Privacy Policy - Web Beacons
Web pages may contain electronic images (called a "single-pixel GIF" or "web beacon") that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies. Our website uses web beacons in the following ways:
Within Our Network
- Our website uses web beacons within our network of web sites in order to count users and to recognize registered users by accessing cookies.
- Being able to access our cookies allows us to personalize your experience when you visit our web sites that are not on the main domain
Outside Our Network
- Our website uses web beacons to conduct research on behalf of certain partners on their web sites. This research helps to measure and improve the effectiveness of certain advertising. Information recorded through these web beacons is used to report aggregate information about our users to our partners. This aggregate information may include demographic and usage information. No personally identifiable information about you is shared with partners from this research.
- Our practice is to require our partners to disclose the presence of these web beacons on their pages in their privacy policies and to include links to our privacy policy. You may choose to opt-out of our website collecting and using this information for this research. Please click here contact us and request to opt-out.
Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use.
HTML Mail
- Our practice is to include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages (messages that include graphics) that our website itself sends in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon.
In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page, including an ad banner, can act as a web beacon. Advertising networks that serve ads onto our website may use web beacons in their advertisements.