UITSA uses Cookie Technologies to recognise your logged-in state on UITSA, to understand what purchases members and visitors are interested in, to make UITSA’s Sites function for you, and to help your browsing experience and use of the Site and Services feel more customised. More generally, UITSA uses Cookie Technologies for the following.

Security and Authentication (Strictly Necessary)

Some cookie and similar technology functions are necessary and vital to ensuring that UITSA works properly for visitors and members, such as maintaining the security, safety, and integrity of the Site, authentication and logging into UITSA (including remembering permissions and consents you have granted), and ensuring the ability to securely complete transactions.

Account and User Preferences

Some technologies are used to remember your account and preferences over time, such as keeping yourself logged in when returning to UITSA, maintaining your choices on UITSA features and how you want UITSA to appear (including keeping track of your preferred language and country), and customising content based on how you use UITSA.

Social Networks

Some technologies help you to interact with social networks you are signed into while using the Services, such as sharing content with the social network, logging in with the social network, and other features you employ with the social network, or that are allowed in the social network’s privacy policy. These may be set and controlled by the social networks, and your preferences with those social networks.

Social networks may also work with UITSA or with you for analytics or for marketing purposes, as discussed below. You may be able to manage your privacy preferences for these social networks and their tools and widgets via your account with the social network. You can find more information on specific social media tools and widgets in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Disclosures.

Performance and Analytics

Some technologies help provide performance data on how the Services are functioning in order to improve UITSA and the Services, including, for example, data on site and speed to help us optimise UITSA, how the Services are used to help us improve your experience on UITSA, and detecting and gathering reporting on bugs to help make UITSA work better.

In addition, UITSA may employ transient technologies, including cookies or local stored objects, for site performance, experiments, form information, and interactions with the site, and may use temporary, short-term cookies for limited-time site events such as sales and promotions.

The Site employs Google Analytics to help understand how UITSA is used by its community. For some of the advertising features listed below, like retargeting, data from Google Analytics may be combined with UITSA’s first-party data and third-party cookies (like Google’s advertising cookies) as permitted by Google’s and UITSA’s respective policies. To see how to opt-out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, see Managing your Cookie Technology Preferences at the bottom of this policy.

You can find more information on how Google Analytics works in this Google guide and on Facebook App Events here.

Marketing Services

UITSA partners with third-party service providers that may use various Cookie Technologies to permit us and them to learn about which ads you see and click when you visit UITSA, and affiliated sites or to show you ads on and off UITSA. These may include things such as:

• Frequency capping, which limits the number of times a user’s browser or mobile device displays the same ad;
• Attribution tracking, which estimates which advertising or marketing source brought someone to UITSA, or determines which marketing source led to actions like a visit or a purchase;
• Remarketing and retargeting, which shows relevant ads to an audience based on prior shopping and browsing patterns on UITSA;
• Audience targeting, which refers to targeting advertisements to a large audience based on the audience’s known or inferred demographics; and
• Cross-device recognition, which recognises actions across multiple devices or browsers.

Some third-party service providers may provide information like demographics, cross-device information, or interest categories from a combination of sources that, while not identifying you personally, permit us to provide you with more relevant and useful advertising. In some cases, this information may have non-marketing performance analytics uses as well.

These technologies allow a partner to recognise your computer, mobile device or network device (like an IoT device such as a voice-activated assistant or smart TV), each time you visit UITSA or other websites and mobile applications based on data like a cookie, your IP address, or device ID, but do not allow access to other personal information from UITSA. However, these technologies may allow us or a third party to recognise you, either from a single device or across devices, over time. These third parties are required to follow applicable laws, self-regulatory programmes, and UITSA’s data protection rules where applicable. UITSA does not have control over these third parties, who each have their own privacy policies and privacy practices. UITSA adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising.

For audience targeting, UITSA may share hashed identifiers that represent an email address or name, along with other information you provide to us such as approximate location, birthday and/or phone number, with partners such as Google and/or Facebook so they can provide UITSA with audiences interested in specific types of products and services. Google and/or Facebook will only provide this information, and can only identify you, based on their separate policies and agreements with their users. More information is provided in UITSA’s Cookies and Similar Technologies Disclosures.

You can find a description of third-party Cookie Technologies used by UITSA, along with their respective privacy policies and options for controlling your privacy on these platforms, in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Disclosures.