Last updated July 26th, 2020
What is a Cookie?
"Cookies" are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers
to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for
record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the Site to remember important
information that will make your use of the site more convenient. A
cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the
cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a randomly
generated unique number or other value. Certain cookies will be used
on the Site regardless of whether you are logged in to your account or
not.
Session Cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file
of your browser until you leave the Site.
Persistent Cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much
longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific
cookie). When we use session cookies to track the total number of
visitors to our Site, this is done on an anonymous aggregate basis (as
cookies do not in themselves carry any personal data). We may also
employ cookies so that we remember your computer when it is used to
return to the Site to help customize your Vetster web experience. We
may associate personal information with a cookie file in those
instances.
How Vetster uses Cookies
Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order
to improve your online experience, for analytics and for marketing,
but specifically we use Cookies on the Site for the following
purposes:
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Analytical Purposes:
We use cookies to analyze user activity in order to improve the
Site. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns
like the average number of property searches that users perform. We
can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the
functionality and user experience of the Site.
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Your Preferences & User Experience:
We use cookies to gather certain information about users, such as
browser type, server, language preference, and country setting, in
order to store user preferences on our Site to make your user
experience more consistent and convenient. For example, we may store
the recent searches you have performed in a cookie so that we can
allow you to easily repeat those searches when you return to our
Site. In addition, we use cookies to maintain your logged in state
when you visit our Site repeatedly. We may also use your IP address
to determine your geographic location in order to provide you with
the most relevant search results.
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Marketing:
We use cookies from third-party partners such as Google and Facebook
for marketing purposes. These cookies allow us to display Vetster
promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the
Internet. Vetster may also share information about your behavior on
the Site with third parties (including operators of third-party
websites and/or social networking sites) in order to show you
targeted advertisements and other content that has been customized
for you. We also use cookies to facilitate the Vetster Targeted Ads
Program. In this Program, we use cookies to determine which ads
users have seen, and how many times users have seen a particular ad.
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Referral Tracking:
We use cookies to associate user activity with the third-party
website that referred the user to our Site, or to associate user
activity that Vetster referred to a third-party website. These
third-party partner websites receive credit for the activity of
users they refer to our Site, or give Vetster credit for the
activity of users referred to such third-party websites. We do not
share any personal information or information about individual user
activities with these partner entities. We also use cookies to
associate user activity with the email campaign that referred the
user to our Site.
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Security Purposes:
We use cookies to limit certain types of cyber attacks.
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Testing, Usability, and Performance Improvement Purposes:
We use cookies to ensure users receive a consistent user experience
while we conduct A/B testing on certain aspects of our Site in order
to improve our product offerings. We also use cookies to improve the
performance and reliability of our Site.
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Fraud/Spam Prevention:
We use cookies during fraud reviews and investigations using our
indexes to identify activity related to specific cookies.
Managing Cookies in your Browser
Use the options in your web browser if you do not wish to receive a
cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you
receive a cookie. You can easily delete and manage any cookies that
have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser by following
the instructions provided by your particular browser manufacturer.
If your browser is not listed here, consult the documentation that
your particular browser manufacturer provides. You may also consult
your mobile device documentation for information on how to disable
cookies on your mobile device. If you disable all cookies, you may not
be able to take advantage of all the features of this Site.
Vetster, its partners and service providers may market Vetster
services on another company’s site (e.g., remarketing). In some cases,
the content of this type of marketing may be based on cookie
information that is captured from browsing behaviour on the Vetster
website. While cookie activity may be tracked from clicking on ads and
moving from site to site, as it relates to our marketing campaigns, we
do not track or create a profile of a user’s journey based solely on
advertising behaviour.
Changes To Our Cookie Policy
From time to time, it may be necessary for us to change this cookie
policy. We suggest that you check here periodically for any changes.