Cookies & Privacy Policies 

Cookies, simple text files, are used on theCafé.gg Network (called “our website”) only where they are strictly necessary for the site functionality. They are used to aid navigation, and for shopping to keep track of the contents of your favourites and shopping cart, to comment.

OK with cookies       Necessary cookies       Customise        Reject        Skip     

Your consent or otherwise enables theCafé.gg Network to comply with data privacy regulations under GDPR and CCPA.   If you Skip any choice, it will be deemed as Consent.  If you reject or turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use them. These cookies are either:

Temporary cookies which last only as long as your browser window is open and are automatically deleted once you close it.

Persistent cookies which have a longer shelf life and stay on your device for a predetermined period (hours, days, or even years) depending on their purpose. Such as Google Analytics cookies to measure how you use the website services, or remember my settings on the website.

You may change your cookie settings at any time in your browser’s Privacy settings.

Please note that the views expressed on or through theCafé.gg Network websites are those of the individual contributors writing in their individual capacities and do not necessarily represent the views of theCafé.gg Network’s owners, operators, employees or moderators.  Visitors/ readers are welcome to share their opinions, provided they do so respectfully and use language that is respectful of other users’ views.

If you leave a comment on our website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.   Read More in our Privacy Policy below.   

If you wish to register on theCafé.gg Network as a Creative Member of theCafé Society, the following Terms and Conditions of Use will apply.

Privacy Policy

theCafé.gg Network does not disclose users’ information to third parties other than when buyers’ order details are processed as part of fulfilment of an order. In this case, the third party will not disclose any of the details to any other third party. Cookies are used on this site where they are strictly necessary for the functionality of the website and its features. For example, they are used to aid navigation, for identifying comments you may leave, or shopping to keep track of the contents of your favourites and shopping cart.  Data collected by this site is used to:

  1. Enable users to comment on magazine articles
  2. Take and fulfil customer orders.
  3. Administer and enhance the site and service.
  4. Only disclose information to third-parties for goods delivery purposes
  5. Enable Creative Members to use the facilities provided by membership.

Cookies are simple text files stored on the device(s) you use to access our websites and each file is unique to your web browser : it will contain information that is anonymous (unique identifier, website’s domain name, numbers and digits). If you visit but do not create an account, the temporary cookies are deleted when you close your browser window. If you create an account and log-in, your logged-in status is recorded in a temporary cookie. If you select the ‘Remember Me’ Option in the checkout, a cookie will be used to remember your details. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use them. You can change your cookie settings at any time in your browser’s Privacy settings. There are cookies are of several types:

  • Essential : to enable our website to provide you with a good browsing experience for accessing and navigating through our website and using its features (e.g. recognising you are a Blog member who has created an account to respond to articles and is logged in).
  • Functional : to enable our website to operate in accordance to the choices you make (e.g. recognise your username and how you customised your choices for future visits by you).
  • Analytical : to collect non-personal datas on visitors’ activity and traffic to facilitate us, and third-party analytical services such as Google, to  aggregate/ group datas to produce statistics (such as numbers of visitors and how they interacted with our website).  The datas do not include names, email addresses and enable us to continue to improve users’ experiences of our websites.
  • Advertising or Notification :  if selected, to provide visitors with notification of items or events of interest, and to collect datas to build a visitor-profile on browsing and their interest (or otherwise) in advertising;

You can change your cookie settings in your browser’s Privacy settings at any time. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use them. If you wish to register on theCafé.gg Network as a Creative Member of theCafé Society, the following Terms and Conditions of Use will apply. Read more….

Comments

If you would like to leave comments, you need to create an account to which your comments are attributed. Please note that to help spam detection, when visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string.  An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you would like to upload images to the website relevant to your artifacts or content, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included as other Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the Visitor has visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you would like to leave comments on our website, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If users register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.