Cookies on Our Website
How We Use Cookies: When you visit our sites, we may place a small file known as a cookie on your device to improve your experience by making our website more responsive to your needs. We collect data through cookies to better understand our audience, which helps us tailor content and enhance your user experience. Our cookies are primarily designed to enhance site functionality and gather anonymized behavioral data, not to store sensitive personal details.
1. Our Cookie Usage: A Comprehensive Guide
Required cookies
Required cookies enable you to move from page to page and to use features on our websites while your browser remains open. For example, required cookies allow you to add products to your shopping cart and carry the contents of your cart to checkout.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies last from visit to visit. For example, functional cookies may be used to recognize you as a previous visitor to provide a more personalized experience. They are stored in your computer, device, or browser until you choose to delete them.
Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics and performance cookies allow us to collect data concerning the websites, including the number of visitors, where the visitors have come from, and the length of time visitors spend on the websites, which allows us or third-party service providers to analyze how our websites are used and how our websites are performing. We use third party analytics service for analytics and performance tracking, and you can learn more about their privacy policies on their website.
For the provision of its services, our service uses certain cookies and transfers the information generated by such cookies to a analytics server where the information is stored. We use the stored information to analyze your use of our websites, to prepare reports on website activities for website operators, and to provide additional services in connection with the use of our websites. We process such information with your consent. You can object to the collection of your personal information at any time with future effect by applying the Analytics deactivation add-on for browsers. We would like to point out that this website uses Analytics with the “anonymizeIp()” expansion. This means that IP addresses are generally truncated prior to being transferred making direct personal identification improbable.
2. Use of Tracking and Cookies by Other Parties
Functionality via Cookies and Local Storage: Cookies and local storage are crucial for delivering the functionalities that enhance your experience on our website, such as accessing educational content or seeing which friends are online. They also support features that enable sharing between your social networks and provide video content integration. Occasionally, certain site features may allow third parties to insert cookies or local storage on your device. We advise reading the privacy policies of these third parties who are responsible for processing your data. Certain ad networks also allow you to customize or opt out of internet browsing related preferences.
3. Disadvantages of Not Using Cookies
Adjusting Cookie Settings: You can modify your cookie settings by exploring your browser’s cookie options. We provide further information below on adjusting these settings and opting out of cookie-based data collection.
Cookie Settings
- Use your browser settings to control cookies on your computer or mobile device. Note that rejecting or blocking cookies may render parts of our site non-functional or inaccessible.
- You can opt to change your browser settings to opt out of cookies.
- To opt out of interest-based ads on mobile devices, follow the instructions specific to your device. For more on limiting ad tracking, visit your device’s settings menu.
- To opt out of location tracking on our apps, adjust your device’s settings.
4. Ancillary Information
Maintenance of Data
Your Personal Data is stored only for the length of time required by the purposes specified in our Privacy Policy. We hold Usage Data for purposes of internal analysis unless such retention is necessary to enhance security, increase Service functionality, or comply with legal obligations.