Startona's cookie policy
Last updated: 20 January 2024
This Cookie Policy explains how Startona AS ("Company", "we", "us", and "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, located at startona.com, or any other website, page, feature, or content we own or operate ("Websites"). 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 and similar technologies like pixels and local storage provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience on Startona. 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, Startona AS) 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. like 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 we use cookies
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these 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. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
How we use cookies
As also described in our privacy statement, we use cookies to enhance the user experience and make the most effective use of the service (“services”). A cookie is a piece of data that is sent from a site being visited, and which is saved locally on the user's browser. We use cookies for a variety of purposes including (i) strictly necessary cookies (see above), (ii) to enable helpful (though not essential) features of our services for example to preserve data related to your preferences and account settings (“functionality” cookies), as well as to (iii) evaluate and assemble statistics about your activity (“analytics” cookies).
By utilizing our websites, you agree to the placement of cookies in your browser.
You may at any time decline the use of cookies by changing the settings in your browser to not accept cookies. If you do, please note that parts of the service might not function correctly if you reject cookies.
We use the following cookies for our services
| Type of cookie/vendor | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Startona Speed Circuit | Startona Speed Circuit uses preference cookies (Local Storage) to "remember" in-game settings and games state persistence when you return to our Services. |
| Firebase authentication | We use Google Firebase as authentication and data storage provider |
| Google Analytics (Firebase analytics) | We use Google Analytics 4 (with IP anonymization) in order to collect and analyze information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. |
| Stripe | We use Stripe as payment service provider. Stripe uses Cookies to ensure that their Services function properly and to detect and prevent fraud. (Applicable only to users with active memberships) |
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at data@startona.com