Last modified: September 18th, 2014
We at Big Fish Games, Inc. ("Big Fish") have created this Cookie Policy to explain what cookies are, why we use them, and how you can manage their use.
Cookies are small text files which are sent to your browser and are placed on your computer or device when you visit a website. When you visit a website again, the cookie allows the website to recognise your browser.
If you are located in the European Union, you were given the opportunity to consent to cookies as you entered our website (to get this far you have already either consented or been directed to this policy via our cookie banner). Cookies are useful because they help us make your website experience more enjoyable. They allow us to recognise your device (e.g. your laptop or mobile device) so that we can tailor your experience of our website. For more information about cookies, we recommend you visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies do lots of different jobs on this website, such as letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, remembering your username and password, enabling you to keep goods in your shopping cart, letting us analyse how well our website is performing, and improving your experience. They also help ensure that adverts you see whilst you are on our website and other websites are more relevant to you and your interests.
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that we use on our website. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of our website. Others are not essential, but help to improve our website by collecting anonymous user information, or try and improve your experience of our website by remembering your choices. We also use cookies which collect information about your browsing habits so that we and our third party service providers can try and display advertising which is relevant to you and your interests.
Generally, our cookies perform up to four different functions:
We use a number of cookies which are essential to the operation of this website and which enable services you have specifically asked for to be provided. For example, these types of cookies let us identify account holders and ensure they can access the member-only areas of this website, enable our website to remember the goods that you add to your shopping cart, provide the necessary security your visit to our website requires, and help ensure the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, services that you have asked for cannot be provided.
We want you to understand these essential cookies, and why we use them, but your consent is not required for us to use them on our website as we use these cookies only to provide you with services that you have requested.
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for example, where our visitors have come from, which of our pages our visitors go to most often, and if visitors get error messages on those pages. These performance cookies do not collect information that identifies you as an individual – all information they collect is aggregated and anonymous – however, if you have a registration account with us, the information collected by us using performance cookies may be associated with your registration account. The information gathered is only used to improve how our website works.
In addition, the coding language our website is written in uses session cookies. There are deleted each time you close your browser. These cookies do not store any information about a visitor once the browser is closed.
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as, remembering your username, your language, and changes you make to various other parts of our website which you can customise. The aim of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience so that you don't have to reset your preferences each time you visit us.
We also use functionality cookies to enable you to comment on a discussion in a forum or provide enhanced services such as enabling you to view a video on our website.
These cookies track your browsing habits so that we can show you advertising which we hope is relevant to your interests. We believe it is useful to show you advertisements that are tailored to your interests. These advertising cookies use information about your web browsing activity to group you with other users who have similar interests and show you advertisements based upon those interests. Information about your browsing habits is passed by us to third party advertisers so that you are shown more tailored advertisements when you are online.
These types of cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
Cookies do lots of important jobs on our website and help to make your online experience more personal and more enjoyable.
If you are located in the European Union, the first time you visit our website after February 25th, 2014 you will see a banner which explains that by clicking on any link in the website, you are consenting to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.
The Help portion of the toolbar on most Web browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to entirely disable cookies. In addition, if any of our third party service providers that present you with personalized Big Fish advertisements on other Web sites participates in the Digital Advertising Alliance, you may opt out of such third party's ad-serving cookies through this link: aboutads.info. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of Big Fish offerings' essential features, we recommend that you leave cookies turned on. For example, you may not be able make purchases on Big Fish offerings without having cookies turned on.
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Policy please e-mail us at privacy@bigfishgames.com or write to us at: Big Fish Games, Inc. Privacy Policy Department, 333 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98119 USA.
We may modify this Cookie Policy from time to time. When we post changes to this Cookie Policy, we will revise the "last modified" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Policy to be informed of how Big Fish handles and uses cookies.