What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help us provide essential website functions, improve your browsing experience, and deliver personalized content and advertisements.
Cookies can be:
- Session Cookies: Temporary files deleted once you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: Stored on your device until manually deleted or expired.
- First-Party Cookies: Set directly by our website.
- Third-Party Cookies: Set by external services (e.g., analytics or advertising partners).
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes, including:
- Essential Cookies:
Enable basic website functions like page navigation, security, and user authentication. Without these, our site cannot function properly. - Performance and Analytics Cookies:
Help us understand how visitors interact with our website (for example, pages visited, time spent, and errors encountered). This data is used to improve performance and usability. - Functional Cookies:
Remember your preferences (such as language, location, or login information) to enhance your experience. - Advertising and Targeting Cookies:
Used by us or third-party partners to show relevant ads based on your interests and browsing behavior.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have full control over your cookie settings. You can:
- Adjust your preferences using our Cookie Consent Banner when you first visit the website.
- Change your browser settings to block or delete cookies.
- Opt out of third-party cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out pages.
Third-Party Cookies
We may allow trusted third-party partners (such as analytics providers or advertising networks) to place cookies on our site. These cookies are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties, not ours.
Common third-party tools we may use include:
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads
- Meta (Facebook) Pixel
Updates to This Cookie Preferences Policy
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal reasons. The revised version will always be posted on this page with the updated date.
