2. What are these technologies used for?

Below we describe the purposes for which we use these technologies.

Purpose	Description
Authentication	We may use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our Services. If you’re signed into Scoutship, these technologies help us show you the right information and personalize your experience in line with your settings. For example, cookies enable Scoutship to identify you and verify your account.
Security	We may use cookies and similar technologies to make your interactions with our Services faster and more secure. For example, we use cookies to enable and support our security features, keep your account safe and to help us detect malicious activity and violations of our User Agreement.
Preferences, features and services	We may use cookies and similar technologies to enable the functionality of our Services, such as helping you to fill out forms on our Services more easily and providing you with features, insights and customized content in conjunction with our plugins. We also use these technologies to remember information about your browser and your preferences. For example, cookies can tell us which language you prefer and what your communications preferences are. We may also use local storage to speed up site functionality.
Customized content	We may use cookies and similar technologies to customize your experience on our Services. For example, we may use cookies to remember previous searches so that when you return to our services, we can offer additional information that relates to your previous search.
Advertising	We do not use cookies related to advertising. Our partners may use cookies and similar technologies to help them show relevant advertising to you more effectively and to measure the performance of such ads.
Analytics and research	Cookies and similar technologies help us learn more about how well our Services and plugins perform in different locations. We, or our service providers, use these technologies to understand, improve, and research products, features and services, including as you navigate through our sites or when you access Scoutship from other sites, applications or devices. We or our service providers, use these technologies to determine and measure the performance of ads or posts on and off Scoutship and to learn whether you have interacted with our websites, content or emails and provide analytics based on those interactions. We may also use these technologies to provide aggregated information to our customers and partners as part of our Services. If you are a Scoutship member but logged out of your account on a browser, Scoutship may still continue to log your interaction with our Services on that browser until the expiration of the cookie in order to generate usage analytics for our Services. We may share these analytics in aggregate form with our customers.