COOKIE POLICY

Subject to your consent where required by applicable law, we use cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) to help us improve the use and functionality of the website and to understand how visitors use the website and the tools and services offered on it.

Please also see our Privacy Policy for further details about the ways in which we collect and use your personal data.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. 

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Chapter XXVIII Sorority) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

DO WE USE COOKIES?

Yes, we use cookies to make the website function and enhance the visitor experience.When you access the public sections of our website, a session identification cookie appears on your computer and will only be present while you are browsing our website. Additionally, we place persistent cookies on members’ computers; the website recognizes them and makes their access faster.

WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, including to:

  • enable, facilitate and streamline the functioning of and your access to ourwebsite;
  • track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with the our website;
  • understand the total number of visitors to our Website on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac OS) used by our visitors;
  • for security reasons, such as preventing phishing, scammers, unauthorized access attempts, and to assist you in case your account is a hack
  • monitor the performance of our website and continually improve it;
  • customize and enhance your online experience.

WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE?

Here we list the cookies we use and their function:

Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential to provide you with our website and any services available through the website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.These cookies do not collect information from your computer and they typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify you. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.

Functionality Cookies

Functionality cookies record information about choices you have made and allow us to tailor our website to you. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to the website, we can provide you with our services as you have asked for them to be provided.

Analytical Cookies

Analytical cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. For example, these cookies allow us to:

  • Better understand our website visitors so that we can improve how we present our content;
  • Test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our homepage;
  • Collect information about our Website visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using;
  • Determine the number of unique users of the website;
  • Improve our Website by measuring any errors that occur; and
  • Conduct research and diagnostics to improve product offerings.
Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics and many other site web analytics tools that help us understand how users engage with the website. Like many services, these web analytics services use first-party cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our site and how they use it. This information is used to compile reports and create services to help us improve our website and the services associated with it. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. The information generated by cookies about your website usage is transmitted and stored on a Google server located in the USA. To succeed the anonymity of the IP address as used on this website, Google shortens the IP addresses within the territory of the EU and the states belonging to the European Economic Community. The full IP address is only transferred in exceptional cases to a Google server located in the USA, subsequently shortened there. Some services will allow you to opt out of tracking with their services directly. For instance, while you cannot opt out of using cookies with our site, you can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page

Advertising and Tracking Cookies

We may allow third party companies, including advertising companies (such as Linkedin, Google, Facebook and Bing), to place cookies on our website. These cookies enable such companies to track your activity across various sites where they display ads and record your activities so they can show ads that they consider relevant to you as you browse the Internet. These Cookies store information about the content you are browsing together with an identifier linked to your device or IP address. These Cookies also allow us and third parties to know whether you’ve seen an ad or a type of ad, and how long it has been since you’ve last seen it. This information is used for frequency capping purposes, to help tailor the ads you see, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.

Google Ads

This website uses Google AdWords or Google Ads, a Google analytics service, as the conversion tracking tool part of Google AdWords. It works as follows: When you click on an advertisement displayed by Google, Google Ads will store a cookie for conversion tracking (a “conversion cookie”) on your computer’s hard drive. These cookies lose their validity after 60 days and do not allow you to be personally identified. If you visit certain pages of our website, Google will know if you clicked on the advertisement and were redirected to the corresponding page. The information obtained with the help of conversion cookies is used to generate statistics for Ads clients who use conversion tracking. Through these statistics, we will have information regarding the number of users who have clicked on the advertising displayed by Google and who have accessed a page tagged with the conversion tracking tool.

Google DoubleClick

We use the Google DoubleClick function on our websites to evaluate website browse. DoubleClick enables us to present you (we, Google, and other advertisers cooperating with DoubleClick ) with advertisements significant to you as a user. For this purpose, a cookie will be installed on your computer’s hard drive. With the help of this cookie, the website will assign your browser an anonymous identification number, and the site will collect information about the advertisements displayed on your browser and which you have accessed. The information generated by the cookie regarding your website usage will be transmitted to a Google server located in the USA and stored there. Based on the data collected, your browser will be assigned categories of interest. All this with the function to show you advertisements related to your interest. 

Apart from changing your browser settings, you can also permanently disable the DoubleClick cookie by disabling ad personalization. Using our website, you consent to the insertion of the DoubleClick cookie and the collection, storage, and use of your usage data in the manner and for the purposes specified above.

You give your consent for your data to be stored in the cookie after the end of your browsing session and can be accessed, for example, the next time you visit websites. You can revoke your consent given at any time, and with future effects, to this, you will have to delete the DoubleClick cookie and deactivate it permanently.

Optimizely

This service uses cookies to identify the visitor’s browser and analyze the use of this website. You can find more information about how Optimizely processes your data here. You can disable Optimizely tracking at any time by following the instructions on the website https://www.optimizely.com/legal/opt-out/.

DISABLING COOKIES

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionalities and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

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