Cookies

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. The cookie is used to identify your device to the website when you visit again so the site can load your preferences, automatically accept your credentials, or otherwise personalize the experience. Cookies do not store personal information about you, just information identifying your device.

Within your browser settings, you can choose whether to accept cookies. To access Wild Apricot sites as an administrator or a member, you need to enable cookies (which most browsers do by default).

You can also separately control whether to accept third-party cookies – cookies placed by third party services that are integrated into our website.

How do we use cookies?

The following cookies are placed by our website on your computer or device to support the operation of our website.

The cookie file name is formed by combining the two-character cookie prefix with 5 random characters.

Cookie prefix	Description
wa	Main authorization cookie.
tcc	Test cookie used to determine if cookies are enabled in client browser.
ASP.NET_SessionId	Session key.
ARF	Additional session key.
cs	Used for CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attack protection.
sk	Used to display information about incomplete applications and event registrations, open invoices etc.
pp	Stores the last opened page in public view. Used when switching between admin and public view.
ap	Stores the last opened page in admin view. Used when switching between public and admin view.
ro	Stores role of user (contact/member/admin).
hs	Used to determine if the user is viewing the site in https mode.
wb	Used for wizards (member application, event registration, etc).
wc	Also used for wizards (member application, event registration, etc).
bs	Used to display notifications in place of the Wild Apricot logo.
bc	Also used to display notifications in place of the Wild Apricot logo.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this website may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

Third-party cookies

When you visit our website some third-party site may place a cookie on your computer or device.

Google Analytics

Wild Apricot uses Google Analytics for internal activity tracking, so a cookie from Google Analytics may also be placed on your computer. Cookies, like __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, _ga may be stored. Storage period: a maximum of 2 years.

With the help of these cookies, we record user statistics. These cookies do not contain any personal information, they only serve to ensure the uniqueness of visits. You can read more about Google Analytics cookies, their purpose and duration on the website: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. If you want to block Google Analytics services only, you can do this here .

Google maps

Our website uses Google Maps services to display geographical locations of ECREA events. Cookies, like NID, PREF, testcookie, khcookie, SNID may be stored to your computer. Storage period: a maximum of 2 years.

 For more information on the cookies and the Google company privacy policy visit: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/

Facebook

Cookies, like datr, reg_fb_gate, reg_fb_ref, wd, reg_fb_reg, lsd may be stored to your computer. Storage period: a maximum of 2 years.

The above-listed cookies are used for the operation of the Facebook network plugins. For more information on the storing and use of the acquired data, please read https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.