1. Cookies and similar technologies
A cookie is a small text file a website stores in your browser. Local storage and session storage work similarly, although their values are not automatically sent with every request. This policy covers all of these technologies together.
Essential storage lets you sign in, keeps the service secure, remembers an explicit language and cookie choice and returns you to the right place after payment. It does not require separate consent. Optional analytics is not loaded and no data is sent to Google before acceptance.
2. Storage used by Sitaratas
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|
| sitaratas_auth | Essential HTTP cookie | Keeps you securely signed in after email verification. It is Secure in production, always HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax. | Up to 30 days or until sign-out |
| sitaratas.interface-language.v1 | Local storage | Remembers whether you selected Estonian or English. | Until you change it or clear browser data |
| sitaratas.analytics-consent.v2 | Local storage | Remembers the analytics choice, policy version and choice time so it is not requested on every visit. | Until changed, browser data is cleared or we ask again |
| sitaratas.checkout-return-path and sitaratas.checkout-language | Session storage | Restore the correct view and language after Stripe Checkout. | Browser-tab session |
| sitaratas.analytics-once.v1:* | Optional session storage | Prevents the same game or purchase event being sent twice after analytics consent. A marker may contain an internal player, game or order ID, stays in that tab and is not sent to Google. | Browser-tab session |
| _ga | Optional Google Analytics cookie | Distinguishes consenting browsers with a pseudonymous client identifier. | Default up to 2 years |
| _ga_<measurement-id> | Optional Google Analytics cookie | Persists Google Analytics session state. | Default up to 2 years |
A browser may shorten Google's default lifetime. Sitaratas does not use advertising cookies, social-media pixels or third-party font cookies. Google Analytics may be enabled in production only while Google Signals, user-provided data collection, ad personalisation and Enhanced Measurement are turned off in the GA property.
3. Analytics choice
On the first visit, you can choose “Necessary only” or “Allow analytics”. Both choices are equally available. Declining does not affect the account, game, chat or purchases. You can change the choice later with the button on this page.
Withdrawing consent stops new analytics events, disables measurement and deletes JavaScript-accessible _ga cookies and optional analytics deduplication markers in every open Sitaratas tab. Browser settings can also clear other local and session storage. The essential authentication cookie can be removed by signing out or clearing site data, after which you must sign in again.
4. What analytics measures
With consent, we measure sanitised page views, authentication steps, general room and gameplay events, purchases and payment state, error categories and Web Vitals. Signed-in activity may be linked by a pseudonymous hashed User-ID. The Privacy Policy contains the complete data categories and exclusions.
Google Analytics cookie information · Google Privacy Policy
5. Stripe Checkout
Buying a game pass redirects you to Stripe's hosted checkout page. Stripe may use cookies on its domain for payment, fraud prevention, authentication and optional payment features. The Sitaratas cookie choice does not control storage on Stripe's domain. Stripe explains that use in its own policy.
Stripe Cookie Policy
6. Changes and contact
We update this table when adding a cookie or purpose. If a change needs new consent, we ask before using optional storage. Email questions to hello@inuware.ee.
