This Cookie Policy is in effect and current as of January 20th, 2019
Emerging Market Media Associates (collectively “EMMA,” “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you and we are wholly committed to being transparent about the technologies we use.
This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, pixels and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”).
This Cookie Policy should be read with the accompanying Privacy Policy and Terms.
By continuing to browse or use our Sites, you agree that we can store and access Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.
What are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you agree. Other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Sites to recognize your device from those of other users of the Sites.
How do our Sites use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
EMMA uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify not only you and your interests, but to remember your preferences and track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to protect the Sites, and to process any requests that you make of us.
First and Third-party Cookies
“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to EMMA.
“Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site.
To aid in the measurement and improve the overall effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.
We use the following types of cookies:
Persistent Cookies. We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use the Sites.
Session Cookies. Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track Internet usage as described above.
You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.
The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will not be kept for longer than one year.
Our Cookies are used for the following purposes outlined below:
| Cookie Type | Purpose |
| Strictly Necessary/ Technical | These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites. |
| Analytical / Performance | These Cookies are used by us, or third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites, these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies. |
| Functionality | These Cookies let us operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us to “remember” you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how you customized the Sites and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts of web pages that are alterable, and provide you with the same customizations during future visits. |
| Third-Party Advertising | These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, for example, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, all have their own privacy policies and may use their Cookies to target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to our Sites. |
Refusal or non-consent to the use of Cookies
If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, refer to your respective browser’s ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section.
Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Sites.
Should you want to remove previously stored Cookies, you can manually delete them at any time. Be advised that doing so will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device(s) unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please visit:
www.youronlinechoices.eu if you are located in Europe
www.aboutads.info/choices if you are located in the United States.