Cookies Policy

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We use cookies on this website to help operate our site, for analytical purposes and for personalized marketing. By clicking “Accept” on the banner you might be presented upon your first visit of this website, closing the banner, or by continuing to use this website, you agree to our terms of use, privacy and cookie policies:

Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies.

When you access and interact with the Online Services, we may deploy various tracking technologies, such as cookies, on the website to collect additional information about your visits. These tracking technologies may be deployed by the Conference and/or by our service providers on our behalf. These technologies enable us to assign a unique number to you and relate your website usage information to other information about you.

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit certain websites. Like many other websites, we use cookies for various reasons. For example, we use cookies to tell us whether you've visited the Online Services before or if you're a new visitor, and to help us understand which areas of the website are of greatest interest to you.  Cookies also may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences and registration information, so you do not have to re-enter this information each time you visit our website. In order to permit your connection to the Online Services, our servers receive and record information about your computer, device, and browser, including potentially your IP address, browser type, and other software or hardware information. If you access the Online Services from a mobile or other device, we may collect a unique device identifier assigned to that device, geolocation data (including your precise location), or other transactional information for that device. By continuing to browse our website or use the Online Services, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

Cookies and other tracking technologies (such as browser cookies, pixels, beacons, local storage, and other mechanisms) use various approaches to collect and store data. Some technologies may use network-related or other information to recognize your device (e.g., IP address). The Online Services use these technologies, for example, when you first interact with a website and data is then stored on your computer or other device so the website or app can access information when you subsequently access pages from that website. These technologies may also be used to collect and store information about your usage of the Online Services, such as pages you have visited, search history, and the video and other content you have viewed.

Other parties that support the Online Services by providing advertisements or other services, such as allowing you to share content or tracking aggregate website usage statistics, may also use these technologies to collect similar information when you use the Online Services (such as websites and emails) or other parties' services. Those parties may also use these technologies, along with activity information they collect, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile device and a laptop or other computer. The Conference does not control these technologies and their use is governed by the privacy policies of parties using such technologies. 

Your browser may be initially set to accept cookies, but you can change your settings to notify you when a cookie is being set or updated, and to block cookies altogether. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information, including on how to clear data from local storage and, depending on your browser, how to turn off other data collection by the browser. For more information about Google Analytics, please review the site "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps," located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. To opt out of Google Analytics specifically, please go to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalization available through the Online Services.

Last updated: 6/10/2023