Updated March 30, 2020.
This website uses cookies, tiny files downloaded to your computer to improve your browsing. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this prevention may hamper certain elements of the site's functionality.
We use cookies for the various services detailed below. Usually, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without losing these services. We therefore recommend leaving all cookies on if they are required for any number of services you use. If you are unsure if a service requires cookies, do not disable them.
You can disable cookies by adjusting your browser’s settings (see browser help). Be reminded that disabling cookies usually disables certain functions and features on this site. Again, we highly recommend that you do not disable them.
When you create an account with us, we use cookies for sign-up process management and general administration. While cookies are usually deleted when you log out, they sometimes remain to remember your site preferences.
We use cookies when you log in so you won’t have to do so every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are usually cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
We may use cookies to remember whether you already have this site's newsletter or email subscription services. Cookies also help us determine which notifications to send you based on your subscribed/unsubscribed user status.
We occasionally offer user surveys to gather information that help us better understand our user base. These surveys may use cookies to remember whether you’ve already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
When you submit data through forms such as those found on contact pages and comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Your preferences for how this site runs when you use it can be set to give you a great experience. We need to set cookies to remember your preferences so that this information can be called up whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
We also use social media buttons and plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network to enhance your profile or contribute to the data these sites hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies. Social media sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, will set cookies through our site for them to work.
If you are not sure if something is needed or not, it is usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case they do interact with one of the features you use on our site.
