Cookie policy

Version [x.x] · Last updated [date] · Effective [date]

This policy explains what cookies and similar technologies we use on darminor.com, why we use them, how they support age verification when you launch one of our games, and how you can change your mind at any time.

It sits alongside our privacy policy, which explains the wider picture: what personal data we hold, our lawful bases, and the rights you can exercise over it.

1. Who this policy is from

Darminor Studios Ltd. (“Darminor”, “we”, “us”) is a business-to-business studio building slots, scratchcards and instant win games for licensed operators. We are incorporated in Malta under company registration number [company registration number], with a registered office at [registered address], and we are licensed by the Malta Gaming Authority under licence number [MGA licence number]. For cookie questions, contact [privacy@darminor.com].

2. What cookies are

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. When you return, the browser sends the file back, so the site can recognise the session, remember a choice you made, or count the visit. Cookies cannot read other files on your device and cannot run programs.

Where this policy says “cookies”, it also covers similar technologies that store or read information on your device for the same purposes:

• Local and session storage — browser storage we use to hold interface state and game demo settings without sending them back on every request.
• Pixels and tags — tiny transparent images or scripts that record that a page or asset loaded.
• Software development kits — code embedded in a game client that reports errors or performance telemetry.

Cookies are usually described in two ways:

• First party or third party — set by darminor.com itself, or by another organisation whose service is embedded in the page.
• Session or persistent — deleted when you close the browser, or kept until the stated expiry date or until you delete them.

3. The categories we use

We group every cookie into one of three categories. Only the first is set before you make a choice; the other two wait for your consent.

3.1 Strictly necessary

These make the website work. They keep your session alive, balance traffic across our servers, protect forms against cross-site request forgery, record your cookie choices, and carry the age confirmation described in section 4. They are exempt from consent under [the applicable ePrivacy implementation], because without them the service you asked for cannot be delivered. You can block them in your browser, but parts of the site — including game launches — will stop working.

3.2 Functional

These remember choices you have made so the site behaves the way you left it: interface language and territory, catalogue view, whether demo audio is muted, and whether you have dismissed a notice. They are set only with your consent. Declining them costs you nothing except the convenience of those settings persisting.

3.3 Analytics

These help us understand how the site is used in aggregate: which titles are viewed, which pages operators spend time on, where journeys break down, and how quickly pages load. We configure our analytics with [IP truncation and data-sharing disabled], and we report only on aggregated figures from which individuals cannot be identified. They are set only with your consent.

3.4 What we do not use

We do not run advertising, retargeting, social media or cross-site profiling cookies on this website, and we do not sell or share personal data with data brokers. We do not use cookies to make automated decisions about you.

4. Age verification and launching games

Our catalogue includes playable demonstrations of real-money games. Before a demo opens, we ask you to confirm that you are 18 or over and, where our licences require it, to select your territory. Recording that answer is what the age-verification cookie does.

• What is stored — a flag confirming the declaration was made, a timestamp, and the territory you selected. We do not store your name, date of birth or any identity document in a cookie.
• Why — to stop the gate reappearing on every game you open, and to block demos of titles that are not certified for the territory you selected. This is a licence condition, not a convenience.
• Category — strictly necessary. It is set without consent because it is required to deliver the demo you explicitly requested and to meet our regulatory obligations.
• How long — [30 days], after which the declaration is requested again. Clearing your cookies restores the gate immediately.
• Inside an operator site — when one of our games is launched from an operator’s lobby, that operator has already verified the account holder. Their cookies, their consent banner and their privacy notice apply to that session, not ours.

A self-declared age gate is a first line of defence, not identity verification. Nothing here replaces the operator checks and responsible gambling controls required in a regulated market.

5. Cookies set on this website

The register below is indicative and must be reconciled with a live scan before publication. Names, providers and durations in square brackets are placeholders.

6. Third-party cookies

A small number of cookies are set by providers we use to run and measure the site. Each acts as our processor under a written agreement, and each publishes its own notice:

• Analytics — [analytics provider, link to its privacy notice].
• Error and performance monitoring — [monitoring provider, link to its privacy notice].
• Content delivery and bot protection — [CDN provider, link to its privacy notice].
• Embedded media — [video provider], loaded only after you accept functional cookies or press play.

Where a provider transfers data outside the EEA or the UK, the safeguards described in section 7 of our privacy policy apply.

7. Managing and withdrawing consent

• On your first visit, a banner asks you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Until you choose, only strictly necessary cookies are set. Declining is one click and carries no penalty.
• You can change your decision at any time from [the “Cookie settings” link in the footer]. Withdrawing consent stops further use immediately and [clears the relevant cookies]; it does not undo processing that already, lawfully, took place.
• Your choice is stored for [12 months], after which we ask again. Clearing your browser storage also clears the record, so the banner returns.
• Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies, and offers a private browsing mode that discards them on exit. See the help pages for [Chrome], [Safari], [Firefox] and [Edge]. Settings apply per browser and per device, so repeat them everywhere you browse.
• We honour [Global Privacy Control signals, where supported] and treat them as a decline for functional and analytics categories.
• Blocking strictly necessary cookies will break age verification, so game demos will not launch. That is a consequence of the block, not a penalty for exercising your rights.

8. Changes to this policy

We review this policy and re-scan the site at least [every six months], and whenever we add or remove a provider. Material changes are notified by [a refreshed consent banner and a notice on this page], and we ask for consent again where the change requires it. The version and dates at the top of the page record the current release.

9. Contact us

For anything commercial — integrations, certification, a demo of the catalogue — use our contact page.