Cookie Policy

Last Updated and Effective Date: June 14, 2023

Aras Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Aras” “us” or “we”) understand your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and other similar tracking technologies (collectively, “Cookies and Tracking Technologies”) may be used when you use or visit any Aras website (“Website”). For example, Aras uses cookies for analytics and advertising purposes, such as tracking the effectiveness of its marketing, to show you more relevant content, and for customer site functionality. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Website Terms of Use.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies are small text files which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit our Website. They are processed and stored by your web browser. This technology allows us to enhance the effectiveness of our Website, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. Some examples of cookies: (i) analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use websites to allow companies to measure site performance and the effectiveness of their marketing efforts; and (ii) advertising cookies recognize a user’s device and help to provide the user with more relevant content and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies generally follow the following types of classifications:

Classification by Provider

• First Party Cookies. First party cookies are cookies that belong to Aras and that you receive directly from Aras when using our Website.
• Third-Party Cookies. Third-party cookies are cookies that you receive from another party when visiting our Website, for example, by an advertiser or an analytic system. Aras may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information, to help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on.

Classification by Duration of Cookies

• Persistent Cookies. A persistent cookie is a cookie that is stored by the web browser on your device and remains until you erase them, or your web browser does, depending upon the cookie’s expiration date. We use persistent cookies to improve your experience of using our Website. This includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears when you use our Website.
• Session Cookies. Session cookies are temporary and expire when your web browser closes (or once your session ends). We use session cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.

Classification by Purpose

• Necessary Cookies. These are cookies that are required and are essential for the operation of our Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.
• Preference (or Functional) Cookies. These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Website. This enables us to personalize your content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Statistics (or Analytical/Performance) Cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to seek how visitors move around our Website. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Marketing Cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Aras uses Cookies and Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Website. We also use Cookies and Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Website, protect the Website, and to process any requests that you may make.

To administer our Website and for research purposes, Aras also has contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Website users. These third-party service providers use persistent cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our Website content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Website.

When you use our Website, the information we may collect by automated means includes, for example:

• Usage Details. Details about your interaction with our Website (such as the date, time and length of visits, and specific pages or content accessed during the visits, search terms, frequency of the visits, referring website addresses);
• Device Information. Information including the IP address and other details of a device that you use to connect with our websites (such as device type and unique device identifier, operating system, browser type, mobile network information and the device’s telephone number);
• Location Information. Information when you choose to provide the Website with access to real-time information about your device’s location.

See the Table below at the end of this Cookie Policy for more details about the Cookies and Tracking Technologies that we use.

You can learn more about Cookies by visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie; and opt-out of certain cookies by visiting your browser or device settings, including in some cases to prevent their installation altogether. Although rejecting certain cookies will not interfere with your ability to interact with most of our Website, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. 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 Website. You can clear cookies from your browser at any time.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser, except as specifically required by law. To find out more about “Do Not Track” please visit www.allaboutdnt.com.

We will review and update this Policy from time to time. The easiest way to check for updates is by looking for the latest version of this policy on our Website or you can contact us to ask us to request that we send to you the latest version of our Cookie Policy ([email protected]).