Cookie Policy
Last updated: 10 May 2025 · Effective: 10 May 2025
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how Estrelva uses them on this website, and what choices you have regarding their use. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit. They allow the website to remember certain information about your visit — for example, whether you have previously acknowledged a notice, or how you navigated through pages. Cookies do not give a website access to your device or to any personal information beyond what you have chosen to share.
Similar technologies — such as local storage entries in your browser — work in a comparable way and are covered by this policy under the same term.
2. How Estrelva Uses Cookies
We use a small number of cookies for specific, limited purposes. We do not use cookies to serve advertising, to build user profiles, or to track your activity across other websites.
2.1 Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for the basic functioning of the site. They are set automatically and cannot be disabled without affecting the site's usability. On the Estrelva website, the essential category covers a single local storage entry that records whether you have acknowledged our cookie notice, so that the notice is not shown again on subsequent visits during the same browser session.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| cookieConsent | Local storage | Records acknowledgement of the cookie notice so it is not re-displayed | Persists until browser storage is cleared |
2.2 Analytics Cookies
Where you have given consent, we use Google Analytics to collect anonymous, aggregated information about how visitors use this website — for example, which pages are viewed most often and how visitors move through the site. This information helps us understand whether our content is useful and where we might make improvements. Analytics cookies do not identify you personally.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier | 2 years |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics | Maintains session state for Google Analytics 4 | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 1 minute |
2.3 Marketing Cookies
Where you have given consent, our website may set cookies associated with advertising measurement tools (Facebook Pixel, Microsoft Clarity / Bing UET) to help us understand whether our outreach is reaching the right audiences. These cookies do not result in personal advertising; they are used solely to measure the general reach of our educational programme announcements.
| Name / Pattern | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Meta (Facebook) | Used by Facebook to deliver and measure content reach | 90 days |
| _uetsid, _uetvid | Microsoft (Bing) | Used by Bing Ads for remarketing and audience measurement | Session / 13 months |
3. Third-Party Cookies
Where third-party services set cookies on our site (Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, Microsoft UET), those cookies are subject to the respective providers' own privacy policies. We encourage you to review:
- Google Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
- Meta Privacy Policy: facebook.com/privacy/policy
- Microsoft Privacy Statement: privacy.microsoft.com
4. Google Maps Embed
Our homepage includes an embedded Google Maps frame to help visitors locate our programme venue. When you view this map, Google may set its own cookies. These are set by Google, not by Estrelva, and are governed by Google's Privacy Policy. The map is served as a standard iframe embed and does not require a user account or login.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our site, a notice at the bottom of the page invites you to acknowledge our use of cookies. If you decline, analytics and marketing cookies will not be set; only the essential local storage entry described above will be written.
You can also manage cookies directly through your browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the usability of some websites. Guidance on managing cookies is available from your browser provider:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data
- Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Mozilla Firefox: Options → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
6. Do Not Track
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. Our website does not currently alter its behaviour in response to DNT signals, as there is no consistent standard for how they should be interpreted. We encourage you to use your browser's cookie management settings to control tracking where this is a concern.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example when we add or remove third-party services. Changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date above. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
8. Contact
For any questions about our use of cookies:
- Email: [email protected]
- Address: 6 Shenton Way, #18-08, OUE Downtown, Singapore 068809