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Cookies Policy
This policy explains how EnGarde Games uses cookies and similar local-storage technologies on the EnGarde web experience — including the Chronicle, the Card Forge, and the related companion tools — and the choices available to you under the GDPR, the UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
01 What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by the websites you visit. We also use comparable browser-storage technologies, such as localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB. Throughout this policy the word cookie covers all of them.
Cookies are not programs and they cannot read or alter other files on your device. They store small key/value pairs that the site reads back on later visits — for example, to remember your language, an in-progress deck, or your cookie preferences.
02 How EnGarde uses them
We use cookies to:
- Keep the site working — session, security, page state.
- Remember your language and accessibility settings.
- Save your in-progress card decks so a refresh doesn't lose your work.
- Remember the answer you gave to the cookie banner so we don't ask again.
- Measure — anonymously and in aggregate — which pages and features are used.
- If you opt in, support occasional product announcements.
No tracking by default.
On your first visit we set only strictly-necessary cookies. Analytics and marketing
cookies are blocked until you choose to enable them in the banner or below.
03 Categories
Necessary Always on
Required for the site to function. Cannot be switched off in our systems. Includes session and security cookies, the cookie-consent record itself, and basic preferences such as language.
Functional Optional
Enhanced features such as remembered card decks, theme, and the Tweaks panel. If disabled, your work will not persist between sessions.
Analytics Optional
Anonymised, aggregated usage statistics so we know which chapters and tools are loved or ignored. We do not build advertising profiles from this data.
Marketing Optional
Reserved for occasional product announcements (expansions, new releases). None are active by default; they only run if you opt in and a campaign is live.
04 Cookies & local storage we set
The following keys are written to your device by EnGarde itself (first‑party). We currently set no third‑party tracking cookies by default.
| Key | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| engarde.cookies.consent.v1 | Necessary | Records the cookie choices you made in the banner. | 12 months |
| engarde.age13.consent.v1 | Necessary | Records that you affirmed you are 13 years or older. | 12 months |
| engarde:token | Necessary | Your signed-in session token. Removed on logout. | Until logout |
| engarde:lang | Functional | Remembers your interface language preference. | 12 months |
| engarde:conflicts | Functional | Persists the daily "conflicts" count so it doesn't change on every refresh. | 24 hours |
| engarde:quests | Functional | Stores your recent quest notifications so they survive a refresh. | 12 months |
| engarde:live-event:dismissed | Functional | Honours your dismissal of the live-event widget for the current session. | Session |
| engarde.intro.seen.v1 | Functional | Remembers that you have seen the Chronicle intro. | 12 months |
| engarde.cardforge.v1 | Functional | Stores the current in-progress deck and card so a refresh doesn't lose your work. | Until cleared |
| engarde.analytics.* | Analytics | Anonymised page views and feature usage; only set when analytics is enabled. | 12 months |
This list is updated whenever we add or remove cookies. The effective date above reflects the most recent revision.
05 Your current preferences
This is what your browser is telling EnGarde right now. You can change it at any time using the buttons below or the Cookies pill in the bottom-right corner of any page.
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NecessaryAlways on
Functional—
Analytics—
Marketing—
06 Your rights (GDPR / UK GDPR)
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights regarding personal data we may process:
- Right of access — ask what we hold about you.
- Right of rectification — correct inaccurate data.
- Right of erasure — request deletion ("right to be forgotten").
- Right to restriction — pause our processing.
- Right to object — including to direct marketing at any time.
- Right to data portability — receive your data in a portable format.
- Right to withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting prior processing.
Where we rely on consent (as we do for non-essential cookies), withdrawing it is as easy as giving it: open the Cookies pill, reject the categories you no longer want, and save.
07 California residents (CCPA / CPRA)
If you are a California resident you have additional rights:
- Right to know what personal information we collect and the purposes.
- Right to delete personal information we have collected.
- Right to correct inaccurate personal information.
- Right to opt out of "sale" and "sharing" of personal information.
- Right to limit the use of sensitive personal information.
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising any of the above.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
EnGarde does not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioural
advertising. The "Reject non-essential" option in the banner serves the equivalent
opt-out for the purposes of the CCPA/CPRA.
08 Changes to this policy
We will update this policy when we add, remove, or change cookies and similar technologies. When we make material changes we will re-prompt the cookie banner so you can review your choice. Minor edits (typos, clarifications) will bump only the effective date.
09 Contact
Questions about cookies, privacy, or your data?
- Email — privacy@engarde.lt
- Data Protection Officer — dpo@engarde.lt
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.