Your Cookie Choice

When you first open a page on iscram2012, a small card appears in the lower corner of the screen asking whether you accept or decline cookies. This page explains what that choice does, because the honest answer is: not very much.

What the box remembers

We keep the answer in local storage, a cousin of the cookie that never travels to a server. It holds a short key and a single value meaning "accepted" or "declined". Its only job is to stop the card from appearing on every page you open. Nothing else is recorded: not the pages you read, not how long you stayed, not where you came from.

Absent on purpose

None of the following runs on iscram2012:

• visitor counters or analytics;
• ad or retargeting cookies;
• share buttons pulling in code from social networks;
• affiliate tracking;
• fingerprinting or recordings of your visit.

Because of that, choosing "decline" does not switch anything off; there is nothing optional running in the first place. Both answers lead to exactly the same site.

Why ask at all?

With so little stored, a card might seem unnecessary. We show it anyway because readers deserve to know what a site keeps, and because asking first is a better habit than assuming. The card waits for an answer and never blocks the article underneath it.

Starting over

To see the card again, or simply to get rid of the entry, wipe what your browser holds for this site:

1. In your browser, go to the privacy or site-data settings.
2. Search for iscram2012 in the list of stored sites.
3. Remove the stored data for it.

Load any page afterwards and the card returns. A private browsing window behaves much the same, since the entry is discarded when the window closes.

Technical logs

Separately from the card, the company that hosts the site keeps standard request logs so that pages can be delivered and the service kept secure. Such logs are separate from cookies and are never used to trail you across the web. Our privacy policy describes them, along with your rights over any personal data.

If this changes

If anything beyond your answer were ever stored, this page would change first and the card would request consent again. Ask us anything about it via the contact page.