Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small data file placed on a visitor's device by the website they are using, or occasionally by a third party the website has authorised. Cookies allow a website to recognise a returning visitor's browser, to preserve session state, and, in some cases, to remember preferences between visits.

The Society uses the term "cookies" in this Policy to include analogous browser-storage technologies (such as localStorage) where they are used for the same purposes.

The Society uses cookies only where they serve a defined institutional purpose: to operate the website, to preserve the integrity of authenticated sessions, to remember member preferences, and to understand how visitors use its publications in aggregate.

The Society does not employ cookies for purposes incompatible with its scholarly character.

The Society uses cookies and analogous technologies only where they are necessary to the operation, security, or proper functioning of its website, or where they serve a defined institutional purpose disclosed to the member or visitor.

Cookies used by the Society fall into the following editorial categories. Each category is bound to a specific institutional purpose, and each non-essential category is enabled only where the visitor has granted consent through the Society's Cookie Preference Center.

Essential cookies preserve the authenticated session, protect the website against fraud and abuse, and maintain the basic mechanics of navigation. They do not track visitors across unrelated websites and are not used to build profiles for advertising.

Because these cookies are required for the site to function, they operate without additional consent. Refusing them in the browser may impair or disable core features of the Society's website.

Analytics, functional, and marketing cookies are optional. The Society does not initialise them until the visitor has recorded a choice through the Cookie Preference Center. Where a visitor rejects a category, cookies belonging to that category are not written; where a visitor later changes their preferences, the Society honours the updated choice.

The Society does not employ cookies for behavioural advertising, does not place cookies on behalf of advertising networks, and does not permit third parties to track visitors across unrelated websites through the Society's surfaces.

Visitors may adjust their cookie choices at any time by opening the Cookie Preference Center from the "Cookie Preferences" link in the footer of every page of the Society's website. Preferences are stored locally on the visitor's device and are respected on subsequent visits from the same browser.

Visitors may also configure their browsers to refuse or restrict cookies at the browser level. Refusing strictly necessary cookies may impair the operation of certain features of the Society's website.

This Policy is to be read together with the Society's Privacy Policy. Information collected through cookies is governed by the same institutional commitments as other information held by the Society.

Questions concerning this Policy, or concerning the Society's use of cookies more generally, may be directed to the Society's privacy office at privacy@reallawsociety.com, or through the channels published on the Society's website.