This page explains how this website uses cookies and local storage, what they are used for, and the choices available to you. By visiting this website you confirm that you have read this page.
1. What We Use
- This website uses only one functional cookie:
ar_lang(language preference). - This cookie records the language edition you have chosen (Traditional Chinese / Simplified Chinese / English) so that on your next visit you go directly to the same language edition.
- This website does not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking cookies, third-party analytics or social plug-in cookies, and does not use
localStorageorsessionStorageto store your personal information.
2. Its Attributes
- Name:
ar_lang - Purpose: to remember your language choice (functional, not tracking)
- Lifetime: up to 1 year
- Scope: the whole website
- Script access:
HttpOnly(page scripts cannot read its value) - Transmission security: carries the
Secureflag when transmitted over HTTPS in the production environment
3. How to Manage It
- You may delete or block cookies at any time through your browser settings. If you clear it, this website will infer the language edition again from your browser language or region on your next visit.
- Blocking this cookie does not affect your ability to browse and read the content of this website; you will only lose the convenience of having your language choice remembered.
- This website does not display a “cookie consent banner” because there are no non-essential cookies requiring consent (no tracking, advertising or analytics). If this website later adopts third-party analytics or embedded media, consent mechanisms will be assessed and put in place first.
4. Changes
- If new cookies or local storage purposes are introduced in future, this page will be updated before the change takes effect, with the date of update shown.
- Date of update: 21 September 2026.
If you have any questions about this page, please contact us through “Contact Us”.