you navigate around the Service:
a) Through your browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, and Internet browser type and version. We may collect similar information, such as your device type and identifier, if you access the Service through a mobile device. We use this information to ensure that the Service functions properly.
b) Using cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Service, pages visited, and language preferences. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Service. We also use cookies to recognize your computer or device, which makes your use of the Service easier, such as to remember what is in your shopping cart. In addition, we use cookies to gather statistical information about Service usage in order to continually improve its design and functionality, understand how individuals use it, and to assist us with resolving questions regarding it. Cookies further allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the Service. We may also use cookies in online advertising to track consumer responses to our advertisements.
c) You can refuse to accept these cookies by following your browser’s instructions; however, if you do not accept them, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Service. You may also not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
d) Using pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, or other similar technologies: These may be used in connection with some Service pages and HTML‑formatted e‑mail messages to, among other things, track the actions of users and e‑mail recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about Service usage.
e) Interest-based advertising: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and services that may be of interest to you when you access and use the Service and other online services, based on information relating to your access and use of the Service and other online services on any of your devices. To do so, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags). They may also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop.
If you would like more information about this practice, and to learn how to opt-out of it, in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/. You may download the AppChoices app at www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt-out in mobile apps.
f) IP address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits the Service, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many online services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating Service usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Service. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
g) Device Information: We may collect information about your mobile device, such as a unique device identifier, to understand how you use the Service.