- Cookies: A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
- Pixels, tags and beacons: These refer to small graphic images that may be included on our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, that typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
How do we use cookies?
Cookies are used to recognize you when you visit our website to remember your preferences. Information that we receive from our use of cookies is not used to identify you personally unless you log into one of our web properties. We use cookies for the purposes set forth herein.
Our cookies are used to:
- Show you the proper information and personalize your online experience If you’re logged in to one of our web properties.
- Remember your language preference.
- Assist users in completing forms on our website more easily.
- Show you relevant advertising on 3rd-party websites. They may also be used to learn whether a user who saw an ad later visited and took an action (like downloading a white paper) on the advertiser’s site.
- Understand our site performance.
- Remember if you have agreed to use our use of cookies on our website.
Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.
Session cookies will stay until you cease browsing. Persistent cookies stay until they are deleted or expire. Most of the cookies used on our site are persistent. As such, they will expire between ninety days and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
Cookies are also stored by third-party vendors including Google, Crazy Egg, Unbounce, Leadlander, Marketo, and Twitter, corporate services that measure the effectiveness and efficiency of our web pages based on anonymous information about where users are coming from, what features of the site they are interacting with, and how long they are spending on our site.
Learn about some of the third party Cookies we use, and how to disable those cookies:
- Google: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
- Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
Enabling the cookies described above is not strictly necessary for our website to work but it will provide you with a better experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do some features of this site may not work as intended.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete cookies 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 preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionality may not work as intended.
For more information about our privacy practices, please see our Privacy Policy.