What are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them?
Cookies are small text files that our website stores in your browser's memory. They are commonly used to support various functions on our websites.
Cookies serve several useful functions, such as letting us know which web pages you visit most frequently, understanding the effectiveness of our website for you, and improving how we communicate information about our products and services to you.
We do not use cookies to directly identify you as an individual. However, some information collected by cookies may be considered personal data (such as web browsing history or your device information).
Depending on their purpose, cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies:
- Persistent cookies are stored on your device until you delete them or your browser deletes them when they expire.
- Session cookies are temporary and will expire when you close your browser or when your session ends.
What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
To help you better understand the cookies we apply to our websites, we have categorized them into four groups: Essential, Performance, Functionality, and Targeting.
Group 1: Essential
These cookies are crucial for the operation of our website, your browsing experience, and they are also used for authentication and security purposes.
We use information collected by these cookies to:
Monitor our websites to ensure they function correctly and deliver content reliably.
Transfer your information between pages to avoid re-entering information when necessary.
Because essential cookies are necessary for our website to function, we cannot disable them. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but opting out may impact certain parts of our website from functioning properly.
Group 2: Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit and whether you encounter any errors during your visit. They may also be used for website analytics.
The data collected by these cookies is aggregated and does not directly identify you as an individual.
We use the information collected by these cookies to:
Understand how our website is being used and how effective our campaigns are.
Test different versions of our website to improve them.
Limiting these cookies on your browser may affect your browsing experience on our websites.
Group 3: Functionality Cookies
These cookies remember your actions so we can enhance, improve, and personalize your access to our website.
We use information collected from these cookies to:
Personalize our website content based on your preferences.
Provide you with various web services, including the ability to watch videos.
Limiting these cookies on your browser may prevent our website from remembering your previous choices or personalizing your browsing experience.
Group 4: Targeting Cookies
We or our third-party partners may place targeting cookies (also known as advertising cookies) on your browser while you browse our website to tailor our marketing activities to your preferences and interests.
Targeting cookies do not directly identify you. They record information such as your visits to our websites, details of other websites that referred you to our websites, your responses to our online advertisements, and websites you have visited, helping us and our partners understand how to communicate relevant information, products, and services to you and other potential customers.
To gain these insights, we may analyze your personal information to create profiles based on your interests and preferences, allowing us to deliver information relevant to you.
We use information collected from these cookies to:
Customize our advertisements or offers to suit your preferences (including ads on our websites or third-party websites, such as social networks or other platforms).
Make our websites more relevant to your interests based on your previous visits.
Data collected by these cookies is not used to send direct marketing messages to you. Therefore, disabling these cookies will not necessarily prevent you from receiving marketing information from us. You can opt out of receiving marketing information from us at any time, and you can find more details about this in our Privacy Policy.
Third-party Cookies
We may work with third parties to set the cookies mentioned above when you interact with our website. Third parties include our partners and service providers, such as advertisers, search engines, social networks, or analytics platforms, enabling us to improve and personalize your experience on our websites and deliver relevant content to you.
We do not share any data with third parties that could identify you.
Third parties may also set cookies on your device when you visit websites that are not owned by us. These cookies are subject to the third party's cookie policy, which we do not control. You can always choose not to use third-party cookies through your browser settings (see Cookie Management below).
Cookie Management
You can opt out of accepting cookies by changing your browser settings. Most web browsers are initially set to accept cookies. By changing these settings, in most cases, you can choose not to accept any cookies or not to accept third-party cookies.
Deleting cookies in your browser settings means any preferences you have set on a website will be lost (including any cookie-related preferences you have agreed to).
Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of our websites as described above. We recommend not disabling all cookies when using our websites.