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Cookie Policy
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. They contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies, beacons, invisible tags, and similar technologies (collectively “cookies”) to collect information about your browsing activities, to assess how many users access or use our Service, which content, products, and features of our Service most interest our visitors, what types of offers our customers like to see, how our service performs from a technical point of view, and to distinguish you from other users of the Service. This aids your experience when you use the Service and also allows us to improve the functionality of the Service.
We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to automatically collect certain information. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. When you use the Service, we may also automatically collect certain information from your device by using similar technologies, including “clear gifs” or “web beacons.” Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your settings with regard to such automated data collection. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, such technologies from the Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential.
The automatically collected information may include your IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use the Service, the pages or other content you view or otherwise interact with on the Service, and the dates and times that you visit, access, or use the Service. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message.
We use the following cookies:
Functional cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to the Service. This enables us to personalise our content for you, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
| Provider | Name | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| github.com | logged_in | 364 Days |
| github.com | _octo | 364 Days |
Performance cookies
We also use cookies for analytics purposes in order to operate, maintain, and improve the Service. We use third party analytics providers, including Google Analytics, to help us understand how users engage with the Service. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions which helps show how users use the Service. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve the Service.
The reports disclose usage trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our Service by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or via Google’s Ads settings.
| Provider | Name | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | _ga | 2 Years |
| google.com | _gat_UA- | A few seconds |
| google.com | _gclxxxx | 90 Days |
| google.com | _gid | 1 Day |
Targeting cookies
Targeting and advertising cookies are specifically designed to gather information from you on your device to display advertisements to you based on relevant topics that interest you. Advertisers will place these cookies on a website with the website operator's permission.
| Provider | Name | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| google.com | ads/ga-audiences | Session |
| hm.baidu.com | HMACCOUNT | 5779 Days |
Third Party Web Beacons and Third Party Buttons.
We may also implement third-party content or advertising on the Service that may use clear gifs or other forms of web beacons, which allow the third-party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser in connection with your viewing of the third party content on the Service. Additionally, we may implement third party buttons (such as Facebook “like” or “share” buttons) that may allow third parties to collect information about you through such third parties’ browser cookies, even when you do not interact with the button.
Information collected through web beacons and buttons is provided directly to the operators of such websites or services and we does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by a third party in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.