AD AND COOKIE POLICY

WE USE COMMON TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES.

We utilize online identification technologies – such as cookies, web beacons, or pixels – on our Site, but only if you have consented to such technologies. Cookies are commonly used, small text files placed on your hard drive by us or a third party when you visit the Site. Cookies store information which is then sent back to our servers or those of third parties.


As described in more detail below, we use these technologies:

• To recognize new or past customers.
• To store your password if you are registered on our site.
• To improve our website and to better understand your visits on our platforms.To integrate with third party social media websites.
• To serve you with interest-based or targeted advertising (see below for more on interest-based advertising). To observe your behaviors and browsing activities over time across multiple websites or other platforms.
• To better understand the interests of our customers and our website visitors.

Some cookies are required for certain uses of the Site. For example, if you choose to register an account with the Site, we will use cookies to facilitate your registration and remember your preferences. It is not possible to register an account unless you accept the cookies used as part of registration. 

We use functional cookies and cookies from third parties for analysis and marketing purposes. Functional cookies enable certain parts of the site to work properly, your user preferences to remain known, and you to login using social network user credentials. Analysis cookies, among other things, collect information on how visitors use our Site, the content and products that users view most frequently, and the effectiveness of our third party advertising. Advertising cookies assist in delivering ads to relevant audiences and having our ads appear at the top of search results. Cookies are either “session” cookies which are deleted when you end your browser session, or “persistent” cookies, which remain until their deletion by you (discussed below) or the party who served the cookie. Full details on all of the cookies used on the Site are available at our cookie disclosure table below. 

We may link the information collected by cookies with other information we collect from you pursuant to our Privacy Policy and use the combined information as set forth therein. Similarly, the third parties who serve cookies on our Site may link your name or email address to other information they collect, which may include past purchases made offline or online, or your online usage information.

WE ENGAGE IN INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING.

We and our partners display interest-based advertising using personal information gathered about you over time across multiple websites or other platforms. This might include apps.

Interest-based advertising or “online behavioral advertising” includes ads that are served to you after you leave our website, encouraging you to return. They also include ads we think are relevant to you based on your browsing habits or online activities. These ads may be served on websites or apps. They might also be served in emails. We might serve these ads, or third parties may serve ads. They might be about our products or other companies’ products.


HOW DO WE GATHER RELEVANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU FOR INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING?

To decide what is relevant to you, we use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties. This information is gathered using the tracking tools described above. For example, we or our partners might look at your purchases or browsing behaviors. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others.

We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. That might include past purchases made offline or online. Or, it might include online usage information.


YOU CAN CONTROL CERTAIN TRACKING TOOLS.

You can set your browser settings either to receive our cookies or use our Site without cookie functionality. To control flash cookies, we may use on certain websites from time to time, you can go to this link for instructions, as Flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings. Please note that if you decline use of cookies, some functions of the Site may be unavailable and, unfortunately, we will not be able to present personally tailored content and advertisements to you. 

Our Do Not Track Policy: Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that allow you to tell a website not to track you. This feature lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those Do Not Track signals. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.

Certain choices you make are browser and device-specific.


YOU CAN OPT-OUT OF ONLINE BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING

The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for advertising purposes. To opt out of having your online behavior collected for advertising purposes, go here.

Certain choices you make are both browser and device specific.


WE USE SPECIFIC TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES