Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies

Our Services use online technologies called “cookies” and “web beacons,” as well as similar technologies. This supplement explains what these technologies are and how we use them.

Cookies and Other Local Storage

Generally speaking, “cookies” are text files that are placed in your device’s browser, and that can be used to help recognize your browser across different Web pages, websites, and browsing sessions.

Cookies are stored on your device or in “local storage.” Oath also uses other types of local storage technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (sometimes called “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with our services. These technologies are similar to cookies in that they are stored on your device and can be used to maintain information about your activities and preferences. However, these other local storage technologies may use parts of your device other than your browser, which means you may not be able to control their use using the browser tools and settings you use to control cookies. For more information about managing Flash cookies, please visit the Adobe Flash Player website. Your browser's privacy controls may enable you to manage other types of local storage.

We may use cookies or similar technologies in combination with your Oath information to enhance and personalize your experience on our Services, including:

to help authenticate you when you use our Services;
to remember your preferences and registration information;
to enable a shopping cart;
to present and help measure and research the effectiveness of our Service, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which Oath emails you open and act upon);
and to customize the content and advertisements provided to you through our Services.

Oath is committed to complying with the Network Advertising Initiative’s Self-Regulatory Code of Conduct, and the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada’s Self-Regulatory Principles. These programs limit the ways in which companies, including AOL, may use cookies and other local storage.

Web Beacons

Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on Web pages, videos, and in in emails that can communication information about your browser and device to a server. Beacons can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit that Web page or read an email, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing that page or email.