What do cookies look like?
Cookies and other tracking technologies (web beacons (single-pixel GIF images), scripts, and activity tags (which we collectively refer to as "cookies") are small text files that are usually stored on your hard drive, the user's computer, or browser. They enable websites to remember information about the user's visits to a given website. We use device identifiers and advertising identifiers similar to cookies for mobile websites and mobile applications.
We, together with certain third-party partners (as described below), use cookies on our websites, in mobile applications, and in emails and other communications that we send to you ("Sites").
Our Privacy Policy discusses the extent to which we use cookies for the purposes described above, the processing of your personal data, and details of how this personal data is used and your rights to it.
What types of cookies are applied on our website, and for what purposes?
We use "first party cookies," which are those used only by us or by third-party partners who only act on our instructions or our behalf. These cookies are used for our own analysis of our Sites or to provide functionality such as remembering language preferences.
Other cookies on our Website are accepted both by us for the purposes described in this policy and by third-party partners to combine information from our Sites with information from other parties to improve their service. Such cookies can be used to create personalized advertisements.
Cookies that are used on our Sites by third-party partners or by us may be "session" (temporary) or "persistent" ones. "Session" cookies are deleted in an automatic way when you close your browser and are used, for example, to ensure that you are logged in when navigating our Sites. "Persistent" cookies are stored on your device or browser even after you close it. These files are used, for example, to recognize you when you return to our Sites.
Our advertising cookies
We work with third-party partners who place cookies on our Sites to provide their services, such as:
Ad targeting. We collaborate with third-party advertising companies to display advertisements when you visit our Sites, and we allow those companies to place and access their own cookies on your computer. At the same time, they serve ads on our Sites.
These parties may use information obtained through their cookies (which do not include your name, address, email, or phone number) concerning your visits to our Sites and other websites, in combination with data about your acquisitions and interests from other websites, to deliver advertisements about goods and services in which you are interested.
We also allow certain third-party partners (as set out in our Privacy Policy to collect web log data from you (which may include your IP address, where permitted, and information about your web browser or your operating system) when you visit our sites, post or recognize unique cookies in your browser to allow you to receive personalized advertising or content Cookies may reflect unidentified usage data or other info linked to data you have voluntarily submitted to us, e.g., your email, which we may share with third-party partners only in encrypted, human-readable form.
Advertising analytics. As part of our online advertising campaigns, we use cookies for analytical purposes to understand how users interact with our Sites after viewing an online advertisement that may contain advertisements from third-party websites. Our Sites use, in particular, Google Analytics 360 Suite, including Google Analytics Advertising, which are analytical services and web analytics and advertising services provided by Google, Inc. that use third-party cookies. Where required, our Sites activate the IP anonymization function, which allows Google to shorten the user's IP address. Our Sites also use the following features available in Google Analytics: Google Remarketing, Google Segments, Google Ads Manager, and Google Ads. These features use third-party cookies to collect information about traffic to our site by tracking users across sites and over time and to generate reports that help us better understand our site visitors and create audiences for our ads.
Remarketing tags. We may also share visitors' website usage information with third-party advertising companies to manage and target advertisements and analyze market research on our Sites and other sites. To this end, our third-party advertising companies and we may place pixel tags (so-called "clean GIFs") on certain pages of our Sites. We use the information collected in this way to display relevant advertisements when you visit other websites. These ads may be based on your preferences, such as based on specific searches on our Sites during your previous browsing sessions.
Other Cookies: Our partners who offer certain features or display advertisements on our Sites founded on your browsing activity also use local depository, such as HTML5, to gather and store information about content and preferences. Please note that various web browsers offer their own tools for managing and removing local HTML5 storage.
Mobile devices, anonymous device identifiers, and hashed IDs. We and/or other companies acting on our behalf may collect and store a unique identifier tailored to your mobile device to deliver personalized advertising or matched content while using the application or to browse the internet or otherwise identify you on other devices or in browsers. To customize these ads or content, other companies, or we may collect usage data about you that you have voluntarily offered to us, for example, your email address, or data that has been passively collected, such as device ID or IP address, if allowed. If we share your email address, it is only in encrypted, human-readable form.
Cookie files - your choices
As described in this policy, we provide you with the option to choose cookies.
When you visit our Sites for the first time, where required by law, you can consent to use cookies for advertising and functional purposes or to object to using these cookies.
Browsers. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can change the settings, so the browser refuses certain cookies or informs you before accepting them. To do this, observe the instructions provided by your browser, which are usually found in the "Help," "Tools," or "Edit" tabs. Some third-party companies offer you the option to decline cookies directly by clicking on the opt-out link. In the table above, we tried to indicate where this is possible.
More information on cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. You can also check what cookies have been set on your device, how to manage them, and how to delete them.
Mobile devices. If you no longer wish to accept personalized advertising on your mobile apps, please refer to your device's operating system settings and follow the instructions below.
iOS: To use the "Limit Ad Tracking" option, follow the instructions provided by Apple here: Official Apple Support
Android: To use the "opt-out of interest-based advertising" option, please follow the instructions provided by Google here: Google Play Help.
You can also consider downloading the DAA AppChoices mobile app for managing online behavioral advertising technology.
If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising in your mobile browser, you can follow the browser steps outlined above.
Do Not Track Signals. We currently do not use technology that recognizes do not track signals from your browser.
Please note that without cookies, you may not be able to access certain features of our Sites, including your profile/account and certain personalized content. Deleting all cookies from your computer may also affect your subsequent visits to other sites, including our sites. For example, if you return to a site, you may have to re-enter your login details. Please note that even if you use any of the options described above, you will still see the advertisements. Still, they will not be based on information collected via the tracking technologies mentioned and will therefore not necessarily be related to your interests.