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Cookie Policy for The Association of Photographers

What are cookies?

Like most websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny text files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality.

For more general information on cookies, please visit;

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)aboutcookies.org, allaboutcookies.org and the Wikipedia article

How we use cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience of using this website. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide access to a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser's 'Help' section on how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this site and many other websites that you visit.

The cookies we set

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users. 

From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user-base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by those preferences.

Third-party cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third-parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please visit their page here.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, YouTube, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

More information

If there is still something that you aren't sure about or are unsure whether you need it or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.

Email: info@aophoto.co.uk

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