We may collect the following personal information about you
via our Sites:
a. Personal Information You Provide Us
We may ask you to provide us with certain categories of information on our Sites when you contact us, access your account, or otherwise interact with us on the Sites. Additionally, we may receive information about you if you contact us directly or send us any messages and/or attachments. This may include your name, physical address, billing address, email address, telephone number, credit card information (via our third party payment processor) and any other personal information that you choose to share with us on our Sites.
b. Personal Information Collected or Stored As You Access and Use Our Sites
We may also collect other types of personal information automatically, including your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, and operating system. We use this information to improve our products and services and advertise to you.
In addition to any personal information or other information that you choose to submit to us via the Sites, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) store or collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with our website (“Usage Information”). This Usage Information may be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that may be downloaded to your personal computer, browser, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device (“Device”) whenever you visit or interact with the Sites.
To the extent we associate Usage Information with your personal information we collect directly from you on the Sites, we will treat it as personal information. Usage Information may include:
- your IP address, UDID, advertising identifier or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your device used to access the Website, and our computers identify your device by its device identifier;
- your device functionality, including browser, operating system, hardware, mobile network information;
- the URL that referred you to the Sites;
- the areas within the Sites that you visit and your activities there, including remembering you and your preferences;
- your device location;
- your device characteristics;
- certain other device data, including the time of day you access the Sites and other usage information
c. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
We may use various methods and technologies to store or collect information which may be linked to you. We use and allow third parties to use essential and non-essential cookies, online tracking tools, web beacons, and similar technologies (collectively, “cookies”) on the Sites. We collect and process this information to support the functionality on the Sites and to better understand your preferences.
Cookies on the Sites generally fall into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of the Sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas. These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of users of the Sites and see how such users navigate through the Sites. This helps improve how the Sites work, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser.
- Functional Cookies: These improve the functional performance of the Sites and make it easier for you to use. For example, cookies are used to remember that you have previously visited the Sites and asked to remain logged into it. These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser.
- Targeting Cookies: These record your visit to the Sites, the pages you visit and the links you follow so we can recognize you and track your activity on the Sites and other websites you visit. These cookies are persistent cookies because they remain on your device for us to use during your next visit to the Sites. You can delete these cookies via your browser settings.
Use of Cookies. We advertise in a number of ways, including online through managed social media presences, and on other unaffiliated sites and mobile applications. To understand how our advertising campaigns are performing, we may collect certain information via cookies on the Sites through our advertising service providers. The information we collect includes IP addresses, the number of page visits, pages viewed via the Sites, search engine referrals, browsing activities over time and across other websites following your visit to the Sites, and responses to advertisements and promotions on the websites and applications where we advertise.
We also use certain information to identify new visitors to the Sites, recognize returning visitors, advertise on other websites and mobile applications not affiliated with us, analyze the effectiveness of our advertisements, better understand our audience, customers, or other visitors to the Sites, and determine whether you might be interested in new products or services.
Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies. How you do so, however, depends on your browser and the type of cookie. Certain browsers can be set to reject all browser cookies. If you configure your computer to block all cookies, you may disrupt certain web page features, and limit the functionality we can provide when you visit or use the Sites, however you will still have access to the Sites.
Various third parties are developing or have developed signals or other mechanisms for the expression of consumer choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services (e.g., browser do not track signals). Currently, we do not monitor or take any action with respect to these signals or other mechanisms, unless otherwise required by applicable law.