About Cookies

Cookies are a piece of data sent from a web site and stored in your browser’s memory. Cookies can be required to allow a web site to function properly as web sites are stateless (they don't remember user information from one internal page to another) but sometimes they are used to track user actions within one web or across multiple webs in order to collect usage information or identify interests and map behavior to be able to offer relevant advertisements. We offer you the choice to allow or deny certain cookie categories which helps protect your privacy. Below is a description on the most common cookie categories.

Permanent cookies Permanent Cookies are the one most people are concern about. Web sites (like advertisers) who use permanent cookies leave a piece of user tracking information about yourself on your computer. You need to manually clear cookies to remove the permanent cookies or you can disable permanent cookies in your browser.

Necessary cookies Necessary cookies are used to make a web site function properly, they are generally not used for tracking and are not shared between webs. These are the most common necessary action performed using a cookie is user authentication. When you log in to any web site, a cookie is stored in your browser including some piece of data used by the web to remember who is authenticated when you go to another internal page or refresh the site. Cookies are also used so that a web knows what's in your shopping cart, load balancing information and more.

Preference cookies Preference cookies enables the web site to remember information to customize how the web site looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language or color theme.

Analytical cookies Analytical cookies are not necessary but are used to collect valuable information on how a web site is being used, identify issues and figure out what needs to be improved on the site and what content is useful. The information collected is in most cases anonymous, but some analytics services collect information that can be used to identify the user.

Marketing cookies Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements.

Session cookies Session cookies are considered less intrusive on your privacy as they are only alive or active while the browser remains open. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. Session cookies are used by this system for the sole purpose of logging in and out of the system. No private or tracking information is stored on your hard drive.