USE OF WEB TECHNOLOGIES
Our Site collects information using a number of web technologies (“Technical Data”), including those described below, which help provide functionality to the Site and provide information to us and our service providers. These technologies may collect personal information like your IP address over time and across different web sites.
a. Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on the Site. We may link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information that you submit while on our Site. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. A session ID cookie expires when a browser is closed. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to provide useful and relevant information on our Site. You can often remove or reject cookies by following instructions published by your internet browser provider. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Site, but your ability to use some areas of our Site will be limited.
b. Log Files
By default, our Site gathers information automatically and stores it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We may use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the Site, to monitor traffic around the Site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.