Cookie notice

Introduction

How we use cookies and similar technologies on this property—and choices you can make.

Read with our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Legal hub.

Why we use cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Deliver core site functionality, including security, load balancing, and fraud prevention.
• Maintain authenticated sessions where sign-in is offered, and remember risk signals needed to protect accounts.
• Remember preferences such as language or display choices where available.
• Measure performance and traffic in aggregate or pseudonymous form so we can improve content and reliability.
• Support integrations required to operate forms, hosting, and diagnostics.

Categories we use

• Strictly necessary: required for the site to operate, authenticate sessions, prevent abuse, and honor security settings. These are not used for optional marketing by us.
• Functional: remember choices you make (for example UI preferences) to reduce friction on repeat visits.
• Analytics and performance: help us understand which pages are useful, how long visits last, and whether errors occur. Where required by law, we rely on consent or legitimate interests as applicable before enabling non-essential analytics.

Lifecycle and storage

Cookies have built-in expiry times set by us or by third-party tools we use. Session cookies expire when you close your browser; persistent cookies remain until they expire or you delete them. Local storage may persist until overwritten or cleared in your browser. We configure durations consistent with the purpose—for example short-lived security cookies versus longer preference storage where appropriate.

Third parties and portfolio properties

Hosting, analytics, authentication, and communications vendors may set or read cookies in support of the services they provide to us. Payment processors or embedded experiences may set their own cookies when you use their flows; their practices are described in their policies. When you navigate to a portfolio platform or brand site, that property's cookie notice applies there.

Your choices

Most browsers let you refuse, delete, or block cookies. Controls vary by browser and device—check your help documentation. If you block strictly necessary cookies, parts of this site (including forms or sign-in) may not function. Where we offer a consent banner or preference center for non-essential cookies, you can revisit your choices there; you may also withdraw consent where processing was consent-based, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

Industry opt-out tools for interest-based advertising may not cover every technology we use on this corporate site, but you may use them where available for participating companies.

Do Not Track and global privacy control

There is not yet a uniform technical standard for “Do Not Track” or similar browser signals. We treat legally required opt-out mechanisms and, where applicable, recognized global privacy control signals in line with applicable law and any product-specific settings we document.

Updates

We may update this Cookie notice when our technologies or vendors change. The "Last updated" date on this page will change when we publish revisions.

Contact

Cookie questions: email info@1stchoiceholdings.com or call +1-800-504-5699.