What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file of information (normally less than 1K) that a web site, accessed by you, puts onto your hard disk drive so that the depositing site can remember something about you when you access that site, or in some cases other sites, at a later time.

In most modern browsers, you can view/delete cookies in the Settings or Preferences pages.

This web site uses a single cookie, called a "session ID", to keep track of where you are in the abstract submission process and what information you've already entered. This cookie, a randomly generated piece of text, is set by the site when you first access it, and disappears from your computer when you close your browser.

On all of our web sites and web pages, there is no personally identifiable information conveyed in a cookie. There is nothing transmitted to which you have not consented, and there is never any information externally aggregated or exchanged.