Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 30 July 2025.1. Introduction
Our website, https://virtual.seattlein2025.org (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. Cookies
4.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5. Placed cookies
We set the following cookies to provide the functionality of the website. This data is not shared with third parties.
- PHPSESSID - Stores the user's temporary log in session id. Required for log in functionality to work. Expires when the browser session ends.
- session - Stores the user's session id. Required for log in functionality to work. Expires after 30 days.
- seen_rce_invite - Stores whether the user has seen the RingCentral Events invite. Required for deep-linking into RingCentral Event items. Expires after 30 days.
- favs_[ticket id] - Stores the user's favourite items. Required for the quick links functionality to work. Expires after 1 year.
6. Analytics data
We store the following analytics data to help us understand how the website is being used. It does not contain any personal identifying information. This data may be published publicly to help other conventions understand how best to structure their own sites.
- Date - The date the event occurred.
- Member type - The type of ticket help by the member who performed the event. One of "online", "in-person", "anonymous" or "not-logged-in".
- Event - The type of event. One of "navigation", "card-click" or "favs".
- Data - The data for the event. For "navigation", the path of the page being loaded. For "card-click", the name of the card that was clicked. For "favs", the quick links configured.
7. Consent
Because we only make use of cookies to provide essential functionality, we do not require your consent to set these cookies. You can still block or delete them by changing your browser settings.
Because the analytics does not contains any personal identifying information, we do not require your consent to store this data. You can still block the client-side collection by blocking requests to https://virtual.seattlein2025.org/analytics.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Other relevant policies and your rights
For more information about your data as it applies to this convention, and your rights, please see the convention privacy policy at https://seattlein2025.org/about/privacy-policy.