Necessary local data: your analytics preference and last international locale are stored in this browser. The locale is kept for up to 90 days only to show a return suggestion on the Korean home page; it never triggers an automatic redirect.
Website analytics may collect the page URL and title, browser and device information, interaction events, cookie or client identifiers, and an approximate region inferred from network information. Website analytics and cookies may be personal information. This notice covers direct collection and the indirect-collection transparency required by IPP 3A from 1 May 2026.
We use these data to understand reliability and improve page flows. These pages do not provide accounts, comments, ratings, photo uploads, or precise browser geolocation, and stopping analytics does not change forecasts or access information.
Analytics choice and withdrawal
Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity are enabled by default on these pages. You can stop analytics at any time from Privacy settings in the footer. A detected Global Privacy Control signal also disables analytics.
Stopping analytics removes the tracking scripts, attempts to clear related first-party cookies, stores your preference, and reloads the page. Data already collected remains subject to the retention periods below and applicable deletion rights.
Processors and overseas handling
Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity process optional analytics. Cloudflare delivers the site and may process security and network logs. These providers may process data outside New Zealand under contractual and legal safeguards assessed for Privacy Principle 12.
Open-Meteo, CAMS Global, MetService, NEMA, DOC, and road or destination authorities supply build-time forecast or access information. StarsWithMe does not send a visitor analytics identifier to them to serve a forecast page.
StarsWithMe does not sell personal information or use these pages for cross-site advertising profiles.
Retention
Your analytics preference remains in browser storage until you change it or clear site data. The last international locale expires after 90 days and is removed when you dismiss its return suggestion or clear site data.
User- and event-level Google Analytics data is retained for no more than 14 months under the StarsWithMe retention policy. Provider aggregate reports may not use the same user-level retention control.
Microsoft currently retains ordinary session recordings for 30 days and click or heatmap data, including labeled or favorited sessions, for up to 13 months. Security logs are retained only as long as reasonably needed for abuse prevention and legal obligations.
Your rights
You may ask what personal information we hold, request access or correction, object to or stop analytics, change your analytics preference, or request deletion where applicable.
Email [email protected]. We may request limited information to verify the requester and will explain if a legal exception applies.