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Gaijin Cookies Policy

This Cookies Policy explains how Gaijin Entertainment (“Gaijin”, also “we”, “us”) uses website cookies and similar technologies to operate our websites and online Gaijin Services, as well as to improve user experience with them. 

This Cookie Policy supplements our Privacy Policy, where you can get more information on how we process your personal data and secure your privacy.

Gaijin Entertainment means the following legal entities (depending on which Services you use or otherwise interact with Gaijin):

  • Gaijin Network Ltd, with its registered address at Ifigeneias street 63, Office 302, 2003 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus; 
  • Gaijin Distribution Kft., with its registered address at Hungária körút 162-166, 1146 Budapest, Hungary.

For some websites, our partners are also considered as data controllers.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and similar technologies like beacons, tags, scripts and other files are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites or some other online services work or perform more efficiently, as well as to make them better, more functional and suitable for users. Cookies are used to remember your previous activities, preferences, settings and other important data within our services. 

Cookies can be both temporary and persistent. Gaijin usually uses only temporary cookies. However, our partners may use persistent ones as well.

2. TYPES OF COOKIES

Cookies at our websites can be split into the following categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookie files are necessary for our websites to function correctly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They allow you to navigate through the websites, including getting response for your request for services available at the website, logging in and setting your privacy preferences. You can block strictly necessary cookies in your browser or set an alert to notify you about them. However this may disable some features and limit the functionality of our websites.

Performance Cookies. These cookies help us count and analyze visits to our websites. We use this information for constant analysis of the use of Gaijin websites for enhancing user experience with Gaijin Services and developing content more tailored for our audience. This data are aggregated, which means that it contains no information that may be related to your real personality (such as e-mail address), but can be used for unique identification of sessions and users’ devices.

Functional Cookies. These cookies enable our websites to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some of these services or even all of them may not function properly.

Advertising Cookies. These cookies may be set through our websites by our advertising partners who may use information to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites. They do not store personal information directly but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

To check all the cookies of each type used on our websites, please check the cookie settings at the website.

3. THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Some of our partners also use and collect cookies on our websites to integrate with our services. These cookies are set on our website as a result of embedding the code from our partner’s website. Such cookies are not created by us and used for the purposes and for the period established by our relevant partners at their sole discretion, but in any way within the category description to which they belong as specified above.

Gaijin does not have control over third-party cookies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these services to understand how they collect and use your information. You may find them here:

Third-parties

Privacy policies

Google

Facebook and Meta

Amazon AWS

Bing and Microsoft

Reddit

Yandex

VK

Anura

4. HOW TO CONTROL YOUR COOKIES

You are free to decide if you want Gaijin or our partners to use the cookies on your device. You can customize your cookie preferences at Gaijin websites at any time, by giving or revoking your consent for each type of cookies. This functionality is available on the cookie banner which appears when you initially enter a Gaijin website, or later in cookie settings. To access settings, please go to “Cookie-files” at the bottom of the website. 

Please note that disabling cookie files or revoking consent can limit the use of Gaijin websites functionality or make some functions unavailable.

Disabling some cookies in settings does not automatically delete those cookies files from your device as this is simply impossible from the technical side. If you want to delete those cookie files, you need to clear them up in your browser.

For some popular web browsers, you may find information on how to clear cookies here: 

 

5. HOW TO CONTACT US

If after reviewing this cookies Policy you still have any questions on our using cookies, feel free to contact us at privacy@gaijin.net.

Last updated: 18.04.2023