Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Northstar Pulse uses cookies and similar technologies on northstarpulse.com. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes how we handle personal information more broadly.

01What cookies are

Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device to make the site work, to remember your choices, and to understand how the site is used. Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, and tags, do comparable things. We refer to all of them as "cookies" in this policy. Cookies can be "first-party", set by us, or "third-party", set by another provider whose service appears on our pages. They can also be "session" cookies, which end when you close your browser, or "persistent" cookies, which stay until they expire or you delete them.

02Why we use them

We use cookies to keep the Site secure and functional, to remember the consent choices you make in our cookie banner, and, only where you allow it, to measure how visitors use the Site and to support marketing. We do not use cookies to collect more information than we need, and we do not sell the information cookies collect.

03Categories we use

Our cookie banner lets you control the following categories:

• Strictly necessary. Required for the Site to work and to be secure, and to remember your consent choice. These are always active and cannot be switched off.
• Analytics. Help us understand how visitors find and use the Site so we can improve it. These are set only if you allow analytics.
• Marketing. Used to measure and personalize outreach and advertising. These are set only if you allow marketing.

04Cookies on this site

At the date above, the Site loads a minimal set of technologies. The main ones are listed below. If we add analytics or marketing tools in future, they will run only after you consent, and we will update this list.

Name	Category	Purpose	Duration
nsp_consent	Necessary	Stores your cookie consent choices so the banner does not reappear each visit.	12 months
Google Fonts	Necessary	Loads the site typefaces from Google's font network. Google may receive your IP address to serve the fonts.	No cookie stored on your device by us; governed by Google's policies.

Because the current setup is light, most visits will not create optional cookies unless you choose to enable analytics or marketing.

05Managing your consent

When you first visit, our banner lets you accept all cookies, reject everything except strictly necessary cookies, or open preferences to choose by category. You can change your choice at any time by selecting Cookie Settings in the footer of any page, which reopens the preferences panel. Your choice is stored in the first-party cookie named above. If you clear your cookies, the banner will appear again on your next visit.

06Browser controls

You can also manage cookies through your browser settings, including blocking or deleting cookies. Each browser is different; check your browser's help pages for instructions. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the Site from working properly.

07Do Not Track and global signals

Some browsers can send a "Do Not Track" or global privacy signal. There is no common industry standard for how these should be handled. Because we do not set analytics or marketing cookies without your consent, our approach already respects the choice not to be tracked.

08Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy as our technology or the law changes. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date above.

09How to contact us