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Purpose of this cookie policy
This policy explains how KarasuCS uses cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar browser technologies on the website and platform. It works together with the Privacy Policy, GDPR Rights notice, and Terms of Service.
Some storage is required for login, security, routing, account protection, checkout, and platform reliability. Optional categories are only meant to support analytics, personalization, or marketing-style measurement where those features are enabled and allowed by your choices.
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What cookies and browser storage are
Cookies are small text values saved by your browser. Local storage and session storage are similar browser-side storage areas. KarasuCS may use these technologies to remember session state, security choices, preferences, and consent choices.
The exact names and providers can change as KarasuCS develops, but the purposes below explain how these technologies are expected to be used.
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Essential cookies and storage
- Authentication and session cookies that keep you signed in and connect requests to the right account.
- Security, anti-abuse, nonce, request-validation, and rate-limit related storage that helps protect accounts, admin tools, payment flows, support, and match systems.
- Preference and routing storage needed to keep the site functional, remember safe redirects, maintain protected page access, or complete account setup.
- Cookie preference storage, including the KarasuCS cookie preferences value, so the site can remember whether optional categories were accepted or rejected.
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Analytics cookies and storage
Analytics storage may be used to understand aggregate site usage, page performance, feature reliability, queue health, error rates, and whether users can complete important flows such as sign-in, onboarding, checkout, support, or match connection.
Where analytics is optional, it should respect your cookie settings. KarasuCS does not need analytics to sell player profiles; analytics should be used to improve platform reliability and understand aggregate product health.
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Personalization cookies and storage
Personalization storage may remember interface preferences, language or locale choices, display settings, dismissed notices, or similar experience choices. Some preferences may be essential if disabling them would break account, security, or match workflows.
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Marketing cookies and storage
Marketing storage may be used only where KarasuCS enables marketing-style measurement, campaign attribution, referral tracking, or promotional effectiveness checks. These are optional where consent is required.
KarasuCS support-only messaging for Karasu+ must stay separate from pay-to-win or priority claims. Cookie choices do not affect competitive access, moderation treatment, anti-cheat review, or match outcomes.
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Third-party cookies and providers
- Steam may use its own cookies or login technologies when you authenticate through Steam or interact with Steam-controlled pages.
- Payment providers may use cookies or fraud-prevention technologies during checkout, subscription management, refunds, or chargeback handling.
- Hosting, CDN, monitoring, analytics, email, support, or security providers may use cookies or similar technologies where needed to provide their services.
- KarasuCS does not control every third-party cookie used on third-party pages. Their own privacy and cookie notices may apply when you leave KarasuCS-controlled pages.
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Consent and changing your choices
You can use the cookie settings controls on this page to accept all optional categories, reject optional categories, or save a custom choice. Essential cookies remain enabled because the platform cannot safely provide login, security, matchmaking, checkout, support, or protected pages without them.
You can also clear cookies and site data in your browser. If you clear storage, KarasuCS may forget your saved preferences and ask again, and some account or security flows may require you to sign in again.
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If cookies are blocked
Blocking required cookies or storage can stop login, account linking, queue access, match connection flows, checkout, support, protected pages, security checks, or admin functions from working correctly.
Blocking optional categories should not prevent normal use of KarasuCS, but it may reduce our ability to measure reliability, remember non-essential preferences, or understand which public pages are useful.
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Retention
Cookie and browser-storage retention depends on purpose. Session values may expire quickly, while preference values may last longer so your choices are remembered. The current KarasuCS cookie preference value is designed to last for up to one year unless you update it, clear it, or the browser removes it sooner.
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Changes to this policy
We may update this cookie policy when KarasuCS changes, when vendors change, when optional analytics or marketing tools change, or when legal requirements change. Material updates may be announced on the site or in-platform where practical.
