Effective date: October 1, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how mostar.co.id (“we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, understand how you use the site, and personalize content and advertising based on your interests.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, improve user experience, and provide information to the site owners.
2. Cookies we use
We use the following categories of cookies on blog.mostar.co.id:
Essential / Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the operation of our website and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are typically set in response to actions you take that relate to services, such as logging in, using secure areas, or filling forms.
Analytics & Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site. This helps us improve how our website works and make decisions about content and structure. Example services we may use include:
- Google Analytics (collects page views, session duration, pages per session, bounce rate)
- Other analytics platforms that help us measure site performance
Advertising & Marketing Cookies (Behavioral / Interest-based)
These cookies are used to deliver ads and content that are relevant to your interests and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They may be set by us or by third-party advertising partners. Example purposes:
- Show personalized ads based on your browsing behavior
- Measure campaign performance and conversions
- Remember if you have seen a specific ad
3. Data collected via cookies
Depending on the category of cookies, we may collect the following information:
- Technical information: device type, browser type/version, IP address (often anonymized), and operating system.
- Usage information: pages visited, time spent on pages, clicks, referrer URL, and navigation paths.
- Interest signals: pages or posts you interact with, categories you view often, and inferred topics of interest.
We do not use cookie data to directly identify you unless you voluntarily provide identifying information elsewhere on the site (for example signing up with your name and email).
4. Legal basis & why we use cookies
When required by law (for example under applicable data protection rules such as Indonesia’s PDP Law or the EU GDPR), we will obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies (analytics, marketing). We use cookies to:
- Improve and secure the website
- Understand user behavior and interests
- Provide personalized content and relevant advertising
- Measure and optimize marketing and content performance
5. Managing & disabling cookies
You can control cookie preferences in multiple ways:
- Cookie banner / preferences: Use the Manage Preferences option in our cookie banner to enable or disable specific categories (Analytics, Marketing).
- Browser settings: Most browsers let you block or delete cookies via their settings. See instructions for popular browsers:
Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the website and your experience.
6. Third-party cookies
Some cookies are set by third-party services that we use to operate and improve the site (for example analytics providers, advertising networks, and social platforms). These third parties have their own cookie and privacy policies. We recommend reviewing their policies if you want more information about their data processing practices.
7. Retention
Cookie retention periods vary depending on their purpose. Some cookies are session-based and deleted when you close the browser; others may remain for months or years to remember preferences or measure repeated interactions. Specific retention durations will be available in the cookie settings panel on our site.
8. Your rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights regarding the personal data we process, such as the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict processing. You may also withdraw consent at any time for non-essential cookies.
9. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and update the effective date. Please review this page periodically for changes.
10. Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies on mostar.co.id, contact us at: Email: contact@mostar.co.id.
