As part of offering and providing customizable and personalized services, the website may save cookies on your device to track use of the website for the purposes of improving your experience. A cookie is a small text file sent to your browser from our web server, which your browser stores on your device for future visits. Additionally, we may use pixel tags (also known as clear gifs) to track some of the pages you visit on the website.
We use cookies to:
(1) Understand and save your user preferences for future visits. Cookies remind us of who you are and what your registration preferences are so that we can give you a better and more personalized service. Cookies enable us to retain your user preferences without you having to re-enter the information every time you access the website. However, you may need to re-enter this information each time you delete the cookies from your browser ‘cache’.
(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing the website is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage and to help us communicate with you. The information collected by these cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click trail" and may also describe which pages on the website you have visited.
(3) Determine which areas of the web site you have visited. We use this data to better understand how you navigate the website pages and compare them with other users to improve the experience on the website. We may use this information to present content more aligned to what users want.
(4) Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at the browser Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify cookie settings. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser however, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.