Cookie Policy for TheGHoppers

This is the Cookie Policy for theghoppers, accessible from https://theghoppers.com

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

• Account related cookies

  If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

• Login related cookies

  We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

• Email newsletters related cookies

  This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

• Forms related cookies

  When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

• Site preferences cookies

  In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

• We use Matomo, a privacy-focused analytics tool that we host ourselves, to understand how the site is used. We run it in a cookieless mode, so Matomo does not set any cookies on your device and does not track you across other sites; it only measures anonymised page visits on this site. We do not use Google Analytics, Google AdSense, or any advertising cookies.

• Google reCAPTCHA

  We use Google reCAPTCHA v3, a service provided by Google, to protect our sign-up, sign-in and submission forms from automated abuse and spam. Because reCAPTCHA v3 scores behaviour rather than showing a challenge, its script is loaded on every page of the site so that a score is available when you reach a protected form.

  reCAPTCHA sets a cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) on your device and sends information to Google, including your IP address, browser and device information, and your interaction with the page, in order to tell a person from an automated script. These cookies are set by Google, not by us, and we do not control them. We use reCAPTCHA solely to keep the site secure — not for analytics, profiling or advertising.

  Your use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service.

• Embedded YouTube videos

  Large parts of our site (game guides, news and video sections) display videos hosted on YouTube, a service provided by Google. When a page containing a YouTube video is displayed, or when you play a video, YouTube and Google may set cookies and similar technologies on your device and receive information about your use of that content, including your IP address. These cookies are used by Google for purposes such as remembering your viewing preferences, measuring audience and, where applicable, personalising content and advertising.

  These cookies are set by YouTube and Google, not by us, and we do not control them. To reduce tracking, we embed videos in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (via the youtube-nocookie.com domain), and the video player is only loaded when you actively click to play a video. As a result, YouTube's tracking cookies are generally not set until you choose to play a video.

  For more information about how Google uses this data, and the choices available to you, see Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy and the YouTube Terms of Service at https://www.youtube.com/t/terms.

• Embedded Twitch streams

  Our Live Streams page can display streams hosted on Twitch, a service provided by Twitch Interactive, Inc. The embedded player is only loaded when you actively click to load a stream; until then, no request is made to Twitch and no Twitch cookies are set. When you load a stream, Twitch may set cookies and similar technologies on your device and receive information about your use of that content, including your IP address. These cookies are set by Twitch, not by us, and we do not control them. For more information see the Twitch Privacy Notice at https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/privacy-notice/.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the GDPR Cookies Policy Generator

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• Email: info@theghoppers.com