Cookie Policy

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. They let a site remember your visit — your preferences, your session, whether you have already seen a notice. Similar technologies do the same job: local storage, pixels, tags and device identifiers are covered by this policy too.

A cookie is set by the site you are visiting (a first-party cookie) or by another service embedded in it (a third-party cookie). Advertising cookies are third-party cookies, and this policy explains how to turn them off.

Cookies on frostbloom.xyz

We keep our own use of cookies to a minimum. The categories you may encounter are set out below. The exact cookies present on a given page can vary with the features loaded on it.

• Strictly necessary — required for the site to function and stay secure: session integrity, load balancing, abuse and fraud prevention. These cannot be switched off through a consent choice because the site does not work without them.
• Preferences — remember choices you have made, such as a dismissed notice. Where these are used, they are set only after you choose.
• Analytics — help us understand aggregate readership (which reports are read, how readers arrive) in a form that is not tied to your identity. Set only where used, and only after consent where consent is required.
• Advertising — set by third-party vendors, including Google, to serve and measure ads. Not set by the site itself; where advertising is displayed, they are used under the consent and opt-out regime set out below.

Advertising cookies and Google

Where advertising appears on frostbloom.xyz, it is delivered by Google and other third-party vendors. These vendors may use cookies — including the Google advertising cookie, historically known as the DoubleClick DART cookie — to serve ads based on your visits to this site and to other sites on the internet.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites. Google's own explanation of this is published here:

• How Google uses information from partner sites and apps
• How Google uses cookies in advertising
• How Google personalizes ads

Personalized advertising opt-outs

You can turn off personalized advertising at any time. Turning it off does not remove advertising — you will still see ads, they simply stop being chosen on the basis of your activity. Your choices apply across the sites and apps that participate in Google's advertising program:

A Global Privacy Control (GPC) or Do Not Track signal sent by your browser is treated as an opt-out of any sale or sharing of personal information, as the CCPA requires. We do not sell personal information.

• Opt out of personalized advertising — Google Ad Center
• Opt out of cookies for ads across the industry — Network Advertising Initiative (US)
• Opt out of cookies for ads across the industry — Digital Advertising Alliance (US)
• Opt out of cookies for ads across the industry — YourOnlineChoices (EU)

Consent for visitors in Europe

If you are visiting from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the ePrivacy Directive applies: non-essential cookies — analytics and advertising — are used only where you have chosen to allow them. Strictly necessary cookies run regardless, because the site cannot be delivered without them.

Where a consent banner appears, your choice applies to advertising and analytics cookies on this site. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time through the controls presented on the page, or by clearing cookies and revisiting.

Managing cookies in your browser

You are always in control at the browser level. Most browsers let you block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or delete cookies when you close the tab. Browser-level controls apply to advertising cookies regardless of any choice made on this site.

Blocking all cookies may affect how the site works — strictly necessary cookies carry the session, and without them pages may not load correctly. Guidance for each browser is published by the browser vendor under its own privacy settings.

Cookies that outlive this site

Choices made through browser settings or through the industry opt-out registers above persist independently of us. A cookie set by a third-party vendor is that vendor's cookie; removing it is done in your browser or through the vendor's own opt-out, not through us.

Changes and contact

We may update this policy as the site's features change; the date at the top shows the last revision. Questions about cookies or advertising on the site: [email protected].