Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans Use of Cookies

Last updated: March 8th 2024

Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans ("us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on https://www.waltermunkfoundation.org/ (the "Service"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies, and further information about cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

How Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To enable certain functions of the Service

  • To provide analytics

  • To store your preferences

  • To enable advertisement delivery, including behavioral advertising

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

  • Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

  • Analytics cookies. We use analytics cookies to track information on how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features, or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them. Specifically, we use:

  • Google Analytics to understand how our visitors interact with the website.

  • Google Tag Manager to manage and deploy marketing tags and scripts on our website.

  • Crazy Egg to provide heatmapping and session recording to see where users are engaging most on our website, helping us to continuously improve user experience.

  • Microsoft Clarity for gathering insights about how users engage with our website.

  • Hotjar to understand user behavior and to improve user experience on our website.

  • Preference cookies. We use preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

  • Security cookies. We use security cookies for security purposes.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

For specific instructions for various browsers, please refer to the provided links in the generic template.

More information about cookies

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