1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to make the site work, remember your choices, and understand how it is used. We also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, and local storage. In this policy we refer to all of these as “cookies.” Cookies may be set by us (“first-party”) or by third-party services we use (“third-party”).

2. Why we use cookies

We use cookies to keep the Site running properly and secure, to remember your preferences (including your cookie choices), to measure and improve how the Site performs, and, where you allow it, to support analytics and advertising.

3. Categories of cookies we use

Our cookie-consent tool groups cookies into the categories below and lets you accept or reject non-essential categories:

Strictly necessary

Required for the Site to function and to remember your consent choices. These are always active and cannot be switched off.

Functional

Enable enhanced features and personalization, such as remembering preferences and supporting embedded content like maps and video.

Analytics and performance

Help us understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it, for example by counting visits and seeing which pages are popular. We use or may use Google Analytics for this purpose.

Advertising

Used to deliver and measure advertising and, in some cases, to make ads more relevant to you. We use or may use Google Ads, Google Signals, and Google AdSense, and we may participate in affiliate programs whose links can set cookies.

4. Third-party cookies

Some cookies are set by third parties whose services we use or whose content we embed, including Google (analytics and advertising), Google Maps, embedded video providers such as YouTube, and any email or newsletter service we use. These third parties process data under their own privacy and cookie policies, which we encourage you to review. See our Privacy Policy for links and opt-out tools.

5. Managing your cookie choices

• Consent tool: use the cookie banner or the cookie-settings link on the Site to accept or reject non-essential categories and to change your choices at any time.
• Browser controls: most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the Site works.
• Advertising opt-outs: manage interest-based advertising at optout.aboutads.info and optout.networkadvertising.org, and Google ad settings at myadcenter.google.com.
• Analytics opt-out: install Google’s Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
• Global Privacy Control: where required, we honor recognized opt-out preference signals such as the GPC.

6. Do Not Sell or Share

Some privacy laws treat the use of advertising cookies as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. Where that applies, you can opt out using our cookie-consent tool, the industry opt-outs above, or a Global Privacy Control signal. See the state-rights section of our Privacy Policy.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy as our practices or the technologies we use change. Updates take effect when posted with a new date above.