EFFECTIVE DATE: JULY, 2017
LAST MODIFIED: DECEMBER, 2023
PREVIOUSLY MODIFIED: JULY, 2023
WEBSITE(S) COVERED: TRAFFICSTARS.COM
At TrafficStars Ltd (the “TrafficStars”) we respect your concerns about privacy and value the relationship that we have with you. Like many companies, we use technology on our website to collect information that helps us enhance your experience and our products and services. The cookies that we use allow our website to work and help us to understand what information is most useful to visitors.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your browser. We use cookies to help us improve your experience. Traffic Stars aims to maintain compliance with the laws governing the cookies and follow all required steps depicted by the current laws and any upcoming legislation. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 and the ePrivacy Directive 2002 state that all websites should let you know when they are using cookies and receive your consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies for which the user’s consent is not required.
What can you do if you don’t want cookies on your computer?
You can block cookies for our website by using the toggle buttons on this page.
You can block cookies for other websites by following third-party opt-out instructions. One way of doing this is to change your internet browser settings by following the instructions provided by your browser provider. These are normally located within the ‘Help’, ‘Tools’ or ‘Edit’ menus. You can also use a third party tool to manage cookies.
If you know the third party cookie that’s being used, you can follow their instructions to opt-out. For example, you can opt-out from Google Analytics cookies by visiting Google’s website. However, this may not delete the cookie from your browser altogether. It may just stop the cookie from being sent to your computer in the future.
Some web browsers let you delete cookies completely. If your browser allows it, you’ll be able to change your settings to delete cookies when the browser is closed.
If you do not accept the cookies you will still be able to browse our site but some parts of the site will not work properly. In this sense, we are not responsible for any possible inconvenience regarding the proper functioning of the website and the server.
How long do cookies stay on your device?
Cookies stay on your device for different periods of time:
Session cookies generally only last while you have your internet browser open. Once you close your browser they’re automatically deleted from your device.
Persistent cookies generally stay on your device after you close your internet browser unless your browser is set up to automatically delete them. They can be used by websites to remember your preferences when you open up your browser again.
Which cookies do we use and why?
Strictly Necessary Cookies: Traffic Stars uses strictly necessary cookies in order to perform its primary functions therefore they are essential for the user to browse TrafficStars platform and use its features.
Session Cookies: These cookies are temporary and expire once the user’s session on Traffic Stars’ platform ends. Session cookies allow TrafficStars to remember its users within our website.
Advertising cookies: These cookies collect user data for precise ads targeting by tracking your online activity aiming to deliver more relevant advertising or to eliminate repeated ads.
Persistent cookies: These cookies store the user’s consent to store cookies in their browser. Persistent cookies are all the cookies that remain on your hard drive until the user or its browser erases them.
Analytic Cookies: Alson known as “statistic cookies“ and/or “performance cookies”. These cookies collect and unify in statistical reports the traffic in every website, overall audience visits to certain webpages, tracking of clicks in a certain part of Traffic Stars website, how the user uses Traffic Stars website. All information collected is anonymized and therefore cannot be used to identify any user. Using Analytic cookies help us to improve our website’s functionality.
Depending on the company managing the cookies, the latter may be considered as:
- TrafficStars Cookies: those sent to the terminal equipment of the Member from a computer or domain managed by TrafficStars and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third parties Cookies: those sent to the user’s terminal equipment by a computer or domain not managed by TrafficStars, but rather a company that processes the data through cookies.
Our website uses both our own and third-party cookies.
The table below sets out the main cookies that we use on this site and what we use them for.
| CATEGORY | COOKIE NAME | INFORMATION | PURPOSE | OPT-OUT/EXPIRATION | STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session Cookies | access_token_id | Information on the session’s unique identifier | Keeping information of the user’s session | Expires by user session in a browser | YES |
| Session Cookies | api_token | Information on the API access token | Keeping information of the user’s session through API | Expires by user session in a browser | YES |
| Session Cookies | refresh_token | Information on the API refresh token | Is a special kind of token that can be used to obtain a renewed access token | Expires by user session in a browser | YES |
| Persistent Cookies | csrftpken | Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) token | Provides protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. | Expires in 1 year | YES |
| Persistent Cookies | cookieconsent_status | User cookies' consent | Stores the user's consent to store cookies in the browser | Expires in 1 year | YES |
| Advertising Cookies | AdRoll | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://adroll.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | AppNexus | Provider of behavioural targeting | Using cookies to build groups of users (segments) that are used to target advertising. | http://www.appnexus.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | BidSwitch | Programmatic advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://www.bidswitch.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | Social Network | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://facebook.com/ | NO | |
| Advertising Cookies | Index Exchange | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://www.indexexchange.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | Magnite | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://www.magnite.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | OpenX | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://openx.net/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | PubMatic | Programmatic advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://pubmatic.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | Taboola | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://www.taboola.com/ | NO |
| Advertising Cookies | TripleLift | Digital advertising platform | Collecting user data for precise ads targeting | https://triplelift.com/ | NO |
| Analytic Cookies | Statistics on number of visits to a webpage, duration of browsing, types of browsers, browsing statistics, redirections, search engines, referred sites, etc. | Collect and unify in statistic reports the traffic in every website, overall audience, visits to certain webpages, tracking of clicks in a certain part of the webpage, etc. | https://google.com/ | NO | |
| Analytic Cookies | Intercom | Online chat with people on our website | This tools can help us to assign, reply, and close conversations across our platform with clients. | https://www.intercom.com/ | NO |
| Analytic Cookies | Microsoft | Statistics on number of visits to a webpage, duration of browsing, types of browsers, browsing statistics, redirections, search engines, referred sites, etc. | Collect and unify in statistic reports the traffic in every website, overall audience, visits to certain webpages, tracking of clicks in a certain part of the webpage, etc. | https://bing.com/ | NO |
| Analytic Cookies | Yahoo | Statistics on number of visits to a webpage, duration of browsing, types of browsers, browsing statistics, redirections, search engines, referred sites, etc. | Collect and unify in statistic reports the traffic in every website, overall audience, visits to certain webpages, tracking of clicks in a certain part of the webpage, etc. | https://yahoo.com/ | NO |
| Analytic Cookies | Yandex | Statistics on number of visits to a webpage, duration of browsing, types of browsers, browsing statistics, redirections, search engines, referred sites, etc. | Collect and unify in statistic reports the traffic in every website, overall audience, visits to certain webpages, tracking of clicks in a certain part of the webpage, etc. | https://yandex.com/ | NO |
| Analytic Cookies | ce_adver_create_tracking | Tracking postback generation | Tracking S2S postback generation for Google Analytics | Expires in 1 year | No |
You can block Cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some Cookies.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, and your use of this website constitutes your consent to this website setting cookies on your computer or other device as per those browser settings.
You can always choose to disable your web browser’s ability to accept cookies. Please note that if you do elect to disable your web browser’s ability to accept cookies, you may not be able to access or take advantage of many features of the service and some parts of the website may not work properly. If this is the case a message is usually displayed allowing you to change your settings back.
You can control how cookies are set within your browser settings and follow the opt-out procedure described in this policy.
TrafficStars liability
TrafficStars is responsible of its own cookies and is committed to ensuring user´s rights on data protection are observed at all times. TrafficStars and Sellers (as described within our Terms & Conditions) may provide links to other Websites which are independent of us. We make no representations or warranties about any such websites and exclude all responsibility for the content or use of any such websites. These Websites may contain embedded content from, or links to, web sites operated by other companies, including websites operated by our third-party service providers.
As a result, when you visit a page with embedded content, or follows a link to a third-party site, you may be presented with Cookies from these website, governed by their own Cookies Policy. If you access other Websites through links on this site, please take a few minutes to review the Cookies Policy on each other Website you visit.
TrafficStars has no control or liability over these such Cookies, so you should check the relevant third party’s cookie policy for more information. To this regard, and by way of example, if the user opts out of the cookie policy of a 3rd party (i.e. user does not accept the cookie policy of the 3rd party) TrafficStars accepts no liability for any cookies that may be installed or placed by this 3rd party on user’s devices. The liability lies with the 3rd party to ensure that the cookie preferences of the user are respected, and on the user, to carefully check such cookies policies.
Further Information
For further information regarding cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
