What are cookies? How do we use cookies?
Cookies enable us to customize and personalize your experience on our Site, including the products and promotions that are offered to you. Essentially, a cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and is stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies for several purposes in connection with the operation of our Site.
We may use cookies to identify you and access your information stored on our computers to deliver you a better and more personalized experience. For example, we may use cookies to tell you about products and services specific to your interests.
Upon request, we will save your “username” so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our Site. In providing you with this service, we use cookies.
We may use cookies to estimate our user base and usage patterns. Each browser accessing our Site may use given a unique cookie that is then used to determine the extent of repeat visits and the user activity during those visits. We may use information to help target promotions based on user interests and behavior, both specifically to individual users and on an aggregate basis with respect to all users.
We also may use cookies to track your progress and number of entries in some promotions, sweepstakes and contests, or through a meeting registration process. For example, when a promotion uses cookies, the information coded to the cookie indicates your progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions and status of prize drawings.
Business and Foundation partners may use their own cookies. We have no control over those cookies, nor does our Privacy Policy cover how your personal information contained in those cookies may be used or protected. If you have any questions about the cookies of such third parties, or about the use of your personal information by such third parties, you should contact the site administrator or webmaster of the third-party site.
Do you have choices about cookies?
Yes, you have several choices with respect to cookies. You can modify your browser preferences to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. However, our Site uses cookie-based authentication. Accordingly, if you choose to reject all cookies, you may not be able to log onto our Site and use our services or participate in our sweepstakes, contests or promotions.