Cookies are little text files containing a string of characters that can be installed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identify your browser or device. What are cookies used for?
Cookies allow a site or services to recognize if your computer or device has visited that site or service before. Cookies can then be used to help understand how the site or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your browsing experience. Cookies can also assist guarantee marketing you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
There are generally four sorts of cookies: “Strictly Necessary,” “Performance,” “Functionality,” and “Targeting.” Games frequently uses all four categories of cookies on the Service. You can find out more about each cookie category below.
Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are crucial, as they enable you to move around the Service and use its features, such as accessing logged in or secure areas.
Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Service, for example, information connected to the unique username you have provided, so that less burden is imposed on our backend infrastructure. These cookies may also be used to allow us to know that you have signed in so that we can give you fresher material than a user who has never logged in. We also use cookies to track aggregate Service usage and experiment with new features and updates on the Service. The information collected is used to improve how the Service functions.
Functionality Cookies. These cookies allow us to remember how you’re logged in, if you made an alteration to an article on the Service while logged out, when you logged in or out, the state or history of Service tools you’ve used. These cookies also allow us to adapt the Service to provide enhanced features and content for you and to remember how you’ve configured the Service in other ways, such as configuring the toolbars we give in the right column of every page. The information these cookies acquire may be anonymous, and they are not used to track your browsing activities on other sites or services.
Targeting Cookies. Games, our advertising partners or other third party partners may use these types of cookies to deliver advertising that is relevant to your interests. These cookies can record that your device has visited a site or service, and may also be able to track your device’s browsing activities on other sites or services other than Games. This information may be shared with organizations outside Games, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks to deliver the advertising, and to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, or other business partners for the purpose of providing aggregate Service usage statistics and aggregate Service testing.
First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Games. These cookies are used to enable services on Games, such as checking in to the Service, and providing access to secured tools or pages as mentioned above.
Third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through our Service. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone providing a service for Games, for example to help us assess how our service is being used. Third-party cookies may also be stored on your device by our business partners so that they can use them to advertise products and services to you elsewhere on the Internet. Third-party cookies on Games include the following:
Google analytics - Google analytics uses cookies to help us understand how visitors to Games use our website. Google analytics does not receive information from Games connected to your user name, and your IP address is shortened by Google analytics. Data in Google analytics may only be displayed in aggregated fashion, and cannot be attributed to specific users. Learn more Google Analytics and privacy from policies.google.com>technologies>partner-sites. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking via tools.google.com>dlpage>gaoptout.
Google AdSense and DoubleClick - Google AdSense and DoubleClick utilize cookies to display advertising on various pages of the Games Service. These cookies are be used to modify the advertisements that you view to present ads that are relevant to you. Visitors in some places may see adverts that are based only on the content of the page, and that are not based upon any individualized information. Learn more about advertising cookies at policies.google.com>technologies>ads.
The amount of time a cookie will reside on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop surfing. Persistent cookies persist on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are erased.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may decide to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most efficient approach to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest visiting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which includes assistance for all modern browsers.
