As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, domain names, traffic data, logs, referring website addresses, access times, length of visit and number of page views, error information, clickstream data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Websites. The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. We may use this information in the administration of the Websites, to improve the Websites usability, to provide better service, to send you newsletters, updates, marketing communications, and other information or that may be of interest to you. We may sometimes permit our authorized service providers to have access to aggregate and de-identified statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, usage and related information.
The automatic data collection technologies that we use include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies).A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. We only place cookies on your hard drive with your consent. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites.
- Web Beacons.Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We use automatic data collection technologies provided by third parties, including analytics providers. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information that they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies, or how they may be used. If you have any questions about the use of this information, you should contact the responsible party directly.
Details about the automated data collection technologies and the specific cookies that we use can be found by following the link entitled “Manage Cookies” on our Websites and adjusting your preferences in the cookie consent manager, which you may access by selecting the links. The cookie consent manager enables you to control the settings of the cookies that we set on your device and whether we collect information from them.
