247wordsearch.com Cookie Policy

To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. We also store data through a browser technology called local storage. These are generally considered the same in terms of data storage, privacy standards, and regulation. As such, we'll simply refer to all browser-side storage technology as cookies. Most big websites store data this way.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website - when visited by a user - asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you and your actions: such as your desired website settings, website state, advertising information, and game save data. This helps us save and load your game progress and settings so you don't have to start over when you come back to this site or move from one page to another.

Cookies set by us are called first party cookies. We also use third party cookies - which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting - for our advertising and marketing efforts as well as social media support.

What do we use cookies for?

We use Amazon Web Services and GoDaddy to host our web servers, giving them access to our log data.

We use Google to provide our Advertising through Google Adsense, and on some websites we are using Google Analytics for usage analysis.

We do NOT harvest, store, or process any personally-identifiable information on our website. Some of our 3rd party plugins, however (such as Google Adsense) may do these things, and you can read more about them, below, or follow this link to view Google's policy for yourself:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Below is a detailed list of the cookies we use on our Website. We do our best to maintain this list accurately, but we could have missed some. Please contact us using the information at the bottom of the page if you find anything to be incorrect or missing. We classify cookies in the following categories:

Enabling all of these cookie categories is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

You can opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by clicking on the "Privacy Settings" links at the bottom of any of the main website page.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.

Categories Cookies

Privacy Settings

These cookies store your privacy settings.

  • com.games247.Privacy

Game State

Our games use cookies to store relevant game information on your computer, designed to allow the user to have more fun by adding functionality to the game itself. This information includes: game high score, game records and statistics, device capabilities, and other purely gameplay-oriented storage. This data is stored in local storage rather than as a true cookie. (* indicates an optional set of characters in the cookie name).

  • com.games247.Game
  • analytics
  • analytics_init_*
  • bank
  • bank_init_*
  • deck
  • deck_init_*
  • gameState
  • gameState_init_*
  • records
  • records_init_*
  • settings
  • settings_init_*
  • ** Any other local storage item not defined here is likely used to store game related data and settings.

Website State

Though our site does use cookies to display "in house" promotional advertisements for the enjoyment of the user. When a user plays our games a number of times, a house ad will be displayed to show them another variation of a similar game they may want to play. These cookies prevent you from seeing too many in-house non-targeted recommendations.

  • com.games247.Promo
  • featureAdState

Google Platform

These cookies enable support for sharing, following and other Google Platform actions for if you're logged in to that system. These cookies may also be used to help Google authenticate you into their sites and services, gain advertising insights, support web server performance, and more. Click The link above to view more information about how those sites use cookies.

  • The list of Google's cookies is very large given how massive their site is. Click this link to learn more about their cookies:
    https://policies.google.com/technologies/types
  • Users not logged in to Google will not see as many, if any, cookies from Google.

Facebook

These cookies enable support for Facebook liking, sharing, following and other social media actions. We only interact with Facebook when you request to do so by clicking an associated button or link. These cookies may also be used to help Facebook authenticate you into their sites and services, gain advertising insights, support web server performance, and more. Click The link above to view more information about how those sites use these cookies.

  • The list of Facebook's cookies is very large given how massive their site is. Click this link to learn more about their cookies:
    https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
  • Users not logged in to Facebook will not see as many, if any, cookies from Facebook.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, so we can measure and improve the performance of our site and our advertising campaigns. They help us know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site.

Categories Cookies

Google Analytics

Our site uses Google Analytics, like many other sites on the web, to record basic information on our audience, such as number of sessions, session duration, geolocation, etc. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

  • _ga
  • _gac_*
  • _gid
  • _gat
  • google_experiment_mod (local storage)
  • google_pub_config (local storage)

Targeting Cookies

These cookies are set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. They work by uniquely identifying your browser and device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will not experience our targeted advertising across different websites.

Disabling these will still cause ads to be displayed, but no personal information will be recorded by our 3rd party ad networks to deliver personalized ads to you. You may learn more about Google's policy on non-personalized ads here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9007336

Categories Cookies

Google AdSense

We use cookies to make advertising more engaging to users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what's relevant to a user; to track and improve reporting on campaign performance; and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen.

  • APISID
  • SSID
  • NID
  • PREF
  • SID
  • SAPISID
  • id
  • HSID
  • Google can change, add, or remove cookies at any time. As such, this list is not comprehensive. To view more details on how they use cookies click the link below.
    https://policies.google.com/technologies/types

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this cookie policy you may contact us using the information below.

https://www.247games.com/support-2/