We Do Not sell
information
OUR USE OF COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Last Revised: 12/19/2019
First and foremost, we DO NOT sell your personal information.
However, when you visit or interact with our sites, services,
applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service
providers may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar
technologies to make your experience better, faster and safer, for
advertising purposes and to allow us to continuously improve our
sites, services, applications and tools. Any personal information or
data collected by these technologies is used only by us or by our
authorized service providers on our behalf.
What are cookies, web beacons and similar technologies
These technologies are essentially small data files placed on your
computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device (“collectively, a
“device”) that allows us to record information when you visit or interact
with our websites, service, applications, messaging, and other tools.
Though often these technologies are generically referred to as
“Cookies,” each functions slightly differently, and is better explained
below:
Cookies: Cookies are small (often encrypted) text files placed in the
memory of your browser or device when you visit a website or view a
message. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or
browser. There are several types of cookies:
Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow
us to link your actions during that particular browser session.
Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser
sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across
multiple sites.
First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by
the user at the time in order to preserve your settings (e.g., while on
our site).
Third-party cookies are placed in your browser by a website, or
domain, that is not the website or domain that you are currently
visiting. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie
through that website this would be a third-party cookie.
Cookies are used for a variety of purposes on our website. As an
example, we use cookies to store information that allows us to present
our site in your local language, or prices in local currency. We also use
cookies to communicate data to our servers when you visit, allowing
you to stay logged in to your account during your visit or maintain the
site preferences you select. Preventing your browser from accepting
1st party cookies will prevent the placement of some cookies that are
classified as “Essential”.
Web beacons: A web beacon (also called “tracking pixels” or “image
tags”) is a small file (most often a transparent, 1x1 GIF file) that is
loaded on our web pages. These pixels may work in concert with
cookies to collect information about your visit, your web
browser/device, browsing activity, or onsite behavior and provide that
information to service providers. Pixels are most commonly used to
collect anonymous traffic metrics (page visits, button clicks, order
completion) used to analyze site performance.
Scripts: A script is a small piece of website code placed on our
websites to power customer service tools like live chat, allow for the
delivery of video tutorials in our help section, and allow us to provide
interactive experiences to visitors. They are also used to collect data
that we use for website analytics, or to provide data on the
effectiveness of our advertising.
Similar technologies: Technologies that store information in your
browser or device utilizing local shared objects or local storage, such
as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application software
methods. These technologies can operate across all of your browsers.
In some instances, these technologies may not be fully managed by
your browser and may require management directly through your
installed applications or device. We do not use these technologies for
storing information to target advertising to you on or off our sites.
What technologies do we use and why
Our cookies, web beacons and similar technologies serve various
purposes, but generally they (1) are necessary or essential to the
functioning of our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, (2)
help us improve the performance of or provide you extra functionality
of the same, (3) help us to serve relevant and targeted advertisements,
or (4) allow us to offer support tools that you utilize to interact with
our care guides:
Strictly Necessary or Essential: "Strictly necessary" or “essential”
cookies, web beacons and similar technologies let you move around
the website and use essential features like secure areas and shopping
baskets. Without these technologies, services you have asked for
cannot be provided. Please note that these technologies do not gather
any information about you that could be used for marketing or
remembering where you've been on the internet. Accepting these
technologies is a condition of using our sites, services, applications,
tools or messaging, so if you utilize tools that might prevent these
from loading, we can't guarantee your use or how the security therein
will perform during your visit.
Performance: Performance technologies may include first or third-
party cookies, web beacons/pixels, and scripts placed in order to
gather information about how you use our website (pages you visit, if
you experience any errors, load times). These cookies do not collect
any information that could identify you and are only used to help us
improve how our website works, understand the interests of our
users, and measure how effective our content is by providing
anonymous statistics and data regarding how our website is used.
Advertising: Advertising technology may include first or third-party
cookies, web beacons/pixels, and scripts placed in order to gather
information on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, deliver
personalized content, or to generate data that allows for the delivery
of advertising relevant to your specific interests on our sites, as well as
third-party websites. We also utilize 3rd party service providers to
assist us in delivering on the same functions, which means that our
authorized service providers may also place cookies, web beacons and
similar technologies on your device via our services (first and third
party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them
identify your device, such as IP address, or other unique or device
identifiers.
Support: Support technologies may include first or third-party cookies,
web beacons / pixels, and scripts placed in order to provide tools for
you to interact with our customer support teams. This technology
allows us to provide chat services, gather customer feedback, and
other tools used to support our visitors. Data collected for these
purposes is never used for marketing or advertising purposes.
How to manage, control and delete these technologies
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that
allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you
use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential
cookies) it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our
website or service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so
that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you
visit our site. Please note, as further described in our Privacy Policy, we
currently do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track”
signal from a visitor’s browser.
Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These
settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of
your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the
following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help'
option in your internet browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari
If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you will need to
delete your cookies using your internet browser settings.