Managing Your Information Preferences
Cookies are small text files or pieces of information that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. A cookie contains the name of the website and a value, which can be used for a variety of purposes. “Session” cookies are held in memory and only exist during your visit to our website. “Persistent” cookies are stored on your device until they expire, and can therefore be used by our website on your subsequent visits. All persistent cookies have a “lifetime” which dictates how long the cookie will remain active on your device. Our cookies do not contain any data that could be used to identify you personally.How and Why We Use Cookies: Insights
We use the following types of cookies on our website for the following purposes:- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the core functionality and operation of our website such as page navigation and cannot be switched off in our systems. They also include cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. If you disable these cookies via your browser settings certain parts of the website will not function for you. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Analytical/performance cookies and third party cookies. These cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide, improve the performance of our website and help us better understand our users experience and needs. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it (including what links are chosen to click and how much time is spent on which pages) and see if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring any errors are fixed and that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use third party analytics service on our website, which provide third party web analytics services and user behaviour analytics services, to help us analyse user behaviour including how visitors use the website so as to optimise the user website experience and create a better overall experience. Further information about these partners can be found here and via the link set out below in relation the individual cookies we use on our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website, for example by remembering the cookies you have consented to. This enables us to personalise our content for you and to check that certain functionality is working on our website.
- Marketing cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also show you relevant adverts on other sites. We may also share this information with third party service providers for this purpose so that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.
Engagement with Websites Owned by Third Parties
Opting Out of Cookie-driven Advertising: You can choose to opt out of receiving advertisements based on your cookie data by visiting platforms like Your Online Choices, where you can deactivate behavioral advertising from numerous entities.Different Monitoring Mechanisms
Regulations Regarding the Use of Pixels and SDKs You (or partners acting on your behalf) may not place pixels associated with your Business Manager or ad account on websites you do not own without our written permission. If you use our pixels or SDKs, you affirm that you have provided clear and prominent notice to users about the Customer Data collection, sharing, and usage that includes, at minimum:- For websites, clear and prominent notice on each web page where our pixels are used that links to a clear explanation (a) that third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads, (b) how users can opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, and (c) where a user can access a mechanism for exercising such choice.
- For apps, a clear and prominent link that is easily accessible inside your app settings or any privacy policy and from within any store or website where your app is distributed that links to a clear explanation (a) that third parties may collect or receive information from your app and other apps and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads, and (b) how and where users can opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting.