Important Notice

About Cookies

What is a cookie?

A “cookie” is a small element of data that a web site like massagent.com can store on your system. It can be used to provide you with a tailored user experience. MAIA uses a browser cookie, which is sent to your Internet browser. This type of cookie stores these small pieces of data on your machine so we may tailor your experience using our products and visiting our web site.

How does MAIA use cookies?

Like many web and e-commerce sites, MAIA uses cookies to “recognize” your Internet browsing software in order to display information that is relevant to you and to cache some elements of our web site and services to improve their performance. When you visit our web site and use our products and services, MAIA cookies are sent to our servers.

Primarily, we use cookies to better personalize the specific pages, content, banners, and promotions that you will see when you visit the MAIA web site and use MAIA products and services. For example, we are able to deliver member content to you based on your membership preferences that you provide to us.

We also use cookies to understand traffic patterns on the MAIA web site so that we can enhance your experience and provide you with more relevant information about our products and the content available on our web site.

In addition, we use cookies to authorize access to certain premium content, services or software features.

We treat any personally identifiable information that may be contained in cookies with the same confidentiality as when you purchase something on our web site.

What information does MAIA put into user cookies?

When you purchase a product from us, create a user account, sign-in to our products and services section of the MAIA web site, we may set a browser cookie on your personal computer. These cookies may contain values for:

Cookie version
User name (your encrypted e-mail address)
User ID (your numeric representation in the MAIA database)
Your encrypted name
Your MAIA content preferences
When the cookie was last updated
When the cookie is set to expire

Information that we store about you in cookies (such as user name) is a reflection of information that you have provided us during the registration process. This cookie data is read by MAIA for the purposes stated above and is not read by third parties. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a browser cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.

MAIA does not require that you accept cookies, however, some functionality on our web site, our product purchase check-out process, and products and services may be impaired if you decline to accept cookies.

Retention of Cookies:

MAIA will retain cookies that are set on our web site, products and services for the stated purpose of the applicable content or function. In most cases, MAIA will retain a cookie to maximize the functionality of serving pages and content from our web site, consistent with our privacy principles.