1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help a site work, remember your choices, and understand how it is used. Similar technologies, such as tags and local storage, work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy too.
2. How we use cookies
We use a consent-management tool, which shows you a choice about cookies when you first visit and remembers your answer. Analytics and advertising cookies are used according to your choice.
| Category | Purpose | Provider & examples | Typical lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consent record (necessary) | Remembers your cookie choices so we do not ask you on every visit. | Our consent-management provider (set on this site) | Up to about a year |
| Analytics | Helps us understand how many people visit, which pages they read and how they found us, so we can improve the site. | Google Analytics 4: _ga, _ga_* | Up to 2 years |
| Advertising & measurement | Measures whether a visit that began with one of our Google ads led to an action such as a click on a donate button, so we can improve our campaigns. | Google Ads: _gcl_* cookies | Up to 90 days |
When you click "Donate" you are taken to PayPal's website, which sets its own cookies under its own policy. We do not control them.
3. Your choices
- On this website: use the "Privacy settings" button that appears on our pages to review, change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time.
- In your browser: you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may mean your choices are not remembered.
- Google: you can manage ad personalization at adssettings.google.com and opt out of Google Analytics with the browser add-on Google provides.
4. More information
See our Privacy Policy for how we handle personal information. Questions: info@shiningstarcentrecorp.org.
5. Changes
We may update this policy as our website or the law changes. The "last updated" date above shows the current version.