Cookies
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Cookies are small text files that contain a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device and that uniquely identify your browser or device. We can use technologies such as cookies, pixels and local storage to deliver, protect and gain insight into products, services and advertisements.
What are cookies used for?
With the help of cookies and other technologies, websites or services can determine whether your computer or device has visited them before. These technologies can then be used to provide or deliver products, services and advertisements, to give us information about how the website or service is used, to help you navigate between pages efficiently, to provide assistance in saving your preferences and to generally improve your experience when using our services. Cookies can also help ensure that the marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
Why does Instagram use cookies and similar technologies?
We use cookies, pixels, local storage and similar technologies to show you relevant content, improve your experience and protect Instagram and our users. We may use these technologies to provide the service, to offer you an easy-to-use service that allows you to move around the service and use its features (such as accessing secure areas), and to store information so that Instagram responds faster. We can also use these technologies to collect information about how you use the service, such as which pages you visit the most and whether you receive error messages from certain pages. We can also use these technologies so that we can remember the choices you made (such as your username, your language or the region you are in) and adapt the service to provide you with improved features and content. These cookies can also help us remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other elements of pages that you can customize. Instagram or our advertising partners can use these technologies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These technologies can remember that your device has visited a website or service. They may also be able to track your device browsing on websites or services other than Instagram. This information can be shared with other organizations outside of Instagram, such as B. advertisers and / or advertising networks, to serve the advertisement and to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. * We can use these technologies to learn about products and services and to improve and research them.
How long do cookies stay on my device?
How long a cookie stays on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or a "session" cookie. Session cookies only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.
First and third party cookies:
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Instagram and third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our service. Third-party cookies can be placed on your device by someone who provides a service for Instagram, for example by helping us to find out how our service is used. Third-party cookies can also be placed on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to provide you with advertising for products and services elsewhere on the Internet.
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This is how you can control cookies or other collection mechanisms:
Follow the instructions on your website or mobile browser (usually found under "Help", "Features" or "Edit") to change your cookie settings. Please note that you may no longer be able to access certain parts of our service and that other parts of our service may no longer function properly if you deactivate cookies or other technologies in your browser.
To learn more about the choices advertisers generally make available to individuals to influence how information about their online activities is collected and used over time and on third party websites or online services, visit please contact the Network Advertising Initiative at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, the Digital Advertising Alliance at http://www.aboutads.info/ or the European Digital Advertising Alliance at http: // youronlinechoices. eu /.