Our website makes use of certain techniques to increase the ease of use and ensure the site has a wide appeal. The best-known examples of these techniques are cookies and scripts (“cookies”).
It is important to us at Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (together with each of our subsidiaries, hereafter “CST”, “we”, “us” or “our”) that you know what kind of cookies and similar tracking technologies our website uses. This cookie policy explains what these technologies are and how CST uses them on our websites (our “site”). We encourage you to read the policy in full so that you can understand what personal data and information we collect using tracking technologies and how that information is used.
Before you can access our site, you will be asked for your consent to store and/or access cookies by CST so that we can use cookies for the purposes as set out in this policy. You have the right to withdraw your consent and change the settings of your browser to modify the consent you give to us and third parties for the storing of and gaining access to cookies on your device.
Cookies are text files, containing small amounts of information, which are downloaded to your browsing device (such as, but not limited to a computer, tablet or smartphone) when you visit our site. We use such cookies to ensure that the website can be used as intended by us. Cookies can be recognized by the website that downloaded them - or other websites that use the same cookies. This helps websites know if the browsing device has visited them before. A similar technology we use is tracking pixels, sometimes called web beacons, which are transparent graphic images that are placed on a web page or in an email to indicate that the page or email has been viewed. Pixels collect information about your browser or device and can also set cookies.
The cookies CST uses have multiple functions, including the following:
The types of cookies used on our site can generally be put into one of the following categories and purposes: essential, marketing, preferences, and measurement. You can find out more about each of the cookie categories in the table below.
| Essential Cookies |
At CST, we prioritize your browsing experience by using essential cookies, also known as strictly necessary cookies, to ensure seamless functionality and optimal user experience. Essential cookies serve critical functions, including facilitating online services, enabling seamless network communications, and maintaining core website functionalities. These cookies are necessary for visitors to access key features of our site. Examples of essential cookies used on the CST website: Session cookies, which maintain user login status during browsing sessions, while persistent cookies store user preferences, such as language settings. We also use persistent cookies that retain items added to the shopping cart and language preferences, ensuring a smooth checkout process. It's important to note that essential cookies are exempt from consent requirements like GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and ePrivacy Directive due to their critical role in website operations. We deploy these cookies to enhance your browsing experience seamlessly and ensure our site functions properly. Using essential cookies, we aim to provide a user-friendly, efficient, and secure experience on the CST website. These cookies are integral to the proper operation of our site and are designed to improve your interaction with our online services. |
|---|---|
| Measurement Cookies |
These cookies collect information about how people are using our site, for example, which pages are visited the most often, how people are moving from one link to another and if they get error messages from certain pages. The data we collect is turned into statistics. All information these cookies collect is grouped together with information from other people's use of our site on an anonymous basis. Overall, these cookies provide us with analytical information about how our site is performing and how we can improve it. |
| Preferences Cookies |
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make and tailor our site to provide enhanced features and content to you. For example, these cookies can be used to remember your username, language choice or country selection. They can also be used to remember changes you've made to text size, font and other parts of pages that you can customize. |
| Marketing Cookies |
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They remember that you have visited a website and this information may be shared with other organizations such as advertising partners. This means after you have been to our site you may see some advertisements about our services elsewhere on the internet. In order to enhance your internet experience and to make the sharing of content easier, some of the pages on our website may contain tools or applications that are linked to third party social media service providers such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WeChat or Instagram. Through these tools or applications, the social media service provider may set its own cookies on your device. We do not control these cookies and you should check the social media service provider’s website for further details about how they use cookies. |
The length of time a cookie will stay on your browsing device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your browsing device after you have finished browsing until they expire or are deleted. Details of “persistent” and “session” cookies set through our website can be found in our Cookie Manager Tool available at "Cookies used by CST".
“First party cookies” are cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device. “Third-party cookies” are cookies that another party places on your browsing device when you visit our site.
Third parties setting cookies from our website will be providing a service to us or a function of the site but we do not always control how third-party cookies are used. You should check the third party's website for more information about how they use cookies. Details of third parties that set cookies through our website can be found in our Cookie Manager Tool available at "Cookies used by CST".
You can withdraw or modify your consent to our use of cookies at any time. If you want to withdraw or modify your consent, you can usually use the browser that you are viewing this site through to define the conditions of storing or gaining access to cookies and in particular to enable, disable or delete cookies. To do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" settings). Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of the site and other parts of the site may also not work properly.
You can manage the cookies used by CST by visiting the “Manage My Cookies” page via this link: https://www.cellsignal.com/?cmpscreencustom. You can find out more information about how to change your browser cookie settings at allaboutcookies.org.
Some third parties may use Advertising Cookies to help gather information about your browsing activity so that they can deliver website advertising to you that is relevant to your interests. To opt-out from other companies that provide online behavioral advertising services, you can opt-out at the following online advertising industry website: The Digital Advertising Alliance Website, www.aboutads.info or the European Digital Advertising Alliance Website, www.youronlinechoices.eu.
