When you use our Services, we, our service providers, and third parties (such as advertising networks, analytics providers, demand side platforms, and social media networks) we work with, collect Personal Information about you through cookies and similar technologies, as described below. You can control and adjust your cookie and tracking technology preference settings as further detailed below in this section.
Cookies and Pixels
A cookie is a small text file saved on your device or browser when you visit a website, open or click on an email, or interact with an advertisement. Some cookies are necessary for the functioning of our Services, these are known and strictly necessary cookies, and others are not required for full functionality of our Services, these are known as non-essential cookies. Some cookies are persistent cookies which remain on your device until you delete them, and other cookies are session cookies which are automatically erased when you exit your Internet browser. We incorporate both first party cookies (which are cookies served directly by us) and third-party cookies (which are cookies served by third parties we work with).
Pixels (also known as web beacons) are code embedded within a service. There are various types of pixels, including image pixels (which are one-pixel transparent images) and JavaScript pixels (which contain JavaScript code). Pixels are often associated with cookies and are used for similar purposes but are not always browser based. When you access a Service that contains a pixel, the pixel may permit us or a third-party to drop or read cookies on your browser or collect other information about your browser or device.
We use cookies and pixels for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Help make our Services work;
- Power age gating on all of our sites to ensure you are of legal drinking age;
- Honor your cookie preference settings;
- Provide us with analytics about our Services, including by counting visits and traffic;
- Save your preferences and personalize your browsing experience and the content recommended to you;
- Support security measures and prevent fraud, such as requiring re-login into your account;
- Provide additional functionality, such as videos and links to third party social media platforms; and
- Identify audiences for and deliver advertising, including targeted advertising.
Our cookie preference center allows you to control your cookie settings on our websites, except for strictly necessary cookies, which cannot be adjusted, as they are necessary to access and use our Services. You can access the cookie preference center for each website via the cookie banner or the Do Not Sell/Do Not Share My Personal Information link available on each website.
Our websites are configured to honor Global Privacy Controls (“GPC”) and other do not track features to the extent required by law. In addition, you can set your device or browser to accept or reject most cookies, or to notify you in most situations that a cookie is offered so that you can decide whether to accept it.
Please note, your cookie preference settings apply on a per site and per browser basis. So, if you use multiple browsers or visit multiple of our brand websites, you will need to manage your preferences for each browser and manage your cookie preference settings for each website. Additionally, if you reset or clear cookies on your device, you will undo the preferences you previously elected on each of our websites. To re-elect these preferences, you will need to revisit the cookie preference center on each website. If you block cookies, certain features on our Services may not function. If you reject all cookies and tracking technologies, you will not receive any targeted advertisements based on your browsing activities and interests, but you may continue to receive general advertisements for our products based on other interactions you have with our Services. To learn more please refer to the Advertising section below. Your ability to limit certain cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations.
Third party applications and APIs
We also offer and deliver services, content or interactive features through and/or using third-party application programming interfaces (“API”), gadgets, and/or extensions that are hosted on our Services or through other third-party platforms. When you use these services, content, or interactive features, or otherwise connect with, or “accept” or “allow” any third-party applications, networks, platforms, or services via our Services, you are authorizing those third parties to receive your information and additionally to potentially share any or all your information with us, based on your privacy or other settings on the particular third-party platform. Any information we receive by these means will be treated and/or processed according to this Privacy Notice.
Advertising
We use information to advertise our products and services. We have various service providers and/or third-party vendors such as ad agencies, ad networks, publishers, social media platforms, and technology providers that may be involved in this process. For example, we place ads on third party publisher websites and social media platforms. These ads incorporate tracking technologies to help serve the ads, measure their performance, detect ad fraud, limit the frequency of ads shown, and provide insights.
Some of the advertising we engage in may be “targeted advertising,” which is the practice of displaying more relevant or personalized ads based on insights gained about your preferences or interests from your browsing activity across non-affiliated services. As part of this process, we may directly or via a service provider or third-party vendor, place or recognize tracking technologies on your browser or device when you visit or use our Services. For example, we may incorporate the Meta pixel into our Service to serve ads to audiences created by Meta based on the data we provide.
We also use audience modelling services, (a type of targeted advertising) to reach Users (or similar audiences) who have interacted with our Services or are identified in one or more of our databases (‘matched ads’). We do this by providing a list of hashed (pseudonymized) email addresses to a service provider or third-party vendor or by incorporating a pixel they provide us into our own Services, which is then used to match common factors between our data and their data.
The service providers and third-parties that we engage for the above-described purposes include, but are not limited to, The Trade Desk, Meta, and Google. For details on third-party data practices, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.
Some of these third-parties that we engage may participate in the following self-regulatory programs, which each offer their own opt-out tools for targeted advertising. For details, please click on the relevant links below. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of their tools.
- Networking Advertising Initiative (U.S. Only)
- Digital Advertising Alliance (U.S. Only)
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU Only)
- Digital Advertising Alliance – Canada (Canada Only)
Also, note that on some platforms (like Apple iOS), we will only receive access to your device’s Ad ID if you provide consent via that platform. You can reset your device’s Ad ID through your device settings, which is designed to limit how your Ad ID can be used. You may also be able stop the collection of any new information within an application by uninstalling the application.
We may also disclose and otherwise process aggregated information or de-identified information that does not identify you individually to other parties. For example, we may disclose aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our websites or Services, demographic information and sales, and other shopping information to third parties to enrich your visitor experience.