Association Engine
Cookie Policy
Last Updated: August 14, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Association Engine (“Association Engine,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our websites, use our online services, or interact with the Association Engine platform (collectively, the “Services”).
Association Engine provides software, automation, AI, website, marketing, and operational services for membership-based organizations.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies allow websites and online services to recognize your browser or device, remember preferences, maintain sessions, understand how services are used, and support certain functionality.
We may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, software development kits, and other technologies that perform functions similar to cookies. References to “cookies” in this Policy include these similar technologies where applicable.
2. How We Use Cookies
Association Engine may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Operate, secure, and maintain our Services;
- Authenticate users and maintain login sessions;
- Remember settings and preferences;
- Understand how visitors and users interact with our Services;
- Measure website traffic, performance, and engagement;
- Identify and diagnose technical issues;
- Improve our websites, platform, content, and user experience;
- Measure the effectiveness of marketing and advertising;
- Support forms, scheduling, communications, and other interactive features;
- Prevent fraud, abuse, and unauthorized access; and
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
The cookies used on a particular website or within a particular Service may vary depending on the features, integrations, and services enabled.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for our websites and Services to function properly. They may support security, authentication, network management, session management, form functionality, payment processing, and other essential features.
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the Services, they generally cannot be disabled through our cookie preference tools.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow our Services to remember choices and provide additional functionality. These may include language preferences, saved settings, form information, chat functionality, and other personalized features.
Disabling these cookies may affect the availability or operation of certain features.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use our websites and Services. They may collect information about pages viewed, traffic sources, interactions, session activity, device and browser information, and website performance.
We use this information to understand usage patterns, identify problems, measure performance, and improve our Services.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Where used, advertising and marketing cookies help us measure campaigns, understand how visitors reach our websites, create audiences, and provide or measure relevant advertising.
These technologies may be provided by us or by third-party advertising and marketing providers.
4. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies are set directly by Association Engine and are known as first-party cookies.
Other cookies may be set by third parties whose technologies or services are integrated with our websites or Services. These may include providers supporting analytics, advertising, communications, payments, scheduling, website functionality, security, hosting, and other business functions.
Third-party providers may collect information through their technologies according to their own privacy policies and terms.
5. Cookies Used on Customer Websites
Association Engine may provide website, marketing, automation, analytics, and related technology services to membership organizations.
When an Association Engine customer uses our technology on its own website, portal, landing page, form, campaign, or other digital property, additional cookies and tracking technologies may be used based on the customer’s configuration and the services it has enabled.
Where the customer determines the purposes and means of processing personal information through those services, the customer is responsible for providing appropriate privacy and cookie notices and obtaining consent where required by applicable law. Association Engine may process information on the customer’s behalf in accordance with our agreement with that customer and applicable data protection requirements.
6. Cookie Consent and Your Choices
Depending on your location and applicable law, we may ask for your consent before placing certain non-essential cookies on your device.
Where a cookie preference or consent management tool is available, you may use it to accept, reject, or manage categories of non-essential cookies. You may also be able to change your preferences after making an initial selection.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
You can also configure most browsers to block, restrict, or delete cookies. Browser settings vary, and blocking certain cookies may prevent portions of our websites or Services from functioning properly.
7. Global Privacy Control and Similar Signals
Where required by applicable law and technically supported, we may recognize browser-based privacy preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), as a request to opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information.
The availability and effect of these signals may depend on your jurisdiction, browser, device, and the Services you are using.
8. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose and the technology or provider responsible for it. We seek to retain information collected through cookies only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy or as otherwise required by law.
9. Personal Information Collected Through Cookies
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies may include:
- IP address;
- Browser and device information;
- Device identifiers;
- Pages visited;
- Referral URLs;
- Dates and times of visits;
- Interactions with pages, forms, links, and features;
- Session and authentication information;
- General geographic information derived from an IP address; and
- Advertising, analytics, and campaign information.
Depending on applicable law and the information involved, some of this data may constitute personal information or personal data.
Our collection and handling of personal information is further described in our Privacy Policy.
10. Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) setting. There is no universally accepted standard governing how websites must respond to DNT signals.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular browser-based opt-out or privacy preference signal, we will process supported signals as required by that law.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to our Services, technologies, legal requirements, or business practices.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy. Material changes may also be communicated through our website, platform, or other appropriate means where required.
We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or our privacy practices, please contact: legal@theassociationengine.com.