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Why is this relevant?

Browsing a website from your actual location rather than through a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is important for several reasons, primarily revolving around the accuracy of information, compliance with legal requirements, and ensuring appropriate access.

Accurate Content and Services:

Websites often provide content and services tailored to specific geographic regions. This could include localized news, pricing, availability of products/services, or language-specific content. Accessing a website through a VPN may misrepresent your location, leading to inaccurate or irrelevant content being displayed. For example, you might see prices in a currency that doesn't match your actual location, or services that are not available in your region may appear accessible.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance:

Many websites and online services are subject to legal and regulatory requirements specific to certain regions. For instance, data privacy laws such as GDPR in Europe or CCPA in California impose restrictions on how personal data is collected, stored, and processed based on the user's location. Accessing a website through a VPN might mask your actual location, potentially leading to non-compliance with these regulations if you're interacting with content or services not meant for your actual geographic area.

Security Concerns:

VPNs are often used to enhance online security and privacy by encrypting internet traffic and masking IP addresses. However, some websites might restrict or block access from VPN IP addresses due to concerns over abuse or malicious activities. Attempting to access such websites through a VPN could result in denied access or additional security challenges.

Quality of Service:

Some websites or online services might adjust their performance or service levels based on the user's geographical location. This could affect factors like server response times, network latency, or overall service quality. Using a VPN might inadvertently route your traffic through servers that are not optimized for the best performance, impacting your user experience.

Ethical Considerations:

From an ethical standpoint, accessing content or services through a VPN to misrepresent your location might violate terms of service agreements or undermine the principles of fair use and access intended by content providers.

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How we use Cookies

Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the site, pages visited, language preferences, and your relationship with us. We use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, to personalize/tailor your experience while engaging with us, and to recognize your device to allow your use of our online products and services. We collect statistical information about the usage of the Site in order to continually improve the design and functionality, to monitor responses to our advertisements and content, to understand how account holders and visitors use our site and mobile apps and to assist us with resolving questions regarding the site and mobile apps.

We also utilize cookies for advertising purposes. In order to understand how advertising performs, we may collect certain information on our sites and mobile apps and through our advertising service providers. The collected information may include the number of page visits, pages viewed on our sites and mobile apps, search engine referrals, browsing activities over time and across other sites following your visit to one of our sites or mobile apps, and responses to advertisements and promotions on the sites and mobile apps where we advertise.

What are similar technologies?

Pixel tags, web beacons and clear GIFs (graphics interchange format) are tiny files used to monitor navigation on a website and may be used with cookies. These may be used in connection with some sites, downloadable mobile applications and HTML-formatted email messages to measure the effectiveness of our communications, the success of our marketing campaigns, to compile statistics about usage and response rates, to personalize/tailor your experience while engaging with us online and offline, for fraud detection and prevention, for security purposes, for advertising, and to assist us in resolving account holders’ questions regarding use of our site and mobile app.

Flash objects (local shared objects) are small files stored on your device by a website using Adobe’s Flash player technology. As part of our solutions for online authentication, we use Flash objects (sometimes referred to as “Local Shared Objects”) to help us recognize you and your device when you come back to the site. For our pages running Adobe® Flash® content (demos and tutorials with moving content), we use Flash objects to determine your browser type and version of Adobe Flash in order for you to view the content. We do not use Flash objects for any online behavioral advertising purpose.

How can users manage cookies and similar technologies?

You can control how non-essential categories of cookies are placed on your device using the Cookie Settings button located in the bottom left hand corner with a cookie icon in the middle. Simply click this to bring up the cookie settings window. You can also deactivate the use of any cookies by using the settings in your browser or the settings in your device, if this is supported by your browser or device.

Other tracking technologies such as web beacons may function across all web browsers and hence may not be fully suspendable by a change in your browser settings. So to manage those you may have to configure the settings of the applications you’re using on your device, for example by changing the settings of your Outlook or Mail app to block images embedded in emails from downloading automatically on your device.

Deleting cookies does not delete Flash objects. You can learn more about Flash objects including how to control and disable them on the Adobe website. If you choose to disable Flash objects from our site, then you may not be able to access and use all or part of the site or benefit from the information and services offered.

You can find additional information on cookies and similar technologies used on various websites through your browser or other internet resources.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Google Chrome

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If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

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