Third party cookies: We may work with other approved companies and business partners (‘third parties’) who place their own cookies or web beacons on our site. None of these third-party cookies will contain any of your personally identifiable information.
They work in much the same way as our own cookies but are not actually placed by us. Any third parties that do place cookies on our website are required to collect information in a specified manner, i.e. not for their own purposes.
Any website can send its own cookies to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. However, to protect your privacy, your browser will only permit a website to access the cookies that site has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Can cookies damage my computer?
No, cookies cannot damage your computer. They are not computer programs and cannot be used to spread viruses to your machine. Although cookies are stored on your computer’s hard drive, they cannot read other information saved on that hard drive. They also cannot get a user’s email addresses or other personal information not disclosed on our site. Cookies only contain and transfer as much information as you have disclosed on our site.
How can you manage cookies?
As a user, you are able to manage cookies and choose whether your computer/browser accepts cookies or not. As each browser is different, the way in which you manage cookies differs from browser to browser. Take a look at the ‘Help’ menu of your browser and search for ‘cookies’. You should be able to find instructions for managing your cookies.
User Choices for opting out from Third Party Data collection
Online users can opt-out from Third Party preference data collection, for Online Behavioral Advertising, using any one of the following methods by:
Using the Online Choices opt-out tool provided at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/opt-out the user can select the company(s) to stop them from collecting Online Behavioral Advertising data. Changing the computer’s browser settings to block delete and/or control the use of all third-party cookies. Refer to the computer’s web browser’s Help documentation for more information about managing the use of cookies directly through the browser settings.
Online users have the choice of opting out via the “Your Online Choices website” or by managing browser cookies. The Opt-out tool downloads a browser cookie and will only work if the user’s browser is set to accept third-party cookies. The opt-out tool and cookie management via the browser are specific to each computer and each version and each type of browser. If an opt-out cookie is deleted from the browser’s cookie files or if a different computer, browser version and/or browser type is used, the user will need to repeat the opt-out process.
For more information about cookies, what they are, what they do, and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org
Remember: Cookies help you get the best out of our website. Disabling all cookies will prevent our website functioning as well as it should for you.
