SharePlay Cookie Policy

Effective: May 18, 2023

Last Updated: Mar 16, 2024

  1. Welcome
  2. Changes to this Policy
  3. Cookies and Other Technologies
  4. How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
  5. First and Third-Party Cookies
  6. Cookies We Use
  7. Managing Cookies
  8. How We Use Other Technologies
  9. Managing Web Beacons
  10. Contact us

Welcome!

SharePlay Interactive LLC ( "SharePlay", "we", "us", or "our" ) understands that your privacy is important to you and we are committed to being transparent about the technologies that SharePlay uses in this respect. This Cookie Policy (this "Policy") explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies(collectively, "Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies") may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”). By visiting the Services, setting up your SharePlay account, or using the Services, you are accepting this Policy.

Changes to this Policy.

We may change this Policy at any time, and from time to time. Any change in this Policy will become effective when we make the revised Policy available on or through the Services.

Cookies and Other Technologies.

A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit our Services, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Services. This allows our Services to recognize your device from those of other users of the Services. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more useful information about cookies and other similar tracking technologies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

(a) We use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Services. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Services, protect the Services, and to process any requests that you make of us.

(b) To administer our Services and for research purposes, we have contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Services users. These third-party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our content on our Services, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Services.

First and Third-Party Cookies.

(a) “First-party Cookies” are cookies that belong to us and that we place on your device.

(b) “Third-party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Services to provide us with web analytics and intelligence about our Services which may also be used to provide measurement services and target ads. These companies use programming code to collect information about your interaction with our sites, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and how long you are on our sites. This code is only active while you are on our Services. For more information on how these companies collect and use the information on our behalf, please refer to their respective privacy policies.

Cookies We Use

Depending on the Services, we may use the following types of cookies:

5.1 Necessary Cookies. Necessary Cookies are essential to enable your use of the Services and to identify and prevent security risks, such as storing your session information to prevent others from changing your password without your username and password.

5.2 Preference Cookies. Preference Cookies are used to remember your settings and preferences and to improve your experience on our website and in using our Services. For example, we may use these Preference Cookies to remember your language preferences.

Cookie Category Purpose
Xsolla Preference We use Xsolla to process your payments and invoices and securely store your payment information.

5.3 Session Cookies. Session Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from your device when you close the browser. We use these Session Cookies to support the functionality of the Services and to understand your use of the Services—that is, which pages you visit, which links you use, and how long you stay on each page.

Cookie Category Purpose

5.4 Statistics Cookies. Statistics Cookies help collect information about your use of the Services and enable us to improve the way it works. These Cookies give us aggregated information that we use to monitor the Service’s performance, count page visits, spot technical errors, see how users reach the Services, and measure the effectiveness of marketing (including emails).

Cookie Category Purpose
Google Analytics Statistics Google Analytics helps us track what pages in SharePlay they visit, in aggregate. We use it to optimize our marketing initiatives and prioritize things like blog posts and help center articles.

5.5 Marketing Cookies. Marketing Cookies are used to show users display advertisements across websites. The intention is to display relevant and engaging ads for the individual user, making them more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. We do not display ads for any website besides our own.

Cookie Category Purpose
DoubleClick Marketing We use DoubleClick to acquire users for our service, such as ads on Google search results. We do not display ads for any services besides our own.
Facebook Pixel Marketing We use the FB Pixel to acquire users for our service, such as ads on the Facebook feed. We do not display ads for any services besides our own.

5.6 Unclassified Cookies. Unclassified Cookies are Cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual Cookies.

Managing Cookies.

(a) IIf you do not want Cookies placed on your device, you can adjust your Internet browser settings to reject all or some Cookies, and alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please see the specific browser procedures below, or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly Necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all, or parts or specific functionalities, of our Services.

(i) Chrome
(ii) Safari
(iv) Firefox

(b) If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time. However, this will not prevent the Services from placing further Cookies on your device, unless and until you adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.

(c) For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies, please see www.youronlinechoices.eu, if you are located in Europe, or, www.aboutads.info/choices, if you are located in the United States.

How We Use Other Technologies.

We may also use web beacons (including conversion pixels) or other technologies for similar purposes as above. We may include these on our sites, marketing e-mail messages or our newsletter, and affiliated websites to determine message read statuses and click information. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but they may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity. The information provided above about Cookies generally also applies to web beacons and similar technologies. Conversion pixels are small codes located on a particular web page triggered when someone visits a page increasing the conversion count.

Managing Web Beacons

You may avoid web beacons by configuring your e-mail reader program to disable the functionality that enables remote images to load and by refraining from clicking on any links in e-mail messages.

Contact Us.

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us via e-mail at privacy@shareplay.tv.