1. Understanding Cookies and Web Storage
This Cookie Policy explains how playstudiios.com and its authorized operating entity, PLAYSTUDIOS US, LLC, deploy cookies, browser local storage, and similar digital tags when you access our informational social casino portal.
Cookies are compact text files placed upon your computing device or mobile terminal by web servers. They permit the web infrastructure to recognize your browser, retain preferences between page visits, and guarantee interface stability across desktop and mobile screens.
2. Canadian Regulatory Baseline (PIPEDA & CASL)
Our deployment of automated data storage technologies complies with Canadian federal statutes, specifically the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).
We adhere to the principle of meaningful consent. Users are notified transparently of tracking mechanisms upon their initial visit via our prominent cookie banner, and non-essential technologies can be declined without losing access to foundational social casino evaluations.
3. Essential and Strictly Necessary Technologies
Essential cookies and storage entries are indispensable for the core operation of playstudiios.com. Without these technologies, the portal cannot function securely or maintain required compliance controls. Essential functions include:
- Retaining your mandatory 18+ adult age confirmation;
- Recording your cookie choice preferences so banners do not continually obstruct browsing;
- Enforcing network security parameters, cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protections, and bot prevention filters.
4. Preference and User Experience Technologies
Preference technologies allow our portal to remember configurations you establish, ensuring consistent layout scaling and provincial formatting across visits. These include:
- Language and localized Canadian provincial formatting preferences;
- Viewport layout scaling adjustments across high-resolution desktop monitors and mobile devices;
- Accordion states in our informational sections to preserve reading progress.
5. Performance, Telemetry, and Aggregate Analytics
We collect pseudonymized, aggregated telemetry regarding how visitors navigate playstudiios.com. This data enables our engineering team to identify broken hyperlinks, evaluate server response latency, and monitor traffic volume during major social tournament updates.
These performance metrics never identify you personally. IP addresses are truncated or anonymized at the point of collection, ensuring that web metrics reflect broader audience patterns rather than individual profiles.
6. Utilization of Web Storage (localStorage & sessionStorage)
In addition to HTTP cookies, playstudiios.com utilizes HTML5 Web Storage mechanisms, primarily localStorage. Local storage entries remain on your device until explicitly cleared by the user or client script.
Specifically, we set playstudiios_age_verified = 'true' upon successful adult age verification, and playstudiios_cookie_consent = 'accepted' or 'essential_only' based upon your cookie banner interaction. This avoids redundant verification modals on return visits.
7. Lifecycles: Session Technologies vs. Persistent Technologies
Technologies deployed across playstudiios.com feature distinct lifecycles:
- Session Cookies: Temporary markers that exist only during an active browser session. They are purged automatically as soon as you close your browser software.
- Persistent Cookies / Storage: Durable records that remain on your terminal for a predetermined duration (typically 30 to 180 calendar days) or until manually erased through browser preferences.
8. Third-Party Integrations and Outbound Links
Our portal incorporates outbound references and links to official repositories, notably the Google Play Store for POP! Slots™ (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playstudios.popslots) and Canadian health resources (such as ConnexOntario).
When navigating away from playstudiios.com to external sites, the respective third parties may deploy their own cookies and tracking pixels. PLAYSTUDIOS US, LLC does not control third-party tracking technologies and encourages users to review the cookie disclosures of external destinations.
9. Age Gate Verification Storage Governance
Because social casino games are restricted strictly to adult audiences (18+ / 19+ in Canada), recording your verification status is a mandatory regulatory safeguard.
The local storage flag playstudiios_age_verified contains zero identifying personal data. It simply reflects a binary confirmation that the visitor validated the age gate on their current browser. Purging your browser cache will reset this flag, requiring re-verification upon your next visit.
10. On-Site Consent Management and Preferences Modification
You possess the ongoing right to modify or retract your cookie consent at any time. You can reactivate our cookie selection banner by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link located in our footer.
Electing "Strictly Necessary" ensures that all non-essential analytical tracking is deactivated immediately for subsequent page views during that browsing session.
11. Browser-Level Controls and Global Deletion Procedures
You can configure your web browser to notify you when cookies are placed, block third-party cookies, or reject cookies entirely. Instructions for leading browsers:
- Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Third-party cookies.
- Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Prevent cross-site tracking.
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Enhanced Tracking Protection.
- Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies.
Please be advised that blocking all cookies may impact the visual rendering of the age gate and lead submission confirmations.
12. Mobile Operating System Advertising Identifiers
When interacting with mobile applications like POP! Slots™ on Android or iOS devices, your hardware operating system may assign an advertising identifier (such as Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertisers).
You can reset or restrict ad tracking directly within your mobile device operating system settings (e.g., Settings > Privacy > Tracking on iOS, or Settings > Google > Ads on Android).
13. Do Not Track (DNT) and Global Privacy Control (GPC) Signals
Some browsers transmit automated "Do Not Track" (DNT) or "Global Privacy Control" (GPC) header signals. While there is no uniform global technological standard for DNT interpretations, playstudiios.com respects user privacy by restricting automated profiling and ensuring no third-party behavioral targeting scripts run on our pages.
14. Policy Updates and Inquiries Regarding Cookies
We may revise this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect technological enhancements, operational changes, or updates to Canadian privacy statutes. Any modifications will be posted to this URL with an updated revision date.
For inquiries regarding our use of cookies or local storage, please reach our compliance team:
Compliance Liaison: PLAYSTUDIOS US, LLC
Address: 10150 Covington Cross Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89144, USA
Email: [email protected]