Last updated: 16 June 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Zenith Star Media may use cookies and similar technologies on zenithstarmedia.com/. It should be read with our Privacy Policy, which explains how personal information is handled more broadly.
Individual websites in the Zenith Star Media portfolio may have different themes, plugins, analytics tools, advertising arrangements, or embedded services. Those sites should provide their own cookie information where their use differs from this website.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files stored on a browser or device when a website is visited. They can help a website function, remember choices, understand general usage, prevent misuse, or support services supplied by third parties.
Similar technologies can include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits, and identifiers associated with embedded content. This policy uses the term “cookies” to cover these technologies where appropriate.
2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. They commonly support security, navigation, forms, preferences, and consent management.
Third-party cookies are set through services supplied by another organisation, such as analytics, video hosting, mapping, advertising, or social media tools. Third parties control their own technologies and privacy practices.
3. Cookie Categories
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential functions such as security, page delivery, network management, form operation, and remembering consent choices. The website may not work correctly without them. Because they are necessary to provide the service requested, they may not require consent in some jurisdictions.
Preference and Functional Cookies
These cookies remember optional choices or provide enhanced features. Examples can include display preferences, language settings, or a saved selection. If these cookies are disabled, some convenience features may not work as expected.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help website operators understand general usage, such as which pages are visited, how visitors move through the site, and whether technical problems occur. Where required, analytics should remain inactive until consent is provided.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
Advertising or marketing cookies can be used to measure campaigns, limit repeated advertisements, or build an interest profile across websites. Zenith Star Media intends to keep tracking on the parent publisher site limited. If advertising or marketing technologies are introduced, they should be identified through the consent interface and used only with an appropriate legal basis.
Embedded Content Cookies
Videos, maps, social posts, forms, or other externally hosted features may set cookies or collect technical information. Interacting with embedded content can allow the external provider to process information under its own policies.
4. Cookies Used on This Website
The precise cookies in use can change when the WordPress theme, plugins, security tools, analytics configuration, embedded content, or consent platform changes. Where non-essential cookies are active, the website’s cookie banner or preference centre should provide the most current list available, including provider, purpose, and duration where supported.
At launch and during routine operation, we aim to minimise unnecessary tracking on the Zenith Star Media parent website. A change in technology or funding model may require this policy and the consent options to be updated.
5. Consent and Preference Management
Where consent is required, non-essential cookies should not be activated until you make a choice. You can accept, reject, or adjust categories through the cookie banner or preference control made available on the website.
You can usually revisit your choices through a privacy or cookie settings link. Withdrawing consent affects future use and does not make earlier lawful processing invalid.
6. Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies. Settings differ by browser and device. Blocking all cookies can affect sign-in functions, forms, preferences, security features, or other parts of a website.
Browser controls do not always prevent every form of local storage or tracking. You may also need to adjust privacy settings in your device, operating system, browser extensions, or the relevant third-party account.
7. Cookie Duration
Session cookies normally expire when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until they are deleted. Duration depends on the purpose, provider, configuration, and your browser settings.
We aim to avoid retaining cookie identifiers for longer than reasonably necessary for their stated purpose.
8. Changes to This Policy
This policy may be revised when cookies, plugins, service providers, consent tools, or legal requirements change. The last updated date will be amended following a meaningful review.
9. Contact
Questions about cookies, consent, or website tracking can be submitted through our Contact page. Include the page, device, browser, and cookie or provider name where possible.