When you visit or access our website, or when you interact or engage with our representatives (“Service”), we will use (and authorize third parties to use) web beacons, cookies, pixel tags, scripts, tags, API and other technologies ("Tracking Technologies"). This is explained in this policy (“Cookie Policy”) which is a part of our Privacy Policy.
The Tracking Technologies allow us to automatically collect information about you and your online behavior in order to enhance your navigation on our Service, improve our Service performance and customize your experience on it. We also use this information to collect statistics about the usage of our Service, perform analytics, deliver content which is tailored to your interests and to administer services to our users, writers, customers and partners. We also allow third parties to collect information about you through Tracking Technologies.
Cookies are small text files (composed only of letters and numbers) that a web server places on your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage. When used, the cookie can help make our Services more user-friendly, for example by remembering your language preferences and settings. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work in an efficient way. The use of cookies allows you to navigate between pages efficiently. Cookies remember your preferences, and make the interaction between you and the Services smoother and more efficient.
There are five main types of Tracking Technologies:
These Tracking Technologies are essential to enable you to login, navigate around and use the features of our Services, or to provide a service requested by you (such as your username). We do not need to obtain your consent in order to use these Tracking Technologies. These Tracking Technologies can be used for security and integrity reasons - for example to detect violation of our policies and for support or security features.
These Tracking Technologies allow our Services to remember choices you make (such as your language) and provide enhanced and personalized features. For example, these Tracking Technologies are used for authentication (to remember when you are logged-in) and support other features of our Services.
These Tracking Technologies collect information about your online activity (for example the duration of your visit on our Services), including behavioral data and content engagement metrics. These Tracking Technologies are used for analytics, research and to perform statistics (based on aggregated information).
These Tracking Technologies are used to deliver tailored offers and advertisements to you, based on your derived interests, as well as to perform email marketing campaigns. They can also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by our advertisers (for example advertising networks) and provide them insights about the people who see and interact with their ads, visit their websites or use their app.
Our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook "Like" or "Share" buttons, or third party log-in services. These features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing these features.
Name | Type | Purpose |
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Analytics Cookies | First party Tracking Technology | Performance Tracking Technologies. These Tracking Technologies are used to collect information regarding how you interact with the content on our Services. We use the information to compile reports, perform tests and to help us improve the Services and to offer personalized products and content. |
Google Analytics | Third party Tracking Technology | Performance Tracking Technologies. This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our Platform. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Platform. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Platform, where visitors have come to the Platform from and the pages they visited. For more information please read Google’s Privacy Policy. You can also use this tool to opt-out. |
Google Tag Manager | Third party Tracking Technology | Performance Tracking Technologies. This cookie is associated with Google Tag Manager which we use to load scripts into our website pages. For more information please read Google’s Privacy Policy. You can also use this tool to opt-out |
Google Adwords | Third party Tracking Technology | Marketing or Advertising Tracking. Technologies This cookie is used to for analytics purposes and for measuring the success of Google Adwords campaigns. For more information please read Google’s Privacy Policy. |
Google DoubleClick | Third party Tracking Technology | Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies. This cookie is used to for analytics purposes and for measuring the success of Google DoubleClick RTB ad campaigns. For more information please read Google’s Privacy Policy. |
Facebook Custom Audience | Third party Tracking Technology | Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies. The Facebook Custom Audience Cookie is used by Facebook to measure your engagement with ads and content.To view the full description of Facebook’s use of cookies on our site please visit the Facebook privacy policy and Cookie Policy. |
LinkedIn Ads | Third party Tracking Technology | Marketing or Advertising Tracking Technologies. This cookie is set by LinkedIn's marketing services and assists in gaining insights into website audiences and improve upon campaign targeting. More information can be found on LinkedIn's Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. |
Facebook Connect | Third party Tracking Technology | Functionality Tracking Technologies. The Facebook Connect Cookie is used by Facebook to verify your account and determine when you’re logged in, so we can make it easier for you to access your account using your Facebook account and provide you with appropriate experience and features. To view the full description of Facebook’s use of cookies on our site please visit the Facebook privacy policy and Cookie Policy |
LinkedIn Analytics | Third party Tracking Technology | Social media Tracking Technologies. This cookie is set by LinkedIn's content sharing button and enables its functionality. More information can be found on LinkedIn's Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. |
Other cookies | First and Third party Tracking Technology | Strictly necessary Tracking Technologies. These unlisted cookies might be in use on internal sections of the Services, in order to customize and simplify the user experience on the Services by remembering choices you made and your log in credentials. |
There are various ways in which you can manage and control your cookie settings. Please remember that, by deleting or blocking cookies, some of the features of the Services may not work properly or as effectively.
Most web browsers will provide you with some general information about cookies, enable you to see what
cookies are stored on your device, allow you to delete them all or on an individual basis, and enable you to
block or allow cookies for all websites or individually selected websites. You can also normally turn off
third party cookies separately. Please note that the settings offered by a browser or device often only
apply to that particular browser or device.
Information about cookies is usually found in the "Help" section of the web browser.
Below are some links to some commonly used web browsers:
1. Google Chrome
2. Internet Explorer
3. Mozilla Firefox
4. Safari (Desktop)
5. Safari (Mobile)
6. Android Browser
7. Opera
8. Opera Mobile
For other browsers, please consult the documentation that your browser manufacturer provides.
You can-opt out of certain types of interest-based advertising (or “cross-app” advertising), by accessing the “settings” on your device: If you're using an Apple device you can configure your device to limit ad tracking to by clicking on "settings" > "privacy" > "advertising" and toggling "limit ad tracking" to ‘on.’ If you're using an Android device you can opt out of most app-based tracking for advertising by opening the "Google Settings" app on your device, selecting "Ads", and then selecting the option to opt-out of interest-based ads.
You can turn off certain third party targeting/advertising cookies by visiting the following link:
Network Advertising Initiative.
You can also use this tool to opt-out of Google's tracking cookies.
To learn more about advertisers’ use of cookies the following links may be helpful:
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU)
Internet Advertising Bureau (US)
Internet Advertising Bureau (EU)