Guidelines on Cookies
This Cookie and Other Tracking Technologies Information statement describes the technologies that we uses to recognize you when you visit our websites (collectively, the “Sites”).
These technologies automatically collect information such as your browser type and IP address, as well as how you navigate and interact with our websites. Information collected through these means may be
linked to your personally-identifiable information to enhance your online experience, improve performance and usage of systems and help monitor and prevent unauthorized usage and escalation of privileges.
Our Use of Cookies: A Detailed Overview
Our Site uses cookies (alone or combined) to create a unique device ID, and to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to improve your experience and improve our Site.
Some cookies only last while you use our Site (or app). Some cookies are used to remember you when you visit again, and will last for longer. We use strictly necessary cookies if it is in our legitimate interests (balanced with your rights). We use all other cookies with your consent.
Tracking and Cookies via External Sources
We use features and services provided by third parties that may set cookies on our behalf. Commonly such services are embedded on our web pages to provide functionality such as video players and social media sharing tools. These third party services may set their own cookies which we cannot control or access.
For example these services allow us to provide a personalised experience based on your previous visits or location, allow you to easily comment on our blog posts using your Facebook account, to engage with social tools or to conveniently prefill fields in our online forms.
Advertising and marketing cookies
These cookies are used to measure advertising effectiveness and to deliver content that is relevant to your interests. They may be used to deliver behavioural/targeted advertising on other websites you visit or to highlight content and services we feel are of interest to you based on your activity on our websites and/or other websites within our advertising networks.
Variants of Tracking Mechanisms
Regulations Regarding the Use of Pixels and SDKs
You (or partners acting on your behalf) may not place pixels associated with your Business Manager or ad account on websites you do not own without our written permission. If you use our pixels or SDKs, you affirm that you have provided clear and prominent notice to users about the Customer Data collection, sharing, and usage that includes, at minimum:
- For websites, clear and prominent notice on each web page where our pixels are used that links to a clear explanation (a) that third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads, (b) how users can opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, and (c) where a user can access a mechanism for exercising such choice.
- For apps, a clear and prominent link that is easily accessible inside your app settings or any privacy policy and from within any store or website where your app is distributed that links to a clear explanation (a) that third parties may collect or receive information from your app and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads, and (b) how and where users can opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting.
Navigating Cookie Settings in Your Browser
Withdrawing Consent for Non-Essential Cookies: You may withdraw your consent to the use of non-essential cookies at any time by updating your privacy settings on our website, allowing you greater control over your browsing experience.
Additional Policies
Email Interaction Tracking
Our emails might include a web beacon pixel which helps us determine if our emails have been opened and how you interact with links within the email. We utilize this information to enhance the relevance of our communications. If you prefer not to have this tracking pixel, you may choose to view emails in plain text or disable image loading.