Cookies on our pages and how they behave
Cookies are small text files a website places in a browser, and they carry settings, session states and measurement data between visits. We use them to keep an account logged in, to remember choices and to understand how our pages are used.
The lifetimes of those files are published rather than guessed, and each type answers for its own job. The sections here walk the lifetimes, the consent mechanism, the third-party files, the browser controls and the types themselves, so a reader can steer every one of them.
How long each type of ours stays
Our analytics cookies live up to 2 years, advertising and functional cookies up to 1 year, and essential cookies run either for a session or permanently, depending on their job. Those spans are the published frame; everything shorter rides inside it.
Consent and changing a choice later
A browser owner holds the control at all times: cookies can be accepted, blocked or cleared through the browser settings, and clearing them resets the choices on the next visit. Consent is not a one-way door, so a preference set today can be reversed tomorrow with the same settings panel. Blocking everything has a price worth knowing: the login cookie dies with the session, so our account asks for credentials again on every visit.
The third parties that set their own
Named services on our pages include Google Analytics and Facebook Ads, plus affiliate networks whose links carry their own tracking cookies. Picture-matching services for profiles and embedded content from other pages can place additional files, and each of them follows the lifetime rules of its own service.
Taking the control into the browser
- Open the browser settings and find the privacy or security section.
- Choose the cookie behaviour: allow all, block third-party files, or block everything.
- Clear existing cookies to reset what earlier visits left behind.
- Set exceptions for pages where a login state should survive, and let the browser update itself so the rules stay current.
What a cookie actually does
A cookie is a text file, smaller than a screenshot, that a page stores in the browser with an expiry date. On the next visit the browser hands it back, and the page reads the earlier state instead of asking again. First-party files come from the page a player opened; third-party files arrive from services embedded in it. Without them, every click would arrive as a stranger: no remembered login, no saved display settings, no continuity inside a session.
The types on our pages
- Essential cookies keep a session alive, and their job is the account state itself.
- Analytics cookies measure how our pages are used over their stored lifetime.
- Functional cookies remember choices such as screen settings between visits.
- Advertising cookies from third-party networks carry their campaign data.
- Short-lived work cookies sit on specific features: a comment form cookie that survives for a year, a login cookie for two days or two weeks with the Remember Me choice, a screen-settings cookie for a year and an editor cookie for a day.
Last updated: 11 November 2026