Cookie Policy

Last Updated: August 6, 2026

1. What This Policy Covers

This Cookie Policy explains how The Gaming Monster uses cookies and similar technologies to keep the site working, remember your settings, understand performance, and support consent-based advertising or measurement features.

2. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies help core site features work properly. These may keep you signed in, protect against abuse, remember security preferences, and support basic navigation across the game library.

3. Preference Cookies

Preference cookies remember non-essential choices such as consent settings or interface-related options so the site feels more consistent between visits.

4. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand which pages are useful, where players abandon broken flows, and which areas of the catalog should be improved first. We use this information to reduce thin content, repair weak pages, and improve navigation quality.

5. Advertising-Related Cookies

Advertising-related cookies or similar technologies are only meant to load after the required consent has been provided. These may be used for ad delivery, frequency management, or performance measurement where applicable.

In regions where Google requires an IAB Europe TCF consent signal, Google or another Google-certified consent provider may display an additional message with vendor and purpose choices. The site's general advertising toggle does not replace that required provider-level choice.

Licensed game distributors may also serve ads or measure usage inside their own player. Players marked as requiring advertising consent are not loaded until that choice is granted. You can withdraw the choice later and reload the page to block the third-party frame again.

6. Managing Cookies

You can update your choices at any time through the cookie settings controls on the site. You can also manage cookies through your browser, although blocking essential cookies may affect core features such as sign-in or saved preferences.