Effective date: August 25, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how GameNewsPlus (gamenewsplus.net) uses cookies and similar technologies (such as browser storage) when you visit our site, and the choices available to you. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we handle personal information.
What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device to remember information about your visit. Similar technologies include browser storage mechanisms such as localStorage and sessionStorage, which some services use in place of, or alongside, cookies. Some of these technologies are placed by GameNewsPlus directly (first-party), and some are placed by the outside services we use, such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense (third-party).
Strictly Necessary Technologies
These are required for the site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They do not require consent under applicable law because they are essential to operating the site.
- Cloudflare: GameNewsPlus uses Cloudflare for content delivery and security (protecting the site against attacks and abuse). Cloudflare may set cookies for these security and performance purposes when specific Cloudflare features are active.
- Site performance technologies: our caching/performance plugin uses a short-lived browser storage flag to manage how scripts load on your device, purely to make pages load faster. This does not identify you and is not used for tracking.
- Google reCAPTCHA: where used, reCAPTCHA helps protect site forms from spam and automated abuse.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our site (such as which pages are viewed) so we can improve it. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to distinguish visitors and measure site usage. This category is not strictly necessary, and where consent is legally required (see “Your Choices” below), it will not be activated until you consent.
You can learn more about how Google uses this information at Google’s page on how it uses information from sites that use its services and see analytics-specific detail via Google Analytics support.
Advertising
We use Google AdSense to display ads on our site. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, measure their performance, and — where you have consented — personalize the ads you see based on your interests. This category is not strictly necessary, and where consent is legally required, personalized advertising will not be activated until you consent; non-personalized advertising may still be shown to fund the site.
You can learn more about Google’s advertising cookies at Google’s page on how it uses information from sites that use its services, review AdSense-specific information via Google AdSense support, and control the ad personalization Google shows you across its own services at Google’s My Ad Center.
Consent / Preferences Storage
Once our consent management tool is active, your choice to consent to, or decline, non-essential cookies (Analytics and Advertising) will itself be recorded so that the site can remember your preference on future visits and so you don’t have to make the same choice repeatedly. See “Your Choices” below for how to open or reopen this tool.
Your Choices
- Consent choices for Analytics and Advertising: where GameNewsPlus detects that you are visiting from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, or from a US state with an applicable privacy law, you will be presented with a consent message before non-essential cookies are used. That message lets you consent, decline, or manage detailed options for each provider listed.
- Changing your choice later: use the “Privacy and cookie settings” link in the site footer at any time to reopen the consent tool and change your previous choice.
- Browser controls: you can also control or delete cookies through your browser’s own settings. Note that blocking all cookies may affect how the site functions.
- Google’s own controls: you can manage how Google personalizes advertising to you across the web at Google’s My Ad Center, independently of the choice you make on our site.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the technologies we use or in applicable law. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us at [email protected].