Office Depot Cookie Policy and Tracking tools

This cookie policy ("Cookie Policy") describes the cookies and other technologies used on this website (the "Site") by Office Depot, Inc. and its affiliated companies ("Office Depot" "we", "us" or "our").

We have created this Cookie Policy to explain what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. This Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Policy.

Please note that we include references in this Cookie Policy to other websites that provide information about cookies and about opt-out choices. We are not affiliated with those sites or the third parties that operate them. We are not responsible for the content on those sites and provide links to them for information and convenience only. By using the Site, you consent to the practices described in this Cookie Policy and the Privacy Policy and to the updates to these policies posted here from time to time.

We use common tracking technologies

We, or third parties on our site, collect personal information about users over time and across different websites when you use this website or service. To do this, we or these third parties use several common tracking tools. These may include browser cookies. We may also use web beacons and similar technologies. We use these tools to track our consumers and website visitors. We also use them for other business purposes, including:

  • To recognize new or past customers.
  • To store your password and registration information if you are registered on our platform.
  • To provide basic platform functionality and improve our platform.
  • To serve you with interest-based or targeted advertising (see below for more on interest-based advertising).
  • To observe your behaviors and browsing activities over time across multiple devices or other platforms.
  • To enable social sharing.
  • To better understand the interests of our customers and our platform visitors.

You can control some tracking tools in your browser

Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies. How you do so depends on the type of cookie. Certain browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser's settings on the most popular browsers:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari

NOTE: If you set your computer to block cookies, you may not be able to use certain features on our sites. Options you select are browser and device specific, and if you block or delete cookies, not all of the tracking that we have described in this policy will stop.

OUR DO NOT TRACK POLICY: Some browsers have a Do Not Track feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. These features are not yet uniform, so we are not currently set up to respond to those signals.

We engage in interest-based advertising

We and our partners display interest-based advertising using information gathered about you over time across multiple devices or other platforms. This might include websites and apps.

Interest-based advertising or online behavioral advertising includes ads served to you after you leave our platform, encouraging you to return. They also include ads we think are relevant based on your shopping habits or online activities. These ads might be served on websites or on apps. They might also be served in emails. We might serve these ads, or third parties may serve ads. They might be about our products or other companies products.

How do we gather relevant information about you for interest-based advertising?

To decide what is relevant to you, we use information you make available to us when you interact with us, our affiliates, and other third parties. We gather this information using the tracking tools described above. For example, we or our partners might look at your purchases or browsing behaviors. We might look at these activities on our platforms or the platforms of others.

We work with third parties who help gather this information. These third parties might link your name or email address to other information they collect. That might include past purchases made offline or online. Or, it might include online usage information.

You can control tracking tools

Your browser may give you the ability to control cookies. How you do so depends on the type of cookie. Certain browsers can be set to reject browser cookies. To find out more about how to enable, disable, or delete cookies from your web browser, please visit here and here. To control flash cookies, which we may use on certain platforms from time to time, you can go here. Why? Because flash cookies cannot be controlled through your browser settings.

You can opt-out of online behavioral advertising

The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising provides consumers with the ability to opt-out of having their online behavior recorded and used for advertising purposes. To opt-out of having your online behavior collected for advertising purposes from participating companies, click hereto opt-out of online behavioral advertising.

Some tracking tools do not participate in the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. For information about how to opt-out of having your online behavior collected through these tracking tools, click on the links in the descriptions provided under.
We use specific tracking technologies below.

The Digital Advertising Alliance also offers a tool for opting out of the collection of cross-app data on a mobile device for interest-based advertising. To exercise choice for companies participating in this tool, download the AppChoices app here.

Certain choices you make are both browser and device-specific.

We use specific tracking technologies.

Here is more information about the third-party tracking technologies and cookies we currently use on our platforms:

Third-party tracking technologies and cookies we currently use on our platforms


Company


Description


Privacy Policy


BazaarVoice


Bazaarvoice helps us create social communities on our websites and Facebook pages where you and other customers can engage in conversations.


Bing (Microsoft)


Bing allows us to have our advertisements appear at the top of the results page for certain search engines. This helps us direct users to our website.


BounceX


BounceX cookies de-anonymizes website visitors, enabling us to offer personalized marketing experiences.


Commission Junction (Conversant)


Provides information to our affiliate marketers. Commission junction privacy.


Conversant


Conversant provides a platform to enable buyers and sellers of advertisements to communicate with one another. We use this tool to target advertising to your interests..


Criteo


We use Criteo to display ads for products you may have clicked on while visiting our site. These ads may appear on third party websites.


Eyeview


Eyeview allows ads to be customized using viewer data.


Facebook


Facebook Custom Audience: We use Facebook Custom Audience to deliver ads on Facebook to a certain group of users.

Facebook Connect and Facebook Social Plugins: We use this technology to allow users to share their experiences with our apps and websites on Facebook. For example, we may collect your browser information, demographic data, and interaction data.

Facebook Exchange (FBX): We use this technology to serve you ads on Facebook based on the pages you visited on our websites. Facebook Social Graph: We use this technology to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campai
gns.


Google


Google AdSense: Google Adsense is a tool that allows us to display advertisements to you based on your interests. We or our business partners earn money when you view or click on the advertisements.

Google AdWords Conversion: We use conversion tracking to help us understand how effective our digital campaigns are.

Google AJAX Search API: This tool allows us to embed a Google-powered search box into our website. This allows users to perform keyword searches to help them navigate our website.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. For example, we collect details of the site where the visitor has come from and the total number of times a visitor has been to our website.

Google Dynamic Remarketing: We use these tracking tools to track user behavior over time and across third party sites to improve the effectiveness of our online advertising. We collect information about what ads users view and whether they click on the ads. We use this information to improve and customize our advertising.

Google Tag Manager: We use Google Tag Manager to track user behavior, traffic analysis and marketing opt
imization.


LinkedIn


Define target audiences and deliver relevant ad content based ads.


LiveRamp


Provide display media and advertisements on third party websites and apps based on previous activity.


Medallia


Collect customer feedback, primarily through surveys.


Moveable Ink


We use this tool to target advertising to your interests.


NewsCred


We use this tool to target advertising to your interests.


OwnerIQ


OwnerIQ provides a platform to enable buyers and sellers of advertisements to communicate with one another. We use this tool to target advertising to your interests. For information about how to opt-out of OwnerIQ cookies, you can go here.


Pinterest


Pinterest is a social bookmarking site where users can upload, save, sort, and manage collections of images. We use the Pinterest cookies to enable social sharing buttons on our sites, as well as to track social media and other Web browsing behavior in order to target ads and promotions to your interests. For information about how to opt-out of Pinterest cookies, you can go here.


Salesforce


Salesforce Live Agent: We use Salesforce Live Agent to communicate with our customers or website visitors in real time through a Web-based, text-only live chat. For information about how to opt-out of Salesforce Live Agent cookies, you can go here.

Salesforce Marketing Cloud: We use Salesforce Marketing Cloud to provide optimized e-mail communications to customers who have opted-inq to our e-mail list based on their website browsing, purchasing behaviors and self-identified preferences. For information about how to opt-out of Salesforce Marketing Cloud cookies, you can go here.


Salsify (ChatID)


We use this tool to target advertising to your interests.


SellPoint


We use this tool to target advertising to your interests.


SnapChat


SnapChat is an online social networking service. We use the SnapChat cookies to enable social sharing buttons on our sites, as well as to track social media and other Web browsing behavior in order to target ads and promotions to your interests.


SpotFront (PromoteIQ)


We use this tool to target advertising to your interests.


Twitter


Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages. We use the Twitter cookies to enable social sharing buttons on our sites, as well as to track social media and other Web browsing behavior in order to target ads and promotions to your interests. For information on how to opt-out of Twitter cookies, you can go here.