Version 2027-02, in force since 20 September 2026.
This notice lists everything aetconference.com stores on your device, what each item is for and how long it lasts. Our Privacy Notice explains how we use personal data more generally.
The Short Version
- We only store what the site needs to work: keeping you signed in, remembering your chat with Elorm and remembering light or dark mode if you choose one.
- We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and keeps nothing that identifies you.
- We use no advertising or social media tracking cookies, and we do not sell or share what these cookies hold.
- Because everything we set is needed for the site to work, we do not ask for your consent first. If we ever add anything optional, we will ask before it is set and update this notice.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small files a website saves in your browser so it can recognise your browser on your next visit. Websites can also keep information in your browser's local storage, which works in a similar way. This notice covers both.
What We Set
| Name | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
Sign-in session (names starting sb-) | Keeps you signed in to your account, and tells us which account is yours | Until you sign out; it is renewed while you keep using the site |
aetc_pending_email | Remembers the email address a sign-in code was sent to, while you type the code | 15 minutes |
aetc_chat | Reconnects you to your conversation with Elorm if you leave the page and come back | 24 hours |
aetc_visitor | A random identifier that lets us apply fair-use limits to Elorm, so the service stays available to everyone. We store only a scrambled version of it | 30 days |
aetc-theme (local storage) | Remembers whether you chose light or dark mode | Until you clear it |
None of these is used to follow you across other websites.
How We Count Visits
We use Vercel Web Analytics to see how many people read which pages. It records the page that was asked for, the country it was asked from, the website that referred you, and the kind of device you used. It sets no cookies, it stores nothing on your device, and it keeps nothing that identifies you: we can see that a page was read four hundred times without being able to say who read it.
Content From Other Services
Some pages include services run by other organisations, which may store their own cookies or similar information under their own privacy notices:
- Cloudflare Turnstile checks that a person, not an automated program, is sending our forms. It may store short-lived information in your browser to complete the check, and Cloudflare may set a security cookie that tells people apart from automated traffic.
- Videos. Videos in our news stories are played from YouTube's privacy-enhanced service (youtube-nocookie.com), which stores nothing until you press play. During the conference, the live stream on our live page may be played by YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies when the player loads.
- Paystack. When you pay by card or mobile money you are taken to Paystack's secure payment page, which uses its own cookies to process the payment safely.
Managing Cookies
You can see and delete cookies in your browser's settings, and most browsers let you block them. If you block or delete the cookies above, the site will still show you its pages, but you will be signed out, and signing in and chatting with Elorm will not work until you allow them again.
Changes to This Notice
When what the site stores changes, we publish a new version of this notice. The version number and the date it came into force are shown at the top of this page.