Document record
The current version of this document.
- Record
- ASCA Public Legal Record · 2025.08
- Applies to
- Website Visitors
- Acceptance context
- Applies Through the Governing Terms and Service Context
- Effective and updated
- August 12, 2025
- Version history
- Replaces the January 28, 2025 version
Effective policy. This document is effective August 12, 2025. Replaces the January 28, 2025 version.
What these technologies are
Cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar browser technologies can remember a session, protect an account, save a preference, or measure how a site is used.
Essential technologies
ASCA may use essential technologies to:
- Maintain authentication and account security.
- Protect forms and prevent abuse.
- Preserve consent and accessibility preferences.
- Route requests and maintain service continuity.
- Remember a checkout or workflow state requested by the user.
Essential technologies are required for the requested service and cannot always be disabled through ASCA’s optional-consent control. Browser settings may still block them, but doing so can prevent features from working.
Optional analytics
ASCA’s public site is designed not to load optional analytics or marketing tags until the visitor opts in. Optional analytics may measure bounded page, navigation, form-start, lead, account, authentication, and checkout events.
ASCA does not intentionally place names, email addresses, form contents, customer messages, moderation evidence, attachments, payment credentials, or service-generated content into the public analytics data layer.
Technology categories
Depending on the deployed service and the visitor's choices, browser technologies may fall into these categories:
| Category | Typical purpose | Default treatment |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Authentication, security, routing, fraud prevention, checkout state, and requested forms | Available when required for the requested service |
| Preferences | Language, accessibility, interface, consent, and saved choices | Used to remember an explicit choice |
| Functional | Optional connected or enhanced features requested by the user | Enabled only when the feature and applicable choice permit |
| Analytics | Bounded measurement of public-page and conversion performance | Consent-gated where configured or required |
| Marketing | Campaign attribution or advertising-related measurement | Not loaded unless expressly approved and permitted |
A technology's name does not determine its category by itself. ASCA classifies it by its actual purpose, data, duration, recipient, and behavior.
Technology inventory and updates
ASCA maintains a deployed inventory identifying each browser technology or material provider-controlled category, its provider or controller where disclosure is required, purpose, data, domain, duration, and whether it is essential or optional.
The inventory may change when a service, security control, payment flow, authentication method, or analytics configuration changes. A material change to optional tracking requires the applicable consent and notice review. ASCA will not classify advertising or unrelated analytics as essential merely to bypass a preference.
Your choices
The site provides a cookie-preference control where optional technologies are configured. You can accept, reject, or later change optional consent.
ASCA’s implemented control recognizes Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals as a request not to enable optional analytics. On withdrawal, the site stops future optional loading and removes known analytics identifiers where technically supported.
You may also control storage through browser settings. Blocking or deleting essential storage can sign you out, reset preferences, interrupt checkout, prevent fraud controls, or make a requested feature unavailable. Refusing optional technology does not disable unrelated essential service functions.
Consent choices can be scoped by browser, device, account, region, or domain. They may need to be repeated after storage is cleared or when a materially different site or service is used.
Connected and embedded services
A connected service, payment flow, identity provider, or external link may use its own technologies under its own notice. ASCA does not control browser storage set on another service’s domain.
ASCA avoids unnecessary embedded third-party content on legal and account surfaces. Where an integration is required, the function and privacy impact must be reviewed.
Retention
Session technologies generally expire at the end of a session or according to the security need. Preference and consent records may remain until they expire, are cleared, or are replaced by a new choice. Optional analytics retention depends on the approved analytics configuration and must not exceed the disclosed purpose.
Exact deployed technology names, purposes, and durations are maintained in the deployed inventory and reflected in the consent interface where applicable.
Security and privacy
Browser technologies must not contain passwords, complete payment-card numbers, private messages, attachments, moderation evidence, or sensitive form contents. Identifiers and event data remain subject to access, purpose, retention, disclosure, and security controls under the Privacy Policy.
ASCA does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. If that practice changes, ASCA must update its notices, controls, contractual terms, and applicable opt-out mechanisms before the change begins.
Contact
Questions about browser technologies may be sent to [email protected].