Cookie-Use Policy
We use cookies and similar third-party tools to provide functions and services that make purchasing and selling easier. To protect your privacy, we limit the use of these tools.
Short Form of the Policy
When you visit our websites, use our services, applications, and tools, click on our ads, and exchange messages with us (for example, by email), we or our authorized service providers may be using cookies and other similar technologies to store information. This allows you to make necessary actions more quickly, safely, and effectively. This page will provide a clearer idea of these technologies and how we use them in our websites, services, applications, and tools. Below are the main principles of our policy of using cookies and similar technologies for which you should become familiar. The full text of the policy follows below.
We offer the visitors of our websites several functions, services, applications, and tools available only when using these technologies. You can always block, disable, or delete cookies and other similar technologies, if your web browser or device allow you to do so. However, if you disable or delete the functionality of the cookies and other similar technologies, you probably will not be able to use some of the functions of our websites as well as some services, applications, and tools. Also, you will probably have to enter your password more often during your session on our websites. For your safety and ease of use, we try to protect our cookies and similar technologies so that they are used only by us and/or our authorized service providers. For this reason, we give our authorized service providers unique identification numbers. You may come across cookies and similar technologies used by our authorized service providers to help solve issues related to the operation of our websites or delivery of our services, applications, and tools to you. We use session and persistent cookies, as well as our own- and third-party cookies.
We use the above-mentioned technologies for the following purposes:
We may cooperate with other companies (that is, service providers) that may place – with our permission – cookies and similar technologies on our websites and insert them into our services, applications, and tools. These service providers help us with maintenance of our websites, services, applications, and tools, also helping you to take necessary actions quicker, safer, and more effectively. Our websites, services, applications, and tools may use third-party services, such as advertising networks and exchanges, for advertising purposes. These advertising networks and exchanges, in their turn, may use third-party cookies and similar technologies to collect information required for providing corresponding services. They can also collect other information about you, such as your device’s ID, IP address, and IDFA, that can be used to adjust adverts appearing on our websites to your interests.
Full Text of the Policy
What are cookies? Like most other online companies, we use cookies – small data files placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile phone (hereafter referred to in the generic sense as a “device”). Cookies store certain information each time you visit our websites, use our services, applications, and tools, click on our ads, and exchange messages with us. Certain names and types of cookies and similar technologies we use may change with time. To provide you with a more clarity regarding the company’s policy in relation to the use of cookies and similar technologies, below is a short glossary of basic terms:
Cookies: Small text files (usually consisting of letters and numbers) stored in the memory of your web browser or device when you visit our website or view a message from us. These files allow the website to identify certain types of devices and web browsers. The following types of cookies exist:
Cookies can be disabled or deleted by built-in tools on most commercial web browsers. Each web browser has its own preference settings, and different web browsers offer varied functional capabilities or settings options.
Similar technologies for information storage: Technologies allowing the system to store certain information in the web browser’s cache memory or device memory using local shared objects or locally stored data, such as Flash and HTML5 cookies, and other elements of applied software for the Internet. These technologies can be used in all web browsers. In some cases, using locally stored data through browsers is not available to the full extent and requires certain tools. Such data storage technologies can be used by us to protect the data of your personal account or to identify unusual activity when using a browser in order to prevent unauthorized access to your account or assess operational efficiency of our websites, services, applications, and tools. We do not use these technologies for targeted advertisement on our own, or any other, websites. The terms “cookies” and “other technologies” are interchangeable in our policies and stand for all technologies that can be used by us to record data into the web browser’s cache memory or device memory to collect data helping to identify you in accordance with the above-mentioned provisions.
It is your right to choose when cookies and similar technologies are used by us:We offer users of our websites several functions, services, applications, and tools when using the above-mentioned technologies. You can always block, disable, or delete cookies and other similar technologies if your web browser or device allow the option. However, if you disable or delete the functionality of the cookies and other similar technologies, you may experience limitations when using some of the functions of our websites as well as some services, applications, and tools. Also, you will probably have to enter your password more often during your session on our websites. Usually, these technologies allow our websites, services, applications, and tools to store corresponding information in web browser’s cache memory or device memory and scan it later. We do not record your personal data into these files, we only use them to identify you on our servers and in our internal systems. For your safety and ease of use, we try to protect our cookies and similar technologies so that they are used only by us and/or our authorized service providers. For this reason, we give our authorized service providers unique identification numbers. None of our cookies contain any personal data of our users. We ask for your permission to use the above-mentioned technologies to collect and store information, openly notifying you of their usage, and providing you a chance to stop using these technologies at your discretion, as described above. We use the above-mentioned technologies for the following purposes:
Provisions of technologies used by third-party services. We may cooperate with other companies, usually called “service providers”, that may place – with our permission – cookies and similar technologies used for information storage on our websites and insert them into our services, applications, and tools. These service providers help us with maintenance of our websites, services, applications, and tools, and also help you take necessary actions more quickly, safely, and effectively. These companies may use these technologies to help us provide our content and advertisement, as well as anonymously collect statistics and perform analytical research. We do not allow these companies collect any personal data on our websites or through our services, applications, and tools for personal purposes. Other than the technologies used by our services providers, we do not allow third parties to insert any cookies, locally-stored data, or other similar means of tracking and collecting personal information into the content placed by them on our websites (including sales adverts, communication between trade participants, topical adverts, comments, reviews, etc.).
Advertising networks and exchanges operated by third parties.Our websites, services, applications, and tools may use third-party services, such as advertising networks and exchanges, for advertising purposes. These advertising networks and exchanges may use third-party cookies and similar technologies to collect information required for providing corresponding services. They can also collect other information about you, such as your device’s ID, IP address, and IDFA, that can be used to adjust adverts appearing on our own website, and the websites of other entities, to your interests. We do not control the use of the above-mentioned technologies by third parties, even if they use our technologies to collect or store data. The information on collecting, storing, and sharing data collected by the third parties can be found in the terms of service delivery specific to these companies, their privacy policy, as well as corresponding documents of these companies related to permissions, notifications, and right of choice. We do not give any assurances related to policy and practice of third-party advertisers, advertising networks and exchanges, as well as any third-party entities they are associated with.
