This is the Cookie Policy for Blockstars Technology, accessible from blockstars.com.au
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case, they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
| Cookie key | Domain | Path | Cookie type | Expiration | Description |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | /recaptcha | Third-party | 6 months | Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
| _gid | .blockstars.com.au | / | Third-party | 1 day | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| _ga | .blockstars.com.au | / | Third-party | 2 years | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _ga_QTMP6BLX06 | .blockstars.com.au | / | Third-party | 2 years | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _fbp | .blockstars.com.au | / | Third-party | 3 months | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | / | Third-party | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_202977308_1 | .blockstars.com.au | / | Third-party | 1 minute | This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate). |
| YSC | .youtube.com | / | Third-party | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | |
| _wpfuuid | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 10 years 11 months | |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | 1 year |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | .blockstars.com.au | / | First-party | 1 year | 1 year |
