Use of Cookies and Other Technologies
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Cookies offer you many conveniences:
1. They allow us to identify registered users when they return to the site so that they can retrieve previous image search results, access Lightboxes and shopping carts and view their previous invoices.
2. Cookies save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information.
3. Cookies allow us to deliver personalized content to you, including search results and targeted advertising.
4. Cookies help to protect your security by checking your login details and may help prevent fraud.
5. Cookies remember your preferences when using the site.
6. Cookies also identify particular customers in the event such customer would like assistance from a live, online customer service representative.
We strive to make this site user-friendly and relevant. Our goal is to deliver more personalized products and services to you.
For this purpose, Getty Images also works with third-party partners, who use cookies on our site to:
1. Measure and analyze aggregate usage and volume statistical information from our users on our site. Information gathered may include, but is not limited to the following: activity of the user browser when the user is visiting the site, the site path of users, general information regarding the visitor’s internet service provider and host, and the time users come to the site.
2. Remember our users’ previous search of products and services, and dynamically display more relevant content to them.
3. Record users’ behavior on our site, such as pages visited, emails clicked, forms completed and products and services purchased to create customized advertisements and communications that better meet your needs.
4. Evaluate user traffic and behavior on the site to compile activity reports for our internal use only.
5. Conduct research and diagnostics to improve our products and services.
6. Identify users arriving at the site via a referral from an affiliate website or sponsored link.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Getty Images only, and does not cover the use of cookies by third parties. If you would like more information about Internet advertising companies, including how to opt-out of their information collection, please visit www.networkadvertising.org.
In addition to cookies, we may use other technologies, including single-pixel gifs (also known as web beacons) on our websites and in e-mail messages or newsletters. These tiny electronic images assist us in determining how many users have visited certain pages or opened messages or newsletters.
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