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Last updated: January 2021

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Getty Images uses "cookies" and other technologies like pixel tags, web beacons and similar technologies to enable you to sign into our services and to help personalize and improve your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive or device. Cookies contain information, including personal data that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the Cookie to you. The information that Cookies collect includes the date and time of your visit, your registration information, and your navigational and purchase history. Pixel tags, also called web beacons, are clear image (i.e., non-visible) files that may be placed on a website, in an email or newsletter, and request information from your device such as your browser type and may assist us in determining your engagement with the content of the website and emails we send, how many users have visited certain pages, or how users have otherwise engaged with our messages or newsletters. We may use web beacons to help deliver cookies.

We define cookies/tracking technologies as follows:

Essential Cookies
These cookies are needed to operate our website. They enable you to log in to secure areas, make use of subscription or e-billing services, and perform other essential tasks.

Analytical/Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count the number of visitors to our site and view how they interact with various features. This helps us ensure users are finding what they are looking for easily, and make improvement where needed.

Service/Functionality Cookies
These cookies help us remember your registration and login details and recognize you when you return to our website. They enable us to personalize content so that we can greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your region or choice of language).

Behavioral/Targeting Cookies
These cookies are anonymous and cannot identify individuals. They record your visits to our website, including the pages you visit and links you follow. We use this information to make our website and advertising more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for the same purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or behavioral/targeting cookies.

How to Turn Off Cookies/Tracking
You can object to the use of cookies or revoke your consent at any time. Keep in mind, however, that certain cookies enable core website functionality. If you wish to continue, you'll find helpful links below to popular web browser cookie settings.

You can use these links to object to the use of cookies/pixels or withdraw consent that has already been given.


You can also use free browser extensions, like Ghostery, to deactivate individual cookies and control which cookies are set, or get a browser add-on to opt out of Google Analytics. Installation is simple and available for most web browsers. Or you can simply browse privately in Incognito mode when you visit our websites.

The following sites also provide more information about third party advertising partners and how to opt out of third-party cookies:

http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.aspx

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (for European Union)

If you'd like to opt-out from the use of pixel gifs in our emails, please contact privacy@gettyimages.com.

Further information is available at our Privacy Policy.