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Cookie Policy
Last updated: 6 September 2026
The Association of Food Manufacturing Engineers (AFME) is part of Lestrad Group Ltd, registered in England and Wales, Company No. 17439111, Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ.
This policy explains how AFME uses cookies and similar technologies on afmeng.co.uk and how you can control your preferences.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They can be used to provide essential website functions, remember preferences, maintain secure sign-in sessions, measure website use and support other website services.
2. How AFME uses cookies
AFME groups cookies and similar technologies into the following categories:
Strictly necessary
These are required for the website to operate securely and correctly. They may support functions such as member authentication, security, session handling and remembering your cookie preferences. These cannot be switched off through the AFME preference centre because the website may not function correctly without them.
Analytics
Analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use AFME, for example which public pages are visited and how the website performs. AFME will not intentionally activate analytics technologies through this consent system unless you have allowed the Analytics category.
Marketing and advertising
These technologies may be used in future to measure advertising, understand campaign performance or support personalised marketing. AFME’s own on-page industry-partner advertising does not automatically mean that tracking cookies are used. Where marketing or advertising tracking technologies are introduced, they should only be activated after the appropriate consent has been given.
3. Your AFME consent preference
When you first visit the website, AFME provides controls to accept all optional cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or choose individual categories. Your preference is stored so that we do not need to ask on every page visit.
You can change your choice at any time using the Cookie Settings control available on the website.
4. Cookies currently used by AFME
The precise cookies present can change as AFME develops. Typical necessary cookies may include WordPress or AFME authentication/session cookies for signed-in members and the AFME cookie-consent preference itself. Optional analytics or marketing cookies should only be introduced when the corresponding consent category is enabled.
AFME consent cookie: afme_cookie_consent — stores your cookie-category choices and the consent version. It is treated as strictly necessary because it records the privacy choice you have made.
5. Third-party services
AFME may use third-party website, email, analytics, media, security or other technology providers. If a third-party service sets non-essential cookies or uses similar tracking technologies, AFME’s intention is that the appropriate consent category must be enabled before that optional technology is loaded.
6. How long preferences are kept
The AFME cookie preference is normally kept for up to 180 days, after which we may ask you to confirm your choices again. We may also ask again sooner if the consent categories or technologies used on the website materially change.
7. Managing cookies in your browser
You can also delete or block cookies using your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent member login or other website functions from working correctly.
8. Contact and privacy
For questions about cookies, privacy or your personal information, please use the AFME Contact Us page. Further information about how Lestrad Group Ltd handles personal information for AFME is available in the AFME Privacy Policy.
Association of Food Manufacturing Engineers (AFME)
Part of Lestrad Group Ltd
Registered in England and Wales · Company No. 17439111
Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 9JQ