Use of “Cookies”

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you are at our site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and as such, you’ll find them at most major websites. By showing how and when users use a site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. We use the information from cookies to provide services better tailored to our Residents’ needs. We also use cookies for user recognition – we track users that may have already given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested. User recognition also allows Realstar to use both first party and third party cookies where appropriate. We use ‘persistent cookies’ on our website which are cookies that stay in your web browser between visits. We use these to capture information about our visitors that helps us to improve the performance of our website and create a better experience.

Persistent Cookies

User Tracking Google Analytics These cookies are ‘analytical’ cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies. If you want to change your cookie preferences, you can make these through your browser settings or refuse the cookies when you enter the website. Please remember that our cookies are often used to give you certain functionality and without them you may not be able to use some of our website e.g. save properties from our listings.

You can also remove cookies that have already been set in your browser via your browser settings. If you are having trouble doing this or would like more information, the website http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ has information on how to do this across a range of browsers. The Microsoft cookies guide is also a great source of information about what cookies do http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.mspx. If you have any questions about how we use cookies please get in touch with us.