Cookie policy

Example

These cookies allow websites to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. For example, by remembering your region, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news. Cookies can also help you change the text size, font, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not prevent it from working. Most Google users will have a preferences cookie called ‘PREF’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The PREF cookie may store your preferences and other information, in particular your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.

We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties. For example, there are cookies containing digitally signed and encrypted records of a user's account ID and most recent login date. The combination of these cookies allows us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal the content of forms you complete on web pages.

Process cookies help websites work and provide the services visitors expect, such as navigating between pages or accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, the site cannot function properly.

We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user; to improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. Google uses cookies to help personalize ads on Google properties, such as Google Search. For example, we use them to remember your most recent searches or search results and your visits to a website. This allows us to show you personalized ads on Google. Google also uses conversion cookies whose primary purpose is to allow advertisers to determine how many people who click on their ads end up buying their products. These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to determine that you clicked on the ad and then visited the advertiser's site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for interest-based ad targeting and persist for a limited period of time. These cookies are typically set in the googleadservices.com or google.com/ads domain. Conversion cookie data may also be used in association with your Google account to link conversion events across devices you use. Only anonymous conversion data collected through these cookies is shared with advertisers. Some of the other cookies may also be used to measure conversion events. For example, Google Analytics may be used for this purpose and set on the domain you are visiting.

Websites often collect information about how users interact with them. This can include which pages users go to most often, and whether users get error messages from certain pages. We use these "session state cookies" to improve our services and our users' experience. Blocking or deleting these cookies will not make the website unusable.

Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners to understand how their visitors engage with their properties. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. In addition to reporting website usage statistics, the Google Analytics pixel tag can also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described above, to help show more relevant ads on Google properties (like Google Search) and across the web.