A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to store. This page explains the cookies this website uses and the choices you have.
The cookie we set ourselves
This website sets a single cookie of its own, and only when you sign in to a member or administrator account. It holds your sign-in session so that you stay signed in as you move between pages. It is restricted to this website, is not readable by other sites, and is sent over an encrypted connection when the site is served over HTTPS. It is removed when you sign out.
This cookie is strictly necessary: without it you cannot sign in. It is not used for advertising or measurement and does not require consent.
Advertising cookies, only with your consent
Some public pages may carry advertisements served by Google AdSense. On your first visit a privacy message provided by Google Privacy & Messaging asks whether you consent to advertising cookies and related purposes. Until you answer, and if you decline, no advertising is loaded and no advertising cookie is set by this website’s pages. If you consent, Google may set cookies and use similar technologies to select, deliver and measure advertisements, including personalised advertising where you have allowed it.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the "Privacy and cookie settings" link in the footer of every page; the same message will be shown again and your new choice will apply from then on. Advertising is never shown on the sign-in, account, application or verification pages, or on this page or the other legal pages.
What we do not use
- No analytics or measurement cookies of our own.
- No social media cookies or embedded trackers.
- No third-party cookies except the advertising cookies described above, and those only with your consent.
Fonts and images are served from this website rather than from a third party, so reading a page where advertising is not shown, or where you have not consented to it, sets no cookie at all and makes no request to another company.
Managing cookies
You can delete cookies or block them in your browser settings. Blocking this website’s own cookie will not affect reading any public page, but you will not be able to sign in to a member account. Google’s own advertising controls are at adssettings.google.com.
Links elsewhere
If you follow a link to another website, including the association’s journal, that website sets its own cookies under its own policy.
Status of this document
This document is published in draft while the association completes its review. It describes how this website currently works and is not legal advice. Please use the Contact page if anything here is unclear or looks wrong.