Cookie Notice

PubGalaxy Cookie Notice

This cookie notice (“Cookie Notice”) applies to Azerion Technology B.V. (“PubGalaxy”, “we”, “us” or “our”) website (“Website“). It explains what the used technologies are, why we use them and the duration of their use as well as your rights to control our use of them. For more information about the ways in which PubGalaxy handles personal data, please refer to our Privacy Notice.

What are cookies and similar techniques?

Cookies are small pieces of information (small files) stored within your browser or on your device. There are similar techniques as cookies such as Flash cookies, web beacons, small graphic files (pixels) and an additional HTML5 (local) storage in your browser. These techniques function in a similar manner as cookies. Where we refer to ”cookies” in this Cookie Notice, we also mean similar techniques.

Cookie Parties

As PubGalaxy, we place cookies when you visit our Services that are only readable for us (”1st Party Cookies”), as do the third parties (”3rd Party Cookies”). These cookies are only readable for the third party. Our list of 3rd party list provides an overview which third parties we work together with and where you can find the privacy notices of each third party.

Cookie Types

Cookies that are essential for the functionality of our Services (also known as “Strictly necessary” cookies):

Since these cookies are essential, they are always active in our Services. We respect your preferences and in order to make your choices valuable and effective, we keep strictly necessary cookies out of types of cookies that we ask for your consent. We use these cookies for activities such as recognising you when you sign-in to use our Services so that you do not have to log in manually the next time you visit www.pubgalaxy.com.

Cookies that help to a better user experience (also known as “Functional” cookies):

For example, we use these cookies to remember information when you fill in forms or input fields on various pages and to keep track of your preferences such as language settings, location settings, etc.

Cookies that assist us to maintain advertising activities (also known as “Targeting cookies”):

These cookies ensure that it is possible for us to display personalized ads, to track which ads you have already seen and to track how many visitors click on an advertisement. Please note that you will still be shown advertisements even if these cookies are not used as we also display ads that do not use cookies.

For more information regarding the cookies used by advertising networks, we refer you to terms and conditions, cookie policies and privacy policies applicable to these platforms as can be found on our 3rd party list.

Cookies that allow us to gather information about the way visitors use our Services (also known as “Performance” cookies):

The information we gather from these cookies is used to generate site statistics. These statistics provide us with insights, such as how often our Services are visited, which parts or features are mostly viewed, how often our Services are interacted with. We continuously try to measure which Services of us are the most popular that attracts most visitors and users. This allows us to make the structure, navigation, and content as user-friendly as possible. 

Cookies on “www.pubgalaxy.com”

We use cookies on our www.pubgalaxy.com website on which you can find this Cookie Notice. You can find the detailed cookie information below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

HostCookie NamePurposeLifetime
pubgalaxy.comOptanonAlertBoxClosedThis cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust.  It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.  It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user.  The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.365 days
pubgalaxy.comOptanonConsentThis cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.365 days
www.pubgalaxy.comppwp_wp_sessionPreserves users states across page requestsA few seconds
pubgalaxy.comps_payloadSeqIdUsed to keep track of duplicate session dataA few seconds
publishers.pubgalaxy.comPGSESSIDKeeps the session id for publishersA few seconds

Performance Cookies

HostCookie NamePurposeLifetime
pubgalaxy.com_ga_*Google Analytics Cookies729 days
pubgalaxy.com_gclxxxxGoogle conversion tracking cookie90 days
pubgalaxy.com_gidThis cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.1 day
pubgalaxy.com_gaThis cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.730 days
pubgalaxy.comzabVisitIdThis cookie sends the unique id for every visit the visitor makes. It changes every time they visit.Session
pubgalaxy.comzabUserIdThis cookie sends the unique id for every visitor who is part of the experiment. It has a lifespan of 12 months.365 days
pubgalaxy.comzabHMBucketThis cookie sends the key value of the heatmap experiment selected for the user. 365 days
pubgalaxy.comzft-sdcCollects data on the user’s navigation and behavior on the website. This is used to compile statistical reports and heatmaps for the website owner.A few seconds

Targeting Cookies

HostCookie NamePurposeLifetime
pubgalaxy.com_fbpUsed by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers90 days
www.pubgalaxy.comawxxxxUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came.365 days
pubgalaxy.com_gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxGoogle Analytics CookiesA few seconds
www.pubgalaxy.comgclidUsed for AdWords tracking30 days
pubgalaxy.com_rdt_uuidThis cookie is set by Reddit and is used for remarketing on reddit.com90 days
pubgalaxy.com_lfaThe Tracker cookie is set for the website domain only and is used to set a unique identifier to separate different visitors. The cookie is called _lfa and has a two-year expiry date from when it is first set730 days

Functional Cookies

HostCookie NamePurposeLifetime
www.pubgalaxy.comac_enable_trackingThe functionality of this cookie is to store cookie consent preferences.30 days

How can cookies be deleted?

If you do not want websites to place cookies on your devices, you can adjust the browser settings so that your browser refuses all cookies or only third-party cookies. You can also delete cookies that have already been placed. Note that you must adjust the settings separately for each browser and computer that you use. If you decide to disable all cookies, some parts of our Services may not function properly. 

How you can adjust the settings differs per browser. If necessary, consult the help function of your browser, or click on one of the links below to go directly to the manual of that specific browser.

If you want to disable cookies from specific parties, you can do so via:

Furthermore, you can withdraw the consent you gave for non-essential cookies at any time under the link or you can exercise your right to withdraw your consent by contacting us as described in our Privacy Notice.

Updates to this Cookie Notice

We will amend this Cookie Notice when we implement new technologies and functions. If we make significant changes, we will notify you of this. For example, by posting a notification on our websites and/or apps, through email, pop-ups (e.g. by requesting your consent again), or similar methods.

Questions or complaints regarding privacy or cookies can be sent to dpo@azerion.com.