1. Use of cookies

Last update: 13 June 2018

1. Description and scope of data processing

In order to ensure that you receive the most relevant information and the best service when you visit the Website, information and data will be collected through the use of cookies. It helps us (and other authorized third parties) to provide you with a personalized experience when you visit our Website, and it also allows us to improve our Service and make sure that you will easily find what you want. We want you to understand our use of cookies. Hence, we explain the types of technologies we use, what they do and your choices regarding their use.

Cookies are small pieces of data (text files) that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device so that the website can recognize your device. There are two types of cookies, permanent and temporary (or “session”) cookies. Permanent cookies are stored as a file on your computer or mobile device for a longer period of time. Session cookies are temporarily placed on your computer when you visit our Website but are erased when you shut down the page. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can adjust the settings in your web browsers security preferences, see more information on this below.

We and our service providers may use the following categories of cookies:

1. a) Essential Cookies

These cookies are strictly necessary for us to provide our Services. For example, we may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our Site so we can provide our Services. Without these cookies we would not be able to recognise you and you would not be able to access our Services. They also help us to enforce our Terms and Conditions and maintain the security of our Services.

1. b) Performance and Functionality Cookies

These cookies are not strictly necessary but allow us to personalize your online experience of our Site. For example, they allow us to remember your preferences and mean that you do not need to re-enter information you have already provided e.g. when signing-up to our Ser-vices. We also use these cookies to collect information (e.g. popular pages, viewing patterns, click-throughs) about our visitors’ usage of our Services so that we can improve our Site and Services and conduct market research. If you choose to delete these cookies you will have limited functionality of our Services.

1. c) Advertising Cookies

These cookies use information about your usage of our Site and other websites, e.g. the pages you visit or your response to ads, to deliver ads that are more tailored to you, both on and off our Site. These types of ads are called “Interest-Based Advertising.” Many of these types of cookies belong to our service providers. For third party advertisers, see more below.

2. Legal basis for the data processing

The legal basis for personal data processing with the use of cookies is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

3. Purpose of data processing

We use the information from cookies to make our Website user-friendly and to enable us to provide you with personalized recommendations. We may also use several authorized third parties who put cookies on our Website to deliver services that they provide (third party cookies).

We may use session cookies to allow you to move between pages on our Website without having to re-enter information.

Permanent cookies are used in several ways, including:

• To allow you to move between pages on our Services without having to re-enter information.
• To help us recognize you when you return to our Website to use our Services.
• To allow you access to stored information.
• To allow us to recommend other games that suit your preferences.
• To ensure that you do not get asked to fill in survey forms repeatedly.

We (and our authorized third parties) may use non-personal information from both permanent cookies and session cookies for statistical purposes as follows:

• To determine which are the most popular parts of our Services.
• To monitor the use of our Services and our Website (frequency and time).
• To provide anonymous information to third parties so that more appropriate advertising can be directed at you.
• To track product success.
• To determine how frequently you and other users visit our Services and your interaction in our games.

We set and read our own cookies to provide the following functions (first-party cookies):

1. a) Remember Me Cookie

To provide you with ‘remember me’ functionality: We allow users to log into the game via this cookie. This can be disabled by deselecting “Remember Me” on manual login. If you select the “Remember Me” function, a permanent cookie will be installed in the device you are using, so that you do not need to log in again when browsing the Services. If you log out of a Service, the cookie will be deleted again.

1. b) Language Version Cookie

To ensure the right language version of the game is shown to you.

1. c) Portal Cookie

To allow us to optimize our landing pages and improve our marketing: we store details of the landing page you visited as well as an identifier in a cookie.

1. d) 3rd Party Snippet Cookie

We set a cookie to record your decision about 3rd party tracking snippets and cookies.

We also use several third-party cookies as part of our Services. These cookies are governed by the respective sites and are not controlled by us. You can switch off the installation of some of these cookies in your general browser settings, for others you will need to go to the respective websites and follow the instructions provided.

For instance, it is checked which language version you use to access our Services. If you became aware of our Services through one of our partners, we store the information on who the partner is.

Third party advertisers: We may use advertisers, third party ad networks, and other advertising companies to serve advertisements on our Services. Please be advised that such advertising companies may gather information about your visit to our Services or other sites to enable such advertising companies to market products or services to you, to monitor which ads have been served to your browser and which webpages you were viewing when such ads were delivered. If you would like more information about third party advertisers, please click here. Please note that the collection and use of information by third party advertisers is not covered by this privacy policy.

In the abovementioned purposes, our legitimate interest also consists in personal data processing according to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

4. Storage duration

The data are deleted as soon as they are no longer necessary to fulfil the purpose of their collection.

5. Possibility of objection and removal

If you do not want these cookies to be stored on your computer or wish to be informed of their storage, you can prevent the installation of cookies by a corresponding adjustment to your browser software by selecting the option “do not accept cookies” in your browser settings or declining the use of third party tracking on the first visit to the website. Your browser manufacturer’s instructions will give you more details on how this works. However, we would like to point out that by preventing cookies, you may find that you cannot use all the website’s functions to the full extent.

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