Last updated 7 September 2026
What a cookie is here
A cookie is a small file a site asks your browser to keep, so something can be remembered between pages or visits. The same rules apply to related techniques — local storage, device identifiers, pixels — and this policy covers all of them together, because from your point of view they do the same job.
We set none of our own
Card Game Classics sets no first-party cookies at all, and stores nothing in your browser. There is no account to stay signed in to, no preference to remember, and no saved game: a hand in progress lives in the open page and disappears when you refresh. That is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly rather than burying in a table.
The cookies that are used
Everything below is set by Google, not by us, and only in the categories you have agreed to.
| Category | Who sets it and what for | Runs without consent? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Your consent choice itself has to be remembered, or you would be asked on every page | Yes — it exists only to honour your answer |
| Analytics | Google Analytics 4: counts visits, which pages and games get used, roughly where in the world people are. We see totals, never individuals | No |
| Advertising | Google AdSense and its partners: showing adverts, limiting repeats, measuring whether they worked, and — if you agree — personalising them | No |
Consent, and how to change it
In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland the analytics and advertising categories are switched off until you agree. That is the box you saw on arrival: it names the purposes, lists the advertising partners, and lets you accept everything, refuse, or go through "Manage options" purpose by purpose.
Some advertising partners rely on legitimate interests for part of what they do rather than asking consent. Those appear separately under "Manage options" and can be objected to individually.
Controls that work everywhere
Independently of the consent box, and wherever in the world you are:
- Every browser can block or delete cookies, per-site or entirely, in its settings. Blocking them will not break anything here, because nothing on this site needs one.
- Google's own My Ad Center controls personalised advertising across everything Google shows you, not just this site.
- Google publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics everywhere.
- Most browsers offer a "do not track" or tracking-protection setting, and private or incognito windows discard cookies when you close them.
More detail
What Google does with what it collects is set out in Google's privacy policy and in how Google uses data from sites that use its services. Our side of it — who we are, the legal bases, your rights and how to complain — is in our privacy policy.
Anything unclear or apparently wrong here is worth an email to [email protected].