1. Use of Cookies and Their Related Technologies on Our Website
Our websiteｓ use cookies (“Cookies”) and its related technologies (including web beacons and pixels and others, collectively "Related Technologies") to enhance convenience when you revisit our websites or use any services provided by us or any third parties.
This Cookie Policy applies when Cookies do not directly identify you as an individual. Otherwise, our Privacy Policy will apply if Cookies are used in a way that identifies you or required by any applicable laws.
2. What Are Cookies?
"Cookies" are standard technology used by web servers to identify your computer or other devices. When you browse websites or use any web services, Cookies automatically recognize your device, browser and/or others that you are using.
By using Cookies, you can log in while maintaining the state from previous visits or the use of services without re-entering the same information. Cookies also help personalize or optimize content and advertisements for your better user experience. Several types of Cookies can be used as follows:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are essential for websites to function properly. They help maintain login status and shopping cart contents.
- Functionality Cookies: These Cookies remember your settings and preferences on the websites to enhance your convenience. This includes assistance for form inputs, your preferences on settings for language and region, video playbacks, and accessibility functions such as font size.
- Performance Cookies: These Cookies analyze how the site is used and help assess and improve the performance of our websites. They allow us to understand page views, user navigation within the websites, loading speed, and error occurrences.
- Behavioral Targeting Cookies: These Cookies create profiles based on your interests and display relevant advertisements on other websites as well. Sometimes we set them on our website, while at other times our advertising partners set them through our platforms.
- Social Media Cookies: These Cookies enable integration with social media platforms and allow your use history from our websites and others to be shared. Examples include "Like" and "Share" buttons.
3. How We Collect Your Information by Cookies
- How We Collect and Purpose of the Collection
Our websites use Cookies and Related Technologies in combination to identify your browser and device. This enables us to verify your login status for our services and optimize content and advertisement displays.
- Information We Collect
- Your browsing history, activities and status
- IP address, operating system, and browser type that your device uses
4. Purposes for Using Cookies and Related Technologies
We may use your information obtained through Cookies and/or Related Technologies in connection with your personal information for the purposes described below:
- To streamline operations of our services and improve user convenience, such as assistance in browsing and reductions of inputs for membership registration, changes, confirmations, and other member-related services.
- To propose products and services that match your preferences and interests, display and deliver appropriate advertisements, and enable integration with social media platforms.
- To analyze your use of our websites in order to improve the performance of our websites, as well as our products and services.
- To prevent, investigate, correct, resolve, and/or verify security issues, malfunctions in services, and other incidents, and to respond to any users who breach any terms of our services.
- To produce statistical data that does not identify individuals, such as measuring the advertisement performance.
5. Retention Period of Cookie Information
On our websites, your information provided through Cookies is retained for one year from the time you provide us a consent. The retention period may vary depending on the settings of your browser.
6. Cookies and Related Technologies Provision to Third-Party and How to Disable Them
Advertising partners may deliver certain advertisements to you who have visited our websites via social media platforms or advertising spaces.
- Provision to Third Parties
When you access our website or applications, cookies may be sent by our advertising partners. Additionally, Cookies we send may be stored on the servers of each advertising partner along with those sent by the respective partners. All Cookies will be handled in accordance with the partner’s privacy policy.
- How to Disable Third-Party Provision
You may refuse Cookies—by changing settings via your browser, the "Cookie Settings" button or link provided on our websites, or through the providers’ websites regarding tools for Related Technologies.
Please note that disabling Cookies may affect the functionality of our services on our websites, including access to certain products or services provided by advertising partners. Please be advised to set your preference accordingly.
The methods for disabling the functionality of Cookies varies depending on the browser used. Please refer to the links below or the help function of your browser.
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You can disable the functionality of Cookies by using one of the following methods:
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