This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies on our website to enhance your gaming experience and provide you with relevant content about PC games, news, and guides. This policy forms an integral part of our Privacy Policy and governs the use of cookies between your device and our website.
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy. If you do not agree with our use of cookies, please adjust your browser settings accordingly, though this may limit your ability to access certain features and content on our site.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer or mobile device when you visit them. These files contain information that allows the website to remember your preferences, track your activity, and provide a more personalized experience during your visits.
Cookies serve various purposes, including enabling essential website functionality, remembering your login credentials, tracking site usage for analytics purposes, storing your user preferences such as language settings, and delivering personalized content including gaming news and guide recommendations.
There are two main categories of cookies: first-party cookies, which are set directly by our website and only track your activity on our gaming platform, and third-party cookies, which are set by external services we use and may track your activity across multiple websites.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are fundamental to the operation of our website and enable core functionalities that are necessary for providing our gaming content and services. These cookies allow you to navigate our site, access secure areas, use search functionality, and interact with our gaming guides and news articles.
Without these cookies, services you have requested, such as creating an account, saving favorite games, or accessing premium content, cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes and are necessary for the basic functionality of our gaming platform.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, including which gaming articles are most popular, how users navigate through our guides, and which features are most frequently accessed. This information is aggregated and anonymous, helping us understand user behavior patterns and improve our content delivery.
These cookies allow us to monitor website performance, identify technical issues, track page load times, and analyze user engagement with our gaming content. The data collected helps us optimize our site structure, improve our gaming guides, and enhance the overall user experience for our community.
Functionality Cookies
Functionality cookies enable our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, personalized features. These cookies may remember your preferred language, region settings, gaming platform preferences, and other customization options you have selected.
These cookies allow us to provide you with a more personalized experience by remembering your preferences for gaming content, your preferred game categories, notification settings, and display preferences. The information collected by these cookies is typically anonymized and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.
Targeting and Advertising Cookies
Targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements and promotional content that is relevant to your gaming interests. These cookies track your browsing behavior to build a profile of your interests, allowing us to show you advertisements for games, gaming hardware, and related products that may interest you.
These cookies may be set by our advertising partners and can be used to build a profile of your interests across multiple gaming and technology websites. They help us display relevant gaming advertisements, limit the frequency of ad displays, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
Third-Party Services and Cookies
Our website utilizes various third-party services to enhance functionality and provide comprehensive gaming content. These services may include analytics providers, advertising networks, social media platforms, content delivery networks, and gaming-related APIs.
Third-party cookies are subject to the respective privacy policies of these external services. We carefully select our third-party partners and regularly review their privacy practices to ensure they align with our commitment to protecting user privacy.
Common Third-Party Services
We may use analytics services to understand user behavior, advertising networks to display relevant gaming advertisements, social media plugins to enable content sharing, content delivery networks to improve site performance, and gaming platforms' APIs to provide up-to-date information about games and gaming news.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have the right to control how cookies are used on your device. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies or alert you when websites attempt to place cookies on your device.
To manage cookies, you can access your browser's settings menu and navigate to the privacy or security section. Here, you can choose to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or receive notifications when cookies are being set.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may impact your experience on our gaming website. Some features, such as personalized game recommendations, saved preferences, and account functionality, may not work properly if essential cookies are blocked.
Mobile Devices and Cookie Management
If you access our gaming content through mobile devices, you can manage cookie preferences through your device's browser settings. Different mobile browsers may have varying methods for controlling cookies, so please refer to your specific browser's help documentation.
For mobile applications, if applicable, cookie-like technologies may be managed through the app settings or your device's general privacy settings.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, or legal requirements. Any significant changes will be communicated through our website, and we encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about our cookie practices.
The effective date of this policy and any updates will be clearly indicated at the top of this document.
Contact Information
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us through our website's contact page. We are committed to addressing any concerns you may have about our privacy practices and cookie usage.
For specific requests regarding cookie management or data protection, please provide detailed information about your inquiry to help us respond effectively and promptly.
This Cookie Policy is effective as of the date of publication and applies to all users of our gaming website. By continuing to use our services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this policy.