This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help customize your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.
This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are, the cookies used by the eCom website, how to switch off cookies in your browser, how to specifically switch off advertising cookies, and some helpful links for further reading on the subject. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have further questions about the use of cookies on the eCom website, please email privacy@ecom.com. If you believe that any information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us, and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
1. What are ‘Cookies’?
‘Cookies’ are a small text file stored by the browser (Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome) on your computer or mobile device. Cookies are unique identifiers that allow websites to store things like your preferences. Some cookies are necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. Other cookies help us to improve the performance of our website and provide you with a better user experience. Cookies enable the website to recognize you when you come back and to respond appropriately.
Cookies can be “persistent” meaning that it is stored on your device until it expires or you delete the cookie. Alternatively, cookies may be temporary or “session” which are stored only in temporary memory and are not retained after the browser is closed. We do not sell, distribute or lease the information collected by cookies.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer.
2. The Cookies Used by The eCom Website
When you use and access the eCom Website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies to enable certain functions of the Website, to provide analytics, and to store your preferences.
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies. eCom uses third-party cookies from G2 Crowd and Pardot to tell us whether or not you have visited the Website before or to populate form fields on the Website. eCom also uses cookies supplied by Google Analytics to report usage statistics of our Website. These analytics cookies do not provide eCom with any personal data about you, and eCom does not upload any personal data or data that permanently identifies a particular device to Google Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics, please click here. To opt-out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, please click here.
3. Cookies Used in Connection With the eCom Services
In connection with the eCom Services, eCom and/or its customers or partners may use cookies to customize your online advertising experience as an End User based on the preferences or interests known or inferred from the data collected. eCom customers may use cookies to serve appropriate ads to you and to help track results or measure effectiveness of those ads. Cookies placed by eCom on behalf of its customers will persist for no more than ninety (90) days, but may be renewed each time the device is encountered. Cookies placed by eCom on behalf of its customers will not function in the European Economic Area. Cookies placed by eCom’s customers in connection with the eCom Services will be subject to the respective customer’s privacy policy.
4. How to Switch Off Cookies in Your Browser
Usually you can stop your browser from accepting cookies in general or from accepting cookies from a particular website. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can typically find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” section of your browser.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari
Many browsers also offer private browsing windows which do not save your browsing history and which ask websites you visit not to track you.
5. How to Specifically Switch Off Advertising Cookies
If you are concerned about third-party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Network Advertising Initiative or Digital Advertising Alliance. If you are in the EU, you can turn off these cookies by going to the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.
6. Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of your information, we have in place suitable physical, electronic and organizational safeguards to secure the information we collect online.
7. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave the eCom Website, you should note that we do not have any control over that location. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Cookie Policy.
8. Links for Further Reading
You can learn more about cookies on the following websites:
All About Cookies
Cookie Central
Network Advertising Initiative