A clear choice about analytics.

This Cookie Policy explains how the AEYF website uses cookies and similar browser technologies. “Cookies” are small text files stored by a browser. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags and scripts that store or access information on a device.

The Site is designed to operate without advertising cookies. Optional Vercel Web Analytics is disabled until you make an affirmative analytics choice in the consent manager.

• Strictly necessary: storage or processing required to deliver the Site, maintain security, route a form you request, remember privacy choices or comply with law. This category cannot be disabled through the consent manager.
• Analytics: optional, aggregate measurement used to understand page use and improve navigation and content. Enabling this category loads Vercel Web Analytics.

Vercel Web Analytics is loaded only after you enable analytics. According to Vercel, the service does not use third-party cookies and does not create a permanent cross-site identifier. It records anonymous, aggregate page-view data and discards its visitor-identification hash after 24 hours.

• Data points can include timestamp, page path, referrer, general city/country, device type, operating system and browser.
• The AEYF integration removes URL query strings and fragments before analytics data is sent.
• Form answers, names, email addresses, phone numbers and application narratives are not intentionally sent to analytics.
• Analytics is not required to access content or submit an application.

Further technical details are available in Vercel’s privacy and compliance documentation.

Where applicable law requires consent for optional storage, device access or analytics, AEYF relies on your freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous choice. Necessary operations are used to provide the service you request and protect the Site.

“Accept all” and “Reject non-essential” are presented as clear alternatives. Optional categories are off by default in detailed settings. Withholding or withdrawing consent has no effect on application eligibility or general Site access.

You can open “Cookie settings” in the footer at any time. You may accept all categories, reject every non-essential category, or choose categories individually. New choices take effect immediately for future activity.

You can also delete Site data through your browser settings. Doing so removes the saved consent record and causes the Site to ask again on your next visit. Browser-level blocking may affect storage needed to remember the choice, but it will not prevent access to the public content.

Browsers and extensions may offer “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals. Because no universal rule applies to all such signals, the Site’s consent manager remains the primary control for optional analytics. We will keep this approach under review as standards and applicable law develop.