Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how GamingPH.com (“Company”, “GamingPH”, Gaming.PH”, “GamingPH.com”, “We” or “Us”) use cookies and similar technologies on their websites, and what you can do to manage how cookies are used. We are committed to protecting the personal information we collect when you use our website and other services. We have the full audit of cookies on our site and we listed below the complete list of cookies, our site is collecting:
These are the complete list of third party and our site we’re currently using that store cookies to your computer, that’s include advertisements, social media, website analytics, and post that requires embed from other sites.
- Double Click (doubleclick.net)
- Facebook (facebook.com, www.facebook.com)
- GamingPH (gamingph.com, Jetpack Site Tracker from WordPress)
- Youtube (youtube.com)
- DailyMotion (dailymotion.com)
- KeyCDN (keycdn.com)
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device by the web server so that the website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website. The cookie will collect information relating to your use of our sites, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are registered user or subscriber it may also collect your name and email address, which may be transferred to data processors for registered user or subscriber verification purposes.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and helps us to tailor our websites to your interests. Information provided by cookies can help us to analyse your use of our sites and help us to provide you with a better user experience.
Cookies are either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’ cookies, depending on how long they are stored for.
In addition to cookies, GamingPH also use web beacons. A web beacon is a line of code which is used by a website or, less frequently, a third party ad server to measure a user’s activity, such as interaction with an advert or purchase of a product. A web beacon is often invisible because it is a only 1 x 1 pixel in size with no color. A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF and tracker GIF.
How does GamingPH use cookies?
We, together with our trusted third party site, use cookies for the following purposes:
Essential and Functional Cookies
We use the cookies to enable certain online functionality including:
- Identifying returning user, registrants and subscribers and to allow them to be presented with a personalized version of the site;
- eliminating the need for returning users to re-enter login details;
- commenting on our sites;
Analytical Performance Cookies
We use these cookies to measure user’s behaviour to better develop our websites. By using web analytics services provided by Google Analytics and Jetpack by Wordress we can analyse which pages are viewed and how long for and which links are followed, and we can use this information to provide more content which is of interest. We also use this analysis to report on our performance and to sell advertising.
Behavioural Advertising Cookies
We use these cookies:
- to manage online advertising and revenue share arrangements. Our approved, advertising partners, primarily Adsense, use cookies together with web beacons to provide advertising to you and to enable us to manage our relationship with those advertises by, for example, tracking how many unique users have seen a particular advertisement or followed a link in an advertisement.
- to measure general user behaviour across our site and third party sites to build a profile based on users browsing patterns so that we and third parties can target advertising to users that will be more relevant to user’s interests. This means that if, for example, users visit a page with a review about a particular game then the cookie will collect this information and we may target adverts for that game to those user and, if users visit a third party sites that are part of the same advertising network, those third parties may target adverts for that game to those users.
- to create profiles that trusted third parties can buy to allow them to better target their advertising with more relevant content.
Other Third Party Cookies
You may notice on some pages of our websites that cookies have been set that are not related to GamingPH. When you visit a page with a content embedded from, for example, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook or DailyMotion, these third party services providers may set their own cookies on your device. GamingPH does not control the use of these third party cookies and cannot access them due to the way that cookies work, as cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third party websites for more information about these cookies.
How can i manage or opt out of cookies?
Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their device a little intrusive, in particular when the information is stored and used by a third party. For example, you may object to being served advertising which is targeted to your interests based on your browsing history. If you would prefer to opt out of cookies, it is possible to control cookies by following the steps below, however you should be aware that you might lose some features and functionality of the website if you do so
Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive or Web browser. You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies. In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all cookies. Deleting or blocking cookies may reduce functionality of the site. To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser.
Opting out of Analytical Performance Cookies:
If you would like to opt out of Analytics cookies, please do from the provided link below:
Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Opting out of Behavioural Advertising Cookies:
If you would like to disable “third party” cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party’s website and getting them to generate a one-time “no thanks” cookies that will stop any further cookies being written to your marchine. Here are links to the main third party advertising platforms we use, each of which have instruction on how to do this:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Other information about Cookies
For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org and for more information about behavioural advertising in particular please visit www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.
General information about data protection may be found at:
Information Commissioner’s website: http://www.ico.gov.uk
Direct Marketing Association: http://www.dma.org.uk
Consumer advice from the DMA: http://www.dmaresponsibility.org