Cookies Policy

Introduction

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We aim to provide industry-leading and trusted services and products so you can focus on creating meaningful relationships.

Our approach to privacy is to provide you with clear information about our data practices. It was for this reason that we tried to keep technical and legal terminology to a minimum.

This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, what types of cookies are placed on your device when you visit our website and how we use them.

This Cookie Policy does not address how we generally handle your personal information. For more information about how we process your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy here.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser, or from your device's memory.

A cookie generally contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (e.g., when the cookie will expire), and a randomly generated unique number or identical identifier .

A cookie may also contain information about your device, such as user settings, browsing history and activities performed while using our services.

Are there different types of cookies?

First-party cookies and third-party cookies

There are first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by us.

For example, we use first-party cookies to adapt our website to your browser's language preferences and to better understand your use of our website.

Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our service providers and partners. For example, we use third-party cookies to measure the number of users on our website or to allow you to share content through other social media platforms.

Session cookies and permanent cookies

There are session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies only last until you close your browser.

We use session cookies for a variety of reasons, including to obtain more information about your use of our website during a single browsing session and to help you use our website more efficiently.

Permanent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted when you close your browser. These types of cookies are mainly used to help you log back into our website quickly and for analytical purposes.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Other technologies such as web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear gifs), tracking URLs, or other software development kits (SDK) are used for similar purposes.

Web beacons are small graphic files that contain a unique identifier that allows us to recognize when someone has visited our service or opened an email sent by us.

Tracking URLs are custom-generated links that help us understand where the traffic coming to our web pages is coming from. SDKs are small pieces of code included in applications that work like cookies and web beacons.

For simplicity, we also refer to these technologies as “cookies” in this Cookie Policy.

Why do we use cookies?

Like the vast majority of online service providers, we use cookies to provide, protect and improve our services, including remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you visit our website and personalizing and tailoring our advertising to your interests. To accomplish these purposes, we may also link cookie information to other personal information we have about you.

When you visit our website, some or all of the types of cookies listed below may be installed on your device.

Cookie type

Essential website cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Analytical cookies

These cookies help us understand how our website is being used, how effective marketing campaigns are, and also help us personalize and improve our websites for our users.

Advertising cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions such as preventing the same advertisement from appearing repeatedly, ensuring that advertisements are presented correctly to advertisers, selecting advertising based on users' interests, and measuring the number and performance of advertisements presented, such as the number of people who clicked on a specific ad.

Social media cookies

These cookies are used to allow you to share pages and content you find interesting on our website via third-party social networks and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.

How can you control cookies?

There are several cookie management options available. Remember that changes you make to your cookie preferences may make your browsing experience on the website less satisfactory. In some cases, you may not even be able to use all or part of our website.

Device and browser controls

Some web browsers provide settings that allow you to control or reject cookies, or that alert you when a cookie is installed on your computer.

The procedure for managing cookies is slightly different for each web browser. You can refer to the specific steps in the help menu of your specific browser.

You may also reset device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device.

The procedure for managing device identifiers is slightly different for each device. You can refer to the specific steps in the help menu or in the settings for your specific device.

Interest-Based Advertising Tools

You can opt out of seeing interest-based advertising online from companies participating in Digital Advertising Alliance, from the Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance or the Appchoices (apps only).

Opting out of advertising does not mean you will not see advertising; This means you will not see personalized advertising from companies that participate in opt-out programs.

Additionally, if you delete cookies on your device after opting out, you will have to opt out again.

Social cookies

To enable you to share content on social media, some features of this site utilize social media plug-ins (e.g., Twitter™ “Share on Twitter” or LinkedIn™ “Join” buttons).

Depending on the settings of your social media accounts, we automatically receive information from the social media platform when you use the corresponding button on our website.

For more information about social media cookies, we suggest you consult the privacy policy and cookie policy of the social media platform.

Adobe Flash Player™ flash cookies

Adobe Flash Player™ is an application for viewing and interacting with dynamic content using the Flash platform. Flash (and similar applications) use a technology similar to cookies to remember parameters, preferences and uses of this content.

However, Adobe Flash Player manages this information and your choices through an interface separate from that provided by your browser.

If your terminal is very likely to display content developed using the Flash platform, we suggest you access your flash cookie management tools directly on the website https://www.adobe.com.

Google™ Cookies

Things Google wants to make sure you know about Google's data collection technology

Google™ Maps API Cookies

Some features of our website and some services depend on the use of Google™ Maps API cookies. These cookies will be stored on your device.

By browsing this website and using services that rely on Google™ Maps API cookies, you accept the storage and collection of these cookies on your device and Google's access, use and sharing of the collected data.

Google™ manages information and your choices regarding Google™ Maps API cookies through an 'interface' separate from that provided by your browser. For more information, see https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a Google service that uses cookies and other data collection technologies to collect information about your use of the website and services to communicate website trends.

You can opt out of the use of Google Analytics by visiting the website www.google.com/settings/ads or by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.