Opting Out of Advertising and Managing Cookies

You can delete cookies from your hard drive, including cookies which have already been set. You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control Cookies. In some cases, you can choose to accept Cookies from the primary site that you were visiting when the Cookie(s) were set, but block them from third parties. In other cases, you can block Cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all Cookies. Deleting or blocking Cookies on your device may reduce functionality of our Website and the Services. To learn more about how to delete or reject Cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems with deleted Cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.

If you would like to opt out of our third party Analytics Cookies, please do so by clicking via the link below:

Google Analytics – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

We offer you an “opt-out cookie” to block the placement of our behavioral advertising cookies on your system for five years from the time you opt out. (Please note, however: For users of Google Chrome browser, as of Chrome release M104 (August 2022) cookies may no longer set an expiration date more than 400 days in the future). When we detect our opt-out cookie on your browser, we do not serve you with interest-based advertising on the browser or device from which you have opted-out, or on the browsers or devices that we believe are linked to your opted-out browser or device. However, please understand that if you delete your cookies or begin using a new browser or device, the previous action you took to opt-out of cookies will no longer be valid and you will need to opt out again. Please also understand that browser settings that block all cookies may prevent the opt-out from operating correctly and certain privacy software may delete the opt-out cookie or cause it to function incorrectly. Furthermore, the opt-out cookie is not effective on devices that do not accept or otherwise support cookies, such as iOS based mobile devices, internet connected televisions and other non-cookie-based connected devices and applications.

Advertisements from the Services may also appear on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. These platforms each have separate mechanisms for opting out of interest-based advertising. Please visit the links below to opt out of seeing interest-based advertising on these platforms.

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

Instagram – https://www.facebook.com/help/instagram/2885653514995517

Twitter – https://twitter.com/en/privacy

If you would like to disable “third party” Cookies generated by advertisers or providers of interest-based advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party’s website and getting them to generate a one-time “no thanks” Cookie that will stop any further Cookies being written to your machine. The online advertising industry provides websites from which you may opt out of interest-based advertising from other companies that participate in industry self-regulatory programs. 

The US-based opt out pages are www.aboutads.info/choices and www.networkadvertising.org/choices. The European based page is www.youronlinechoices.com.

We use Cookies on our Website and in the Services to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features, to analyze our traffic, and to recognize your device.  We also may share information about your use of our Website and the Services with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. This section explains what Cookies are, how we use Cookies and similar technologies on our Website and the Services and what you can do to manage how Cookies are used.

A Cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website and Services.  The Cookie will collect information relating to your use of our Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our Website and the Services via a link from a third party site, the URL of the linking page.

In addition to Cookies, our Website and email marketing communications may use web beacons.  A web beacon, also known as a tracking pixel, is a line of code which is used by a website or email marketing communications or, less frequently, a third party ad server to measure a user’s activity, such as interaction with an advertisement or purchase of a service or product, and to validate user engagement with advertisements for purposes of facilitating future advertising.  A web beacon is often invisible because it is only 1 x 1 pixel in size with no color.  A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF and tracker GIF.

ESSENTIAL

These are Cookies which are essential for the running of our Website and Services. Without these Cookies, parts of our Website and Services would not function.  These Cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.

Examples of how we may use essential Cookies include:

FUNCTIONAL

These Cookies are used to remember your preferences on our Website and Service and to provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these Cookies is usually De-Identified Information, so we cannot identify you personally.  Functional Cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information which could be used for selling advertising.

Examples of how we may use functional Cookies include:

ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE 

Analytical performance Cookies are used to monitor the performance of our Website, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users our Website and Services have. We use this information to improve user experience or identify areas of the Website and Services which may require maintenance.  The information is De-Identified Information and it is only used for statistical purposes.

Examples of how we may use analytical Cookies include:

ADVERTISING 

Behavioral advertising Cookies, which may be placed on your device by us or our trusted third party service providers, remember that you have visited a website and use that information to provide you with advertising which is tailored to your interests. This is often called online behavioral advertising and is done by grouping together shared interests based upon web browsing history. Your web browsing history can be used to infer things about you (e.g. your age, gender etc.), and this information may also be used to make advertising on websites more relevant to you.  Although behavioral advertising Cookies can track your activity around the internet, these Cookies cannot identify you personally, even if you are signed in to our Website and Services.  

Examples of how we may use advertising Cookies include:

THIRD PARTY COOKIES

You may notice on some pages of our Website and Services that Cookies have been set that are not related to us. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third party service providers may set their own Cookies on your device. We do not control the use of these third party Cookies and cannot access them due to the way that Cookies work, as Cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third party websites for more information about these Cookies.

OPTING OUT OF TARGETED ADVERTISING THROUGH OUR ADVERTISING PARTNERS

As part of our commitment to transparency and compliance with industry standards, we want to inform you about the specific partners we work with and their respective opt-out mechanisms. Personal Information that we collect may be used to target ads to Audience Members and other consumers, which is sometimes referred to as targeted advertising. These advertising services are activated through our advertising technology partners, which include The Trade Desk, Yahoo, Beeswax, Freewheel, StackAdapt, Google Display & Video 360, Xandr/Microsoft Invest and Amazon Ads. You can exercise your choice to opt out of receiving targeted advertising by contacting these partners using the following links:

These links will direct you to the respective opt-out mechanisms where you can manage your preferences directly with each partner. 

Please note that while these links will help you manage your advertising preferences with our partners, we encourage you to review the privacy policies and opt-out processes of each partner for more comprehensive details.