Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners. Cookies help us remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings, making your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several purposes, including:

• Authentication: To identify you when you visit our Site and as you navigate our Site (cookies used for this purpose are essential).
• Preferences: To store information about your preferences and personalize the Site for you (e.g., remembering your login status, language settings).
• Security: To protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our Site and services generally.
• Analysis: To help us analyze the use and performance of our Site and services (e.g., using Google Analytics).
• Advertising: We may use cookies to help us display advertisements that will be relevant to you (this may involve third-party cookies).

3. Types of Cookies We Use

The specific cookies we use may vary, but they generally fall into the following categories:

• Essential Cookies: These are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Site functions.
• Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site (e.g., which pages you visit most often) and remember choices you make (e.g., your user name, language) to provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies are not essential but help improve user experience.
• Analytics and Customization Cookies: These cookies collect information used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Site is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Site for you. (Example: Google Analytics cookies).
• Advertising (Targeting) Cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed, and in some cases selecting advertisements based on your interests. We may share this information with third parties for these purposes.

4. Third-Party Cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies (e.g., Google Analytics, advertising partners) to report usage statistics of the Site, deliver advertisements on and through the Site, and so on. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your use of the Site and other websites.

5. Your Choices Regarding Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by setting or amending your web browser controls. Most browsers provide information and control over cookies through their settings menus. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Site though your access to some functionality and areas may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

Additionally, many advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

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