OpenET Cookie Policy
Last Updated: September 3, 2021
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use information from and about you when you visit our website, create an account with us, or otherwise interact with us. This policy describes in more detail how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies and your choices regarding such technologies.
What are Cookies?
Like most websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to remember things about you so that we can provide you with a better experience.
- Cookies are small data files stored on your browser or device. They may be served by the organization that operates the website you are visiting (“first-party cookies”) or by other companies (“third-party cookies”). For example, we partner with third-party analytics providers, which set cookies when you visit our websites. This helps us understand how you are using our Services so that we can improve them.
- Pixels are small images on a web page or in an email. Pixels collect information about your browser or device and can set cookies.
- Local storage allows data to be stored locally on your browser or device and includes HTML5 local storage and browser cache.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes, like providing insight on which features are most popular on our Site, counting visitors to a page, improving our users’ experience, keeping our Services secure, and generally providing you with a better experience. The cookies we use generally fall into one of the following categories.
| Category of Cookies | Why we use these cookies |
| Strictly Necessary | These cookies are essential for our Site and Services to function properly and cannot be switched off in our system. Like the other cookies we use, strictly necessary cookies may be either first-party cookies or third-party cookies. |
| Functional/Security | We use these cookies to remember your settings and preferences. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly. For example, we may use these cookies to remember your language preferences. We also use cookies to help identify and prevent security risks. |
| Analytics/Performance | We use these cookies to collect information about how you interact with our Site and Services and to help us improve them. If you do not allow these cookies, then we will not know when you have visited our site. For example, we may use these cookies to determine if you have interacted with a certain page and to learn more about which features are the most popular with our users and where we may need to make improvements. |
| Preferences | We use these cookies to remember your settings and preferences. For example, we may use these cookies to remember your language preferences. |
| Security | We use these cookies to help identify and prevent security risks. |
| Targeting | We and our advertising partners use these cookies to deliver advertisements, to make them more relevant and meaningful to visitors to our website, and to track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns. |
Your Choices
You have a number of options to control or limit how we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies, including for advertising.
- Although most browsers and devices accept cookies by default, their settings usually allow you to clear or decline cookies. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access our Site or Services or some of the features of our Services may not function properly.
- To prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
- For information on how our advertising partners allow you to opt out of receiving ads based on your web browsing history, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/. European users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising through the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.
- To opt out of ads on Facebook, Pinterest, or Google that are targeted to your interests, use your Facebook, Pinterest, or Google Ads settings.
- Check your mobile device for settings that control ads based on your interactions with the applications on your device. For example, on your iOS device, enable the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting, and on your Android device, enable the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” setting.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us by email at privacy@openetdata.org.