Cookie Policy

Overview

First Chair Operating Company LLC (“First Chair”, “we” or “us”) maintains www.firstchair.com and related First Chair online, emailing and mobile app services (our “Site”). This Cookie Policy describes what cookies are and the types of cookies we use on our Site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device to store data that can be recalled by a web server in the domain that placed the cookie. This data often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well. Some cookies are placed by third parties acting on our behalf.

Do we use cookies on our Site?

Yes, like many websites, our Site uses cookies for a variety of purposes. For example, we may use cookies to enhance your online experience by remembering your log-in status and viewing preferences from a previous use of an online service, to honor your preferences and settings, to enable you to sign-in, to provide interest-based advertising, to combat fraud, to analyze how our products and services perform, and to fulfill other purposes described in our Privacy Notice. For more information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies, please see the Privacy Notice sections entitled “How does First Chair use your Personal Information” and “Cookies, Web Beacons, and other Tracking Mechanisms.”

What types of cookies do we use on our Site?

The Site may use cookies in the following categories:

• Essential Cookies: Cookies required for system administration, to prevent fraudulent activity, to improve security or to allow you to make use online booking technology.

• Analytics and Performance Cookies: Cookies used to assess the performance of the Site, including as part of our analytics practices to improve the content offered through the Site.

• Functional Cookies: Cookies to tell us about your activity on the Site and features in which you may have the greatest interest. For example, whether you have visited our Site before or if you are a new visitor.

• Targeting Cookies: Cookies used by us or by third-party advertising networks and content providers to deliver content, including ads, relevant to your interests on the Site and third-party sites across your devices based on how you interact with our advertisements or content.

How do our advertising and marketing partners use cookies for interest-based advertising?

We may use third parties to serve targeted ads on our Site and on other websites like social media sites, a practice referred to as interest-based advertising. These third parties may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to uniquely distinguish your web browser and report certain information about your visits to our Site and other websites (e.g., web pages you visit and your response to ads) in order to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and to deliver ads that are more relevant to you, both on and off the Site and across your devices, including on social media sites. This information may also be used to evaluate our online advertising campaigns.

Some of these third parties may combine information they collect from our Site with other information they have collected relating to your web browser's activities across their network of websites, where permitted. However, many of these third parties may allow you to opt out of these uses as described below.

How can I opt out from interest-based advertising?

Some advertising networks we may use for these purposes may be members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) or the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). Please visit the websites below to learn more about interest-based advertising and to opt out of receiving personalized advertising or content from participating third-party advertising companies:

• Digital Advertising Alliance (https://youradchoices.com/control)

• Network Advertising Initiative (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1)

Please note that if you opt out, you may still receive online advertising from us, but it will not be tailored to your interests based on online behavioral information about you. To successfully opt out, you must have cookies enabled in your web browser (see your browser's instructions for information on cookies and how to enable them). Your opt-out only applies to the web browser you use, so you must opt out of each web browser on each computer you use. Once you opt out, if you delete your browser's saved cookies, you will need to opt out again.

How do I disable or remove cookies from my browser?

You have the choice of whether to accept the use of cookies (except essential cookies). However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Site, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Site.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, and how to disable existing cookies. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at the following websites:

• Google Chrome at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

• Microsoft Internet Explorer at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

• Safari at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265 and/or

• All About Cookies at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

Additionally, Google states it provides you choices on how your information is collected by Google Analytics by offering you an Opt-out Browser Add-on which can be located at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. By installing this Add-on, Google states that no information will be sent to Google Analytics.

What can I do if I have a question on First Chair's Cookie Policy?

If your questions are not answered online, please email our Privacy Team [email protected].