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Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Depending on your access level and actions on the site, various preference based cookies may be set to enrich your experience. These cookies are used to remember your theme, language and item marking preferences, etc.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are required to enable core functionality and can't be rejected.

Essential Cookies

ips4_oauth_authorize

This cookie temporarily stores session data if you use a third party login processor.

ips4_member_id

This cookie stores the member id of the currently logged in member.

ips4_login_key

This cookie is used to save the session identifier.

ips4_clearAutosave

This cookie stores the editor identifiers to truncate the automatically saved content.

ips4_lastSearch

This cookie stores the last search timestamp.

ips4_device_key

This cookie stores the device identifier.

ips4_IPSSessionFront

This cookie contains the ID of your current session.

ips4_loggedIn

This cookie is set after login, it is used by caching mechanisms to identify if you are logged in.

ips4_noCache

This cookie is set when a guest members session requires that the output is not cached / coming from the cache.

ips4_cookie_consent

This cookie stores the cookie consent preferences.

ips4_cookie_consent_optional

This cookie stores the cookie consent opt-in status for guests.

ips4_theme_editor_vars

This cookie stores theme changes while a theme edit is in progress.

ips4_codeVerifier

This cookie is used to temporarily store a security related value for some login methods.

ips4_forumpass_*

These cookies are used to track authentication for password protected forums. There may be multiple cookies with similar names where * is replaced with the forum ID.

ips4_cm_reg

This cookie stores an invoice ID if a purchase is being made during registration

ips4_location

This cookie stores an estimated location of the member, it is used to calculate taxes according to the members region.

ips4_currency

This cookie stores the currency that the member has selected to view the site in.

ips4_guestTransactionKey

This cookie stores a transaction key for a guest member, it is used to identify the guest when viewing a pending transaction.

Third Party Cookies

This page discusses how cookies are used by this site. If you continue to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your web browser at the request of a site you're viewing. This allows the site you're viewing to remember things about you, such as your preferences and history or to keep you logged in.

Cookies may be stored on your computer for a short time (such as only while your browser is open) or for an extended period of time, even years. Cookies not set by this site will not be accessible to us.

Our cookie usage

This site uses cookies for numerous things, including:

  • Registration and maintaining your preferences. This includes ensuring that you can stay logged in and keeping the site in the language or appearance that you requested.

  • Analytics. This allows us to determine how people are using the site and improve it.

  • Advertising cookies (possibly third-party). If this site displays advertising, cookies may be set by the advertisers to determine who has viewed an ad or similar things. These cookies may be set by third parties, in which case this site has no ability to read or write these cookies.

  • Other third-party cookies for things like Facebook or Twitter sharing. These cookies will generally be set by the third-party independently, so this site will have no ability to access them.

Additional cookies and those set by third parties

Additional cookies may be set during the use of the site to remember information as certain actions are being performed, or remembering certain preferences.

Other cookies may be set by third party service providers which may provide information such as tracking anonymously which users are visiting the site, or set by content embedded into some pages, such as YouTube or other media service providers.

Removing/disabling cookies

Managing your cookies and cookie preferences must be done from within your browser's options/preferences. Here is a list of guides on how to do this for popular browser software:

More information about cookies

To learn more about cookies, and find more information about blocking certain types of cookies, please visit the ICO website Cookies page.

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.