Does Abbott engage in Online Behavioral Advertising (Re-targeting and Internet-based Advertising)?
Abbott also uses cookies for targeted advertising based on your online activities. We use these cookies on the Abbott Web Site and in connection with content that appears on third-party sites.
Abbott uses third-party advertising companies to place ads on other web sites. These companies may use non-identified information (discussed immediately above) about your visits to Abbott Web Sites and other web sites in order to measure advertising effectiveness and to provide advertisements about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. Like most advertisers, we search for and place advertisements where we think they will be most relevant to customers. One way we do so is by allowing advertising companies with whom we work to place their own cookies when an individual visits the Abbott Web Sites. This enables the advertising company to recognize individuals who have previously visited Abbott Web Sites. When the individual visits a third-party web site (not owned/controlled by Abbott) on which that advertising company has purchased ad space, the advertising company can then recognize the individual’s interest in our products and services and deliver one of our advertisements.
Some of the Abbott Web Sites use two Google Analytics Advertising Display Features, which collect information through cookies: Remarketing with Google Analytics and Demographics and Interests reporting. If you would like to opt-out of having your data used by these cookies, please use the Google Analytics opt-out available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
You can manage the use of cookies and other tracking technologies as you browse the Internet by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not want Abbott to use cookies to monitor your online activities for targeted advertising, you can set your browser to disable cookies. You can also delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. Please refer to your browser's instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
Third-party web sites that are linked to the Abbott Web Site may also collect your information through the use of cookies. Abbott is not responsible and has no control over third-party sites and you should review the policies of those sites to understand how your information may be collected and used.