What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us remember your preferences, improve your experience, and analyze how our platform is used.

Similar technologies include web beacons, pixels, and local storage, which serve similar functions to cookies in enhancing your browsing experience and providing analytics insights.

Essential Platform Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our platform to function properly. They enable core features like user authentication, security, and basic functionality. These cookies cannot be disabled without affecting platform operation.

Essential cookies include session management, security tokens, and load balancing identifiers that ensure your gaming experience remains secure and stable across our platform.

Performance and Analytics Cookies

We use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with our platform, which games are popular, and where improvements can be made. This data helps us optimize the gaming experience and platform performance.

These cookies collect aggregated, anonymous information about page views, session duration, and user pathways through our platform. No personally identifiable information is collected through these cookies.

Personalization and Preference Cookies

Personalization cookies remember your preferences, such as language settings, game categories you enjoy, and display preferences. This allows us to customize your experience across visits.

These cookies help us provide relevant game recommendations, remember your parental control settings, and maintain your preferred interface configurations for a more personalized experience.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

We use limited advertising cookies to deliver context-matched ads and measure their effectiveness. These cookies help ensure ads are relevant to your interests while respecting our strict frequency caps.

Marketing cookies may track your interaction with promotional content to help us understand campaign effectiveness and improve our advertising approach while maintaining our ad-light philosophy.

Third-Party Service Cookies

Some cookies are set by third-party services we use, such as payment processors, analytics providers, and content delivery networks. These services have their own cookie policies and privacy practices.

We carefully select third-party partners who align with our privacy values and require them to maintain appropriate data protection standards when processing information on our behalf.

Gaming Progress and State Cookies

Gaming-related cookies store your progress, achievements, and game state information to provide seamless cross-platform experiences. These cookies ensure your progress is maintained across devices and sessions.

Game state cookies include save data synchronization, achievement tracking, and preference settings that enhance your gaming experience and provide continuity across platform access points.

Cookie Duration and Expiration

Session cookies are temporary and deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specified period or until manually deleted, helping maintain your preferences across visits.

We regularly review cookie expiration periods to ensure they align with their intended purpose. Most preference cookies expire after one year, while security cookies have shorter lifespans.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can control cookie settings through your browser preferences or our cookie consent banner. Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or receive notifications about cookies.

Our cookie preference center allows you to customize which types of cookies you accept while maintaining essential functionality. Changes to cookie preferences take effect immediately upon saving.

Mobile App and PWA Considerations

Our Progressive Web App (PWA) uses similar technologies to cookies for storing preferences and maintaining functionality. These include local storage, session storage, and application cache.

Mobile app versions may use device-specific storage mechanisms that serve similar functions to web cookies. You can manage these through your device's app settings and privacy controls.

Impact of Disabling Cookies

Disabling certain cookies may affect platform functionality, including login capabilities, game progress synchronization, and personalized recommendations. Essential cookies cannot be disabled without impacting core features.

We strive to maintain basic functionality even with restricted cookie settings, but some features may be limited or unavailable depending on your cookie preferences.

Updates to Cookie Practices

We may update our cookie practices to improve functionality, comply with regulations, or enhance user experience. Significant changes will be communicated through our platform and updated consent mechanisms.

Regular reviews of our cookie usage ensure we maintain minimal, purposeful cookie deployment that aligns with our commitment to user privacy and platform efficiency.