Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website may store on your computer, phone or other device. They can help a website operate correctly, remember a choice or provide information about how a service is being used.

Similar technologies, such as local storage, security tokens and embedded-service identifiers, may perform related functions even where a traditional browser cookie is not used.

2. How De Tom Plays Uses Cookies

De Tom Plays uses a limited number of cookies and similar technologies to support website functionality, remember relevant choices, protect forms and provide embedded or externally hosted content.

The exact cookies visible on your device can vary depending on which pages you visit, the features you use, your browser settings and whether you interact with third-party content.

3. Essential Cookies and Website Functionality

Essential cookies and session technologies support functions that cannot always operate correctly without them. These may include:

• Session data used while submitting or validating the contact form.
• Security measures that help prevent spam, automated abuse and malicious requests.
• Cookie or consent preferences used to remember choices you have made.
• Temporary settings used to support website features, content preferences or regionally relevant information.

These technologies are used for functional or security purposes rather than behavioural advertising.

4. Privacy-Friendly Analytics

De Tom Plays uses Plausible Analytics to understand general website usage, such as which pages receive visits and how people discover the site.

Plausible is designed to provide aggregated analytics without using tracking cookies or creating individual visitor profiles. Analytics information is used to improve the website and understand which content is useful to visitors.

5. Security and Anti-Abuse Services

Cloudflare Turnstile is used to help protect forms from spam, automated submissions and malicious activity. Cloudflare may process technical information or use cookies and similar technologies where necessary to provide its verification and security services.

Security checks may consider information such as browser characteristics, connection details and interaction patterns to distinguish genuine visitors from automated abuse.

6. Embedded Content

Some pages may include embedded content from third-party services, most notably YouTube videos. Embedded content behaves as though you had visited the service providing it.

When an embedded item loads or you interact with it, the third-party service may place cookies, collect technical information or record your interaction in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies. This may be affected by whether you are signed in to that service.

• YouTube may use cookies or similar technologies for video playback, preferences, security, measurement and account-related features.

7. Affiliate Links and External Websites

De Tom Plays contains links to third-party websites, including game stores, developers, publishers, social platforms, advertisers and affiliate partners.

Some affiliate links include a referral identifier so the external service can recognise that a visit or qualifying purchase originated from De Tom Plays. The external website may then use its own cookies or tracking technologies under its own policies.

Linked services may include:

• AWIN and participating affiliate merchants.
• Steam, itch.io, IndieDB and other gaming platforms.
• YouTube and other social or media services.
• Developer, publisher, retailer and gaming-related websites linked from reviews, articles and videos.

De Tom Plays does not control the cookies, tracking methods or privacy practices used by an external website after you leave this site.

8. Cookie Choices and Consent

Where a non-essential cookie or similar technology requires your consent, De Tom Plays will aim to provide an appropriate choice before it is used. Essential technologies needed for security or a service you request may operate without a separate opt-in where permitted by law.

Changing or withdrawing a preference will not necessarily remove cookies already stored by a third party. Those can be removed through your browser or device settings.

9. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to view, block, limit or delete cookies through their privacy or site-data settings. You may also be able to block third-party cookies separately or clear stored data for an individual website.

Blocking all cookies may prevent some features from working correctly, particularly contact-form security, saved preferences, embedded videos or services provided by external websites.

Browser controls vary, so please refer to the help information supplied by your browser or device provider for exact instructions.

10. How Long Cookies Remain

Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies or stored preferences may remain for a set period or until you remove them manually.

Cookies set by third-party services are retained according to the policies and settings of those services. De Tom Plays does not control their individual expiry periods.

11. Changes to This Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated when website features, connected services, legal requirements or cookie practices change.

Any revised policy will be published on this page and the fixed last-updated date above will be changed to show when the wording was most recently reviewed.

12. Privacy and Further Information

More information about how personal information is handled can be found in the Privacy Policy. The wider rules for using the website are explained in the Terms of Use.

13. Contact

Questions about this Cookie Policy can be sent through the Contact page. Please include enough detail to explain the cookie, service or page your question relates to.