What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
Why Does Pixel Canvas Studios Use Cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our online properties. We use cookies to:
- Enhance User Experience: Cookies help us remember your preferences and settings, such as language, font size, and theme, so you don't have to adjust them every time you visit our site.
- Analyze Website Traffic: We use cookies to gather data about how users interact with our website, including which pages are visited most often, how long users stay on each page, and the paths users take through the site. This information helps us improve thebility and content of our website.
- Personalize Content and Advertising: With your consent, we may use cookies to deliver personalized content and advertising based on your interests and browsing history. This helps us provide you with more relevant and engaging information about our games, artists, and services.
- Improve Website Performance: Cookies help us optimize the performance of our website by caching content, reducing server load, and improving page load times.
- Security: We use cookies to help secure our website and prevent fraud.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following categories of cookies on our website:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and enable you to navigate the site and use its features. Without these cookies, some services on our website, such as accessing secure areas, cannot be provided.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and whether users experience any errors. This information is used to improve the performance of our website. We use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission.
Here is a table outlining some of the specific cookies we may use:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Maintains user session across pages. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Performance | 2 years |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. | Performance | 24 hours |
| language_preference | Remembers the user's language preference. | Functionality | 1 year |
| ad_targeting | Tracks user interests for targeted advertising. | Targeting/Advertising | 3 months |
How to Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie consent tool provided on our website. This tool allows you to select which categories of cookies you want to accept or reject, with the exception of strictly necessary cookies.
You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
For example, you can typically find these settings in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. Here are links to the documentation of popular browsers:
You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on .
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Pixel Canvas StudiosAttn: Privacy Department
973 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Email: privacy@pixel-pio-neers.com
Phone: +1 415-430-9382
You can also visit our Contact Us page for other ways to get in touch.
Further Information
For more information about our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy .
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