Cookies policy
Welcome to SzuperChess, chess friend! This website is owned and operated by SzuperChess j.d.o.o., OIB (PIN – Personal identification number): 88933696339 a company registered at the Commercial court in Zagreb under registry nr. 081318165, with its registered seat at Boškovićeva ul. 2, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia ("SzuperChess", "we", "us" or "our" as applicable). SzuperChess ("we", "us" or "our" as applicable) use cookies and similar tools throughout our website szuperchess.com and any other websites that we own containing our SzuperChess pages, products and services (our “Website”) to improve their performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains how we do that.
If this Cookie Policy is translated into any other language it will be for information purposes only and in the event of any conflict between the translation and the English language version, the English language version shall prevail.
It is very important that you read this cookies policy and understand it. If you continue browsing, we will consider that you accept its use.
1. What are Cookies and similar tools?
1.1 Cookies
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Pursuant to applicable legal regulations, cookies may be stored or accessed on your equipment only based on your consent, except for cookies that are strictly necessary in order to provide the services on our Website.
Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing.
Please note that we use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.
Cookies are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide web services and functionalities for the users. Cookies may serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our Website is performing or even allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you. Certain cookies contain personal information, for example, if you click to “save login” when logging in, a cookie will store your username. Most cookies will not collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our Website or a user’s general location.
1.2 Pixel Tags (Web beacons)
Along with cookies, as explained above, we may also use “Pixel tags”. A pixel tag (also often referred to as a “web beacon” or a “tracking bug”) is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than 1 pixel x 1 pixel that is placed on a website or in an email and that is used to monitor your behaviour when visiting a website or sending/receiving an email. Pixel tags can be used for many purposes, including site usage analytics, advertising, auditing andreporting and content and advertising personalization. A pixel tag also provides information about the device you are using, such as the IP address, URL, duration of the visit, web browser and cookies.
1.3 JavaScript
JavaScript may be used to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, time spent on certain pages, user time zones, page interaction information and methods used to browse away from a webpage.
1.4 Tracking Links
A tracking link or a tracking URL is a specific web address link used to monitor certain elements when a link is clicked on, for example, how users get to our Website.
2. What sort of cookies and similar tools do we use?
Generally, we use different cookies and similar tools perform up to three different functions:
Essential cookies and similar tools
Some cookies and similar tools are essential for the operation of our Website. For example, some cookies and similar tools allow us to identify registered users and ensure they can or cannot access restricted pages. If a user opts to disable these cookies and similar tools, the user will not be able to access all of the content that the status of their account entitles them to.
Performance Cookies and similar tools
We may utilise cookies and similar tools to analyse how you use our Website to record your visits to our Website and the pages you have visited and to record the links you have followed. Among other aims, this allows us to customise our offering to recurring visitors and to optimise navigational paths.
Settings Cookies and similar tools
We use settings cookies and similar tools to allow us to remember certain choices you have made. For example, you can be automatically redirected to the language in which you last browsed, automatically logged in when your website session expires or schedules can be displayed in the time zone previously reported by your browser. Specifically, we use 4 cookies, which are listed below (the list below explains the site cookies we use and why we use them):
Name: laravel_session
Provider: szuperchess.com
Lifetime: end of the session/120 minutes
Purpose: to identify a session instance for a user
Category: authentication cookie
Mandatory: yes
Name: superchess_cookie_consent
Provider: szuperchess.com
Lifetime: 1 year
Purpose: stores the users consent to site cookies
Category: user input cookie
Mandatory: no
Name: szuperchess_session
Provider: szuperchess.com
Lifetime: 120 minutes
Purpose: validate, that the requests come from an authenticated user
Category: authentication cookie
Mandatory: yes
Name: XSRF-TOKEN
Provider: szuperchess.com
Lifetime: 120 minutes
Purpose: prevents cross-site scripting attacks
Category: security cookie
Mandatory: yes
3. Does anyone else use cookies and similar tools on szuperchess.com?
Please note that third parties with whom we may work with and/or who may have a presence on our Website (including, for example, partners, collaborators, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services (e.g. Google Analytics)) may also use cookies and similar tools over which we have no control. These cookies and similar tools are likely to fall into the categories mentioned above.
No personal data is collected by these cookies, the only purpose is to provide a more convenient environment for the visitors.
4. Can a website user block cookies?
As explained above, cookies and similar tools help you to get the most out of our Website. However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please follow the instructions in your browser and/or computer. Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our Website do not work properly.
5. Third Parties
Depending on your settings we are working with third parties that may save information in cookies. We use Google services to display advertising that helps cover the cost of our free features. Details of how your data is handled can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
6. More Information
More detailed information regarding how we, as well as other businesses, use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy please contact us at: contact@szuperchess.com.
7. Updates and changes in the cookies policy.
We may modify this Cookies Policy based on legislative and regulatory requirements, or in order to adapt this policy to the instructions issued by the Data Protection Agency. Therefore, users should visit it from time to time.
