Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that the site can recognise the same browser on a later page or a later visit. Some things are stored the same way but under a different mechanism — local storage — which never travels to a server at all. Both are covered by this page, because from where you sit the difference is invisible and the question is the same one: what is being kept, by whom, and for how long.

This site is a catalogue. There is no account to log in to, no basket, no comments and no newsletter, so the list below is short and stays short.

These are needed for the site to work or to remember a decision you made. They are set without asking, because asking to store your answer to the cookie question before you have answered it makes no sense — and because a signed-in member of staff has already asked for the page that needs it.

We would like to know which games people look at and which pages they arrive on, so we know what is worth making more of. That is measured with Google Analytics 4, and it is entirely optional: until you press Accept on the cookie banner, the Google script is not loaded, no request goes to Google, and none of the cookies below exist. Declining is one click, is remembered, and clears anything an earlier visit may have left behind.

What is recorded is the page you are on, the page you came from, a rough location worked out from your IP address, and — on a game page — a press of a store button, so we can tell which shop links are worth keeping. Google derives the location and discards the address rather than storing it in the reports, and the tag is set toanonymize_ip on top of that. The result is counts, not profiles of individual people.

Where a game has a trailer, the page shows it as a still image with a play button rather than as a player. The still is YouTube’s own thumbnail, so that one image is fetched from Google’s image host and Google can see that a browser at your address asked for it — but it is a single picture, it sets no cookie, and none of the player’s scripts run.

When you do press play, the video is served through youtube-nocookie.com, Google’s privacy-preserving player, which sets no cookie for advertising purposes. It may still store what it needs to play the video and remember your volume, under its own domain and its own terms. What YouTube does there is governed by Google’s privacy policy, not by this page.

Your answer is not final. Reopen the banner and choose again — from here, or from Cookie settings in the footer of every page. Declining after having accepted removes the analytics cookies already in your browser, and reloads the page — the reload is the part that actually stops a script the browser has already run.

Cookie settings

Every browser can list, block and delete cookies for a single site or for all of them, usually under Settings → Privacy. Blocking everything is a fair choice and this site keeps working if you do: the catalogue, the game pages and the news do not depend on any cookie.

Google also publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics everywhere, not only here.

If we add or remove something that stores data in your browser, this page is updated along with it and the date at the top changes. Material changes reset the consent banner, so you are asked again rather than assumed to agree.

Questions about anything here, or about the data itself, go to info@klovako.com. How we handle personal data more generally is in the Privacy Policy.