### Understanding the Use of Cookies on Our Website

Visitors to our website may encounter various types of cookies designed to enhance user experience and provide personalized content. These cookies are often set by our advertising partners and are used to create a profile of your interests based on your browser activity and internet device. While they don't store personal information directly, they help in delivering targeted advertising on other sites you visit. Opting out of these cookies will result in encountering less personalized advertisements.

Enhanced functionality and personalization on our site are made possible by specific cookies, which might be set by our own systems or by third-party providers whose services we integrate into our pages. Disabling these cookies can affect the effectiveness of these services, potentially rendering some or all non-functional.

Additionally, our site includes cookies from a variety of social media services to foster content sharing with your friends and networks. These cookies can track your browser activity on different websites, which in turn influences the content and advertisements you see elsewhere. Declining these cookies may limit your ability to use social media sharing tools effectively.

To optimize the performance of our website, we use cookies that allow us to count visits and analyze traffic sources, which help us pinpoint the most and least popular pages. This data, gathered in an aggregated and anonymous form, also provides insight into user navigation patterns. Without these cookies, our ability to monitor and improve site performance is significantly hindered.

Lastly, some cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website and cannot be switched off through our systems. These cookies are typically activated by user actions such as setting privacy preferences, logging in, or completing forms. Although you can configure your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, it will likely impact site functionality. Importantly, these cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.