Company websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages and advertisements may use "cookies" and other technologies such as web beacons and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites are visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat the information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Likewise, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this privacy policy.
Ads from the company's advertising platform may appear in Company News and the App Store. If you don't want to receive ads targeted to your interests, you can choose to enable Limit ad tracking, which will allow your business to stop receiving such ads, regardless of the device you use. If you enable Limit ad tracking on your mobile device, third-party apps cannot use the ad ID, a non-personal device ID, to serve you targeted ads. You can still see ads in the App Store or News depending on the context, such as your search query or the channel you are reading. In third-party apps, you can see ads based on other information.
The company and our partners also use cookies and other technologies to remember your personal information when you use our website, online services and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with the Company more practical and personal. For example, knowing your first name, we welcome you the next time you visit the company's online store. Knowing your country and your language - and if you are an educator, your school - helps us provide a personalized and more useful shopping experience. Knowing that someone is using your computer or device has made purchases for a certain product or used a particular service helps us make our email and advertising communications more relevant to your interests. And knowing your contact information, hardware credentials and information on your computer or device, we help you customize your operating system, configure your iCloud service, and provide you with better customer service.
If you want to disable cookies and you use the Safari web browser, go to Safari preferences, then to the Privacy pane to manage your preferences. On your company's mobile device, go to Settings, Safari, scroll down to the Privacy and security section, and then tap "Block cookies" to manage your preferences. For other browsers, check with your provider to find out how to disable cookies. Please note that certain features of the Company's website will not be available once cookies are disabled.
As with most Internet services, we automatically collect certain information and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referral and exit sites and applications, operating system, timestamp, and data. clickstream.
We use this information to understand and analyze trends, administer the site, understand user behavior on the site, improve our products and services, and collect demographic information about our user base as a whole. The company may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a "destination URL" linked to content on the company's website. When customers click on one of these URLs, they go through a separate web server before arriving at the landing page on our website. We track this click data to help us determine interest in specific topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be followed in this way, you should not click on text or graphic links in email messages.
Pixel tags allow us to send email messages in a format that customers can read, and they tell us if the mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.
