Cookie Policy
The Second To None (“us,” “we,” “our,” or “Company”) website, like many other websites, uses small files called cookies to help us customize your browsing experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them in the information below.
This page contains information on what cookies are, the cookies we use, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically switch off advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If this Policy does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on our website, please email: helpdesk@stn.comhelpdesk@cxgroup.com
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari) on your computer, tablet, or cell phone. They allow websites to store things including your user preferences. Think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, so that it can recognize you when you come back and respond appropriately.
How do we use cookies?
Listed below are the various types of cookies you may encounter and a description of each type. We use the following cookies our Websites:
- Site performance cookies
- Anonymous analytics cookies
- Geotargeting cookies
- Registration cookies
- Advertising cookies
- Third party advertising cookies
Site performance cookies
This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on our website, so you don’t have to re-set your preferences each time you visit our website. Examples include:
- Volume settings for a video player
- Whether you prefer to see new content first
- Video streaming speeds that are compatible with your browser
Anonymous analytics cookies:
Every time someone visits our website, software provided by another organization generates an “anonymous analytics cookie.” These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited our website before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit our website.
Unless you are signed into some registration feature on our website, we cannot use these cookies to identify you. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as your username and email address.
Geotargeting cookies
These cookies are used by software which tries to work out your location from the information supplied by your browser when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous, and we only use it to help target our content and advertising.
Registration cookies
When you register with us, we generate cookies that let us know whether you are signed in or not. Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular Service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username. If you have not selected “keep me signed in,” your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer. While you are signed into any of our registration offerings, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen.
Advertising cookies
These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen a particular ad or a type of advertisement, and how long it is since you’ve seen it. We also use cookies to help us use targeted advertising. We may use cookies set by another organization so we can more accurately target advertising to you. These cookies are anonymous – they store information about what you are looking at on our website, but not about who you are.
Third party advertising cookies
Some content you see on our website is provided by other organizations. Some of these organizations use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and we have no access to read or write these cookies. These organizations may use their cookies to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our website.
Other third-party cookies
On some pages of our website, other organizations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application, or to customize the application for you. Because of how cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies, and neither can the other organization access the data in cookies we use on our website.
How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. However, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so if you decline all cookies, you would not be able to post comments.
All browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the Help option in your browser for more details.
- Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Safari weband iOS.
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site.
You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising platforms for more information: Network Advertising Initiative.
Useful links
If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an American advertising business organization that develops industry standards, conducts research, and provides legal support for the online advertising industry. The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:
https://www.iab.com/topics/privacy/
For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:
California Consumer Privacy Act
Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
If you would like to contact us about cookies, please email us: helpdesk@cxgroup.com.