What are Cookies and How Do They Work?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites. Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to provide you with the best experience possible.
Our cookies:
- Help make our website work optimally and help you navigate our website more easily
- Save your credentials so you don’t have to re-enter them every time you visit the website
- Remember your settings
- Improve the speed and security of the website
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
- Personalize your experience on our website, so you can find what you need faster
- Continuously help us improve our website for you
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any information that is personally identifiable (without your express consent)
- Collect any sensitive information
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
More About Cookies
Third-party functions
Our website, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.
We use the following third-party cookies:
Disabling cookies may limit the functions offered by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
So that you can easily “like” or share our content on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, we have included sharing buttons on our website.
Cookies are set by:
- LinkedIn
- Facebook
- Twitter
Each of these websites or applications has its own privacy policy and cookie policy. Please refer to the individual website or application policy regarding your choices for settings.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics, such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (to help us identify when our website isn't working as it should), how long they spend on the website and what pages they look at. This helps us continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us how people reached our website (from a search engine, a social website or other channels) and whether they have been here before. This helps us to put more resources into developing our services for you.
We use the following visitor statistics cookies:
- Google Analytics – this web analytics service helps us understand where our website traffic is coming from and how visitors use and navigate our website. You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics. (Google Analytics Privacy Policy)
Advertising and Remarketing Cookies
We may permit third-party ad networks, social media companies and other third-party services to collect information about browsing behavior from visitors to our websites through third-party cookies, social plug-ins, or other tracking technology. We may permit third party online advertising networks to collect information about your use of our websites over time so that they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests on our websites as well as on other services. Typically, the information is collected through cookies or similar tracking technologies.
We use the following advertising cookies:
Interactive Tools (Phil)
We may use third parties to provide certain interactive features on our websites. Your use of these interactive features is voluntary, and we may track, record and retain the information that you submit through these features. For example, we may offer an interactive chat feature, Phil, on our website to respond to questions and otherwise provide customer service. When you participate in the interactive chat, the contents of the chat may be captured and kept as a transcript. By using these features, you understand that our third parties may process the information obtained through the feature to provide the service on our behalf.
Your Choices
The only way to completely opt out of the collection of any information through cookies or other tracking technology is to actively manage the settings on your browser or mobile device. Please refer to your browser’s or mobile device’s technical information for instructions on how to delete and disable cookies and other tracking/recording tools.
To learn more about cookies and related technologies and how you may opt out of some of this tracking, you may wish to visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us. You can also read our Privacy Policy.
