Cookie policy (PECR, GDPR and DPA 2018)
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.]
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Title Cookie Name |
Purpose | More information |
| Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Services and how users use our Services. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. The information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It includes the number of visitors to our Services, the websites that referred them to our Services, the pages that they visited on our Services, what time of day they visited our Services, whether they have visited our Services before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Services more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Services. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our Services works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here. You can find out more about how Google protects your data here. You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Services by downloading and installing the browser plugin available here. |
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| Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Services or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. The social network will record that you have done this and collect information from you which may be your personal information. |
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| Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with our permission, third-party advertisers can place cookies to enable them to show ads which we think will be relevant to your interests while you are on third-party websites. |
[Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Third Party Cookies: We also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers listed below to help measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies “remember” what our users have done on previous pages and how they’ve interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google’s information page. For instructions on how opt-out of Google Analytics, see below.
Advertising cookies are used on our website to tailor marketing to you and your interests and provide you with more personalized service in the future. These cookies remember that you visited our website and we may share this information with third-parties, such as advertisers. Although these cookies can track your device’s visits to our website and other sites, they typically cannot personally identify you. Without these cookies, the advertisements that you see may be less relevant and interesting to you. Read more about how companies use cookies to conduct targeted or retargeted advertising here. We do not set advertising cookies through our merchants’ storefronts ourselves, though merchants may choose to do so independently.
Finally, Social and Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (for example the Facebook ’like’ button), and other tools meant to provide or improve the content on a website (for example services that allow the playing of video files, or that create comments sections). We integrate these modules into our platform to improve the experience of browsing and interacting with our websites. Please note that some of these third-party services place cookies that are also used for things like behavioral advertising, analytics, and/or market research.
Reporting and Analytics
| Third-Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
| Google Analytics |
We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
https://policies.google.com/privacy |
| LinkedIn Analytics |
We use LinkedIn Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites. |
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy |
Advertising
| Third-Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
| Facebook Custom Audiences |
We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
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We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
https://policies.google.com/privacy | |
| Quora |
We use Quora to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our websites. |
https://www.quora.com/about/privacy |
Social Media
| Third-Party | Description | Privacy Policy |
| Facebook Connect |
We use Facebook Connect to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Facebook’s social media platform. |
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php |
| YouTube |
We use Youtube to display video content. |
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US |
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We use Twitter to allow visitors to our website to interact with and share content via Twitter’s social media platform. |
https://twitter.com/en/privacy |
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
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[We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.]
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2020.