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CBS INTERACTIVE COOKIES WEB BEACONS AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES (INCLUDING DO NOT TRACK)

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	 Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Similar Technologies 

	 Cookies	Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored in separate files within your computer's Internet browser. Cookies are accessed and recorded by the web sitesthe web-sites you visit, and by the companies that show advertisements on these web sites, so that they can recognize the same browser navigating online.browser.   

	 Web beacons (sometimes called transparent GIFs, clear GIFs, or web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a way for us to deliver a small graphic image (usually invisible) on a web page or in an email. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed. 
    DoDo Not Track     Some  Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Since uniform standards for “Do Not Track” signals have not been adopted, CBS Interactive Web Sites doServices do not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals. To learn more about “Do Not Track”, please visit “All About Do Not Track"    

	 How	How CBS Interactive Web SitesServices Use CookiesCookies, Web Beacons and Other Similar Technologies   

	 CBS	CBS Interactive Web Sites use cookies forServices use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies for the following general purposes:   

	 •	• To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and saveto save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting one of our Web Sites.Services. For example, if you register on a CBS Interactive Web Site, the Web Site may save your password,Service, that Service may use a cookie to identify you, so that you do notwill not have to re-enter it eachlog in each time you visit. visit the Service.

	 • To help us customize the content and advertisements you are shown while visiting CBS Interactive Web Sites and potentially other web sites online. Please read about our online advertising to learn more about our efforts to show you relevant advertising. 

	 •	• To help measure and researchus customize the effectiveness of our interactive online content, features, advertisements,content and advertisements you are shown while visiting CBS Interactive Services and potentially other communications.web-sites online. Please read about CBS Interactive Online Advertising to learn more about our efforts to show you relevant advertising.   

	 • Web beacons are used to improve your experience on	• To help measure and research the effectiveness of our Web Sites, including to provide you with content customized to your interestsonline content, features, advertisements, and to understand whether users read email messages and click on links contained within those messages so that we can deliver relevant content and offers. Our web beacons may collect some contact information (for example, the email address associated with an email message that contains a web beacon).other communications.   

	 •	• CBS Interactive Web Sites mayServices may also allow third parties to place their own cookies within your browser in order to serve you with relevant advertising online, to help us measure traffic and effectiveness as described above,traffic, to provide you with access to social media networks, functionality and services, and to allow us to conduct any surveys and research in which you agree to participate. For instance, Facebook, Google and Twitter includeand Twitter place their cookies on CBS Interactive Web Sites toServices to support social network integration and functionality and for use according to their respective privacy policies. For more information, please see our overview of third-party social networking services. Video Services and Social Networking Policy.     • Web beacons are used to improve your experience on our Services, including helping provide you with content customized to your interests. They also help us to understand whether users read email messages and click on the links contained within those messages so that we can deliver relevant content and offers. Our web beacons may collect some contact information (e.g., the email address associated with an email message that contains a web beacon).

	 • CBS Interactive Web Sites also may include third-party web beacons. These web beacons allow third party service providers to collect certain information such as your IP address, your browser type, and the web page that you visited before arriving at our Web Sites. These service providers process the information they collect for purposes of auditing, research, and reporting information about the CBS Interactive Web Sites and advertisements viewed on the CBS Interactive Web Sites. Third parties that use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to help us with traffic measurement, research and analytics include Omniture, Comscore, Nielsen and ConfirmIT. Please note that we do not share contact information with these third parties. 

	 By continuing to use CBS Interactive Web Sites, you consent to our use of cookies, web beacons and other technologies as described above. 

	 To find out more about how	• CBS Interactive Services also may include third party web beacons. These web beacons allow third party service providers to collect certain information such as your IP address, your browser type, and the web page that you can manage cookiesvisited before arriving at and after leaving our Services. These service providers process the other similar technologies, seeinformation they collect to audit, research, and reporting information about the Managing Cookies section of this policy.CBS Interactive Services and advertisements viewed on the CBS Interactive Services. Third parties that use cookies, web beacons and other similar technologies to help us with traffic measurement, research and analytics include Adobe, Comscore, Nielsen and ConfirmIT. Please note that we do not share your contact information with these third parties.   

	 How Third Parties Use Cookies	Also, authorized third party service providers may collect non-contact information about your visits to our Services with cookies, web beacons and Similar Technologies other similar technologies that may be used to deliver advertisements or marketing tailored to your interests. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time. To opt out of targeted advertisements on third party sites, please see our section on Managing Third Parties' Behaviorally Targeted Advertising.

	 Some of the advertisements When you see on CBS Interactive Web Sites are delivered by third parties who also collect information through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies about your online activities, either onuse our Web Sitessearch function, your web browser also may send the Internet address, or acrossURL, of the Internet, in an effortsearch results page to understand your interests and deliver you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. Thesea third parties include advertisers, advertising agencies, and ad networks thatparty webpage as part of a standard HTTP web protocol. The URL of the search results page may collect information whensometimes contain the keywords used in the search query you view or interact with oneentered. Some of their advertisements. To learn more, please read about third-party online advertising. the advertisements you see may be used on these keywords.

	 In addition, By continuing to use CBS Interactive works with third partiesServices, you consent to help us track the ads that are delivered to you, in particular to control the numberour use of times you receive the same ad,cookies, web beacons and to analyze the effectiveness of advertising on the CBS Interactive Web Sites.other similar technologies as described above.   

	 Please note that CBS Interactive does not have access to the information these third parties may collect	To find out more about your interests to deliver relevant advertising to you,how you can manage cookies, web beacons and the information practicesother similar technologies, see the Managing Cookies section of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.   

	How Third Parties Use Cookies and Other Similar Technologies   

	Some of the advertisements you see on CBS Interactive Services are delivered by third parties who also collect information through cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies about your online activities, either on our Services or across the Internet, so that they may understand your interests and deliver advertisements that are tailored to your interests. These third parties include advertisers, advertising agencies, and ad networks that may collect information when you view or interact with one of their advertisements. To learn more, please read the Third Party Online Advertising section of this Privacy Policy.   

	In addition, CBS Interactive works with third parties to help us track the advertisements that are delivered to you, in particular to control the number of times you receive the same advertisements, and to analyze the effectiveness of advertising on the CBS Interactive Services.   

	Please note that CBS Interactive does not have access to the information these third parties may collect about your interests to deliver relevant advertising to you. The information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.   

	Third parties that may serve, track and/or analyze ads onadvertisements on our Web Sites,Services, and thereby may collect information about your online activities on such Web SitesServices include, but are not limited to, the third parties listed on CBS Interactive Third-PartyThird Party Ad Technology Providers.   

	To find out more about how you can manage the information collected by these companies, see the Managing Cookies section of this Privacy Policy.

 Mobile Devices

 Curtain mobile devices provide various capabilities that can be used, for example, to identify the physical location of such devices. Mobile devices also transmit Caller ID data when a call is made or text message is sent. CBS Interactive Services may collect, use, transmit, process and maintain unique identifiers, Caller ID data, location-based data, and other similar information when you use your mobile devices, including to provide the servers you request, tell you about offers we think you will value and improve your experience on CBS Interactive Services. CBS Interactive Services also may require you to provide your mobile phone number to participate in certain services or features and that number may be associated with such information. 

	 To find out more about how you can manage the information collected by these companies, see the Managing Cookies section of this policy. 
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