Cookies and similar technologies like pixels and local storage provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience on hawak. Cookies are also used to operate our services, which include our websites, applications, APIs, pixels, embeds, and email communications. Specifically, hawak uses these technologies to:

• Keep you logged in to hawak.
• Deliver features and functionality of hawak services.
• Save and honor your preferences.
• Personalize the content you see.
• Protect you against spam and abuse.
• Show you more relevant ads.
• Provide subscription features and distribute certain content.
• Understand how you interact with our services and where we can improve.
• Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing.
• Rate how our services perform and identify bugs and other quality issues. 
• Gather data used to operate our business — from measuring our audience size to enforcing the hawak Rules. 

• What are cookies, pixels, and local storage?

   

  Cookies are small files placed on your computer as you browse the web or use a web-enabled app. We use cookies to operate our services, discover how people use our services, understand how to make them work better and more. See above for more examples of how we use cookies. 

  Pixels are small amounts of code placed on a web page, in a web-enabled app, or an email. We use pixels, some of which we provide to advertisers to place on their web properties, to learn whether you've interacted with specific web or email content — as many services do. This helps us measure and improve our services and personalize your experience, including the ads and content you see.

  We use local storage to save data on your computer or mobile device. We use data from local storage to turn on web navigation, maintain video player preferences, customize what we show you based on your past interactions with our services, remember your preferences, and measure ad effectiveness. We may also use local storage on other websites, where necessary to provide you certain features, to obtain information about your visits to those sites.

   

  Why do our services use these technologies?

   

  Cookies, pixels, and local storage work to operate and support our business, and to help provide you with an improved experience. They're used across the following categories:

  • Authentication and security
  • Functionality
  • User preferences
  • Analytics
  • Research and development
  • Personalized content
  • Advertising
  • Marketing
  • Personalization across devices

   

  Within each of these categories, cookies, pixels, and local storage help us:

  Authentication and security
  Authenticate your hawak access to show you relevant content. They also help prevent unauthorized parties from accessing your account. We use these technologies to:

  • Log you in to hawak and our services.
  • Help protect your security and the security of our services.
  • Let you view content with limited distribution.
  • Help us detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that break the X Rules.

  Functionality
  Deliver error messages, allow you to switch between accounts, coordinate our service across tabs in a browser, and provide certain features on partner websites. 

  User preferences
  Remember information about your browser and your preferences.

  Analytics

  • Improve and understand how people use our services, including buttons and widgets.
  • Optimize your experience by understanding how you interact with our services, like when and how often you use them and what links you visit, and from where. (We may use Google Analytics to help us with this.) 
  • Count the number of people who have seen a particular post, embedded posts, buttons, or timeline.