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Effective January 2024

This website is operated by Cook Group. This Cookie Compliance Statement explains how we use cookies and similar technologies (such as pixel tags and web beacons) in connection with your use of our websites and other digital platforms (the “Sites”). Throughout this Cookie Compliance Statement, we refer to cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar technologies collectively as “cookies.”

This Cookies Compliance Statement should be read together with our Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. We may update this Cookie Compliance Statement from time to time as we deem necessary. We will post the date of the last revisions at the top of this Compliance Statement. We encourage you to review this Cookie Compliance Statement periodically to be aware of any changes, but we will aim to bring material changes to your attention.

If you have any questions about this Cookie Compliance Statement, please contact us at:

Chief Privacy Officer
Cook Group Incorporated
P.O. Box 1608
Bloomington, Indiana 47402-1608 USA

Phone:+1 812.331.1025
Fax:+1 812.331.8990
Email: Privacy@CookGroup.com

If you would like this Compliance Statement in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille), please contact us.

Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device when you use a website. We use cookies on our Sites primarily for the following purposes:

  • To remember your choices and preferences.
  • To control access to secure parts of our Sites.
  • To estimate audience size to our Sites.
  • To measure usage patterns on our Sites.
  • To measure and research the effectiveness of our Sites’ features and advertisements.

For further information on our use of cookies, please see below.

Our use of cookies
Listed below are the categories of cookie technology we use on our Sites:

  • Strictly necessary (or essential) cookies
    These cookies are essential to enable you to move around a website and use its features, such as services you have asked for. Without these cookies, those services would not be available to you. These services include, for example, browsing as a registered user, accessing secure areas of the Sites, or making a purchase through the Sites. They also include cookies that we must use to honor opt-out preferences, to the extent that those preferences are linked to a specific user’s IP address. Our Sites use strictly necessary cookies.
  • Preference cookies
    These cookies allow a website to remember choices that you make (such as your username, your language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. Providing these features allows you to have a better experience while using our Sites. We use preference cookies on our Sites.
  • Statistical cookies:
    These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, such as the number of visitors that browse the Sites or a particular section of the Sites, the pages visitors visit most often, and whether visitors get error messages from web pages. The information that we gather through statistical cookies is only used to improve how our Sites work, better understand our customers for marketing purposes, and to help us evaluate usage of our Sites. We use statistical cookies (for example, Google Analytics) on our Sites. We may combine or connect information from statistical cookies with other information about website visitors, but we only use this combined information in accordance with our privacy statement.
  • Marketing cookies
    These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. The cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations, such as advertisers, who recognize you as someone who is interested in our products and who are then able to provide you with relevant advertisements about our products when you are on our Sites or other websites. Quite often marketing cookies will be linked to site functionality that is provided by the other organization. We may use and permit marketing cookies and similar technologies noted above on our Sites. We may use Google Analytics and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to collect information regarding visitor behavior and visitor demographics on some of our Sites and to develop website content. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and processing of data generated by your use of the Sites by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note the use of Google Analytics may involve a transfer of information collected via these cookies to the United States. More information about the security measures applied by Google can be found at https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/safeguards_for_international_data_transfers.pdf.Also depending on where you are located, you may be able to opt out of having participating entities collect your online behavior for advertising purposes when you are browsing our Sites by using tools developed by industry organizations. For example, the Your Online Choices tool, the Your AdChoices tool and the tool developed by Network Advertising Initiative. You will be directed to industry-developed websites that allow you to choose whether each listed entity may collect and use data for interest-based advertising purposes. It may be that some of the third parties that collect interest-based information on our Sites do not participate in these organizations or initiatives, in which case the best way to avoid third-party tracking of your online behaviors may be through your browser settings and deletion of cookies. You may need to use mobile-specific tools in relation to mobile apps. Please note that the tools are device specific. If you wish to opt out from having interest-based information collected by participating entities across all devices, you need take the steps outlined above from each device.

Consent

We will not place cookies on your device without your express consent, except where the cookies are necessary for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. You can provide or decline your consent to the use of cookies on the pop-up cookie banner that appears when you first visit our site. It will save your preferences for one year, but you can update your preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookie Settings icon on our site. It may be necessary to refresh the page for the updated settings to take effect. You can also clear cookies from your internet browser. The table below links to instructions for clearing cached browsing data and cookies in the most popular web browsers.

Instructions for Deleting Browsing Data

Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Samsung Internet
Opera

You can find more information about the individual cookies we (and/or third parties) use, by clicking “Show Cookies” in the bottom right corner of our Cookie Banner. By clicking “Show Cookies” you will be directed to a list of all the cookies we collect on our Sites by category.

To the extent information from cookies constitutes personal data (or is combined or connected with other personally identifiable information about our Sites’ visitors), we only use this information in accordance with our Privacy Statement, and your rights set out therein apply in the same way. To exercise any such rights, please contact us.

Other third parties (i.e., other than those parties identified above) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. In addition, on some of our Sites, such as our social networking pages, it is possible that individuals have uploaded third-party content, such as videos from YouTube or elsewhere, or embedded content and sharing tools from other third-party sites. Since we do not control the dissemination of cookies by any sites that are not owned or operated by Cook, you should check the relevant third-party websites for more information about these cookies, and whether and how you may opt out of receiving them. However, you may disable third-party cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Instructions may be found at https://allaboutcookies.org.

How to refuse all cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies (including those that are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Sites. Please visit https://allaboutcookies.org for further details.