Cookie & browser storage notice

Cookies are small values stored by your browser and sent to a website on later requests. Local storage keeps values in your browser for a website to read. Similar technologies can support sign-in, security, preferences and measurement. Information linked to an identifiable person is subject to POPIA, whatever technology is used.

This notice applies to Diretsa’s website and Media Control, operated by Aha Core (Pty) Ltd. See our privacy notice for the company’s contact details, purposes of processing and your rights.

Media Control uses browser storage for the authenticated session so invited partners can stay signed in and make authorised requests. A returning visitor’s locally stored session is checked to determine whether to show the public homepage or open their partner workspace.

Authentication storage contains session credentials and must not be shared. It remains until sign-out, expiry, removal by the browser or another authentication event. Hosting and security services may also use technologies necessary to serve and protect the site.

The sign-up and sign-in pages use Cloudflare Turnstile to check you’re not a bot; it may set a short-lived security cookie.

You can read the public legal and guide pages without signing in. Blocking essential session storage can prevent the private console from working.

Our ad server (serve.diretsa.com) shows ads on publishers’ websites and newsletters. It does not set a cookie that identifies readers across visits, and it anonymises IP addresses before storing anything. A campaign that limits how often one person sees an ad may need a short-lived cookie; we will not turn that on without a consent mechanism.

Web analytics. On our pages, Acalytica web analytics (operated by Aha Core (Pty) Ltd) records page visits, the page address and title, referring site, campaign tags, screen and window size, time zone, light or dark mode, clicks, scrolling and outbound link clicks, so we can see how the site is used. It sets no cookies. It keeps a random visitor ID and a session ID (a session ends after 30 minutes without activity) in your browser’s local storage until you clear it. It does not read what you type into forms. It runs on all our pages, including Media Control and the sign-in pages. To opt out, open any page with ?pixel_optout=true added to the address.

Ad measurement. We also load Google’s ad measurement tag (Google Ads, operated by Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC) so we can see whether our advertising brings people to Diretsa. It records the pages you view and whether an ad click was followed by an advertiser sign-up, and it may store or read cookies and similar identifiers in your browser for that purpose. In the regions that require a choice — the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Quebec — we ask first and load it only after you accept; elsewhere it loads by default. You can change your choice at any time with the button below. If you reject, Google receives no ad storage or ad events from your browser. Google’s own privacy statement is at business.safety.google/privacy.

Cookie settings

This notice is not consent to optional analytics, advertising cookies or cross-site tracking. Any optional technology introduced on Diretsa must be assessed for its actual purpose and POPIA basis, with an appropriate choice where consent is required. We do not ask you to accept all cookies simply to read this notice.

Use your browser’s privacy or site-data settings to inspect, block or remove cookies and local storage for diretsa.com. Settings vary by browser. Removing site data may sign you out and clear saved preferences, but does not delete account, campaign or financial records held by the service.

On a shared device, sign out when you finish and avoid sharing the browser profile used for your partner account. To request deletion of personal information held by Diretsa, use the process in the privacy notice.

For questions about browser storage or privacy, email support@diretsa.com. We may update this notice as the technology changes; the effective date above identifies this version.