1. INTRODUCTION
Fordyce Forum & Company, Inc., and its subsidiaries (“Fordyce Forum”) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information from and about you because we respect your concerns about privacy, and we want to maintain your trust. We and our service providers collect information by automated means when you visit, access, or use our websites, mobile sites, applications (“apps”), electronic newsletters or widgets (collectively the “Fordyce Forum Services”) that link to this Cookie Policy. We collect information through cookies (including Flash cookies), web beacons, pixels, web server logs, JavaScript, and other tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) to deliver and improve the Fordyce Forum Services, and to display relevant content, products, services and advertising. A list of Fordyce Forum subsidiaries is available in annual reports accessible here.
This Cookie Policy describes the information we obtain from Cookies, how we use Cookies, and how you can manage them. By using the Fordyce Forum Services, you acknowledge you have read and accept this Cookie Policy. We may periodically update this Cookie Policy without prior notice to reflect changes in our practices. Please take a look at the Effective Date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised.
Our use of Cookies may involve the processing of Personal Data (i.e., any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual, such as IP addresses, or other online mobile identifiers). For more information about our data protection practices, see our Privacy Policy.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to and stored on your computer or other internet connected device to identify your browser or store information. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work in a better, more efficient way. A web beacon links web pages to servers and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. Other tracking technologies such as pixels, JavaScript, or web server logs allow us to use invisible images or code on the Fordyce Forum Services, or data from our web server logs, to gain analytics insights.
3. INFORMATION WE OBTAIN THROUGH COOKIES
The information we obtain through the use of Cookies may include information about your computer, device, and browser, such as your IP address, browser, operating system and device characteristics, language preferences, mobile device or advertising ID, referring URLs, and actions taken by you on the Fordyce Forum Services such as what content you visited, whether you have used the Fordyce Forum Services before, dates and times you access the Fordyce Forum Services, email and advertising views and click-throughs, frequent article searches on the Fordyce Forum Services, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Fordyce Forum Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect information for that device such as a unique device identifier (“UDID”), mobile phone number, and details about your mobile carrier.
4. HOW WE USE COOKIE INFORMATION
The Fordyce Forum Services use Cookies to function effectively. For example, Cookies allow us to display relevant content, provide advertising, and enhance your online experience. In addition, Cookies can recognize you and remember important information that will make your use of a website more convenient such as by remembering your login status and user preferences.
We use information we obtain through the use of Cookies to enhance our products and services, such as by learning which content is popular. We may also use Cookies to link your use of the Fordyce Forum Services to Personal Data we have about you. For example, if you have asked us to provide you information about our upcoming products or promotions, Cookies will enable us to customize the materials we provide to you based on your online interests and preferences.
Through the Cookies of third party analytics providers, ad networks, and advertisers, we can track your online activities over time and across third party websites, apps and devices, by obtaining information through automated means. This information, along with information we gather when you log in, can be used to understand use across sites and devices to help improve our products, remember your preferences, provide content recommendations, and show you advertisements on the Fordyce Forum Services or other third party websites and apps that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information these third parties may obtain on our behalf includes data about your visits to websites and use of apps that serve our advertisements, such as the pages, articles or ads you view and the actions you take on those websites or apps. This data collection takes place both on our sites, apps and emails, and on third party websites and apps. For more information, including how to opt out of Analytics and Advertising Cookies, see Cookies We Use and How You Can Manage Cookies below.
5. THIRD PARTY COOKIES
We work with third parties to support the Fordyce Forum Services by serving advertisements or providing services, such as providing users with the ability to comment on content, allowing users to share content, customizing content based on usage, or tracking aggregate site usage statistics (including actions taken on the Fordyce Forum Services, and dates and times you access the Fordyce Forum Services). These third parties use their Cookies to collect information on the Fordyce Forum Services and on other websites.
For example, we use analytics services supported by third parties who generate Analytics Cookies on our behalf. We may not have access to these Cookies, although we may use statistical information arising from the Cookies provided by these third parties to customize content and for the other purposes described above. These companies may also transfer this information to other parties where required to do so by law, or where such other parties process the information on their behalf. Third party advertisers and other organizations may also use their own Cookies to collect information about your activities on the Fordyce Forum Services and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. This information, which may be combined with other information acquired from third parties such as demographics and other marketing segment information, may be used by them to serve advertisements on the Fordyce Forum Services and third party sites that they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on content you have viewed. Third party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to track aggregate usage statistics.