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