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We use cookies to personalise content and advertisements, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

How do we use cookies?

We make use of cookies to help manage our site and for your visitor experience. These cookies may be used to collect analytics of ‘non-personal’ visitor activity outlines, manage personal preferences, provide relevant or timely information to you, or target advertisements.

Type of Cookies

Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies – these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

The specific type of cookies we use on our site are listed below (cookie declaration last updated on 17/05/2018 by Cookiebot).

Necessary

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expire
_cfduid	gaystarnews.com	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.	HTTP	1 year

Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expire
_ga	gaystarnews.com	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	HTTP	2 years	Opt Out
_gat	gaystarnews.com	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
_gid	gaystarnews.com	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
_pinterest_cm	pinterest.com	Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services.	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across the website. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

pcs/activeviewgooglesyndication.comUnclassified.PixelSessionOpt Outpixel.gifmoatads.comUnclassifiedPixelSessionOpt Outr/collectdoubleclick.netUnclassifiedPixelSessionOpt Outrsidrubiconproject.comRegisters anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network.HTTPSessionOpt Outtest_cookiedoubleclick.netUsed to check if user’s browser supports cookies.HTTPSessionOpt Outtrfacebook.comUnclassifiedPixelSessionOpt Out

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expire
_ab12#	gaystarnews.com	Pending	HTTP	2 years	Opt Out
_asc	gaystarnews.com	This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behaviour, which is sent to Alexa Analytics – Alexa Analytics is an Amazon company.	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
_auc	gaystarnews.com	This cookie is used to collect information on consumer behaviour, which is sent to Alexa Analytics – Alexa Analytics is an Amazon company.	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
_widgetsettings	twitter.com	Pending	HTTP	Persistent	Opt Out
audit	rubiconproject.com	Pending	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
_gads	gaystarnews.com	Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user.	HTTP	2 years	Opt Out
fr	facebook.com	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time binding from third-party advertisers.	HTTP	3 month	Opt Out
GoogleAdServingTest	gaystarnews.com	Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user.	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
GPS	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
IDE	doubleclick.net	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.	HTTP	2 years	Opt Out
impression.php/#	facebook.com	Used by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook login button.	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
khaos	rubiconproject.com	Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network.	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
local_storage_support_test	twitter.com	Pending	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
NID	google.com	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.	HTTP	6 months	Opt Out
pcs/activeview	googlesyndication.com	Pending	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
pcs/view	doubleclick.net	Pending	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
r/collect	doubleclick.net	This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
rsid	rubiconproject.com	Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, websites visited, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movements on websites that use the same ad network	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
sessionKey	accounts.google.com	Pending	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
test_cookie	doubleclick.net	Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
tr	facebook.com	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
trackedURL	accounts.google.com	Pending	HTML	Session	Opt Out
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
YSC	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
yt.innertube::nextID	youtube.com	Pending	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
yt.innertube::requests	youtube.com	Pending	HTML	Session	Opt Out
yt-remote-cast-installed	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Session	Opt Out
yt-remote-connected-devices	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
yt-remote-device-id	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
yt-remote-fast-check-period	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Session	Opt Out
yt-remote-session-app	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Session	Opt Out
yt-remote-session-name	youtube.com	Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video	HTML	Session	Opt Out

Unclassified

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Type	Expire
_widgetsettings	https	Unclassified	HTTP	Persistent	Opt Out
_asc	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
_auc	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
_smb_api_session	api.at.getsocial.io	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
address_bar_tracking	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	Persistent	Opt Out
atrk.gif	certify.alexametrics.com	Unclassified	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
ckid	yieldoptimizer.com	Unclassified	HTTP	2 Years	Opt Out
cktst	yieldoptimizer.com	Unclassified	HTTP	2 Years	Opt Out
gs_chn_id	api.at.getsocial.io	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
gs_trk_id	api.at.getsocial.io	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
gs_user_id	api.at.getsocial.io	Unclassified	HTTP	6 months	Opt Out
gsHideBar	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
gdpr[allowed_cookies]	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
gdpr[consent_types]	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTTP	1 year	Opt Out
local_storage_support_test	https	Unclassified	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
LSW_WEB	api.at.getsocial.io	Unclassified	HTTP	Session	Opt Out
ps/analytics	tag.yieldoptimizer.com	Unclassified	Pixel	Session	Opt Out
sessionKey	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTML	Persistent	Opt Out
trackedUrl	gaystarnews.com	Unclassified	HTML	Session	Opt Out

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