Our Use of Cookies

As a result of changes to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive which came into effect on 26th May 2011, it is unlawful for websites to store information in cookies on a user's machine without explicit consent, although there are exceptions.

The Audio Archive software does make use of a cookie, but we believe that our use falls within the area of exemption. It is a non-intrusive, first party session cookie that contains no personal information, and is required to enable the site to operate in the best possible way for its users.

We attempt to set a PHP session cookie on your machine when you select a recording page. It has the name 'PHPSESSID' and a value similar to '449903ffe47e08e9f2d80b04bc8' which is randomly generated by the PHP pre-processor. This is done to help us in our attempts to prevent automated spambots flooding our comment pages. No information about you or your machine is stored within this cookie, and no attempt is made to track your activity - it is simply used by the software to ensure that a request made to add a comment originated from a user who has first accessed the recording page.

If you do not wish us to set a cookie on your machine and you wish to access a recording, please ensure that cookies are disabled in your browser and that you do not wish to add a comment to an Audio Archive entry. If we cannot set a cookie and hence initiate a PHP sesssion, you will be unable to create a comment and an attempt to do so will result in your browser session being redirected to this page.