Cookies Policy

Cookies are small text files that end up on your device when you open a website. They do not carry anything harmful, they cannot reach other files on your device, and they do not run code. What they actually do is hold onto small bits of information – enough to make a site work the way it should, or to give the people behind it a rough sense of how it is being used. This page goes through how we use them and what you can do about it.

Why We Use Cookies

There is no realistic way to run a platform like this one without cookies. Some of them sit behind functions the platform genuinely depends on – staying logged in while you move between pages, keeping a session alive so nothing drops mid-use. Others are less essential but still do something useful, like holding onto your display preferences or giving us a broad picture of where people spend their time on the site. What we do not do is use cookies to follow what you get up to on other websites, put together any kind of advertising profile, or hand data off to third parties.

Types of Cookies We Use

Not every cookie works the same way, and knowing the difference is worth a moment.

Strictly necessary cookies are the ones the platform cannot function without. Pull them out and things start breaking – logging in stops working, moving between sections becomes a problem, transactions cannot go through. They run whenever the platform is in use and there is no way to switch them off without the session falling apart. They do not gather anything about you that could feed into marketing or tracking.

Session cookies are short-lived by design. They appear when you open the platform and disappear the moment you shut your browser. Their only job is to pass information from one page to the next during a single visit – keeping your account active while you are on the site, for instance. Once you leave, nothing from them carries over.

Preference cookies hold onto decisions you have already made about how things look or work on the platform. If you have changed any display settings, these mean you will not have to go through that again on your next visit. They last longer than session cookies but there is nothing sensitive in them.

Analytics cookies hand us aggregated, anonymous numbers – which pages see the most activity, where people tend to leave, what a typical session looks like in terms of length. That kind of information helps us find what is not working and fix it. It says nothing about any individual user and does not go anywhere near advertising.

Third-Party Cookies

Not every cookie on the platform comes from us. Payment providers handling euro transactions may drop their own cookies to get those operations done securely. Those providers have their own privacy policies and it is worth reading them if you want the full picture on how they handle things. Once a third-party cookie is set we do not have a hand in it, but we only bring in providers whose standards we are comfortable with.

Cookies and Financial Transactions

Every deposit and withdrawal on this platform moves in euros. The systems behind those payments may use cookies or something similar to confirm your session is legitimate before a transaction goes ahead. That is a security function and nothing more – it does not extend beyond the transaction itself, and no financial data ends up sitting in a cookie.

Your Options

You do not have to accept every cookie, and your browser already has what you need to manage them. Most browsers let you check what is stored, stop new ones from being placed, and clear out existing ones. Where exactly those settings live depends on your browser, but privacy or security is usually the right place to look. Turning off strictly necessary cookies will cause problems with how the platform runs – some things may not work at all. Turning off analytics or preference cookies will not stop you using the platform, but some of your settings may not be there next time you come back.

If you want to clear cookies that are already on your device, your browser settings will handle that too. It will log you out of any active session and wipe stored preferences.

Policy Updates

This page gets updated when the cookies we use change or when we are required to revise how we describe them. The new version goes up here when that happens. Anything significant will be flagged through the platform or sent to your registered email before it comes into effect. If you keep using the platform after an update has gone live, that counts as acknowledgement of what has changed.