The AbcPlay Company (hereinafter – the “Company” or its definition
without the quote marks, which definition may include such parts of
it, legal and natural, as shareholders, partners, affiliates,
directors, officers, subsidiaries, employees, agents, suppliers, third
party information providers, licensors, licensees, distributors,
and/or contractors), which operates the website www.abcplay.online
(hereinafter – the “Site” or “Website” or their definitions without
the quote marks), creates, distributes, and otherwise uses cookie
files (hereinafter, “cookies”) to maintain the correct and robust
operation of the website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small portions of
information, each of which is packed as a file, which is automatically
created by the website and downloaded to the device of a user during
the website’s usage. Cookies have various terms of life, from several
seconds to tens of years, and this term may or may not be rigidly
defined during the cookie’s creation.
The need for cookies is
because they help track the history of user actions on the site,
allowing the smooth, correct, and uninterrupted functioning of the
website in whole and its parts, such as webpages, web forms, buttons,
checkpoints, login, and others. It is stored on a hard drive of a
device and the website addresses the saved cookie files each time a
user visits the site and some of its pages. Different cookies are
responsible for different things, for instance, remembering the login
+ password of a user for this website on this device, previously
visited pages, advertising preferences, relevant offers of the
website’s services or products, user settings of the website, and
other things.
Cookies send information to the website’s engine
to make it operate, which allows reaching a high degree of
personification of the website’s operation for every particular user.
What’s important to understand is that cookie usage is safe and
cookies may not be used to deliver harm or viruses to the user’s
device. However, a user may not give his or her consent to the usage
of cookies, which they are asked for in the website’s interface upon
the first entrance to the website (and the informational message with
the request to accept or decline cookies will be shown to every
particular user for as long as he or she specifically presses the
button of agreeing or disagreeing).
If you would like to know
more about cookies, then you can visit the website
allaboutcookies.org.
What cookies the website uses
The website uses
specific categories of cookies, which are defined below.
1.
Strictly necessary cookies
They are necessary to make it
possible for a user to navigate the website, making it possible for a
website to remember a particular user through all its pages that a
user opens during one session of cookies’ life. The cookies usually
have rigidly defined names, such as _ga* or _utm*. These particular
cookies are related to web analytics, particularly, Google Analytics.
2. Functional cookies
These are necessary in order to
remember the personal choices of a user, such as fulfilling and
sending forms, selecting language, making the search, country
location, webpage orientation in a device, and so on. Once defined,
the settings are applied each time a user enters the website without
the need to redefine once-defined preferences. This eases the
website’s usage and navigation. Deleting this type of cookies makes it
impossible to navigate with previously set preferences during the next
visit.
3. Statistical cookies
The site gathers information
about the number of visitors on the website, their geolocations,
operating systems, screen resolutions, time of view of every page, the
number of pages viewed per 1 session, time of visits, possible errors
arising during the visit, and others. These stats are required by the
Company in order to analyze the site’s efficiency, structure it, and
improve it in the future.
4. Advertising cookies
The
website tends to improve the personification of advertising shown to
users on the webpages of the website so as to offer only those pieces
of advertising, which match the interests of users to the utmost
extent. Advertising cookies are able to estimate the effectiveness of
shown ads, improve their show, and limit the number of the same ads
shown to improve the satisfaction of each user. Such cookies may be
placed on the user device not only by the website itself but also by
third parties, which operate with their advertising on the website,
such as advertising networks, data exchanges, market analysts,
advertisers, and other marketing participants and providers.
Such cookies will collect your navigational, advertising, and
informational activity across the device and across all the devices
connected through the same account of Google, Apple, Samsung, or
Microsoft to form-up, tune-up, and improve the show of commercials in
their various forms: textual, banner, video, audio, image, and mixed.
Such cookies never identify you personally, only defining your
advertising preferences and search results. This can result in much
more potentially interesting adverts for every user not only on this
website but also across other websites a user visits.
5. Other
cookies
The nature of some cookies may not always be defined due
to the fact that our website connects to many third-party websites and
services during the process of normal functioning, each of which may
deliver its own types of cookies. If you think that some cookies
placed on your device are superfluous or suspicious, you can always
contact us.
Types of cookies
I. Session cookies. These are only
valid from the beginning to the end of the session on the website on a
particular user device. They help track the changes and settings,
which the user makes during the session. They are created with the
start of the session and automatically deleted once the session is
over, or when a browser is closed, or when a device is rebooted. Some
cookies of this kind may be defined by websites, including our
website, to live longer than the said above points in time, which can
span for weeks, months, or years.
II. Tracker cookies. These
cookies are always long-living, from months to tens of years. They
save the preferences of web users to help use them in the next visit
of a user to the website, which makes it possible for a user to
quicker receive the site’s interface personification without
re-setting. This may result in the absence of the need to log in again
or change the site’s language. After the expiry date, these cookies
are deleted automatically if a user does not visit the website that
has created them.
III. First-party cookies. These cookies are
created by the website and are only read by it. They help maintain the
user preferences on this particular site.
IV. Third-party
cookies. They are created by third-party websites and can be read by
such third-party sites when a user enters the website, to which
third-party websites have access in the issue of cookie reading. These
are typically analytical cookies and they are anonymous. Some
third-party cookies can be read by the first-party website.
V.
Flash cookies. These cookies are no longer created by websites but
still supported and read – they were created when Flash technology was
alive and active. It is not alive anymore since the start of 2021.
Commonly such cookies defined the videos and animation show to users,
as well as gaming and other entertainment or gambling content, which
was created using the Flash technology. It allowed remembering the
progress of a user, for instance, a gaming level, actual balance, and
other variables, if any.
Enabling and disabling cookies
Every user of our
website and other websites can enable or disable cookies on particular
websites or in general during web browsing. When doing so on some
sites, a user accepts or declines the usage of cookies by opting for
one of two buttons of the informational message appearing to every
visitor of the website who did not do that yet.
When doing the
second (managing cookies of the Internet in general), a user has to go
to the web browser settings and change them, which will affect the
websites’ browsing process in its entirety, overriding access rights
of all websites about the cookies’ usage (including those already
visited if they are subject to overriding after the changes were done
that shall override them).
If a user disallows cookies from
sending to the hard drive of the device, the correct functioning of
the website is not guaranteed and in many cases, it will stop
functioning well.
A user can delete all previously received
cookies or some parts of them by cleaning the cookies’ cache in the
web browser. In this case, after re-visiting the website, all
adjustments, settings, and fulfillment of the login procedure will
have to be made again.
If you have any further questions
regarding cookies, please
contact us