As you navigate and use the website, certain information can be passively collected using various technologies. We passively collect a variety of types of information in a variety of ways, including as described below.

User Activity. We collect information on how the website is used, for example, the features you use, the links that you click on, your search parameters, data reflecting transactions that have taken place using the website, how you interact with other users, performance statistics, and other usage data. We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

IP Addresses and Related Data. The servers used to operate and provide the website may collect data pertaining to you and the equipment, software, and communication methods you use to access the Internet and the website, including IP addresses assigned to the computers and other devices from where you access the Internet, your Internet service provider (ISP), device ID numbers and unique identifiers, your media access control (MAC) address, your operating system, your device’s screen resolution, your web browser type, the pages you access on the website, the websites you access before and after visiting the website, the length of time you spend on the website, date and time stamps, clickstream data, your approximate geographic location, performance statistics, and usage data. We may use this information to administer the website and its servers, to generate statistical information, to monitor and analyze website traffic and usage patterns, to monitor and help prevent fraud, to investigate complaints and violations of our policies, and to improve the website.

We may combine this information with other information we collect (including personal information) and information obtained from third parties for security reasons and to protect our rights or the rights of others. The suppliers that we use to provide the website may collect information about your visits to this website and other websites. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies as explained below under “Cookies and Tracking Technologies” below.

Analytics. The website may use third-party analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to collect and process data about your use of the website, including when you visit the website, URLs of the websites that you visit prior to visiting the website and when you visit those websites, and IP addresses assigned to the devices from where you access the Internet. Our analytics providers may set and read cookies to collect this data, and your web browser will automatically send data collected by those cookies to our analytics providers. Our analytics providers use this data to provide us with reports that we will use to improve the website’s structure and content.

For more information on how Google uses this data, visit Google’s Privacy Notice and Google’s page on How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps. To prevent this data from being used by Google Analytics, follow the instructions to download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each browser you use. Using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on will not prevent us from using other analytics tools and will not prevent data from being sent to the website itself or to Google. For more information about how Google Analytics uses cookies to measure user interactions on websites, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites. You may disable cookies as discussed below, but that may impact your use and enjoyment of the website. 

Advertising Networks, Personalized Advertising, Remarketing, and Retargeting. From time to time the website may use or participate in advertising networks and related advertising services that are managed and provided by third-party advertising servers, advertising agencies, technology vendors, and research firms, including Google Ads and advertising services provided by Meta (sometimes referred to the Meta “tracking pixel”), and advertising services provided by TikTok (sometimes referred to as TikTok Pixels).

These services collect information about your visits to and interactions with this website and other websites and will use that information to target advertisements for goods and services and to display those advertisements on other websites. The information collected may be associated with your personal information.

Advertising networks often gather data about consumers who view advertisements to make inferences about a consumer’s interests and preferences, which enables their computers to deliver advertisements directly targeted to the consumer’s specific interests. This practice is often referred to as “online behavioral advertising.” For example, a third-party advertising network might collect the type of web browser you use, the type of computer operating system you use, the domain name of a website you visit, whether or not you visit specific pages of this website and other websites, the location of your Internet service provider, the date and time of a visit to a website, and other interactions between you and a website.

Through Google Ads, Google uses your Internet searches, cookies, and similar identifiers (e.g., pixel tags) to collect information about your visits to this website and your interaction with our products and services to generate targeted advertisements to you on other websites that you visit across the Internet. We may also enable and implement Google Analytics Advertising Features on the website. To opt out of remarketing advertising provided through Google, to customize your ad preferences, or to limit Google’s collection or use this information, visit Google’s Safety Center and Google’s Ad Settings and follow Google’s personalized ad opt-out instructions. Opting out will not affect your use of the website.

To change your preferences with respect to certain online ads and to obtain more information about third-party ad networks and online behavioral advertising, please visit the National Advertising Initiative Consumer opt-out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance Self-Regulatory Program. Please remember that changing your settings with individual web browsers or ad networks will not necessarily carry over to other browsers or ad networks. As a result, depending on the opt-outs you request, you may still see our ads from time to time. Your device may also include a feature (“Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS or “Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads” on Android) that allows you to opt out of having certain information collected through apps used for behavioral advertising purposes.

Social Media. The website may implement widgets, tools, or applications provided by social media platforms and the website may otherwise allow for interaction, integration, or content sharing with third-party social media platforms and companies. We may be required to implement cookies, plug-ins, and APIs provided by those social media platforms in order to facilitate those communications and features. By choosing to use any third-party social media platform or choosing to share content or communications with any social media platform, you allow us to share information with the designated social media platform. Interactions, integrations, and content sharing with a social media platform and their features may require or allow the social media company to collect information from or about you, whether through cookies, registration information, or otherwise. Social media companies may track your online activity even when you do not choose to interact with the social media platform or its widgets or other features. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any social media platform that you use or visit in connection with the website, as those platforms’ respective privacy policies will govern their collection, use, and disclosure of information they collect from you. We cannot control any policies or terms of such third party platform. As a result, we cannot be responsible for any use or disclosure of your information or content by third-party platforms, which you use at your own risk.

The website may also use the advertising services and networks offered by social media platforms to deliver advertising content. Use of these services requires social media platforms to implement cookies or pixel tags to deliver ads to you while you are logged into the applicable social media platform.

If you do not want social media platforms to collect information relating to you via the website or to link information collected via the website to your social media accounts, we suggest that you: (a) do not connect to or share information with social media platforms using the website; (b) hide social media platform plug-ins using an ad blocker; (c) always log off completely from social media platforms before visiting the website or other websites and delete all related cookies; and, (d) where the option is made available by a social media platform, disable the advertising website and networks operated by that platform. For example, you may opt out of Twitter’s interest-based advertising by notifying Twitter through one of the methods it describes here. You hereby acknowledge that we make no guarantee that exercising the foregoing options is guaranteed to prevent applicable social media platforms from tracking you and, further, you acknowledge that we are not responsible for a social media platform’s tracking of you.

Our Social Media Pages. We are active on social media. You may have the opportunity to comment on social media platforms regarding, as well as send us reviews and testimonials regarding, we and the products and services we offer and/or to submit or upload related photos and other materials. We reserve the right to post on the website, other websites, and social media pages any comments, photos, or content that you post on our social media pages or provide to us (whether through social media or otherwise) to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies. The website automatically use cookies to track your use of the website in order to facilitate and enhance the user experience on the website and for other purposes as described below. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your device’s hard drive by your web browser. We use cookies to learn and track how you access and use the website, including when and how users visit the website and how popular particular website pages are and aren’t. We also use cookies to recognize website users, to help display information on the website, and to improve your enjoyment and the usefulness of the website, for example, by remembering and displaying certain information.

The website may use both cookies that we implement and cookies implemented by our suppliers and other third parties. “First-party” cookies allow your browser to talk to the actual website that you are visiting, whereas “third-party” cookies allow your browser to talk to third-party websites, such as the source of an ad that appears on the website you are visiting or a third-party analytics provider. Our suppliers may use cookies and tracking technologies to track website users across the Internet to understand how you get to the website and for the analytics purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We do not have access or control over these cookies and this Privacy Policy does not cover the use of third-party cookies. Click here for information on the cookies used by Meta. Click here and here for information on the cookies used by Google.

A cookie can either be a “session” cookie or a “persistent” cookie. Session cookies exist only for so long as you are visiting the applicable website. Session cookies are typically deleted or removed when you exit or quit your browser application. Persistent cookies exist for a set period of time, for example, six (6) months or one (1) year. Each time you visit a website that has implemented a persistent cookie, that cookie will remain active until its predetermined expiration date. You can also manually delete persistent cookies as discussed above.

The types of information collected by a cookie and the purposes for which that information is used depends on the type of cookie. By way of illustration, the types of cookies used, the types of information collected by those cookies, and the purposes for which that information are used are described below. We may combine information collected by cookies with other Collected Information.

• Operationally necessary cookies (also called essential cookies). These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website. For example, these cookies are required to identify irregular website behavior, prevent fraudulent activity, and improve security. They also allow users of the website to make use of its functions. Without these cookies, features and website you have requested will not be able to be provided.
• Functional cookies. These cookies allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using the website. This may include to remembering choices you make, for example, remembering your preferences or settings, remembering if you reacted to something on or through the website so that you are not asked to react to it again, remembering if you have used any feature of the website before, and enabling social media components. If functional cookies are disabled, various functions of the website may be unavailable to you or may not work the way you want them to.
• Performance cookies (also called analytical cookies). These cookies assess the performance of the website, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how visitors use and interact with the website, for example, which pages on our websites users visit most often. These cookies also enable us to personalize content and remember your preferences. These cookies help us improve the way our websites work and provide a better, personalized user experience.
• Advertising or targeted cookies. These cookies record your visits to the website, the pages you visit on our websites, and the links you have clicked. They gather information about your browsing habits and remember that you have visited a particular website. We and our third-party advertising platforms or networks may use this information to make the website and its content more relevant to your interests (this is sometimes called “behavioral” or “targeted” advertising and is further discussed above). These cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. To find out more about interest-based ads and your choices, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance, the Network Advertising Initiative, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe, http://www.allaboutcookies.org, and http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

For more information about cookies, including about advertising cookies and your choices regarding cookies, we suggest you visit the following websites: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking; http://www.allaboutcookies.org; and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. Browsers generally also allow users to manage cookies in the browser’s settings. For example, a browser may allow you to reject cookies from certain websites, reject certain types of cookies regardless of the website, reject or disable all cookies from all websites, and/or delete previously stored cookies. Some browsers also give you the option of being notified every time a cookie is sent to your browser by a website. You can disable or limit cookies but doing so may impact your use and enjoyment of the website and other websites. For example, the website may not be able to be personalized for you, may no longer capture or remember your preferences or other choices you have made on the website in the past, and may not remember your name or contact information or other information you have entered using the website, and our website may not recognize the device(s) you use to access the website.

Changing your cookie preferences in one browser will not necessarily carry over to other browsers, so you may need to adjust your preferences each time you get a new device, install a new browser, upgrade an existing browser, or alter or delete a browser’s cookie file.

The website may also use the following types of tracking technologies: web beacons (also called clear GIFs), flash cookies, and pixels (also called pixel tags). Web beacons are tiny graphics with unique identifiers that function similar to how cookies function but, in contrast to cookies, web beacons are embedded invisibly on websites. Flash cookies collect and store information about your use of a website and are commonly used for advertisements and videos. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove and cannot be used to manage Flash cookies. Click here for information on how to manage Flash cookies. Pixel tags can be placed on websites or within emails to track your interactions with those websites and when emails are opened.