Online Poker Cookie Policy
1. What are cookies?
When you use our online services, cookies and other tracking technologies, can be used in different ways such as to provide you with the best experience within our websites. Cookies are used by all websites owned by our company. Our company uses cookies and other tracking technologies such as web beacons, pixels, tags and API. A cookie-file is a small text file that is placed in the browser of your computer or on your mobile device when you visit the websites. Cookies are then sent back to the originating websites on each subsequent visit, or to other websites that recognize the cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. In addition, there is a difference between session cookies and permanent cookies. Session cookies will only exist until you close your browser. Permanent cookies have a longer lifespan and are not automatically deleted once you close your browser. We strive to serve cookies or allow the serving of cookies with a maximum lifespan of 5 years. Only in exceptional circumstances, such as for security purposes and where absolutely necessary, will a cookie have a longer lifespan than that.
2. Use of cookie files Cookies are used for different purposes.
They allow you to be recognized as the same user across the pages of a websites or between websites. The information we collect using cookies may include but are not limited to: - your IP; - date and time when you used our Services; - details about your software and hardware; - details about the browser that you are using; - information about the operating system of the device that uses our Services, for instance, the latest versions of apps and language settings; - activity logs.
2.1. What cookie files do we use?
Required cookies: Cookies may be essential or non-essential whereby essential cookies are used only to carry out or facilitate transmission over a network or are strictly necessary to provide an online service which you requested. For these types of cookies, as per indicated in the relevant law, we do not need your consent to collect these cookies.
Technical cookies: We try to give our visitors an advanced, user-friendly websites that adapts automatically to the visitors needs and wishes. To achieve this, we use technical cookies to show you our websites, to make them function correctly, to create your user account, to sign you in and to manage your activity. These technical cookies are absolutely necessary for our websites to function properly.
Functional cookies: We also use functional cookies to remember your preferences and to help you use our websites efficiently and effectively (for example, these cookies remember your preferred currency, language, your searches and your previous settings). These functional cookies are not strictly necessary for the functioning of our websites or app, but they add functionality and enhance your gaming experience.
Analytical cookies: We use these cookies to gain insight into how our visitors use our websites. This means we can find out what works and what doesn't, optimize and improve our websites, and understand the effectiveness of advertisements and communications. The data we gather can include which web pages you have viewed, which referring/exit pages you have entered and exited from, which platform type you used, which emails you opened and acted upon, and date and time stamp information. It also means that we can use details about how you’ve interacted with the websites, such as the number of clicks you make on a given page, your mouse movements and scrolling activity, the search words you use and the text you enter into various fields. We make use of analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our websites after they have been shown an online advertisement (this may include advertisements on third-party websites). Analytics cookies may also be used to enable our business partners to learn if their customers make use of offers integrated into their websites. In addition to our own cookies, we use Google Analytics (including UserID function), segment.io and their analytical services to make our websites even more enjoyable and of high quality.
Marketing and advertising cookies: We may use these cookies to tailor the adverts that you are able to see. This helps us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We share some of the information that the cookies collect with third parties we use for advertising services. We use third-party cookies to collect player’s data such as IP addresses, user IDs, location, device, browser and frequency of visits.
The third-party aggregates this data and then provides us with anonymized information on the players who play on our websites, which we use in shaping our marketing campaigns and for analysis. Please note, this data is not accessible on an individual level by us, i.e. we can only access the anonymized aggregated data.
3. How to manage the use of cookies
In the settings for browsers such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome, you can set which cookies to accept and which to reject. Where you find these settings depends on which browser you use. Use the \'Info/Help\' function in your browser to locate the settings you need. If you choose not to accept certain technical and/or functional cookies, you may not be able to use some functions on our websites. We currently do not support \'Do Not Track\' browser settings.
In case a common standard has been developed which defines what exactly is meant by \'Do Not Track\' browser signals, we will review this Cookie Policy again. In order to control the collection of data for analytical purposes through Google Analytics, you may want to visit the following link: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (only for desktop).
The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet explorer 11, Safari, Firefox and Opera. To learn more about cookies and how to manage or delete them, simply visit info/help section of your browser.