Understanding Cookie Usage: Your Privacy in Gaming at Gamriot

Authored by Emery Larsen

Welcome to the Gamriot games blog. At Gamriot, accessible from gamriot.com, we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and improve our service offerings. This Cookie Policy provides detailed insights into what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage your cookie settings.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device (computer, smartphone, tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make the websites work more efficiently and provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies can be categorized based on their origin, lifespan, and purpose.

Types of Cookies

Cookies can generally be classified into the following categories:

1. Essential Cookies
2. Performance Cookies
3. Functional Cookies
4. Targeting Cookies

Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. They enable you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas and ensuring content is delivered accurately. Without these cookies, certain functionalities may not be accessible.

- Purpose: They maintain session information and improve underwater mapping technology being used on our game simulations.
- User Control: These cookies cannot be disabled through our cookie management tools, as they are integral for basic functionalities.

Performance Cookies

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use our site. This data helps us understand how visitors interact with our website, providing insights into pages visited, time spent on the site, and any issues encountered (like error messages). By gathering this information, we can continually improve the performance of our website.

- Purpose: To analyze website traffic and usage patterns to enhance user experience.
- Cookies Used: Examples include cookies from Google Analytics that help track user activity on the site.
- User Control: Users can decline these cookies via our cookie consent management tool. However, disabling might limit our ability to enhance website performance.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies allow for a more personalized browsing experience by remembering your preferences and choices. This might include remembering your username, language preference, or any customization you make to the website.

- Purpose: To provide a greater user experience through personalization and optimizations tailored to you.
- Cookies Used: Cookies that hold your game settings or navigation preferences may fall into this category.
- User Control: You can manage functional cookies via our cookie preferences tool, enabling or disabling protocols based on your preferences.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Additionally, these cookies may be used to limit the number of times you see a particular advertisement and help us understand how users interact with our promotional content.

- Purpose: To track conversions and serve targeted ads based on your previous interactions with the Gamriot website.
- Cookies Used: Third-party cookies mainly from advertisers and affiliates.
- User Control: You can opt-out of these cookies via the cookie consent management options or through your browser settings.

How To Manage Cookies

Your internet browser settings allow you to manage your cookie preferences. Here’s a general guideline to do this:

1. Access Settings: Go to your browser's settings (usually found under Settings > Privacy/Permissions).
2. Manage Cookies: Look for the options related to cookies or site data.
3. Clear or Block Cookies: Here, you can see the cookies stored on your device, block certain cookies, or clear all of them.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may restrict your usage of certain features or functions on our site. For a more tailored experience, we recommend that you keep cookies enabled.

Further Information

If you have questions about how we use cookies, please contact us at [email protected].

By using our website, you consent to the use of cookies as described in this policy, aiming to enhance your experience and inform our ongoing content development.

Thank you for visiting Gamriot, and enjoy your time exploring our gaming content!