Cookie Policy.

Why there’s no cookie banner.

Under EU law, a cookie consent banner is only required for cookies that aren’t essential to the site working — things like analytics, advertising or tracking. This site doesn’t use any of those. We run no Google Analytics, no advertising pixels and no third-party trackers.

The only cookies set here are strictly necessaryones — they exist to keep you logged in and to let payments work. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from the consent requirement, so there’s nothing to opt in or out of.

The cookies we set.

eaam.session_token (and related eaam.* cookies)

eaam.be — set when you sign inKeeps you signed in to your member dashboard. Without it, the site couldn’t tell your browser apart from anyone else’s after you log in.Refreshed while you’re active; expires after 30 minutes of inactivity.

__stripe_mid, __stripe_sid and related __stripe_* cookies

Stripe — set only during checkoutSet by Stripe on the payment step when you pay membership fees or symposium tickets, to prevent fraud and keep the checkout session working across steps.Set by Stripe; only appear while you’re on a checkout page.

What we don’t use cookies for.

We don’t use cookies to track you across other websites, build an advertising profile, or measure visits for marketing purposes. The member dashboard remembers your light/dark theme choice in your browser’s local storage rather than a cookie — that stays on your device and is never sent to us.

Managing cookies.

You can block or delete cookies at any time through your browser’s settings. Since the only cookies here are the ones that keep you signed in and let Stripe process a payment, blocking them means you won’t be able to stay logged in to the member dashboard or complete a card payment — the rest of the site works the same either way.

Questions.

If anything here is unclear, or you’d like more detail on how a specific cookie is used, get in touch and we’ll answer directly.