Cookie Policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small files a site stores in your browser. We keep their use to a minimum.

What SlotSims uses

  1. Strictly necessary — the admin session cookie. Set only for the site's editorial team when logging into the control panel; regular visitors get none.
  2. Analytics — Google Analytics 4 (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). It collects anonymised statistics: which pages are viewed, where visitors come from, which device and browser they use. It sets the _ga and _ga_* cookies for up to two years — only after you accept in the banner. Before you choose, and if you decline (the default for visitors from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), no cookies are set: only anonymous events without a visitor identifier are sent (Google Consent Mode). Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. Event data is retained for up to 14 months. Processing may take place on Google servers in the US under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and Google's standard contractual clauses.

The view counters and the "Helpful" button under articles use no cookies: the server computes an irreversible hash of the address and browser with a salt that changes every day.

We use no third-party advertising or tracking cookies.

  • The banner at the bottom of the page lets you accept or decline analytics cookies. Your choice is stored in your browser for a year.
  • You can change your mind at any time: the "Cookie settings" link in the footer of every page reopens the banner.
  • Declining changes nothing: every article, tool and demo game works the same.
  • You can also install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, which blocks collection on all sites.

Managing cookies

  • Your browser settings let you delete existing cookies and block new ones.
  • Disabling cookies does not affect access to the site's content.

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