1. What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site.
3. The Cookies We Set
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use our Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience.
- Analytics Cookies: This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit.
4. Third-Party Cookies (Advertising)
We use third-party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.
Google AdSense: This is generally used for geotargeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited. Google uses the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads to users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet.
5. Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit.