Last reviewed 21 October 2026
Cookie Policy
This page explains how brainstream.digital uses cookies and similar technologies, what each type is for, and how you can control them from your own browser. The site operator is Brain Stream Australia, Suite 1, Shop 1, 7F Parkes Street, Harris Park, NSW 2150, Australia.
What this policy covers
Nine short sections, written in plain language, so you can find the part you need without reading the whole page.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store on your device. They are not programs and they cannot run on their own. Their only job is to carry a small piece of information between one page and the next, or between one visit and the next.
That memory is what lets a site behave sensibly. A cookie may remember that you have already dismissed a notice, that you chose a language, or that you are part-way through filling in a form. Without it, every page load would start from nothing and you would repeat the same actions over and over.
Cookies also have a lifespan. A session cookie disappears when you close the browser tab. A persistent cookie stays for a set period, which can be days, months or longer, and is used when a site genuinely needs to remember you later. You can see both kinds, and delete both kinds, from your browser settings at any time.
Similar technologies exist under other names, such as local storage and pixels. Where this policy says cookies, it means all of these small stored files, because they behave in much the same way and you control them from the same place.
The short version, before the detail
Most of what runs on this site is here to make pages load and forms send. Anything beyond that is limited to counting which pages get read, in totals rather than per person. There is no advertising network attached to this site.
The desk where these pages get built and re-checked
Types of cookies used
This site keeps its cookie use narrow. Each category below does one job, and the page says plainly what happens if you switch it off.
Necessary
Keeping the site working
These cookies hold a page together while you move through it. They carry form input from one step to the next and help the server recognise a genuine request. Switch them off and parts of the site stop behaving predictably.
Preferences
Remembering your choices
If you have dismissed a notice or picked a setting on the site, a preference cookie is what stops that choice being asked again on your next visit. Turning these off means the site treats each visit as a fresh one.
Measurement
Counting pages, not people
Where analytics are switched on, they record which pages were opened and how visitors moved between them. The results are read as totals. They are not used to follow a named person around.
Essential cookies
These are the cookies the site cannot run without. They are not used to advertise, and there is no on-page switch for them, because switching them off would break the thing you came to do.
Sending a form or an enquiry
session
A short-lived cookie accompanies a form submission so the server can tell one send apart from a repeated one. It clears when you close the browser.
Basic security and request checks
session
These help the site tell a real visitor apart from an automated flood of requests, and they keep a page's state consistent while you read it.
Remembering a cookie choice
up to 12 months
Once you answer the notice on this site, one cookie stores that answer so the notice does not reappear on every page you open.
You can still block any of these in your browser, and the browser will obey you. Be aware that blocking all cookies on this site may stop a form from sending correctly, and there is no way for us to fix that from our side.
Analytics and measurement
Where analytics are in use, they answer a small set of practical questions: which pages people actually open, where they arrive from, and where they leave. That is enough to decide which guides deserve rewriting and which pages are being reached at all.
We read the results as totals and trends. The reports do not identify you, and they are not combined with anything else to build an advertising profile of an individual visitor. No advertising or remarketing network is attached to this site.
If measurement is ever switched off, the site keeps working exactly as it does now. You lose nothing as a visitor, and you can block these cookies yourself without affecting the pages you came to read.
Third-party cookies
Some parts of a page may be supplied by another service, and that service can set its own cookies while the page loads. Typical examples are an embedded video player, a font or script host, or a form handler that sits behind our own site.
Those cookies are controlled by the company that set them, not by Brain Stream Australia. We cannot read them, change them, or delete them for you, and they are covered by that provider's own privacy and cookie policies rather than this page.
If you want to know exactly what a third party stores, the practical route is your browser's storage or site-data view. It lists every domain that has left something on your device, which is usually more reliable than any list we could publish here, because providers change their cookies without telling us.
Blocking third-party cookies wholesale is a common browser setting and a reasonable choice. It may stop an embedded player or an outside tool from loading, while the rest of the page continues to work.
Managing cookies in your browser
Every mainstream browser lets you see what is stored, remove it, and decide what it will accept in future. The controls usually live in the settings area under privacy, site data, or content settings, and the browser's own help pages walk through them step by step.
See what is stored
Open your browser settings and look for cookies or site data. You will get a list of the sites that have left something behind, with the option to open and inspect any entry. This is also where you spot a domain you do not recognise.
Clear what you do not want
You can delete one entry, everything from one site, or the lot. Clearing cookies signs you out of sites you were logged into and resets any preferences they held, so expect a few settings to be asked again on your next visit.
Block or allow by site
Most browsers let you allow cookies for sites you trust and block them everywhere else, and many offer a separate switch for third-party cookies. That middle setting is often the practical choice: forms keep working, and outside trackers get less room.
One caution worth repeating: blocking all cookies on this site can stop a form from sending, because the request loses the short-lived cookie that identifies it. If something stops working after you change your settings, allowing cookies for brainstream.digital usually restores it.
Changes to this policy
If the way this site uses cookies changes, this page is updated and the review date at the top of the page moves with it. There is no separate mailing list for policy changes, so the version published here is always the current one.
Older versions are not kept online. If you need to know what applied on a particular date, get in touch and we can tell you when the page last changed and what was added or removed.
Related documents that sit alongside this one: the Privacy Policy covers personal information generally, and the Terms of Service set out the conditions for using the site.
Questions about cookies
If you want to know what a specific cookie on this site does, write to us and say which page you saw it on. We will tell you what it is for and how to remove it.
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +61 2 8015 6419
- Post
- Brain Stream Australia, Suite 1, Shop 1, 7F Parkes Street, Harris Park, NSW 2150, Australia
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM