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8 Marina View, #28-01 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960

Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Definitions

What cookies are

A short primer on the files your browser keeps on behalf of a website, and why a bookkeeping resource site needs them at all.

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They allow a site to remember information between page requests, such as a preference or a session state. There is no executable code inside them and nothing is run from them; the browser simply reads them back when the same site is requested again.

Similar technologies, including local storage, work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy. Local storage keeps data on your device until it is cleared, whereas a cookie carries an expiry of its own. Where this policy says cookie it means any of these mechanisms unless the distinction matters.

Session cookies last only while your browser stays open and are discarded when you close it. Persistent cookies carry a set expiry and survive between visits until that date, or until you delete them. On meridian-ledger.sg the cookies we set fall into both groups, and the next section names which is which.

Term

What it means

Session cookie

Cleared when you close the browser tab or window

Persistent cookie

Kept for a set period, or until you delete it

Local storage

Stored on your device until you clear browser data

What runs on this site

The cookies we use

Two groups of cookies are relevant here: the ones the site cannot run without, and the ones that help us see which pages are read.

Essential cookies

Always active

Essential cookies are required for the site to function, including basic security and session handling. They keep a page load consistent, hold the state of a form as you fill it, and help the server recognise that two requests came from the same reading session. Because the site cannot be delivered without them, they cannot be switched off through the site itself.

  • 01 A security cookie that filters automated form submissions on the contact and editorial pages.
  • 02 A short-lived cookie that holds your reading position when a policy page is refreshed mid-scroll.
  • 03 A preference cookie remembering whether you have already answered the consent prompt.

Analytics cookies

Where enabled

Analytics cookies, where enabled, help us understand which pages are read and how visitors move between them. They collect aggregated information, such as which guides are opened most, how long a page is in view, and which internal link brought a reader to the next article. The reports we look at are grouped, and they are not used to identify individual visitors.

If you clear your browser data, the analytics cookie is removed along with everything else. It will then be set again the next time you visit, unless your browser is configured to block it. We do not link analytics records to any name or email address held on file.

Out of scope

What we do not use cookies for

Advertising on this site

We do not use cookies to serve advertising on meridian-ledger.sg. There is no ad-serving script on the site and no third-party ad tag loaded with our pages.

Advertising profiles

We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles, and we do not hand any reader's page history to an ad network for targeting elsewhere.

Selling reader data

We do not sell data collected through cookies. The aggregated analytics we keep is used to decide what to write next and how the guides should be laid out.

Providers and their own policies

Third-party cookies

Where an analytics provider is used, that provider may set its own cookies subject to its own policy.

We do not control those cookies and recommend reviewing the provider's policy if you want detail on them. The provider decides how long its cookie persists, what it records, and how to remove it; our own pages only receive the aggregated report at the end of that process.

If we change analytics providers, this page will name the new provider before the change is live, so the description here stays accurate for the period when the cookie appears in your browser.

Set by
The analytics provider we have engaged, not by Meridian Ledger
Governed by
The provider's own cookie and privacy policy, which sits outside this site
Removal
Through your browser's cookie controls, or the provider's own opt-out

Your choices

Managing cookies

You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may affect how the site works: a form may fail to submit, or a preference may not persist between pages.

Browser help pages explain how to manage cookies for each major browser, usually under privacy or site-data settings. The steps differ slightly between desktop and mobile, but the setting itself is the same.

  1. 1

    Open your browser's cookie settings

    Every major browser exposes a privacy or site-data section where stored cookies are listed by site. From there you can review what is currently set for meridian-ledger.sg.

  2. 2

    Delete the cookies you do not want

    Removing a cookie ends the state it held; the site will treat your next visit as a fresh one. Deleting the analytics and preference cookies is safe, and the site keeps working.

  3. 3

    Choose whether to block new cookies

    Browsers allow blocking of third-party cookies entirely, which will also remove the analytics cookie but leave the essential ones intact where the browser permits a per-site exception.

  4. 4

    Tell us if something stops working

    If blocking a cookie leaves a page unusable, the editorial desk wants to know which page and which browser, so we can check whether the essential cookie is doing its job or a script depends on more than it should.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published on this page. Material changes are reflected in the wording itself rather than a separate notice, so the version you read here is always the one in force.

Questions about cookies can be sent to the editorial desk through the contact page. We answer on weekdays and can look up which cookie a specific page sets if you are unsure about what you are seeing.

Contact the editorial desk Read the privacy policy

Before you write

Tell us the page you were on, the browser you use, and what you expected to be remembered. That is usually enough to trace which cookie was involved and whether blocking it should have changed anything.

Editorial desk

Email
[email protected]
Phone
+65 6857 0742
Hours
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Address
8 Marina View, #28-01 Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960