Cookie Policy
We use cookies to help improve your experience of our website at gamedna.studio. This cookie policy is part of gameDNA Ltd’s Privacy Policy. It covers the use of cookies between your device and our site. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – to prevent payment fraud and to play embedded videos. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Last updated: October 6, 2026
The tables below are provisional: they list the cookies and browser storage our site and its service providers set as we understand them today. We are confirming them with an audit and will update this policy with its results.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. The session and remember-me cookies identify your signed-in account, and the gamedna_user entry below holds your name, email address, initials, and team from sign-in until you sign out or, after your session expires, until your next visit. The Stripe entries identify your device to prevent fraud.
| Host | Cookies | Type | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gamedna.studio | gamedna-session | First Party | Keeps your session, including your sign-in | 2 Hours |
| gamedna.studio | XSRF-TOKEN | First Party | Protects forms against cross-site request forgery | 2 Hours |
| gamedna.studio | remember_web_* | First Party | Keeps you signed in when you choose to be remembered | 400 Days |
| gamedna.studio | __cf_bm | First Party (Cloudflare) | Tells people from automated bots | 30 Minutes |
| gamedna.studio | __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | First Party (Stripe) | Fraud prevention on the checkout and payment completion pages | 1 Year, 30 Minutes |
| m.stripe.com | m | Third Party | Fraud prevention on the checkout and payment completion pages | 2 Years |
| hcaptcha.com | Set by hCaptcha, to be confirmed by our audit | Third Party | Fraud and bot checks Stripe may load on the checkout and payment completion pages | Set by hCaptcha, to be confirmed by our audit |
We also use your browser's local storage:
| Storage | Key | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local storage | gamedna_user | Shows your name in the site header while you are signed in, and identifies you in the error reports our error monitoring (Sentry) receives | Until you sign out or, after your session expires, until your next visit |
Embedded Videos
Videos on our site play through YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). YouTube may set cookies and store information on your device when an embedded video loads or plays; Google’s privacy policy covers that information.
| Host | Cookies | Type | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| www.youtube-nocookie.com | Set by YouTube, to be confirmed by our audit | Third Party | Plays embedded videos | Set by YouTube, to be confirmed by our audit |