1. What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. On the next visit the browser sends it back, so the site can recognise the browser and remember settings such as an answer you already gave. This policy also covers equivalent technologies — local storage, session storage and the identifiers used by browser push notifications — because they raise exactly the same questions.
Cookies set by dungeonsignal.com are called first-party. Cookies set by a service loaded into the page, such as an analytics or advertising provider, are called third-party.
2. Categories we use
2.1 Necessary
These make the site work and cannot be switched off from within the site. They store no advertising identifiers and are not used to profile you.
| Entry | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| ds-cookie-choice (local storage, first-party) | Remembers whether you accepted or declined the cookie notice so it is not shown again on every page. | Until you clear browser storage, reviewed after 12 months |
| Hosting and security entries (first-party) | Load balancing, protection against automated abuse and delivery of the correct version of a page. | Session to 12 months |
| OneSignal push identifier (first-party storage plus a service worker) | Created only if you allow browser notifications. Identifies your browser so a notification can be delivered to it. | Until you block notifications or clear site data |
2.2 Analytics
Loaded only after you choose "Accept" in the cookie notice. They tell us, in aggregate, which reviews are read and how people move through the site, so we can decide what to write next. They are not used to identify you personally.
| Entry | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Visit identifier (third-party) | Distinguishes one browser from another so that repeat visits are not counted twice. | Up to 13 months |
| Session identifier (third-party) | Groups the pages viewed in a single sitting into one session. | 30 minutes to 24 hours |
2.3 Advertising and marketing
Loaded only after you choose "Accept". These support the promotional placements described in our terms of use: they limit how often the same advertisement is shown and measure whether it was seen or clicked. Push notification tags submitted through the update form — your email address, name, telephone number, the site domain and the source of the subscription — also sit in this category, because they are used to send you editorial messages.
| Entry | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising network identifier (third-party) | Frequency capping and measurement of promotional placements. | Up to 13 months |
| Push subscription tags (OneSignal, our processor) | Attach the details you submitted in the form to your notification record so updates reach the right subscriber. | Until consent is withdrawn |
3. How your agreement works
On your first visit a notice appears at the bottom of the screen. Nothing in the analytics or advertising categories is loaded before you answer it.
- Accept allows the analytics and advertising categories in addition to the necessary ones.
- Decline keeps only the necessary entries; the site continues to work normally.
Your answer is stored in your browser, not on our servers, and applies to that browser on that device. Browser push notifications require a second, separate agreement: the tick box in the update form and then the browser's own permission prompt.
4. Changing or withdrawing your choice
- On this site: clear the site's storage for dungeonsignal.com in your browser settings. The notice will appear again on the next visit and you can answer differently.
- In your browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge all allow cookies to be blocked or deleted, either globally or for a single site. Look for "Privacy", "Site settings" or "Cookies and site data" in the settings menu.
- For push notifications: open the site settings for dungeonsignal.com and set notifications to "block". Delivery stops immediately.
- For email updates: use the unsubscribe link in any message, or write to [email protected].
Blocking all cookies, including the necessary ones, may mean the cookie notice reappears on every page and that some settings are not remembered.
5. Cookies set by others
Where a third-party service is loaded with your agreement, that provider is responsible for its own entries and publishes its own policy. We keep the number of such services deliberately small and review the list whenever the site changes.
6. Relation to the privacy policy
Cookies are one of several ways in which data about your visit is collected. What happens to that data afterwards — the purposes, the retention periods, the providers involved and your rights, including the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada — is set out in the privacy policy.
7. Questions
Write to [email protected] with the subject line "Cookies" and we will answer in writing.