Our use of cookies and similar technologies.
First of all, we do NOT sell your personal information. However, when you access our site, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to make your experience better, faster and safer, for advertising purposes, and to continue improving our sites, services, applications and tools. Any personal information or data collected by these technologies is used only by us or our authorized service providers or on our behalf, and you always have full control over whether these technologies can work on your device.
What are cookies and similar technologies
These technologies are basically small data files that are placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device (collectively, a "device"), and allow us to record information when you access our website. Although these technologies are often given the general name "Cookies", each of them works in a slightly different way, which is explained in more detail below:
Cookies: cookies are small text files (usually encrypted) that are placed in your browser's memory or device when you access a website or view a message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:
- Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
- Persistent cookies are stored on your device between browser sessions, which allows us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
- First-party cookies are those set by a website you accessed at that time to preserve your settings (for example, while you are on our site).
- Third-party cookies are placed in your browser by a website or domain that is not the website or domain you are currently visiting. If a user accesses a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, it would be a third-party cookie.
On our website, cookies are used for a variety of purposes. As an example, we use cookies to store information that allows us to present our site to you in your local language or prices in your local currency. We also use cookies to communicate data to our servers when you visit us, which allows you to stay logged into your account during your visit or maintain the site preferences you choose. Preventing your browser from accepting first-party cookies will prevent the placement of some cookies that are classified as "essential".
Similar technologies: technologies that store information in your browser or device through local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods. These technologies can operate in all your browsers. In some instances, the browser may not fully manage these technologies, so it may be necessary to manage them directly through your installed applications or your device. We do not use these technologies to store information in order to provide you with targeted advertising on or off our sites.
What technologies we use and why
Our cookies and similar technologies have several purposes, but in general (1) they are necessary or fundamental for the operation of our site, (2) they help us improve performance and offer you more features, (3) they help us present relevant and targeted ads, or (4) they allow us to offer you support tools that you use to interact with our customer service guides:
Strictly necessary or fundamental: "strictly necessary" or "fundamental" cookies and similar technologies allow you to move around the website and use its fundamental features, such as secure areas and shopping carts. Without these technologies, the services you have requested cannot be provided. Note that these technologies do not collect information about you that can be used for marketing or to remember where you have been on the Internet. Acceptance of these technologies is a condition for being able to use our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging. Therefore, if you use tools that may prevent them from loading, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use them or how security will respond during your access.
Performance: Performance technologies may include cookies, web beacons/pixels, and first-party or third-party scripts placed to collect information about you about how you use our website (pages you visit, whether you experience any errors, load times). These cookies do not collect information that could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our website works, understand the interests of our users and measure the effectiveness of our content by providing anonymous statistics and data about how our website is used.
Advertising: Advertising technology may include cookies, web beacons/pixels and first-party or third-party scripts placed to collect information about the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, deliver personalized content, or generate data that allows the delivery of advertising relevant to your specific interests on our sites, as well as third-party websites. We also use third-party service providers to help us fulfill the same functions, which means that our authorized service providers may also place cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on your device through our services (first-party and third-party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as the IP address, or other unique or device identifiers.
Technical support: Technical support technologies may include first-party or third-party cookies, web beacons/pixels and scripts placed to provide you with tools to interact with our customer service teams. This technology allows us to provide chat services, collect customer feedback, and other tools used to provide technical support to our visitors. The data collected for these purposes is never used for marketing or advertising purposes.
How to manage, control and delete these technologies
You can manage certain cookies and similar technologies by accessing our Manage Settings control panel.
You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser that allows you to reject cookies in part or in full. However, if you use your browser's settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), the use of certain features or functions of our website or service may be limited. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to reject cookies, our system will apply them as soon as you visit our site. Note that, as detailed in our privacy policy, we currently do not change our practices when we receive a "Do Not Track" signal from a visitor's browser.
Internet browsers allow you to modify cookie settings. Generally, the settings are found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your Internet browser.