Like most platforms, our Platforms log IP addresses and use cookies and similar technologies that allow us to recognize you and to customize your experience, and provide us with information about the way our visitors access our Platforms. You can find out more about how we use cookies and related technologies below.
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors (for example, by remembering your language and/or product preferences) and to better understand how our Platforms are used. Cookies will tell us, for example, whether you have visited our Platforms before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
First party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device. They are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Platforms.
Third party cookies, which are served by a third party service provider on our Platforms, and can be used by the service provider to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other platforms. Third party cookies are most commonly used for platform analytics or advertising purposes.
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. We use both ‘session cookies’ and ‘persistent cookies’. Session cookies exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Persistent cookies survive after your browser is closed, and can be used to recognize your computer or mobile device when you open your browser and browse the internet again.
Technical Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through this Platform and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.
Functionality Cookies: These cookies serve a variety of purposes related to the presentation, performance and functionality of this Platform. Their overall purpose, however, is to enhance visitors’ experience and enjoyment of this Platform. For example, some of these cookies enable visitors to specify language, product or other platform preferences.
Analytical Cookies: These cookies, including those from third parties (such as Google Analytics), are used to collect information about how visitors use our Platforms. This information includes the number of visitors to our Platforms, the platforms that referred them to our Platforms and the pages that they visited on our Platforms. We use this information to help run our Platforms more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Platforms.
Advertising Cookies: These cookies, including those from third parties, are aimed at creating profiles related to you and are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests in line with your preferences expressed while surfing the web. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotion. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a platform and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers, social media platforms or our display partners.
Social Cookies: These cookies are third party cookies that allow you to interact with social media platforms (e.g. share or like buttons).
You have the right to withdraw your consent and refuse the use of cookies at any time and we have explained how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Platforms.
You can set your cookie preferences by changing your browser settings so that cookies from this Platform cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility).
We use a number of Meta services and other similar products on our Platforms, including through the use of the pixel and other business products. In some circumstances, Meta or the other platform provider acts as our data processor and in other circumstances, they are a joint data controller (for example, Meta with respect to Custom Audiences). Further details of how they process your personal information, the legal basis they rely on, your rights and contact details can be found on the relevant platform.