Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Depending on your access level and actions on the site, various preference based cookies may be set to enrich your experience. These cookies are used to remember your theme, language and item marking preferences, etc.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are required to enable core functionality and can't be rejected.
Essential Cookies
ips4_oauth_authorize
ips4_member_id
ips4_login_key
ips4_clearAutosave
ips4_lastSearch
ips4_device_key
ips4_IPSSessionFront
ips4_loggedIn
ips4_noCache
ips4_hasJS
ips4_cookie_consent
ips4_cookie_consent_optional
ips4_guestTermsDismissed
ips4_referred_by
ips4_forumpass_*
ips4_cm_reg
ips4_location
ips4_currency
ips4_guestTransactionKey
This cookie temporarily stores session data if you use a third party login processor.
ips4_member_id
This cookie stores the member id of the currently logged in member
ips4_login_key
This cookie is used to save the session identifier.
ips4_clearAutosave
This cookie stores the editor identifiers to truncate the automatically saved content.
ips4_lastSearch
This cookie stores the last search timestamp.
ips4_device_key
This cookie stores the device identifier.
ips4_IPSSessionFront
This cookie contains the ID of your current session.
ips4_loggedIn
This cookie is set after login, it is used by caching mechanisms to identify if you are logged in.
ips4_noCache
This cookie is set when a guest members session requires that the output is not cached / coming from the cache.
ips4_hasJS
This cookie is used to identify if Javascript is enabled in the browser.
ips4_cookie_consent
This cookie stores the cookie consent preferences.
ips4_cookie_consent_optional
This cookie stores the cookie consent opt-in status for guests.
ips4_guestTermsDismissed
This cookie is used to identify when the guest terms & conditions bar has been dismissed
ips4_referred_by
This cookie is used to identify if you were referred to the site by an existing member.
ips4_forumpass_*
These cookies are used to track authentication for password protected forums. There may be multiple cookies with similar names where * is replaced with the forum ID.
ips4_cm_reg
This cookie stores an invoice ID if a purchase is being made during registration
ips4_location
This cookie stores an estimated location of the member, it is used to calculate taxes according to the members region.
ips4_currency
This cookie stores the currency that the member has selected to view the site in.
ips4_guestTransactionKey
This cookie stores a transaction key for a guest member, it is used to identify the guest when viewing a pending transaction.
Optional Cookies
These cookies are not required, but can be enabled to enhance your browsing experience.
Third Party Cookies
This page discusses how cookies are used by this site. If you continue to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Our cookie usage
This site uses cookies for numerous things, including:
- Registration and maintaining your preferences. This includes ensuring that you can stay logged in and keeping the site in the language or appearance that you requested.
- Analytics. This allows us to determine how people are using the site and improve it.
- Advertising cookies (possibly third-party). If this site displays advertising, cookies may be set by the advertisers to determine who has viewed an ad or similar things. These cookies may be set by third parties, in which case this site has no ability to read or write these cookies.
- Other third-party cookies for things like Facebook or Twitter sharing. These cookies will generally be set by the third-party independently, so this site will have no ability to access them.
Additional cookies and those set by third parties
Additional cookies may be set during the use of the site to remember information as certain actions are being performed, or remembering certain preferences.
Other cookies may be set by third party service providers which may provide information such as tracking anonymously which users are visiting the site, or set by content embedded into some pages, such as YouTube or other media service providers.
Removing/disabling cookies
Managing your cookies and cookie preferences must be done from within your browser's options/preferences. Here is a list of guides on how to do this for popular browser software:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Safari for macOS
- Safari for iOS
More information about cookies
To learn more about cookies, and find more information about blocking certain types of cookies, please visit the ICO website Cookies page.
| Third-party cookies | |
| Cookies set by third parties may be required to power functionality in conjunction with various service providers for security, analytics, performance or advertising purposes. | |
| Apple Music | These cookies are set by Apple Music, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Dailymotion | These cookies are set by Dailymotion, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| These cookies are set by Facebook, and may be used for displaying embedded content. | |
| Flickr | These cookies are set by Flickr, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Giphy | These cookies are set by Giphy, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Google Analytics | These cookies are set by Google Analytics, and may be used for analytics. |
| Imgur | These cookies are set by Imgur, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| These cookies are set by Instagram, and may be used for displaying embedded content. | |
| Meta | These cookies are set by Meta, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| These cookies are set by Pinterest, and may be used for displaying embedded content. | |
| These cookies are set by Reddit, and may be used for displaying embedded content. | |
| SoundCloud | These cookies are set by SoundCloud, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Spotify | These cookies are set by Spotify, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| TikTok | These cookies are set by TikTok, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Tumblr | These cookies are set by Tumblr, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| Twitch | These cookies are set by Twitch, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| These cookies are set by Twitter, and may be used for displaying embedded content. | |
| Vimeo | These cookies are set by Vimeo, and may be used for displaying embedded content. |
| YouTube |
These cookies are set by YouTube, and may be used for analytics, verifying legitimate traffic, or other embedded content. |
How do I change my cookie settings?
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.