Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text data files placed and stored on your browser or device when you visit an internet website.

Cookies serve essential technical functions, including:

• Ensuring proper website rendering and navigation;
• Maintaining security and session authentication;
• Remembering user preferences (e.g. language or theme);
• Measuring website speed and diagnosing front-end errors;
• Delivering consented analytics or privacy-respecting telemetry.

While cookies alone do not generally reveal your legal identity, when combined with IP addresses and client identifiers, they may constitute the processing of personal data under applicable data protection statutes.

The term “cookies” within this Policy also encompasses functionally analogous browser storage technologies, including:

• Local Storage (HTML5 localStorage);
• Session Storage (HTML5 sessionStorage);
• IndexedDB web databases;
• Pixels, tracking tags, and web beacons.

Where these technologies process personal information, such operations are governed jointly by this Policy and our general Privacy Policy.

This Cookie Policy applies primarily to the 42play.net website.

Native Android, Steam, or desktop applications developed by 42Code.NET utilize software development kits (SDKs), native crash logging, and mobile telemetry rather than traditional browser cookies. Native mobile data flows are governed by our Privacy Policy.

42play.net employs cookies and local storage tokens for specific legitimate purposes:

• Delivering core site functionality and secure page transitions;
• Preserving your selected interface language across visits;
• Preventing malicious cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and bot attacks;
• Storing your cookie consent preferences;
• Measuring load performance and server response times;
• Providing consented statistical analytics to improve devlog readability.

Cookies used or potentially used on 42play.net are classified into distinct functional categories:

5.1. Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies

These cookies are indispensable for the website to function securely and reliably. They maintain active sessions, route requests, authenticate security tokens, and record your cookie choices.

Because the website cannot operate properly without them, essential cookies cannot be disabled through our consent banner and do not require prior affirmative consent under applicable electronic privacy directives.

Functional cookies enhance usability by remembering customized settings, such as your chosen interface language (e.g. English, Turkish, Arabic, German, Spanish) or theme configurations.

Where functional cookies involve non-essential features, they are deployed in accordance with applicable regional consent standards.

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our portal—such as which game pages are most popular and where technical 404 errors occur.

In jurisdictions requiring opt-in consent (such as the EU/EEA and UK), non-essential analytics cookies are kept disabled until explicit affirmative consent is granted.

42play.net does not currently display third-party behavioral advertisements or commercial banner ads.

Should promotional or affiliate measurement technologies be introduced in the future, advertising cookies will strictly require affirmative opt-in consent before activation.

First-party cookies are set directly by the 42play.net domain under our direct engineering control, primarily used for navigation state, security tokens, and language persistence.

If third-party tools (such as CDNs, video players, or external analytics) are embedded, the respective third party may set cookies. 42Code.NET evaluates third-party providers for compliance with international privacy benchmarks.

Certain pages may embed content from external platforms (e.g. YouTube gameplay trailers or Steam widgets). Loading external frames may permit those platforms to set their own cookies.

Where feasible, privacy-enhanced modes (e.g. youtube-nocookie.com) are utilized to minimize passive tracking.

Session cookies exist temporarily in memory and are automatically purged when you close your web browser. They maintain operational consistency while browsing pages.

Persistent cookies remain stored on your device for a defined duration (ranging from a few days to a maximum of 12 months) to remember your preferences (like your preferred language) between visits.

Cookie lifespans are strictly limited to what is reasonably necessary for their technical purpose. We periodically audit cookie expiries to ensure outdated tokens are purged automatically.

Where legally mandated by applicable law (e.g. the EU ePrivacy Directive and GDPR), non-essential cookies are not stored or read on your device without your prior, freely given, specific, and informed consent.

Continued browsing alone does not constitute valid affirmative opt-in consent.

When presented with a cookie consent mechanism, users are offered equally accessible choices:

• Accept All: Activates all permitted cookie categories;
• Reject All: Rejects all non-essential cookies, deploying only strictly necessary tokens;
• Manage Preferences: Allows granular category-by-category selection.

Non-essential cookie categories are never pre-selected by default. Affirmative opt-in requires an explicit positive action on the part of the user.

Access to the core content and public devlogs on 42play.net is never conditioned upon accepting non-essential tracking cookies (“no cookie walls”).

You have the statutory right to withdraw your cookie consent at any time. Revoking consent is designed to be as simple as granting it, and takes effect for all future processing.

You can manage or delete cookies at any time via your browser settings:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data;
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data;
• Apple Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data;
• Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and site permissions.

If you configure your browser to block all cookies (including strictly necessary technical cookies), certain interactive features—such as maintaining language preferences or submitting contact forms—may not function properly.

To demonstrate compliance with regulatory authorities, our systems store a minimized, pseudonymous technical record of your consent choice (including timestamp, consent version, and category preferences). This record is never used for behavioral advertising.

Cookie consent choices are not considered perpetual. You may be re-prompted to confirm preferences if substantial changes occur in our cookie architecture or after a reasonable interval (typically every 6 to 12 months).

Where cookies or client identifiers involve personal data, all processing is governed in full accordance with the 42Play / 42Code.NET Privacy Policy.

During HTTP web requests, IP addresses are transmitted automatically. We use IP telemetry for security firewalls, anti-DDoS mitigation, and determining approximate country/locale to present the site in your primary language.

Web cookies are distinct from mobile advertising IDs (such as Google Advertising ID / GAID or Apple IDFA). Mobile app identifiers are governed by mobile operating system settings and our Privacy Policy.

42play.net does not deploy third-party personalized advertising trackers across its web pages. If introduced in the future, personalized tracking will operate solely on an opt-in basis.

Where anonymous server-side or front-end analytics are utilized to monitor studio server health, data is aggregated and anonymized to prevent individual tracking.

Where content delivery networks (CDNs) or cloud hosting infrastructure are located overseas, technical transfer safeguards—including Standard Contractual Clauses—are maintained.

For users in Türkiye, cookie data processing adheres strictly to Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (KVKK) and the Guidelines on Cookies published by the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK Kurumu).

In the European Union and EEA, cookie deployment complies with the ePrivacy Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC) and the GDPR, guaranteeing prior consent for non-essential data access on terminal equipment.

In the United Kingdom, cookies are regulated under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR) and the UK GDPR, maintaining robust consent protocols.

For US residents, we adhere to applicable state privacy enactments regarding online tracking transparency and honor recognized browser opt-out signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC).

42play.net does not intentionally direct commercial tracking cookies or behavioral profiling at children under the age of digital consent.

We regularly audit our technical web assets to ensure that cookies listed in this Policy match actual network traffic. Unused or deprecated tokens are systematically retired.

Prior to integrating any new third-party widget, CDN, or telemetry script into 42play.net, a privacy impact evaluation is conducted, and our cookie declarations are updated accordingly.

We may revise this Cookie Policy as web technologies evolve. The latest version will always be published at https://42play.net/cookies with updated date stamps.

As 42Play is an independent publishing platform, multi-vendor marketplace shopping carts or third-party merchant seller cookies are not present on 42play.net.

For any questions or privacy inquiries regarding our use of cookies:

Studio: 42Play / 42Code.NET
Website: https://42play.net
Privacy & Cookie Inquiries: support@42code.net

This Cookie Policy reflects the actual, verified technical operations of 42play.net. Statutory rights guaranteed under mandatory domestic consumer and privacy legislation remain unaffected.