WHAT ARE COOKIES? Cookies are small pieces of data (text files) that are sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device used to browse our Sites. Cookies can be set by us on our own Sites (which are called “first-party cookies”) or they can also be set by third parties other than Kongregate (which are called “third-party cookies”). Cookies allow us to identify and authenticate visitors, track aggregate behavior, and enable important site features. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics) to be provided on or through the Sites. The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your device both when you visit the website in question and also when you visit certain other websites.
There are two types of cookies – more permanent “persistent” cookies and temporary “session” cookies. We use both types of cookies.
Maintain your login information and remain available when you return to the Sites and are stored as a file on your computer or mobile device for a longer period of time.
Help us recognize you when you return to our Sites to use our services.
Allow you access to stored information.
Allow us to recommend other games or online content that suit your preferences.
Ensure that you do not get asked to fill in the survey form repeatedly.
Session cookies are used in a number of way, including, to maintain your gaming state as you browse through the Site and are temporarily placed on your computer when you visit our Sites, but are erased when you shut down the page. We may use session cookies to allow you to move between pages on our Site without having to re-enter information.
To determine which are the most popular parts of our Sites.
To monitor the use of our services and our Sites (frequency and time).
To determine how frequently you and other users visit our Sites and purchases.
To carry out surveys so that your interaction with our Sites and us can improve.
Authenticate and identify you as being logged in when they visit our Sites so we can provide our Services.
Help us to enforce our User Agreement and maintain the security of our services.
Without these cookies, we would not be able to recognize you and you would not be able to access our Services.
Remember which information you’ve already entered so you do not have to provide them again, e.g., when signing-up to our services.
Remember Site preferences and customize Site content.
Collect information (e.g., popular pages, viewing patterns, click-throughs) about our visitors' usage of our Services to conduct market research and carry out web analytics.
Measure the effectiveness of our advertising and provide feedback to affiliates when one of our user also visits their sites.
Help us improve our Sites and Services and measure errors.
If you choose to delete these cookies you will have limited functionality of our Services. Some of our performance and functionality cookies are managed for us by third parties.
Store game preferences so we can present the game experience you want.
Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with Kongregate’s services or online content.
Web Beacons, Pixel Tags and Clear Gifs. We automatically collect aggregate anonymous information through web beacons, pixel tags and clear gifs, which are terms for similar technology. These small strings of (software) code track events such as when a user visits a page or opens an email and allow advertising networks to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for us and for advertisers. These web beacons, pixel tags and clear gifs help measure the effectiveness of our email campaigns, deliver more relevant content, and manage advertising for Kongregate’s games. They also provide additional functionality to the Platform and help us analyze usage of our Sites more accurately. In many instances, beacons, pixel tags, and clear gifs work in conjunction with cookies to function properly, so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Targeted Advertising Cookies. Kongregate works with third-party publishers and advertising networks to deliver interest-based ads to users that have visited Kongregate Platforms, played Kongregate’s Apps or otherwise accessed Kongregate’s Services. This practice is often referred to as “online behavioral advertising” or “targeted advertising.” Our authorized advertising partners use software that recognizes pixels and cookies (identifiers) that are placed on the browsers of users. These cookies use information about your usage of our Sites and other Services, 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 Sites. When the ad software recognizes these identifiers, they deliver ads for Kongregate’s Services to Kongregate users who are on other websites. The number and names of third party cookies, pixels and other technologies change, these tables may be updated from time to time. These third party cookies are governed by the respective sites and are not controlled by us.
Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. If you would like more information about third party advertisers please click here.
identify your interests and behavior and target advertising to you based on those interests and behavior.
HOW DO YOU CONTROL COOKIES? Essential cookies are necessary for the functionality of our Sites. However, if you do not want to accept certain non-essential cookies, you can choose whether to accept cookies or not and what type of cookies you want to accept. If you want to know when your computer receives a cookie, you can set your browser to notify you about it. That way you have the option to accept or reject a cookie. Your computer can be set to reject all cookies. You can manage many companies’ cookies used for online advertising via the consumer choice tools created under self-regulation programs in many countries, such as the U.S.-based aboutads.info choices page or the EU-based Your Online Choices. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer or wish to be informed of their storage, you can prevent the installation of cookies by declining to accept cookies or managing cookies in your web browser. If you want to find out how to do this visit aboutcookies.org.
Please be aware that changes in your web browser, meaning that the function regarding cookies are disabled, will prevent parts of our Sites from functioning properly including logging-in and playback. It’s possible to opt out of having your browsing activity within sites recorded by analytics cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, while you can still use Kongregate services, your access to some functionality and areas of our services may be restricted.