What Exactly is a Cookie?
Information Gathering and Usage: We collect data through cookies to analyze user trends and optimize site usage, aiming to enhance user experiences. Cookies help maintain your login and preferences over secure areas of our site. You may disable cookies, but this may affect website functionality. We use third-party tools to gather metrics, including visitor locations and site navigation paths, to tailor and enhance communications and outreach efforts. This data is processed in aggregate and remains non-personally identifiable.
What Cookies are Used and Why: A Detailed Explanation
We utilize the following types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They enable core functionalities, such as user authentication and account access for application.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze user behavior, track site traffic, and measure the performance of our website. By understanding how visitors interact with our site, we can make informed decisions to enhance usability and optimize content delivery.
With the exception of essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 2 hours of inactivity.
For more information about how we handle your data and protect your privacy, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
Accessing Third-Party Linked Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites for your convenience and to provide additional resources. If you navigate to a third-party website, you are thereby agreeing to that website's privacy practices and use of personal information.
Our website utilizes advertising marketing platforms to display ads on third-party websites to previous visitors of our site. This means we may advertise to former visitors who have interacted with our site, such as filling out a contact form. This could result in an advertisement being displayed on a search results page. Third-party vendors use cookies to serve ads based on a user's past visits to our website. Any data collected will be treated according to our own privacy statement.
Choosing to Decline Cookies
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Please note that third-party sites which are linked to on our site may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Other Policies
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Automatic Collection of Information
When you use our Service, we automatically gather information which may include your IP address, browser type and version, page views, visit duration, interactions with the Service, and diagnostic data. This collection helps us better understand how you interact with our Service and leads to improved service quality.
Revisions to Our Policies
Our use of cookies and local storage devices may evolve over time, and while the specific cookies may change, they generally align with the categories previously described. We recommend visiting this page frequently to stay updated on any changes.