Cookie Policy for StardewValleyMods.org
Effective Date: July 7, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how StardewValleyMods.org (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website at https://stardewvalleymods.org (the “Site”).
1. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, to provide a better Browse experience, and to provide information to the website owners.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes, including:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are essential for the operation of our Site. They enable core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, the Site cannot function properly.
- Performance/Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use our Site, such as which pages you visit most often, how long you stay on them, and if you encounter any errors. This data helps us improve the performance and design of our Site. We use [e.g., Google Analytics] for this purpose.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make (like your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
- Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks (e.g., Google AdSense) with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers.
3. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These third parties may include:
- Google AdSense: For serving advertisements. Google uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Google Analytics: For website analytics and understanding user behavior.
4. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
You can manage your cookie preferences through:
- Browser Settings: You can typically find these settings in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser.
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40c9-933e-0c74-b617bd788264
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
- Cookie Consent Banner: Upon your first visit to our Site, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner. This banner allows you to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences. You can typically revisit your preferences at any time by clicking a “Cookie Settings” or “Manage Cookies” link usually found in our site’s footer.
- Advertising Opt-Out: You can opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting:
- Google’s Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) opt-out page: https://youradchoices.com/
5. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
- Email: stardewvalleymodsorg@gmail.com
- Website: https://stardewvalleymods.org/contact-us.