Effective Date: January 1, 2018
Last Updated: January 11, 2023
This document sets out how the contracting entities identified at https://www.uslegalforms.com/contracting-entities (“us,” “our,” or “we”) use cookies and other tracking tools such as web beacons and tracking pixels (collectively “cookies”) on our websites our mobile applications, and/or any of our other websites, products, or services (“digital platforms”). Vendors and other third parties may place cookies on our sites or applications.
Cookies are small data files stored on your internet-enabled devices, such as your computer, tablet, smartphone, or other devices you use when visiting a website or digital platform. While you are visiting a website, cookies allow the website to store certain types of information about you that the site uses in your browser such as user preferences or language suggestions. When you come back to that same website later, the information stored by cookies in your browser is sent back to the website. To learn more about what cookies and tracking tools are and how they work, visit here.
We use cookies and tracking tools for many reasons, including engaging in interest-based advertising. Interest-based advertising or “online behavioral advertising” is serving advertising content to you based on information gathered from you over time across multiple sites or other platforms. It includes serving ads to you after you leave our website, encouraging you to return. It also includes serving ads we think are relevant based on your browsing habits or online activities. These ads might be served on websites or apps. They might also be served in emails. We might serve these ads, or third parties may serve ads. They might be about our products or other companies’ products.
We also use cookies to improve your experience when you utilize our sites and digital platforms. We also use them to carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products, and services. We use cookies to understand how visitors interact with, navigate through, and look at the pages they access and the content they open. Cookies are also sometimes used to integrate with third-party social media websites.
We use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties to decide what content is relevant to you. We gather this information using the cookies described above. For example, we or our partners might look at your purchases or browsing behaviors. We or our partners might also look at your location. We might look at these activities on our digital platforms or the platforms of others.
We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect which might include online usage information.
Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies. How you do so depends on the type of cookie. Certain types of cookies, known as a flash cookie, cannot be managed through your browser visit. For more information about how to manage flash cookies visit Adobe Flash Play Help. The choices you select are browser and device-specific.
Some browsers have a “do not track” feature. It lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want them to track your online activity. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. Our sites and digital platforms are not currently set up to respond to these signals.
You may be able to opt-out of having your browsing history within our websites or applications recorded by analytics cookies. We use the following service providers, and you can learn more about their privacy policies and how to opt-out of their analytics cookies by clicking on the following links:
Adobe Analytics
Google Analytics
Manage Cookies in Popular Browsers
The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising program provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for advertising purposes. To opt-out of interest-based advertising, you can visit here and follow the instructions on that page.
The Digital Advertising Alliance also offers a tool for opting out of the collection of cross-app data on a mobile device for interest-based advertising. To exercise choice for companies participating in this tool, download the AppChoices app here. Your mobile device may also provide its own instructions on how to prevent interest-based advertisements. We do not control how the device operator allows you to do this. You should review their support materials and/or the device settings.
Choices you make are both browser and device-specific.
In Europe, you may also visit www.youronlinechoices.eu to exercise choices about certain cookies.