COOKIES POLICY

I.What Cookies Are

Small files placed on a device to let a site function properly and to remember a visitor between one page and the next.

II.Essential Cookies

These keep a session open and record a visitor’s cookie choices. They cannot be declined without the site ceasing to work. The record of a visitor’s cookie choices notes when they were made. In the members’ rooms, one more, mc_in, notes only that this browser has entered them. It holds no name, number or token, is read only at the rooms’ own address, and goes when the member takes leave, or after a day.

III.Preference Cookies

These remember settings such as the last month viewed in the calendar, and which pages of the Almanac have been read. They may be declined without loss of function.

IV.Correspondence

Under the Correspondence choice, the site keeps an application form in progress in the browser’s own storage, as mc_application, so that it need not be begun again. It holds what was typed, never the boxes ticked, and is cleared when the application is sent, or after fourteen days. It is kept unless Correspondence is declined; for visitors in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Switzerland, only if chosen. Declining it in Cookie Preferences clears it. Under the same choice, the browser’s own storage holds mc_pages, a tally of the pages read and where the visit first came from, until the visitor clears it or declines Correspondence. Under the same choice, as each of the first two parts of an application is completed, or when the first is left once an email address has been given, the Court keeps what has been given so far, as the Privacy Policy sets out.

V.Measurement

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   The Court uses Meta’s measurement tools to record visits to the site and what is done on them, including whether an application, a proposal or a request to be written to was sent, and, in a scrambled (hashed) form, the email address, name, gender, city, state, postcode, country and date of birth given in an application, and the name and email address given in a request to be written to, and the email address given for The Gazette, as listed in the Privacy Policy. These set cookies named _fbp and _fbc, which Meta keeps for ninety days, and which share the visit with Meta, including through the Court’s own server, for the purpose of measuring the Court’s advertising and, as the Privacy Policy sets out, showing it to people like the Court’s applicants. Where a visitor arrives from one of the Court’s advertisements, the click identifier Meta adds to the address is also kept in the browser’s own storage, as mc_click, for ninety days from the visit. It goes to Meta only with an application, through the Court’s own server, and only while measurement is on. Measurement is on unless a visitor turns it off in Cookie Preferences, and turning it off stops it and clears its cookies and the click identifier. For visitors in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Switzerland, measurement is kept only if chosen.

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   Under the same choice, the Court uses Google Analytics to count visits, the pages seen, and whether a form on the site, such as an application, a proposal, a card or The Gazette, was begun or sent. Google receives no name, email address or city, and the addresses it is given carry no particulars. Google signals and ad personalisation are turned off. It sets cookies named _ga and _ga_SB3HSVSEM2 and, once a form has been sent, _gcl_au, which Google uses to count that sending; they last about thirteen months. Turning measurement off in Cookie Preferences stops it and clears them. Google sets out its own use of this information in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

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   Under the same choice, the Court uses Microsoft Clarity to see how its pages are used: where visitors click, how far they scroll, and a record of a visit’s movements on the page, with everything typed into a form masked, so that no name, email address or other particular is recorded. It sets cookies named _clck, which lasts a year, and _clsk, which lasts a day. Turning measurement off in Cookie Preferences stops it and clears them. Microsoft sets out its own use of this information in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

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   The Court keeps no measurement of its visitors beyond what is described above.

VI.Managing Cookies

Choices may be changed at any time from Cookie Preferences, or in the settings of the browser itself.