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In compliance with the European Union legislation, we inform you that our website will store some

information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file called a ‘cookie’.

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile

device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent

them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences

every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them

whenever they like. A third-party website called aboutcookies.org has been setup to help

you with instructions how you can do that on various browsers.

We use cookies to:

1) Identify you as a returning user and to count your visits in our traffic statistics analysis;

2) remember your custom display preferences;

3) Suggest any recent searches you’ve made on our site

4) Other usability features including tracking whether you’ve already given your consent to cookies

Enabling cookies from our website is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you

with a better browsing experience.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under

our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

There may also be other types of cookies created after you’ve visited our website. We use Google

Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to

help us to analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of

our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the

United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website,

compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet

usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or

where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate

your IP address

with any other data held by Google.

Third Party Advertising

We may have third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit our website. These

companies may store information about your visits to our website and to other websites in order to

provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and services.

These companies may employ cookies and other identifiers to gather information which measures

advertising effectiveness. The information is generally not personally identifiable unless, for example,

you provide personally identifiable information to them through an ad or an e-mail message.

Information Gathered by Third Party Advertisers

Cookies enable advertisers to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other actions you

take on our site and other sites. This allows advertisers to provide you with more useful and relevant ads.

For example, if they know what ads you are shown while visiting our site, they can be careful not to show

you the same ones repeatedly. They do not associate your interaction with unaffiliated sites with your

identity in providing you with interest-based ads.

We do not provide any personal information to advertisers or to third party sites. Advertisers and other

third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may

use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the

group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, readers in the Pacific Northwest who read

certain types of articles). Also, some third-party cookies may provide them with information about you

(such as the sites where you have been shown ads or demographic information) from offline and online

sources that they may use to provide you more relevant and useful advertising.

If you would like to learn more about what options you have about limiting the gathering of information by

third-party ad networks, you can consult the website of the Network Advertising Initiative.

You can opt out of participating in interest-based advertising networks but opting out does not mean you

will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the companies from which you opted out will

no longer customize ads based on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based

technology.

Type and Purpose of Collection

We collect information at various points in the Website to facilitate its use by our customers. Non-

Personal Information: Upon accessing the Website, certain non-personal information will be


automatically collected without your knowledge or consent, such as your IP address, location data (which

is anonymous) and the referring website (“Non-Personal Information”). We use Non-Personal Information

to examine our traffic and to view how our customers use the Website. This type of information will not

allow you to be personally identified. For example,

we use “cookies”, which contains only certain statistical information. You can instruct your

computer to inform you whenever a cookie is being sent, or you can disallow cookies through your web

browser. If you do choose to disallow cookies, your experience on the Website may be diminished, or

your ability to choose some of the options on the Website may be limited.

Sharing Information

We will not sell, rent or disclose to outside parties the information we collect, save and except that we

may share the collected information with other parties as follows:

(a) Affiliated Service Providers: We have agreements with various affiliated service providers to facilitate

the functioning of the Website, with whom we may share the information we have collected. For

example, we may share your credit card information with the credit card service provider to process your

purchase. All administrative service providers that we use are required to have the same level of privacy

protection as we have, and therefore we expect that your

information will be handled with the same level of care that we employ. Additionally, for example, we may

use analytic or marketing services such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense,Taboola, or RevContent,

to which collection you hereby unconditionally consent.

(b) Where required by law: We may share the collected information where required by law, specifically in

response to a demand from government authorities where such demand meets the legal requirements.

© Statistical Analysis: We may share Non-Personal Information and aggregated information with third

parties, including but not limited to for advertising or marketing purposes. No Personal Information will be

shared in this manner.

(d) Transactions: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets,

financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where Personal Information may be disclosed or

transferred as one of our business assets.

Choices and How To Opt Out Of Interest-Based Advertising

(a) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising Services This website is a member of the Network

Advertising Initiative (NAI) and adheres to the NAI Codes of Conduct as described on the NAI website.

This website also adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory

Principles. For a description of the DAA Program, please visit the DAA website. As described above, this

website may use or transfer Device Data that it directly collects or that it receives from this website’s


Customers, who may use cookies or non-cookie technologies, to enable advertising that is more tailored

to Consumers’ inferred interests, preferences, and locations.

This practice is known as interest-based advertising.

(b) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising by Third Parties

This website may permit third parties to collect information on its Site and combine that information with

other information collected on non-affiliated websites or applications over time. These third parties may

use technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect information about Consumers’ or

Customers’ use of the Site in order to analyze, report on, or customize content or advertising on the this


website or on other sites, or to help us operate and improve the Site. To find out more about interest-

based advertising in the web environment, and


how to opt-out of information collection for this purpose by companies that participate in the network

Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit NAI’s opt-out page or DAA’s Consumer

Choice Page.

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