Cookie Policy

Star Rescue fully respects your rights to privacy and are committed to strictly adhere to General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) as well as the provisions of the DataProtection Act 2018.

Cookie and Data Processing

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website and process personal data about you, such as your IP address. We also share this data with a strictly limted set of third parties.

Data processing may be done with your consent or on the basis of a legitimate interest, which you can object to. You have the right to consent to essential services only and to modify or revoke your consent at a later time in the privacy policy. Below you will find an overview of all services used by this website. You can view detailed information about each service and agree to them individually or exercise your right to object.


What are cookies ?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.


How do we use cookies ?


As with most other online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes.

First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use ?


Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.


Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.


Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.


Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Marketing: Our website does not display advertisements or embed any third party advertising.

How can I control the cookie preferences ?


Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Change Privacy Settings” link at the bottom in the footer section of our website This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.

Cookies in Use

Essential: Cloudflare

Purpose: Cloudflare protects websites from malicious traffic and stores parts of the website in the cache for faster delivery. Cloudflare can also deliver a cached version of the website if the server of the website is unavailable. The cookies are used to uniquely identify the user and classify him or her as a potential attacker and to determine the fastest available server.

Use on legal basis of: Legitimate interest

Provider: Cloudflare Inc.

Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Type: HTTP Cookie

Host: starrescue.ie

Duration: up to 1 Day

Technical cookie definition: _cflb

Technical cookie definition: _cf_bm

Technical cookie definition: cf_ob_info

Technical cookie definition: cf_use_ob

Technical cookie definition: __cfwaitingroom

Essential: Real Cookie Banner

Purpose: Real Cookie Banner asks website visitors for consent to set cookies and process personal data. For this purpose, a UUID (pseudonymous identification of the user) is assigned to each website visitor, which is valid until the cookie expires to store the consent. Cookies are used to test whether cookies can be set, to store reference to documented consent, to store which services from which service groups the visitor has consented to, and, if consent is obtained under the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), to store consent in TCF partners, purposes, special purposes, features and special features.

As part of the obligation to disclose according to GDPR, the collected consent is fully documented. This includes, in addition to the services and service groups to which the visitor has consented, and if consent is obtained according to the TCF standard, to which TCF partners, purposes and features the visitor has consented, all cookie banner settings at the time of consent as well as the technical circumstances (e.g. size of the displayed area at the time of consent) and the user interactions (e.g. clicking on buttons) that led to consent. Consent is collected once per language.

Use on legal basis of: Compliance with a legal obligation

Type: HTTP Cookie

Provider: Star Rescue

Host: starrescue.ie

Duration: 365 day(s)

Privacy Policy: https://www.starrescue.ie/privacy

Technical cookie definition: real_cookie_banner*

Technical cookie definition: real_cookie_banner*-tcf

Technical cookie definition: real_cookie_banner-test

Functional: Google Fonts

Purpose: Google Fonts is a service that downloads fonts that are not installed on the client device of the user and embeds them into the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.

Use on legal basis of: Consent

Provider: Google Ireland Limited

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Functional: Adobe Fonts (Typekit)

Purpose: Adobe Fonts (Typekit) is a service that downloads fonts that are not installed on the client device of the user and embeds them into the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.

Use on legal basis of: Consent

Provider: Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited (Adobe Ireland)

Privacy Policy: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html


Functional: Emojis

Purpose: WordPress Emoji is an emoji set that is loaded from wordpress.org. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.

Use on legal basis of: Consent

Provider: WordPress.org

Privacy Policy: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/

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