"Cookies"
and similar technologies enable a website to work, or work more efficiently, as
well as provide information and additional services. This page explains the
use of cookies and similar tools set by the Advances in Optics and Computer
Vision website at https://www.AOCV.ir. By using the website AOCV.ir you agree that we may store cookies
in your browser.
If you don't consent to this, but still wish to use the website, you may
deactivate cookies from AOCV.ir in your browser settings. Disabling cookies,
you will still be able to access all the published articles, but you won't be
able to perform tasks that requires you to log in to the system.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored locally on your
computer. The use of cookies is a standard technology and is used by the
majority of websites. Most web browsers such as Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla
Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer, are set to automatically accept
cookies. But you may choose to change these settings in your browser. If your
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You
can prevent your browser from accepting certain cookies, have the browser
require your consent before a new cookie is placed in your browser, or block
cookies altogether by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser's
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Requirement of consent and information
The Revised Electronic Communications Act (ekomloven)
- section 2-7b - requires that we inform you of our use of cookies:
- which cookies that are set
- what information that is processed
- what the purpose is
- who that is processing the information
As long as these information requirements are met, the settings
in your browser are sufficient as a consent to AOCV.ir's
use of cookies.
What kind of cookies does AOCV.ir use?
The journals hosted by AOCV.ir run on the Open Journal Systems
platform as known as OJS. The OJS platform sets a cookie called OJSSID:
Cookie set by the OJS-platform
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Cookie name
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Standard expiration time
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Domain
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Description
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OJSSID
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End of browser session or 30 days
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AOCV.ir
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Contains a machine-generated session-id for the OJS-platform
that will keep track of your browsing session and log-in to the
OJS-webpage. This cookie is normally deleted at the end of the browsing
session.
If you check "remember me" when you log in, you
may quit your browser and open it at a later time, and you will still be
logged in. In that case this cookie will expire after 30 days since your
last visit or until you log out and close your browser.
This cookie is necessary in order to log in to the OJS platform.
You will still be able to access all articles on the OJS platform with
cookies disabled, but you will not be able to perform any tasks that
requires the user to be logged in.
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Google Analytics
We are using the 3rd party Google Analytics in order to analyze
the traffic on our website. Google Analytics stores the following cookies on
your computer:
Cookie set by Google Analytics
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Cookie name
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Standard expiration time
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Domain
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Description
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__utma
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2 years from set/update
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AOCV.ir
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Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created
when the javascript library executes and no
existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is
updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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__utmb
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30 min from set/update
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AOCV.ir
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Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created
when the javascript library executes and no
existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is
updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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__utmc
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End of browser session
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AOCV.ir
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Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js.
Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new
session/visit.
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__utmt
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10 min from set/update
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AOCV.ir
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Used to throttle request rate.
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__utmv
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2 years from set/update
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AOCV.ir
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Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. This cookie
is created when a developer uses the _setCustomVar
method with a visitor level custom variable. This cookie was also used for
the deprecated _setVar method. The cookie is
updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
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__utmz
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6 months from set/update
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AOCV.ir
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Information about how you got to our webpage at
AOCV.ir, for instance from a search engine (google, yahoo, bing etc).
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Read more about the cookies used by Google Analytics
You may opt out from being tracked by Google Analytics, read
more about this at Google's webpage about this topic: Google
Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
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