When you visit or interact with our services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies, and other similar technologies for storing information to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience and for advertising purposes.
Our cookies and similar technologies have different functions. They are either necessary for the functioning of our services, help us improve our performance, or give you extra functionalities. We use cookies and similar technologies that only remain on your device for as long as you keep your session active and cookies and similar technologies that remain on your device for a longer period (persistent).You are free to block, delete, or disable these cookies if your device permits so. You can manage your cookies and your cookie preferences in your browser or device settings.
Where possible, security measures are set in place to prevent unauthorized access to our cookies and similar technologies. A unique identifier ensures that only we and/or our authorized service providers have access to cookie data.
Service providers are companies that help us with various aspects of our business, such as app operations, services, applications, and tools. These service providers may also place cookies on your device via our services (third party cookies). They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP-address or other unique or device identifiers.
What are cookies, and similar technologies?
We use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a “device”) that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our services, applications, messaging, and tools.
The specific names and types of the cookies, and other similar technologies we use may change from time to time. In order to help you better understand this Policy and our use of such technologies we have provided the following limited terminology and definitions:
Cookies – Small text files (typically made up of letters and numbers) placed in the memory of your device when you use an app or view a message. There are several types of cookies:
Session cookies expire at the end of your session and allow us to link your actions during that particular session.
Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple actions.
First-party cookies are set by the service you are visiting.
Third-party cookies are set by a third-party app separate from the service you are visiting.
We may use the terms “cookies” or “similar technologies” interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.
Why we use cookies?
Our cookies and similar technologies have different functions. They are either necessary for the functioning of our services, help us improve our performance, or give you extra functionalities. We use both session and persistent cookies and similar technologies.
Generally, these technologies allow our services, applications, and tools to store relevant information in your or device and later read that information in order to identify your device to our servers or internal systems. Where applicable, we protect our cookies and other similar technologies to help ensure that only we and/or our authorized service providers can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that is designed for interpretation only by us.
Our uses of such technologies fall into the following general categories:
Essential. We may use cookies, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular app behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as saved search, or similar functions;
Performance Related. We may use cookies, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our services, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our app content, applications, services, or tools;
Functionality Related. We may use cookies, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our services or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our apps;
Any personal information that we collect and store through use of these technologies for categories 2 through 4 above are based on your consent.
Use of these technologies by authorized third-party service providers
We may work with third-party companies, commonly known as service providers, who are authorized to place third-party cookies, or similar technologies for storing information in our services, applications, and tools with our permission. These service providers help us to provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience.
These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver our own content, and compile anonymous metrics and analytics. We do not permit any of these service providers to collect any of your personal information in our services, applications, or tools for their own purposes. These service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions on their use or collection of any personal information. Third-party cookies are covered by the third-parties’ privacy policy.
With the exception of the use of such technologies by our service providers or other authorized third-parties, we do not permit any third-party content on apps to include or utilize any cookies, local storage, or similar technologies for tracking purposes or to collect your personal information. If you believe a listing or other third-party content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on one of our apps, please report it to us.