What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that a web site you visit may save on your hard drive. They usually include an anonymous unique identifier. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.

What Cookies and Similar Technologies Does This Site Use?

This site uses cookies and similar technologies to assist with functions such as user authentication, remembering user preferences, understanding how users use our Service, and managing and tracking the effectiveness of marketing efforts.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are ones this site sets to enable the website to work as intended. These cookies are necessary to enable you to move around our website and use its features.

You may disable any of these functional cookies; but if you do so, then various functions of the web site may be unavailable to you or may not work as intended.

Analytics

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to help us understand how you use our website. By providing us with information about how you interact with our website, these tools help us learn how to make the  experience even better and customize our communications with you. For example, these technologies can tell us things like how you arrived at this site, if you have visited the site before, how long you stay on the site, and which pages you visit. They also provide us with general information about where in the world you may be located.

The following analytics technologies are in use:

•   Google Analytics. To learn more about Google Analytics and your privacy, visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics when using our website, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Social Media Features

When you visit a page on the web site that contains Social Features, your browser establishes a direct connection to the applicable social network’s servers. The Social Features inform the social networks what pages you have accessed on this site, and, if you are logged into the social network, your visit may be logged to your account on that service. For example, if you click the Facebook “Like” button, that information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by them. Even if you are not logged into the social network, and do not click on a Social Feature on this site, there is still a possibility that a Social Feature can transmit your IP address and cookie information to the operator of the social network. We will not transmit information regarding your account contents to such social networks.

For information on the purpose and scope of data processing by a social network, as well as your options for protecting your privacy, please review the appropriate social network’s privacy policy.