A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser and load the pages according to a user’s preferences for that particular website, including the personalization of content.

Cookies are also used to gather statistical data, such as which pages are visited, what is downloaded, the ISP’s domain name and country of origin, and the addresses of sites visited before and after coming to our website, as well as your "click stream" activity (meaning, the paths taken by visitors to our website as they navigate from page to page) and transactional attributes in accordance with information you voluntarily submit in the course of using our website. This data is aggregated for analysis to ensure proper functioning of our website, in terms of navigation and usability, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. At no time do any of our cookies capture any personal information.
We may send a cookie that can be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of our website, to improve its usability and for evaluating our marketing effectiveness as described above. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookie by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector). Blocking cookies, however, can also have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

Cookies may have long-term expiration dates, or none, and thus can stay in your hard drive for months at a time. While you can remove them as instructed by the help content in your chosen browser, disabling cookies may prevent access to certain features on our website.

We use third-party tracking services (e.g. Google Analytics) that use cookies to track non-personal information about visitors to our website in the aggregate (such as web page views and referral page information to track the success of our marketing efforts to bring people to our website as well as overall website performance). No personal or sensitive information is transmitted to advertising partners (but some partners may use incoming IP addresses to avoid double-counting the number of new members who joined as a result of the advertising campaign).

Our third-party payment provider (Stripe.com) uses cookies to track your flow through the offset subscription and payment process.

If you would like more information about the use of third-party cookies and tags, or the process of opting out of such cookies or tags, please visit Google's privacy page.