Skip to main navigation EBSCO, research databases, ebooks, discovery service Contact us EIS COOKIE POLICY For legal purposes, only the English language version of the Cookie Policy is binding. Non-english versions are translated from the English language version for your convenience. LAST UPDATED: January 1, 2020 This EIS Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes how cookies and other similar technologies are used when you access or use EBSCO Information Services’ software, mobile applications, and other products or services (collectively, “Services”), as well as our marketing and general audience websites (collectively, the “Websites”), and how you can control these technologies. We may change this Cookie Policy at any time. Please review the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page to see when this Cookie Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will become effective when we make the revised Cookie Policy available on or through the Services. Please see our Privacy Policy to understand the other ways in which we use information that we collect on or through our Services and Websites. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at privacy@ebsco.com. [In this Cookie Policy, the information applicable to our Services has been separated from the information applicable to our Websites. You should read the applicable section of this Cookie Policy based on whether you are using our Services or our Websites, because the information is different.] Cookie Information Applicable to our Services What is a cookie? Cookies are small electronic files that are stored on your computer or mobile device that collect information about your preferences and navigation of websites. Web beacons (also referred to as gifs and pixels) are small electronic files that are used to count users who have visited website pages and for other related website statistics. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, local stored objects, pixels, web beacons, and gifs, collectively as “cookies.” How do we use cookies? EBSCO Information Services and our third-party service providers may use cookies to collect information about your use of our Services, which enable us to track and target the interests of our users. We then use that information solely to customize the Services and to enhance the user’s experience within our Services. We also use cookies from third parties for analytics purposes to improve our performance or Services or to serve more relevant content to our users. To learn more about third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third-party’s privacy policy and/or cookie policy. What cookies do we use? 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These cookies allow us to remember your settings and preferences, how you logged in, when you logged in or out, and the state or history of the Services you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to tailor the Services to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve customized the Services in other ways. Targeting Cookies. These cookies are used to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can remember that your device has accessed our Services and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activity on websites or services other than ours. This information may be shared with organizations outside of EBSCO Information Services’, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks. We currently do not use targeting cookies with the Services. If we do start using targeting cookies, we will add more information here. How do I control and review cookies? 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Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may impact on the functionality of our Services. Cookie Information Applicable to our Websites What is a cookie? Cookies are small electronic files that are stored on your computer or mobile device that collect information about your preferences and navigation of websites. Web beacons (also referred to as gifs and pixels) are small electronic files that are used to count users who have visited website pages and for other related website statistics. In this Cookie Policy, we refer to these technologies, which include cookies, local stored objects, pixels, web beacons, and gifs, collectively as “cookies.” How do we use cookies? EBSCO Information Services and our third-party service providers may use cookies to collect information about your use of our Websites, which enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Websites. We may also use cookies from third parties for marketing purposes (such as interest-based online advertising) that allow us to display EBSCO Information Services promotional material to you on other sites you visit across the internet based on your visit to our Websites (e.g. Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting). To learn more about third-party cookies, please refer to the relevant third-party’s privacy policy and/or cookie policy. Our Websites may use social media features, such as the Facebook ‘like’ button (“Social Media Features”). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Websites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. 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