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Last Updated 16th June, 2023

Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. and its worldwide subsidiaries (DFIN) are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This cookie notice (Notice) is intended to inform you about how DFIN uses "cookies" and similar technologies on our websites and other online platforms (Site). Please take a moment to read and understand this Notice together with our Privacy Notice.

Summary of our Cookie Notice

When you visit our Site, we may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, language, operating system, location, date, and time using cookies. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device such as a mobile phone, a computer or other electronic device. The cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit to that website. For example, one cookie may allow us to recognize your browser, whereas another cookie may store your preferences. This helps to provide you with a better experience when you browse our Site.

DFIN may use other technologies such as web beacons and remarketing technology to advertise on other websites you may visit. In doing so, a third party may place a unique ad-serving cookie on your device and use technical information about your browser and your activity at our Site to serve advertisements to you on websites that are not owned or operated by DFIN. For privacy information relating to other third-party websites, please consult their policies, as appropriate.

In order for DFIN to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of our Site and to give you the best user experience, we collect and store information on pages viewed by you, your domain names, and similar information. Our Site makes use of anonymous cookies for the purposes of:

  • Completion and support of Site activity.
  • Site and system administration.
  • Research and development.
  • Anonymous user analysis, user profiling, and decision-making.

Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies.
  • Performance or Analytical cookies.
  • Functionality cookies.
  • Targeting or Advertising cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the operation of our Site and to provide necessary functionality, such as remembering your consent preferences. Without strictly necessary cookies, certain services on the Site may not be made possible and the Site may not perform as smoothly as it should. These cookies cannot be turned off in our systems. However, you can use your web browser to block these cookies. If these cookies are turned off part of the Site may not function well.

Performance or Analytical cookies. We use Performance or Analytics cookies across our Site for internal purposes to allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of the Site. The information collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We may contract with independent research companies to perform these services for us and when this is the case, these cookies may be set up by a third-party company.

Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies record information about the choices you have made and allow us to tailor the Site to you. These cookies enable the Site to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all these services may not function properly.

Targeting cookie or Advertising cookie. Targeting cookies or Advertising cookies are used to deliver advertisements which are more relevant to you and your interests, to replay your session on our Site, or to limit the number of times you see the same advertisement. These types of cookies are also used to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign and may be used to remember what you have looked at on the Site. Please note that third parties may also store targeting or advertising cookies on our Site.

Consent to our use of Cookies

Accepting strictly necessary cookies and performance cookies is a condition of using our Site. You have the option to reject them. However, if you reject these types of cookies then we cannot predict how the Site will perform when you visit it. When you reject to accept strictly necessary cookies we reserve the right to prohibit your access to our Site.

You can control the use of functionality cookies, targeting cookies, or advertising cookies. By continuing to use our Site, you are deemed to consent to our use of cookies described in this Notice. If you do not consent to us using cookies, please read the section on Managing cookies and make changes to your browser settings.

We have implemented a cookie “door” on our Site to ensure your cookie preferences and any privacy preferences entered through our applications are honored. If you wish to manage your cookie preferences, please go to our Privacy Preference Center available on our Site or submit a request using one of the methods outlined in our Privacy Notice. [We also have tools in place to detect and honor requests made to opt-out of the sharing of personal information for cross context behavioral advertising using the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal to the extent required by applicable law.]

For users located within the EEA (European Economic Area) or the UK (United Kingdom): We will ask for your consent to place cookies on your device using a cookie banner, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

Third party cookies

In some cases, we may use third parties to manage our cookies. However, we do not allow any third-party to use these cookies other than for the purpose listed in this Notice.

Third-party advertisers and other organizations may use their own cookies or other technologies to collect information about the content of our Site and/or the advertisements you have clicked on. The third parties may use this information to provide advertisements which they believe are most likely to be of interest to you based on the content you have previously viewed. Third-party advertisers may also use this information to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements.

We do not have access or control over the cookies placed on our Site by third parties and use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of each of our third parties.

Cookies placed by third parties may serve different purposes. They may be strictly necessary, performance, functionality, targeting, or advertising cookies. You may manage your consent for the cookies on our Site. In order to disable or reject third-party cookies, you must go to the relevant third-party's website.

Managing cookies

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some functionality of our Site. The links included below will direct you to the main web browsers’ sites where details about how to change your browser settings can be found.

For information on how to control cookies on web browsers which are not included below or on other devices which you use to view our Site (such as on mobile phones and other electronic devices) please refer to their user manual. All of the major browsers offer tips and guidance for managing the cookies available on your browser including:

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Microsoft Edge
Cookie settings in Mozilla Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari for iOS

You may also control the use of Google Analytics through a plugin tool provided by Google: Google Analytics Opt-out browser Add-on

There are several different third-party browser plugins and extensions available which you can download to make it easier to see and control your cookies. An example of such a browser plugin tool is located here: Ghostery

Where can I get more information about cookies?

More information about cookies and internet advertising can be found by visiting the following website: https://www.aboutcookies.org/

In addition to the control settings on your browser some of these websites enable you to opt out of online behavioral advertising and other tracking cookies.

Changes to this Cookie Notice

DFIN reserves the right at its absolute discretion to change this Notice from time to time. If this Notice changes, the revised version will be posted at the “Cookie Notice” link on our Site’s home page. Your continued use of our Site constitutes acceptance of such changes, except where further steps are required by applicable law. This Notice was last updated on 16th June, 2023.

How to Contact Us

For questions about this Notice, please contact us at:

Email: dataprivacy@dfinsolutions.com

Telephone: 855-683-9454

Post mail: Donnelley Financial Solutions
Global Data Privacy
35 West Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601
United States of America