Stellar Academy Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy explains how Stellar Academy ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.stellaracademy.com ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Stellar Academy) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for our Website to operate for technical reasons; these are referred to as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. For example, we use cookies to:

Types of Cookies We Use

Here's a breakdown of the types of cookies you might encounter on the Stellar Academy website:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality Cookies

These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting Cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Specific Cookies Used

The following table details the specific cookies we use on our website, their purpose, and their duration:

Cookies Used on Stellar Academy Website
Cookie Name Purpose Provider Duration
_ga Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Google Analytics 2 years
_gid Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Google Analytics 24 hours
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. Google Analytics 1 minute
PHPSESSID Stores session data to maintain user state across page requests. Stellar Academy Session
cookie_consent Records user's consent to cookie usage. Stellar Academy 1 year

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the mechanisms provided in our Cookie Consent Manager, or by setting or amending your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

Most advertising networks also offer you a way to opt-out of targeted advertising. To find out more information, please visit: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

Do we use other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns.

In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Updates to this Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookies Policy indicates when it was last updated.

Where can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:

Stellar Academy
Privacy Department
123 Innovation Drive
Silicon Valley, CA 94043
Email: [email protected]

This Cookies Policy was last updated on November 8, 2024.

The data protection officer for Stellar Academy is Anya Sharma, and can be reached via [email protected].

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