We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, provide essential functionalities, and gather analytics data on how our website is used. In this Cookies Policy, we'll explain what cookies are, why they're used, and the different types of cookies you may encounter while using our platform.
Cookies are small text files stored by your web browser (e.g., Google Chrome) on your device when you visit a website or application that uses cookies. These files contain information about your actions, preferences, and interaction with the site to ensure a more personalized experience upon subsequent visits.
We use cookies for several reasons:
These are crucial for the operation of our website. They enable essential features like login authentication, secure pages, or necessary services. Without these cookies, some parts of the platform might not function properly or at all.
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These are temporary and deleted by your browser when you close it. They're used for smooth transitions between pages and actions, ensuring the platform behaves as expected during your visit.
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These remain stored on your device until you manually clear them or they expire. They're used for longer-term functionalities and can be adjusted through browser settings.
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Used to enhance your experience by providing features such as saving login details, auto-completion of forms, and customizing the display.
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These collect anonymous data to improve our platform's performance, identify trends, and measure visitor engagement. They're usually provided by third-party analytics tools.
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Your user preferences regarding language settings are stored locally in your browser through cookies, ensuring that every visit is tailored to your choice.
Cookies facilitate the management of active sessions, enabling continuous access as long as you remain logged in. This also involves recognizing devices for secure logins and session recovery upon multiple visits or returns to our site.
Some security measures rely on cookies, such as token-based authentication systems, which temporarily store information necessary for ensuring the integrity of your account data and interaction with sensitive parts of our platform.
Our use of cookies often coincides with other local storage methods provided by browsers (like HTML5 storage or IndexedDB), enhancing the efficiency and convenience offered to users.
As a matter of course, our website integrates tools from third-party providers. These integrations may introduce cookies from their domains, which we can neither control nor delete once set on your browser. However, they typically serve purposes aligned with user preferences for better online experiences across websites and platforms.
Third-party services used:
Where permitted by the platform's settings, users have access to options that adjust how data is collected for communication purposes, aiming to personalize messages based on interests and browsing history.
How this information is stored:
Each major browser has its own settings to manage and block cookies. Users can choose whether to allow all sites to set cookies (including first-party vs third-party), clear them when finished browsing, enable specific privacy features like blocking trackers or advertisers' cookies, etc.
General guidelines on how users should adjust cookie controls:
If you wish to remove cookies from our site entirely (and all sites), browsers offer a "clear browsing data" feature which includes deleting saved cookies along with other cached elements.
Some common methods of clearing cookies include:
While users can expect minor disruptions to their experience, disabling all cookies will generally result in most basic functionalities still being operational but with fewer personal preferences accommodated.
Some impacts of enabling cookie consent and/or clearing existing cookies include:
To improve the performance and usability of our website across diverse browsers and user environments, we rely on data gathered through cookie-based analytics. This insight is instrumental in optimizing:
Optimisations resulting from aggregated analyses include:
All information collected for analysis purposes is anonymized to ensure the individual's identity remains protected while still enabling valuable insights into visitor behavior and technical issues with our site or applications.
How your personal data might be used within aggregated analytics:
Enhancements made based on user feedback, clickstream analysis, bounce rates, page speeds, etc. contribute directly to enhancing the quality and efficiency of our website for all users.
Some common improvements resulting from such analyses include:
Cookies play a crucial role in providing you with an effective online experience at Duck Duck Bingo. By understanding how they function, the information stored within them, and their purpose on our website, we aim to increase your confidence in navigating our site securely.
