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Cookies Policy
General Description
We use cookies, pixels, and other technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to recognize your browser or device, learn more about your interests, and provide you with essential features and services and for additional purposes.
If you opt out of advertising cookies, you may still see /platform name/ ads on other sites, but those ads will not be customized by us or our service providers and we will continue to customize your experience on our website via our use of cookies you have not refused.
Please note that some of the services will not function as well if cookies are disabled.
If you are a resident in the EU: For more information on managing cookies, please visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are transferred to your computer or mobile when you visit a website or app. Cookies are then sent back to the originating web domain on your subsequent visits to that domain. The Website, like most web pages, contains elements from multiple web domains so when you visit the Website, your browser may receive cookies from several sources.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember preferences and generally improve the user experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests through tracking your browsing across websites.
Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed (for example to remember your user preferences when you return to the site).
What kind of cookies do we use?
We use Analytics and Performance, Website Functionality and Advertising cookies to make your experience more enjoyable. The other ones you can switch on or off at any time and you can always change your mind. We’ll only use them if you’ve agreed.
Analytics and Performance: We make use of analytic cookies to analyze how our visitors use our Website and to monitor Website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. We might also use these cookies to highlight articles or site services that we think will be of interest to you based on your usage of the Website. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.
Website Functionality: We make use of cookies to provide you with certain functionality. For example, to remember choices you make (such as your username, language or the region you are in), or to recognize the platform from which you access the Website, and to provide enhanced and more personal features. These cookies are not used to track your browsing on other sites.
Advertising: Advertising cookies (also known as Third Party or targeting cookies) collect information about the browsing habits associated with your device and are used to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. Advertisers such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and others may have buttons embedded on our webpage that such as ‘Like' or ‘Share' buttons in addition to providing the requested functionality or if you click on an advertiser’s ad on our website and are taken to the advertiser’s website (these are Third Party Cookies).
What is the lifespan of cookies?
Analytics and Performance
Google (_ga) - for identifying unique users, and analyzing page and overall site performance: 2 Years;
Google (_gid) - for identifying unique users, and analyzing page and overall site performance: 24 hours;
Marketo - for tracking visitor behavior on the website to measuring campaign effectiveness when linked. Tracking is performed anonymously until a user identifies himself by submitting a form: 2 years;
Squarespace (ss_cid, ss_cpvisit, ss_cvr) - identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site: 2 years;
Squarespace (ss_cvisit, ss_cvt) - identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site: 2 years;
Adobe Analytics (s_ecid) - the purpose of this cookie is to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1^st^ party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired: 2 years;
Adobe Analytics (AMCV###AdobeOrg) - used to identify a unique visitor: 2 years;
Adobe Analytics (s_cc) - determines if cookies are enabled: expires when the browser is closed;
Adobe Analytics (s_sq) - only activated when ClickMap and Activity Map functionality is enabled and contains information about the previous link that was clicked by the user: expires when the browser is closed;
Adobe Analytics (s_vi) - used to identify unique visitor ID time/date stamp: 2 Years;
Adobe Analytics (s_fid) - used to identify a unique visitor if the standard s_vi cookie is unavailable due to third-party cookie restrictions: 5 Years;
Website Functionality
Setanta - for personalization and visitor analytics;
Squarespace – Crumb - prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in: session;
Advertising
YouTube - for social sharing: 2 Years;
Facebook - for social sharing: 2 Years;
Twitter - for social sharing: session and persistent;
Adobe Analytics (s_ecid) - the purpose of this cookie is to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1^st^ party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired: 2 years;
Adobe Analytics (AMCV###AdobeOrg) - sed to identify a unique visitor: 2 Years;
Adobe Analytics (s_cc) - determine if cookies are enabled: expires when the browser is closed;
Adobe Analytics (s_sq) - only activated when ClickMap and Activity Map functionality is enabled and contains information about the previous link that was clicked by the user: expires when the browser is closed;
Adobe Analytics (s_vi) - used to identify unique visitor ID time/date stamp: 2 Years;
Adobe Analytics (s_fid) - used to identify a unique visitor if the standard s_vi cookie is unavailable due to third-party cookie restrictions: 5 Years;
Adobe Audience Manager (demdex) - assign a unique ID to a site visitor. Which is used for visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. Lifetime: the demdex cookie has a time-to-live (TTL) interval of 180-days. The TTL is reset to 180-days upon each user interaction with a partner website. The cookie expires if a user does not come back to your site within the TTL interval.Opt-out: Audience Manager resets the cookie with a Do Not Target string if a user opts-out of data collection. In this case, the cookie TTL is set as 10 years.
Adobe Audience Manager (dextp) - used to record the last time it made a data synchronization call. Lifetime: The dextp cookie has a time-to-live (TTL) interval of 180-days.Opt-out: Audience Manager resets the cookie with a Do Not Target string if a user opts-out of data collection. In this case, the cookie TTL is set as 10 years.
Adobe Audience Manager (dst) - to record when there’s an error sending data to a destination: 180 Days;
Adobe Audience Manager (_dp) - used to determine if it can set other cookies in the demdex.net domain in a third-party context: immediately removes the cookie after it initially fires;
Adobe Data Connectors (integration_id) - lets data connectors remember the last integration in use;
Adobe Data Connectors (get_started) - lets data connectors know whether to display the Getting Started page;
Adobe Workbench (v1st) - used to identify a unique visitor and their visitor ID time/date stamp: persistent cookie;
Adobe Experience Cloud (s_ecid) - the purpose of this cookie is to allow persistent ID tracking in the 1^st^ party state and is used as a reference ID if the AMCV cookie has expired: 2 Years;
Adobe Experience Cloud (AMCV###@AdobeOrd) - used to identify a unique visitor ID used by Experience Cloud Solutions: 2 Years;
Adobe Target (mbox) - this cookie keeps values for session ID, pc ID, check, and disable to manage how visitors experience Target campaigns. session ID: Unique ID for a user Session; pc ID: Semi-permanent ID for a visitor’s browser; check: Test value to determine if a visitor supports cookies; disable: Set if a visitor’s load time exceeds the timeout configured in the mbox.js file. Lifetime: session ID - 30 minutes; pc ID - Until cookies are manually deleted; check - Resets each time a visitor requests a new page; disable - 1 hour;
How do I control my cookies and tracking?
Strictly necessary cookies are always on when you visit us. On your first visit to us, we’ll tell you about our other types of cookies and ask you to choose which cookies we can use.
Alternatively, privacy settings in most browsers will allow you to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, have it notified you when you receive a new cookie, or disable cookies altogether. If you delete or clear your cookies, or if you change which web browser you are using, you will need to set your cookie preferences again.
Local Shared Objects (“Flash cookies”)
In addition to the above cookies, we use Local Shared Objects, also referred to as “Flash cookies,” on our Website. These are used to enhance your user experience, for example, by storing your user preferences and settings, [such as your volume/mute settings, and in connection with animated content on our Website]. Local Shared Objects are similar to browser cookies, but can store more complex data than simple text. By themselves, they cannot do anything to or with the data on your computer. Like other cookies, they can only access personally identifiable information that you have provided on this Website, and cannot be accessed by other websites. To find out more about Flash cookies or how to disable them, please click here http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.
HTML email web beacons
Our emails may contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links within the email. We may use this information for purposes including determining which of our emails are more interesting to you, to query whether users who do not open our emails wish to continue receiving them. The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML.
Use of IP addresses and web logs
We may also use your IP address and browser type to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Website and to improve the services we offer to you. An IP address is a numeric code that identifies your computer on the internet. Your IP address might also be used to gather broad demographic information.
We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users' demographics.
Cookie Notice does not cover third party websites
Please note that this Cookie Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third-party websites which may be linked to this Website.
Changes to the Cookie Notice
We may update this Cookie Notice and we would encourage you to review the notice from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies.