Cookie Policy

Cookies improve the user experience on our services because they allow websites and the companies publishing them to provide a variety of services, convenience features, and support a more personalized internet browsing experience for individuals, whether on their website or during a visitor’s overall internet browsing. The term "Cookies" in our Privacy Statement, and this Cookie Policy refers to cookies and other similar technologies such as “tags” or “pixels”. The term "Device" in this privacy notice refers to computers, smartphones and all other devices with internet access. Cookies are small, usually randomly coded text files that are sent to your computer and stored there. Cookies allow your internet browser to track certain information that may be retrieved and used by internet servers at a later stage. We use Cookies for several reasons, for example:

• Websites load faster;
• Websites may be browsed faster;
• Your settings, such as language and time zone, may be saved;
• Security on websites is improved since your identity may be verified; and
• Your log-in to secured websites is facilitated.

We include the following four categories of cookies on our services:

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary to provide and safeguard the functionalities of our Online Services and for the Online Services to operate. We set these cookies as required and in response to your actions, and they depend on how you choose to access and interact with our website as well as specific service(s) requested (e.g., setting your privacy preferences, filling out forms, or logging in).

More specifically, we set the following cookies:

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the provision of advanced functionalities and are used for personalizing your browsing experience on our websites. We set these cookies in response to your actions, and they depend on your interactions with our website as well as any specific requests or preference(s) settings you have elected. 

More specifically, we set the following cookies: 

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set to learn more about your interests through your interaction with our website and are analyzed to provide better performance and experiences, but also to enhance our advertising activities. We may use service providers to support our usage of these cookies, which work by uniquely identifying your browser and/or device. By integrating these cookies, we aim to learn more about your interests and overall online behavior to place our advertising in a more effective and relevant manner. 

More specifically, we may set the following cookies:

Social Media

These cookies may be set to learn more about your interests through your interactions with our website(s), as well as your interactions with third parties’ websites our external marketing agencies are partnered with to show you relevant ads throughout your overall internet browsing experience. These cookies work by uniquely identifying your browser(s) and/or device(s) and sharing your browsing activity with third party advertisement companies. By integrating these cookies, we aim to learn more about our customers interests and overall online behavior to be able to place our advertising in a more efficient and relevant manner. 

More specifically, we may set the following cookies:

Please know internet browsers settings and preferences can be configured in a variety of ways. You may do so directly through your preferred browser’s settings menu (links below), and our websites will recognize and honor your preferences when and where applicable. For example, you may configure your browser to automatically accept all cookies, in this case our websites may opt you in to each category of Cookies by default (depending upon your local laws). In any case, you will still be able to adjust your preferences with our websites. Our Cookie banner will appear upon opening a new session with our websites, or by selecting the provided link at the footer of our web pages. Further, when adjusting browser settings on your device(s) there are additional options provided, such as “Global Privacy Control”, or other universal opt-out mechanisms, settings which allow you to block all or certain types of Cookies and setting which will provide notification whenever new Cookies are attempting to be stored on your Device. For a more detailed explanation of these settings options, and those available to you, please see the following links published by the companies supporting popular browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari.