Cookie Policy

This page explains the cookies used on this website, which is operated by the International Therapy Association (the "Association"), and the information sent to external providers when you view its pages. This website does not use cookies or external transmission for advertising, such as behaviourally targeted ads. The list below shows, for each destination, what information is sent and why.

Vercel (Vercel Inc., USA) — website delivery: Destination: this website's domain (Vercel's servers) Information sent: IP address, browser and device information, URL of the page viewed, referring page Purpose: delivering pages, and dealing with outages and unauthorised access When: on every page of this website
Vercel Web Analytics (Vercel Inc., USA) — traffic measurement: Destination: Vercel, via this website's domain (/_vercel/insights) Information sent: URL of the page viewed, referring page, browser, OS and device type, country or region (estimated from the IP address; the IP address itself is not stored) Purpose: understanding statistically which pages are read, in order to improve the website. No cookies are used and individuals are not identified When: on every page of this website
Vercel Speed Insights (Vercel Inc., USA) — page speed measurement: Destination: Vercel, via this website's domain (/_vercel/speed-insights) Information sent: URL of the page viewed, page speed measurements (LCP, INP, CLS and similar), device and connection type Purpose: understanding real-world page speed in order to make pages faster. No cookies are used and individuals are not identified When: on every page of this website
Supabase (Supabase, Inc., USA; data stored in Germany) — login and member features: Destination: *.supabase.co Information sent: email address, login credentials (authentication tokens), IP address, browser and device information Purpose: authenticating logins, and storing and displaying members' information When: when you sign up or log in, and when you use My page while logged in
YouTube (Google LLC, USA) — showing and playing videos: Destination: www.youtube-nocookie.com, i.ytimg.com, youtube.com, googlevideo.com, google.com, gstatic.com and similar Information sent: IP address, browser and device information, URL of the page you are on, playback status Purpose: showing video thumbnails and playing videos (using YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode) When: when you open a page with video thumbnails, when you play a video, and when the home page shows its background video (the background video is not loaded if your device is set to reduce motion or you have chosen "Pause motion" on this website). During playback, YouTube may store cookies or similar data in your browser
Sign in with Google (Google LLC, USA): Destination: accounts.google.com Information sent: your Google account sign-in details (entered on Google's page), and the email address, name and profile picture Google provides to this website Purpose: logging in with a Google account When: only when you choose to log in with Google
Stripe (Stripe, Inc., USA) — payments: Destination: checkout.stripe.com and other Stripe domains Information sent: name, email address, card and other payment details (entered directly on Stripe's page), what you are buying and the amount, IP address, browser and device information Purpose: processing entry fee and spectator ticket payments, preventing fraud, and issuing receipts and invoices When: when you move to Stripe's payment page to pay (this website's own pages do not load any Stripe code). On its payment page, Stripe uses cookies to prevent fraud
IMG.LY (IMG.LY GmbH, Germany) — photo background removal: Destination: staticimgly.com Information sent: IP address, browser and device information (the photo itself is not sent; it is processed on your own device) Purpose: downloading the program used to remove photo backgrounds When: only when a judge runs background removal on a photo in their My page
Push notification services (provided by your browser's maker, such as Google, Apple or Mozilla): Destination: the notification server chosen by your browser Information sent: the delivery address for notifications (an identifier issued by your browser) and the notification text Purpose: delivering push notifications with our announcements When: when the Association sends a notification to someone who has allowed notifications

1. About cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information about your visit to a website that is stored by the browser on your device (a computer, smartphone, tablet or similar). Besides the cookies set by this website (first-party cookies), the sites you move on to from here and the videos embedded in our pages may set their own cookies (third-party cookies).

2. Cookies set by this website

This website sets the cookies below. All of them are needed for the website's own features; none is used for advertising or for tracking you across other websites.

NEXT_LOCALE: remembers the language you chose (kept for 1 year)
Cookies whose names begin with "sb-": keep you logged in. They are set only when you log in or sign up, and are deleted when you log out (kept for up to 400 days)
mcwt_preview: set only on the devices of staff who open a special link to check pages before they are published (kept for 90 days)

3. Other information stored in your browser

In addition to cookies, the following information is stored in your browser's storage (local storage and similar). It is used only on your device and is never sent to our servers.

Your "Pause motion" setting
When you closed the app suggestion
Unfinished input in the entry form, such as the division you selected (deleted when you close the tab)
Some of the files that make up our pages, so that they load faster (Service Worker cache)

4. About sending information to external providers

As shown in the list above, this website sends information to external providers only as far as needed to provide its features.

We do not use behaviourally targeted advertising, ad network tags, or embedded social media posts or "Like" buttons.
The fonts used to display text are served from this website's own servers, so your browser does not send anything to Google Fonts when you view our pages.
Traffic and page speed measurement use no cookies and are compiled as statistics that do not identify individuals.
For information sent to providers in other countries, and the data protection systems of those countries, see section 12 of the Privacy Policy.

5. How to stop cookies and external transmission

(1) Refusing cookies You can disable cookies in your browser settings. Some features, such as logging in, will then stop working. Please check with your browser's maker for how to change the settings. (2) Stopping traffic and page speed measurement You can block requests to "/_vercel/" on this website with a browser extension that prevents tracking. The website will continue to work normally. (3) Stopping the YouTube background video If you choose "Pause motion" on this website, or turn on your device's "Reduce motion" setting, the background video on the home page is not loaded. (4) Stopping push notifications You can turn notifications off at any time in your browser or device settings.

6. Contact and changes

For questions about this policy, please use the contact details in section 8 of the Privacy Policy. We may revise this policy when features of this website are added or changed. For how each provider handles information, please see their privacy policies below.