This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are used on aviationconnect.org, what they do, and how you can control them. It supplements our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the website remember your preferences, recognize your repeat visits, and understand how the site is used.
We also use similar technologies (local storage, session storage) that work like cookies for some functions.
How we use cookies
We try to keep our cookie usage minimal. The cookies we use fall into the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function. They cannot be disabled.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
ac_access_token | Keeps you signed in to your account. Only set once you log in. | 15 minutes | Aviation Connect |
ac_refresh_token | Renews the sign-in above so you are not logged out every quarter of an hour. Only set once you log in. | 7 days | Aviation Connect |
ac_session | A single letter telling the page which menu to show a signed-in visitor. Contains no name, no address and no identifier. | 7 days | Aviation Connect |
ac_app_session | Keeps you signed in when you use a passkey (Face ID, a fingerprint or a security key) instead of a password. Holds a random value only, which is stored on our side as a one-way fingerprint. | 14 days | Aviation Connect |
ac_pk_login, ac_pk_reg | Hold the one-time number your device signs while you set up or use a passkey. Without them the sign-in cannot be completed. | 5 minutes | Aviation Connect |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare bot detection | 30 minutes | Cloudflare |
ac_consent | Remembers your answer to our one-line cookie notice (OK or No thanks), so that it is asked only once. Set only when you answer; the notice shows only to visitors from the European Union, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. | 6 months | Aviation Connect |
Our forms set no cookies of their own.
Functional cookies
These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| None. | |||
Storage that is not a cookie
Five things are kept in your browser’s own storage rather than in a cookie. They are never sent automatically with a request the way a cookie is. The first two are only read when you actually submit one of our forms; the third and fourth only keep a visit from being counted twice; the fifth keeps your practice on this device. We are listing them here because, cookie or not, they are still information stored on your device.
If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the first four are written only after you choose OK in our cookie notice. With No thanks, or before you answer, they are not written, and what an earlier visit left behind is removed. Everywhere else they are written as described here.
| What | Purpose | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Referral or campaign code | If you arrive through a personal invitation link or one of our printed QR codes, the code and the page you landed on are remembered so we can credit whoever referred you. Written only when such a link is actually used. | Until you close the tab |
| Where you first found us | When you first arrive from outside our site, the page you landed on and where you came from (the website’s address only, or that you came directly, and a campaign name if the link carried one) are remembered, so that an advertisement you saw on Monday and an account or an enquiry you make on Thursday can be connected. When you create an account, this is stored with it. Only the first visit is recorded and it is never overwritten. In your browser it holds no name, no email address and no identifier for you. | Until you clear your browser storage |
| Visit counted | A single mark that this tab’s visit has been counted (see Analytics below), so moving between our pages or reloading one is not counted again. It holds nothing else. | Until you close the tab |
| Day counted | The date of the last day this browser was counted as a visitor (see Analytics below), so that we count each visitor once a day, however many pages or tabs they open. It holds the date and nothing else. | Until you clear your browser storage |
| The flying game on this device |
Avi’s First Solo keeps your progress (scores, stars, missions, rank, miles,
paints and the flight log) and whether its sound is on under names starting with
avi-first-solo-,
so that you can carry on where you stopped. If you are signed in to your student
account, a mark of the last progress handed to your account
(ac_game_synced) keeps it from being sent twice, and for one tab a mark
(ac_game_reloaded) that the game was started once more with your
account’s progress. A random number for this browser, with the miles earned
and spent here since it last took over your account’s progress
(ac_game_device), goes with your progress to your account, so that
every mile counts once. They hold no name.
| Until you clear your browser storage (the tab’s mark: until you close the tab) |
| Your practice on this device |
When you practise in your account, each exercise keeps your recent and best
results, what you have already learned or seen, the days you practised this
month and the settings you chose (such as the airport of the weather exercise)
under names starting with ac.checks., so
that it can show your progress. It holds no name and none of your answers, and
it is not sent to us. For some tests your answers go to our server so that it
can mark them; they are not kept there either.
| Until you clear your browser storage |
You can remove all six at any time by clearing site data for this website in your browser settings.
Analytics cookies
We set one analytics cookie, in the table below, and only when you open one of our printed QR codes. Apart from it, the site counts its visits itself, on our own servers and without any cookie: when you arrive from outside the site, it records the time, your country (read from the network, your IP address is not stored), the network you connect through (its number and the operator’s name, for example your internet provider or a data centre), the website you came from (only its address, never what you were looking at there), the page you landed on and the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer, read from what your browser says about itself, which is not stored). Once a day it also notes that a visitor came, so that we know how many people visit each day; the date kept in your browser (“Day counted” above) stops a second count that day. Nothing in it identifies you or your device; we use it only to see how people find us and how many come, and the network only to tell real visitors apart from automated traffic.
If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the QR code cookie and that date are kept only after you choose OK in our cookie notice. Without it, your arrival is still counted the same way, and nothing is kept in your browser.
A team member’s browser can carry a cookie that keeps their own visits out of our statistics; visitors never get it.
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
ac_qr_seen | Set only when you open a QR code from our printed material. It lists the campaign numbers of the codes this browser has already opened, so a second scan of the same flyer is not counted as a second person. It contains no personal data and no identifier, and it is never shared. | 6 months | Aviation Connect |
We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site profiling cookies, and our website has no tracking pixels. Our emails do carry one: see Resend below.
Third-party cookies
Some services we use may set their own cookies:
- Cloudflare (security and performance): strictly necessary cookies for bot detection
- Zoom (video meetings), only once you follow the joining link for a booked consultation or an online session, or open a session’s recording. That happens on Zoom’s own site, under their cookie policy. Choosing a time on our booking page, and your own page for an online session or a call, set no cookies at all.
- Resend (our email provider): no cookie on this website, but each email we send carries a tracking pixel, a tiny invisible image that tells us when the email was opened, and its links pass through Resend so we see when one was clicked. If you switch off image loading in your email program, the pixel does not load and we see no opening. Our Privacy Policy says what we use this for.
Managing cookies
You can control cookies in several ways:
Your browser: every modern browser lets you view, delete, and block cookies. Look in your browser’s settings (usually under “Privacy” or “Security”). Note that blocking all cookies may break parts of the website.
Opt-out tools: for analytics-style tracking, you can use the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser. We respect this signal where technically feasible.
Cookies and EU visitors
The ePrivacy Directive and the GDPR require consent before anything that is not strictly necessary is stored on your device. If you visit from the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we therefore ask first, with the notice described above, and until you choose OK we keep nothing beyond your answer and what the website needs to work. The cookies listed as strictly necessary are exempt: they exist only to deliver something you asked for, such as staying signed in after you have signed in. We use no advertising or profiling cookies.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our cookie usage changes or when laws are updated. Check the “Last reviewed” date below for the current version.
Questions
Email us at info@aviationconnect.org with any questions about cookies.
Last reviewed: 7 November 2026
Effective from: 7 November 2026