A-Z Chore Cookies Policy
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies
Summary
When you engage with our websites, services, applications, tools, or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may utilize cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to store information. These technologies are used to enhance your experience by making it better, faster, and more secure, as well as for advertising purposes.
This page is intended to help you gain a better understanding of how these technologies work and how we use them across our sites, services, applications, and tools. Below, you will find a summary of important points about our use of such technologies. You can review the full details in our complete User Cookie Notice below.
Our cookies and similar technologies serve various purposes. They may be essential for the operation of our services, improve performance, provide additional features, or assist in delivering targeted and relevant ads. We use both session cookies, which stay on your device only as long as your browser is active, and persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a longer duration. You have the option to block, delete, or disable these technologies, depending on the capabilities of your device. You can manage your cookie settings and preferences through your browser or device settings.
Where possible, we implement security measures to protect our cookies and similar technologies from unauthorized access. A unique identifier ensures that only we or our authorized service providers can access cookie data.
Service providers are third-party companies that assist us with various aspects of our business, including site operations, services, applications, advertisements, and tools. Some of these service providers help deliver relevant ads to you on our services and other sites across the internet. These providers may place third-party cookies on your device and collect information like your IP address or other unique identifiers to help recognize your device.
What are cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies?
Like many websites, we use technologies that involve small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (collectively referred to as a “device”). These files enable us to capture specific information whenever you visit or engage with our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools.
The names and types of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies we use may vary over time. To help you better understand this policy and our use of these technologies, we have provided a brief glossary of terms and definitions below.
Cookies
are small text files, typically consisting of letters and numbers, that are stored in your browser or device memory when you visit a website or view a message. They allow a website to recognize a specific device or browser. There are several types of cookies:- Session cookies: These expire once you close your browser and help us associate your actions during a specific browsing session.
- Persistent cookies: These are stored on your device between sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple sites.
- First-party cookies: These are set by the website you're visiting.
- Third-party cookies: These are set by a different website than the one you're visiting.
Cookies can be disabled or deleted using tools available in most web browsers. You will need to adjust the settings for each browser you use, as different browsers offer different options and functionalities.
Web beacons
are tiny graphic images, often referred to as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs," which may be embedded in our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools. These images generally work alongside cookies to help track and identify user behavior and interactions.Similar technologies
refer to methods that store data in your browser or device using local shared objects or local storage, such as flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies, and other web application techniques. These technologies can function across all of your browsers and, in some cases, may not be fully controlled by your browser, requiring management through the applications or device directly.In our policies, we may use the terms "cookies" or "similar technologies" interchangeably to refer to all technologies that we use to store data in your browser or device or collect information to help identify you as described above.
The ways we use these technologies can be grouped into the following general categories
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Essential for Operation
We may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies that are essential for the functioning of our sites, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that enable you to log in and access our sites, services, applications, and tools; help detect unusual site behavior, prevent fraud, and enhance security; or support features like shopping carts, saved searches, and other similar functions. -
Performance-Based
. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to evaluate the performance of our websites, applications, services, and tools. This includes using analytics to understand how visitors interact with our sites, assess whether you have engaged with our messages, track if you have viewed a particular item or link, and enhance the content, applications, services, or tools on our website. -
Functionality-Based
. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to provide you with enhanced features and functionalities when accessing or using our websites, services, applications, or tools. -
Advertising and Targeting-Based
. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver relevant content, including advertisements, both on our sites and on external sites. This includes using technologies to assess how useful the ads and content are to you, such as whether you clicked on an ad. If you're logged into a Google account and have enabled Google Ads Personalization, we may also use Google Signals for remarketing and demographic/interest reports. You can opt-out of this usage here.We may partner with third parties, such as advertising networks and exchanges, to help serve advertisements. These third-party providers may use their own cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to gather information. They may also collect your device ID, IP address, or advertising identifiers (IDFA). The data these third parties collect may be used to help us provide more relevant ads to you on our sites or other sites on the web.
You can opt out of certain third-party advertising-related cookies through the AdChoices website. Opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads, but rather that they will no longer be targeted to you using these third-party technologies.
Your preferences apply to the specific device and browser you use. If you access our sites using different browsers or devices, you need to set your preferences for each. Additionally, if you clear your cookies, you will need to reset your preferences.
For more details on third-party advertising-related cookies and how to opt out, visit: https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools. To opt out of all other technologies used on our sites, services, applications, or tools, you can block, delete, or disable them through your browser or device settings.