Cookie Policy
Cookie Policy of Royal Road
This document informs Users about the technologies that help Royal Road to achieve the purposes described below. Such technologies allow the Owner to access and store information (for example by using a Cookie) or use resources (for example by running a script) on a User’s device as they interact with Royal Road.
For simplicity, all such technologies are defined as "Trackers" within this document – unless there is a reason to differentiate.
For example, while Cookies can be used on both web and mobile browsers, it would be inaccurate to talk about Cookies in the context of mobile apps as they are a browser-based Tracker. For this reason, within this document, the term Cookies is only used where it is specifically meant to indicate that particular type of Tracker.
Some of the purposes for which Trackers are used may also require the User's consent. Whenever consent is given, it can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.
Royal Road uses Trackers managed directly by the Owner (so-called “first-party” Trackers) and Trackers that enable services provided by a third-party (so-called “third-party” Trackers). Unless otherwise specified within this document, third-party providers may access the Trackers managed by them.
The validity and expiration periods of Cookies and other similar Trackers may vary depending on the lifetime set by the Owner or the relevant provider. Some of them expire upon termination of the User’s browsing session.
In addition to what’s specified in the descriptions within each of the categories below, Users may find more precise and updated information regarding lifetime specification as well as any other relevant information — such as the presence of other Trackers — in the linked privacy policies of the respective third-party providers or by contacting the Owner.
How Royal Road uses Trackers
Necessary
Royal Road uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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localStorage (Royal Road)
localStorage allows Royal Road to store and access data right in the User's browser with no expiration date.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
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Browser Fingerprinting (Royal Road)
Browser Fingerprinting creates an identifier based on a device's unique combination of characteristics (e.g. IP address, HTTP header, browser properties etc.), that allows to distinguish the User from other Users, thereby enabling to track the User's browsing behavior across the web. Browser Fingerprinting does not have an expiration date and cannot be deleted.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
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Preference Cookies (Royal Road)
Preference Cookies store the User preferences detected on Royal Road in the local domain such as, for example, their timezone and region.
Personal Data processed: Trackers.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Cloudflare (Cloudflare)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through Royal Road, i.e., communication between Royal Road and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from Royal Road to be collected.Personal Data processed: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- _cfuvid: indefinite
- cf_clearance: 30 minutes
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Google Hosted Libraries (Google LLC)
Google Hosted Libraries is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Google LLC.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)
Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- _GRECAPTCHA: duration of the session
- rc::a: indefinite
- rc::b: duration of the session
- rc::c: duration of the session
- rc::f: indefinite
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Payments processed via the Google Play Store (Google LLC)
Royal Road uses a payment service provided by Google LLC that allows the Owner to offer the purchase of the app itself or in-app purchases.
Personal Data processed to complete the purchases are processed by Google, as described in the privacy policy for the Google Play store.
Personal Data processed: device information, payment info, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
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Payments processed via the Apple App Store (Apple Inc.)
Royal Road uses a payment service provided by Apple Inc. that allows the Owner to offer the purchase of the app itself or in-app purchases.
Personal Data processed to complete the purchases are processed by Apple, as described in the privacy policy for the App Store.
Personal Data processed: device information, email address, payment info, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Experience
Royal Road uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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Comment system managed directly (Royal Road)
Royal Road has its own internal content comment system.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, email address, Usage Data and username.
Measurement
Royal Road uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyse User behaviour to improve the Service.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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Analytics collected directly (Royal Road)
Royal Road uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Trackers duration:
- modernizr: indefinite
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GrowthBook (self-hosted) (Royal Road)
GrowthBook (self-hosted) is an A/B testing feature built into Royal Road.
Personal Data processed: browser information, browsing history, clicks, crash data, device information, device logs, interaction events, operating systems, page views, scroll position, scroll-to-page interactions, Trackers and Usage Data.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Royal Road, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- AMP_TOKEN: 1 hour
- _ga: 2 years
- _gac*: 3 months
- _gat: 1 minute
- _gid: 1 day
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Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Royal Road, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
In Google Analytics 4, IP addresses are used at collection time and then discarded before Data is logged in any data center or server. Users can learn more by consulting Google’s official documentation.In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: browser information, city, device information, latitude (of city), longitude (of city), number of Users, session statistics, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- _ga: 2 years
- _ga_*: 2 years
Marketing
Royal Road uses Trackers to deliver personalized ads or marketing content, and to measure their performance.
Some of the advertising services used by the Owner adhere to the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework, an initiative that facilitates responsible privacy practices across the digital advertising industry - providing Users with enhanced transparency and control over how their data are used for advertising tracking purposes. Users can customize their advertising preferences at any time by accessing the advertising preferences panel from within the cookie notice or via the relevant link on Royal Road.
Royal Road participates in the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework and complies with its Specifications and Policies. Royal Road uses Nitro (Manage consent) as a Consent Management Platform.
Trackers managed directly by the Owner
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Direct Advertising (Royal Road)
Royal Road uses User Data to propose services or products provided by third parties, related or unrelated to the product or service provided by Royal Road.
Direct Advertising may involve the use of Trackers to monitor Users’ behavior and serve personalized ads. Users may opt-out of ad personalization by visiting their device settings or following the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices and AdChoices.
Besides applicable device settings, the User may also make use of the rights described under User rights in the relevant section of this privacy policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Trackers managed by third parties
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Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)
Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.
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Google AdSense (Google Inc.)
Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing. This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of Royal Road and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_
: 3 months - _gac_gb_
: 3 months - _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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AppNexus (AppNexus Inc.)
AppNexus is an advertising service provided by AppNexus Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Trackers duration:
- anj: 3 months
- icu: 3 months
- pses: duration of the session
- sess: duration of the session
- uids: 3 months
- usersync: 3 months
- uuid2: 3 months
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Google Ad Manager (Google Ireland Limited)
Google Ad Manager is an advertising service provided by Google Ireland Limited that allows the Owner to run advertising campaigns in conjunction with external advertising networks that the Owner, unless otherwise specified in this document, has no direct relationship with. In order to opt out from being tracked by various advertising networks, Users may make use of Youronlinechoices. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy.
This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of Royal Road and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- Conversion: 3 months
- DSID: 14 days
- FCNEC: 1 year
- FLC: 10 seconds
- FPAU: 3 months
- FPGCLAW: 3 months
- FPGCLDC: 3 months
- FPGCLGB: 3 months
- GCL_AW_P: 3 months
- GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY: duration of the session
- IDE: 2 years
- NID: 6 months
- RUL: 1 year
- __gads: 2 years
- __gpi: 2 years
- __gpi_optout: 2 years
- __gsas: 2 years
- _gac_
: 3 months - _gac_gb_
: 3 months - _gcl_ag: 3 months
- _gcl_au: 3 months
- _gcl_aw: 3 months
- _gcl_dc: 3 months
- _gcl_gb: 3 months
- _gcl_gf: 3 months
- _gcl_gs: 3 months
- _gcl_ha: 3 months
- ar_debug: 3 months
- id: 2 years
- receive-cookie-deprecation: 6 months
- test_cookie: 15 minutes
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PubMatic (PubMatic, Inc.)
PubMatic is an advertising service provided by PubMatic, Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- COKENBLD: 1 day
- DPFQ: 3 months
- DPPIX_ON: 20 seconds
- DPSync2: 3 months
- DPSync3: 3 months
- DPSync4: 3 months
- FPtrust: duration of the session
- HPAUSRBK_
_ : 2 minutes - KADUSERCOOKIE: 1 year
- KCCH: 30 seconds
- KRTBCOOKIE_[DSPID]: 3 months
- KTPCACOOKIE: 1 day
- PM-UL-Sync: 1 month
- PMDTSHR: 1 day
- PMFREQ_ON: 2 seconds
- PUBMDCID: 3 months
- PUBRETARGET: 3 months
- PUBUIDSYNCUPFQ: 3 months
- PubMatic: indefinite
- PubMatic_GPP: indefinite
- PubMatic_USP: indefinite
- PugT: 1 month
- R_[DSPID]: 3 months
- SPugT: 1 month
- SSCS: 1 day
- SYNCUPPIX_ON: 20 seconds
- SyncRTB2: 3 months
- SyncRTB3: 3 months
- SyncRTB4: 3 months
- TEMPHPAUSRBKCNT_
_ : 1 day - UND: 1 hour
- USCC: 1 day
- _curtime: 2 hours
- _evidon_consent_ls_
- _evidon_visitor_ls_
: indefinite - aid_key: indefinite
- camfreq_
: 40 minutes - chk: 3 months
- chkChromeAb67: 3 months
- chkChromeAb67Sec: 3 months
- chkSecSet: 3 months
- dV: 3 minutes
- ipc: 3 seconds
- limited_tracking_ad_key: indefinite
- optout: 6 years
- pi: 8 seconds
- pp: 3 months
- pubfreq_
_ _ : 40 minutes - pubtime_
: 1 month - repi: 2 seconds
- uids: 3 months
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33Across (33Across)
33Across is an advertising service provided by 33Across.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Trackers duration:
- 33x_ps: 2 years
- pids: 4 months
- ps_pid: 2 years
- uid: 2 years
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Sovrn (Sovrn Holdings Inc)
Sovrn is an advertising service provided by Sovrn Holdings Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration: up to 1 year
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OpenX Ad Exchange (OpenX Technologies, Inc.)
OpenX Ad Exchange is an advertising service provided by OpenX Technologies, Inc.
The service provides an ad exchange platform that facilitates the optimization of ads from multiple ad networks, which can be third parties to both OpenX and the Owner.Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Trackers duration:
- i: 1 year
- pd: 15 days
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Verizon Media (EMEA) (Oath (EMEA) Limited)
Verizon Media (EMEA) is an advertising service provided by Oath (EMEA) Limited.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Trackers duration:
- A3: 2 years
- IDSYNC: 2 years
- TEARSHEET: 30 minutes
- _vm_datax_pixels: indefinite
- adaptv_unique_user_cookie: 2 years
- adaptv_unique_user_id: 2 years
- migrated2y: 3 years
- optout: 3 years
- rtbdata0: 3 years
- sp-pause-until': indefinite
- token_adaptv_advertising_com: 3 years
- uids: 2 years
- unique_ad_source_impression: 1 month
- vmcid: indefinite
- vmuuid: indefinite
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Amazon Mobile Ads (Amazon)
Amazon Mobile Ads is an advertising service provided by Amazon.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Trackers duration:
- *sessionMarker/marker: indefinite
- ad-id: 10 months
- amzn-token: 7 days
- vendor-id: 1 month
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district m (district m inc.)
district m is an advertising service provided by district m inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
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Venatus (Venatus Media Limited)
Venatus is an advertising service provided by Venatus Media Limited.
Personal Data processed: Tracker and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United Kingdom – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Trackers duration: indefinite
Trackers that do not fit the above categorizations
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Interest Based Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when users visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on our site, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, check out
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
How to manage preferences and provide or withdraw consent on Royal Road
Whenever the use of Trackers is based on consent, users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting or updating their preferences via the relevant privacy choices panel available on Royal Road.
With regard to any third-party Trackers, Users can manage their preferences via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
How to control or delete Cookies and similar technologies via your device settings
Users may use their own browser settings to:
- See what Cookies or other similar technologies have been set on the device;
- Block Cookies or similar technologies;
- Clear Cookies or similar technologies from the browser.
The browser settings, however, do not allow granular control of consent by category.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
Users may also manage certain categories of Trackers used on mobile apps by opting out through relevant device settings such as the device advertising settings for mobile devices, or tracking settings in general (Users may open the device settings and look for the relevant setting).
How to opt out of interest-based advertising
Notwithstanding the above, Users may follow the instructions provided by YourOnlineChoices (EU and UK), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.
The Digital Advertising Alliance offers an application called AppChoices that helps Users to control interest-based advertising on mobile apps.
Consequences of denying the use of Trackers
Users are free to decide whether or not to allow the use of Trackers. However, please note that Trackers help Royal Road to provide a better experience and advanced functionalities to Users (in line with the purposes outlined in this document). Therefore, if the User chooses to block the use of Trackers, the Owner may be unable to provide related features.
Owner and Data Controller
6094/7
Nazareth, Galilee 16040
Israel
Owner contact email: admin@royalroad.com
Since the use of third-party Trackers through Royal Road cannot be fully controlled by the Owner, any specific references to third-party Trackers are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, Users are kindly requested to consult the privacy policies of the respective third-party services listed in this document.
Given the objective complexity surrounding tracking technologies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of such technologies by Royal Road.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through Royal Road (or third-party services employed in Royal Road), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use Royal Road, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User
The individual using Royal Road who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Processor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of Royal Road. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of Royal Road.
Royal Road (or this Application)
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by Royal Road as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookie
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations.
This privacy policy relates solely to Royal Road, if not stated otherwise within this document.
Latest update: December 19, 2024