Cookie Policy

GAMESLIKE loads Cloudflare Web Analytics, Ahrefs Web Analytics, EU-hosted PostHog, and Sentry browser diagnostics only after you select Accept analytics. Rejecting analytics leaves the site available without these optional browser providers.

Anonymous server counts of outgoing store links continue before a choice and after rejection. They use no analytics cookies or browser storage and send no visitor IP addresses or visitor identifiers to PostHog. See Anonymous Store-Link Counts in the Privacy Policy.

Simple Analytics, Google Analytics, advertising tags, affiliate pixels, and affiliate attribution cookies are not loaded by the application.

The site may use strictly necessary cookies or storage for authentication, Steam sign-in state, security, account consent records, and protection against broken script reload loops.

`gameslike_steam_openid_state` keeps the Steam sign-in request tied to the browser that started it. It is HttpOnly, same-site, and expires after 10 minutes.

Google and Steam may create a short-lived, unfinished local account after they verify your identity. It cannot access account features until you accept the account terms. Choosing Not now removes the unfinished account and its local session. Accounts abandoned for more than 24 hours are removed during normal account-session maintenance after that point.

GAMESLIKE sets a strictly necessary session cookie after sign-in so the account stays signed in. Its lifetime follows the configured GAMESLIKE session settings.

Cloudflare may set `cf_clearance` when JavaScript detections or security challenges are enabled at the edge. This cookie supports bot and security checks; Cloudflare controls the exact lifetime and attributes.

The `gameslike-chunk-reload` sessionStorage key is only written after a failed Next.js chunk script load and prevents repeated reload loops.

The `gameslike-pending-save` sessionStorage key temporarily remembers one game you chose to save before signing in. It expires after 15 minutes and is cleared when the save is resumed or you cancel sign-in.

The necessary `gameslike_consent_v7` cookie records `accepted` or `rejected` with the decision timestamp for 180 days, Path=/, SameSite=Lax, and Secure on HTTPS. Missing or malformed values fail closed. A valid rejection in the earlier `gameslike_consent_v4` cookie remains respected, as do v5 and v6 rejections. Earlier acceptance requires a new choice under the updated analytics description.

Acceptance allows Cloudflare, Ahrefs, and PostHog to measure visits and performance. PostHog additionally measures traffic sources, campaigns, repeat visits, clicks, search outcomes, game selections, filters, saving friction, and store interest. Heatmaps and masked session replays help explain usability problems, with form contents and account details excluded. Sentry reports browser exception types and source-code locations under the same choice, without error-message text, account identifiers or replay.

PostHog's `ph_*_posthog` first-party cookie keeps a pseudonymous browser identifier, session state, and attribution information for up to 180 days from its last update. It is restricted to the current host and uses Secure on HTTPS. PostHog also uses sessionStorage for temporary tab and session state. This optional storage is only enabled after acceptance. Cookie lifetime is separate from server-side event retention, described in the Privacy Policy.

Use Cookie settings on any page to reopen the choice. Withdrawing consent stops new browser PostHog and Sentry events and replay capture, removes PostHog analytics storage, and reloads the page to stop the other optional providers. Requests already sent may finish. Necessary authentication and security storage is not removed.