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Cookie Policy

Last updated 25 October 2026

Draft: this text is pending legal review and may change.

This policy explains which cookies and similar technologies, such as browser storage, CONTINIUM (“Continium”, “we”) uses on continium.gg, for what purposes and on what legal grounds. It follows Turkish Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data (“KVKK”) and the KVKK Authority's guide on cookies and, for visitors in the European Union / European Economic Area, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the ePrivacy Directive. No optional cookie runs before you make a choice.

1. Data controller

  • Name: [Company name]
  • Address: [Registered address]
  • MERSIS no: [MERSIS number]
  • VERBIS registration no: [VERBIS number]
  • Email: info@continium.gg
  • EU representative (GDPR Art. 27): [Representative name and address]

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files saved in your browser when you visit a website. In this policy “cookies” also covers similar technologies that store or read information on your device, such as the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage.

Cookies can be first-party (set by continium.gg) or third-party (set by another company, such as Microsoft), and session cookies (deleted when you close the browser) or persistent cookies (kept for a set period).

3. Categories we use and their legal grounds

  • Necessary: needed to sign in, keep your session secure, remember your language and cookie choice, and run basic features such as likes and view counts. They can't be switched off. Legal grounds: KVKK Art. 5/2-c (contract) and 5/2-f (legitimate interests); GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f); the “strictly necessary” exemption in Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive.
  • Analytics (Microsoft Clarity): measures clicks, scrolling and session replays with sensitive fields masked, so we can see where the site is hard to use. Runs only with your explicit consent. Legal grounds: KVKK Art. 5/1 (explicit consent); GDPR Art. 6(1)(a) (consent). We tell Clarity that advertising storage is refused.
  • Anonymous research: keeps daily totals of page types, gear searches and clicks to known shops (see section 5). Runs only with your explicit consent. Legal grounds: KVKK Art. 5/1 and GDPR Art. 6(1)(a) (consent), for sending this information from your device.

We don't use marketing or ad-targeting cookies. If such a category is ever added, this policy will be updated and your consent asked for separately.

We also count total visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device and creates no identifier for you, so it sits outside the consent categories (KVKK Art. 5/2-f, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).

4. Cookies and storage we use

Each entry shows the name, provider, purpose, duration and category.

  • cn_session — Continium — Signed-in member's session — 30 days — Necessary
  • cn_oauth — Continium — Security check during Discord or Google sign-in — 10 minutes — Necessary
  • cn_ref — Continium — Records who invited a new account, if you arrived through an invite link — 10 minutes — Necessary
  • cn_locale — Continium — Language (Turkish / English) — 1 year — Necessary
  • cn_vid — Continium — Random visitor id: remembers your likes while signed out; makes sure a post is counted once per visitor (the id is kept in our post-view records; signed-in members are counted by account instead); and is used for the hourly limit on the contact form, stored with your message for that purpose — 1 year — Necessary
  • cn_pv — Continium — Stops a post being counted again in the same browser session — session (deleted when you close the browser) — Necessary
  • cn_consent (browser storage) — Continium — Your cookie choice, the date and a random id used as proof of consent — 1 year (then you are asked again) — Necessary
  • cn_recent_searches, cn_reward_since, continium.guest-browsing.v1, continium.guest-context.v1, continium:apps:crosshair, continium:apps:converter and w5-draft:… (browser storage) — Continium — Recent searches, reward notices, guest preferences, crosshair and sensitivity tool settings and post drafts; stay on your device and are never sent to us — until deleted — Necessary (for the feature you use)
  • cn_daily_checkin and cn_pv_seen:… (session storage) — Continium — Daily reward status and posts read in this tab — deleted when the tab closes — Necessary
  • _clck, _clsk, CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID, SM — Microsoft (Clarity) — Analytics and session replay — from the session up to 1 year (_clsk 1 day, ANONCHK 10 minutes, MR 7 days, _clck, CLID and MUID 1 year, SM session) — Analytics. MUID and MR are general Microsoft cookies; we tell Clarity that advertising storage is refused, and Microsoft's use of them is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

Anonymous research sets no cookie of its own; it uses the choice stored in cn_consent above.

5. Anonymous research and aggregated reports

If you allow anonymous research, the pages you view, the searches you run and the external links you click are sent to our server, which turns them into a key that has nothing to do with a person, by the rules below, and only adds one to that day's total. Anything that doesn't fit the rules is dropped without being stored:

  • Pages: only site sections and catalog pages (products, categories, collections, blog posts, tools) are counted under their own address. Member profiles, posts, lists, reviews and communities are counted only by type (e.g. “profile”, “post”). Account, admin, sharing and all other pages are never counted; query strings are removed.
  • Searches: only terms that match a brand, category or product name in our catalog are kept (e.g. “glasspad”, “pulsar x2”). Searches containing names, usernames or free text are not kept.
  • External clicks: only the domain of shops in our catalog is kept (e.g. exampleshop.com); other sites and the rest of the link are not kept.
  • The totals contain no visitor id, account, IP address, device information or time of day; only the date, the type, the key and the count. The random consent id sent with each event is used only to check your choice and is never stored with the totals.

From these totals, and from content members publish openly on the site (such as gear and settings choices and product reviews), we may prepare industry reports containing only anonymous, aggregated statistics, and share them for a fee or free of charge with data and research companies, marketplaces and e-commerce sites, gaming gear brands, tournament organisers, coaching platforms and advertising networks.

Reports contain nothing that can identify you or anyone else. We do not sell, rent or share your personal data for money. Information we receive when you sign in with Discord or Google is never used in reports, sold or shared for advertising.

Producing aggregate statistics from published content relies on our legitimate interests (KVKK Art. 5/2-f, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)), weighed with particular care for the interests of members under 18. You can object by writing to info@continium.gg.

6. Transfers abroad

If you allow analytics, data collected by Microsoft Clarity is processed by Microsoft Corporation outside Türkiye, mainly in the United States. This transfer relies on the standard contract published by the KVKK Board under KVKK Art. 9 [signature and notification status]; for visitors in the EU/EEA it relies on Microsoft's certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the EU standard contractual clauses.

Anonymous research counters and consent records are stored on Cloudflare's infrastructure.

7. Age

Continium is open to users of all ages, and the cookie choices are the same for everyone. The site works fully if you reject the optional cookies (analytics and anonymous research).

We do not sell children's personal data or use it for ad targeting.

8. Managing your choices and withdrawing consent

The banner shown on your first visit offers “Accept all”, “Reject all” and “Preferences” with equal weight; no optional cookie loads until you choose. You are asked again after a year, and you can change your choice at any time from “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing consent doesn't affect the lawfulness of processing before you withdrew.

You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings; if you block necessary cookies, some features such as signing in won't work.

9. Retention

  • Cookies: for the durations in section 4.
  • Consent records (a random id, the categories you chose, the banner language, the date and the policy version; no account, IP or device information): [3] years from your last choice, as proof of consent.
  • Anonymous research counters: indefinitely, as they only hold keys unrelated to any person (page types, catalog terms, shop domains) and counts.

10. Your rights

To use your rights under Art. 11 of the KVKK (information, correction, deletion, objection and others) and, in the EU/EEA, under Arts. 15-22 of the GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection), write to info@continium.gg. We reply within 30 days at the latest. You can also complain to the Turkish Personal Data Protection Board or to the data protection authority of your EU country.

For how we process personal data in general, see our KVKK notice.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. When an optional category is added or an existing one changes purpose, we ask for your choice again. The date of the last update is at the top of the page.