Use of Cookies
We use cookies on our Site.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a piece of information that is placed on your web browser or device when you access and/or use the Site. Cookies store text and can later be read back by the Site or third parties. Cookies can remember the information you access on one webpage to simplify your subsequent interactions with the Site or to use the information to streamline your transactions on related webpages.
Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies to recognize your browser and you as a unique visitor to the Site through an anonymous unique identifier. We use cookies to:
- recognize when you are logged in to your account on the Site;
- monitor and analyze how you use the Site or interact with us;
- remember your preferences to make your online experience easier and more personalized;
- route Site traffic to effectively distribute the Site workload across servers;
- use analytics, such as Google Analytics, to help understand how visitors come to and use the Site, including through combination with third-party cookies of our service providers;
- provide information to us about which advertisements you see and click or to show you ads on or off the Site; and
- test new features.
How You Can Manage Cookies
You can manage cookies through the Site’s option settings, found in our cookie banner at the bottom of our homepage or through your web browser’s option settings. You may be able to be notified when you are receiving new cookies and disable or delete cookies. Please refer to your web browser’s help section for information on whether you can and how to do this. The links below provide information about cookie settings for the browsers supported by the Site:
Many of the third party technologies that enable targeted banner advertising also allow you to opt out. Such third party service providers include Adroll, Rubicon, Google, Media Math, Perfect Audience, Quantcast, Retargeter, and Yahoo! among others. You can control your preferences directly with each such third party service provider.
To see how to opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, visit Google Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out listed below). Google also provides a Google Analytics opt-out plug-in for the web.
You can find more information on how Google Analytics works in this Google guide and on Facebook App Events here.
You can learn more about cookies at the following third party websites:
- All About Cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/; and
- Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/.