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Videos from ACCU 2023 have been posted.

Videos of sessions from the ACCU 2023 Conference have been posted to YouTube.

Videos can be found on the ACCU YouTube channel.

Links to the videos can be found on the ACCU website under the Videos menu drop-down; the ACCU Conference Videos page.

August's Overload Journal has been published.

The August 2023 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 176 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.

Ongoing Site Changes

As you have no doubt already seen, there is a new feature on ACCU's website - a privacy pop-up with options to accept non-essential cookies containing personal data and the sharing of your IP address.

The pop-up is required by the EU's GDPR, which mandates that web site users have the ability to affirmatively opt-in to process their personal data.

A new requirement, as found by a German court (LG München I, Endurteil v. 20.01.2022 – 3 O 17493/20) prohibits a website from sharing a user's IP address without the user's permission. Accepting the sharing of your IP address will restore the thumbnails on the video pages, and some book covers on older reviews.

ACCU's new Cookie Policy can be found here. ACCU's Privacy Policy can be found here. Both are accessible via links on the pop-up. You may change your permissions at any time through the button at the top of the Cookie Policy page.

A Special General Meeting has been called.

A Special General Meeting (SGM) has been called for the purpose of electing a Secretary. The meeting will be held on September 10, 2023. More details will be forthcoming and will be found on the website's AGM page (login required).

Site Changes

I have made several changes to the website in order to comply with new GDPR mandates.

The video pages no longer show thumbnails of the video; a generic image has been put in place temporarily. The same has happened with book covers in older reviews. I hope to be able to restore these images in the near future.

I also have had to change the default font for the website. The Roboto font has been replaced with either Helvetica, Arial, or your default san serif font, depending on your browser support. (Arial is most likely to be used.) If you see any problems with how a page has been rendered with your default san serif font, please let me know.