Cookies Policy

Last updated: January 2025

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 and provide information to the website owners.

At Chiliz Sports, we use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and understand where our visitors are coming from.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for several important reasons:

  • To remember your cookie consent preferences
  • To protect our website from spam and abuse
  • To understand how visitors use our website
  • To improve our website and services
  • To show you relevant content and communications

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Functional Cookies (Always Active)

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You cannot disable these cookies.

Examples:

  • Cookie Consent Preferences: Stored in browser localStorage to remember your cookie choices
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: Security cookies to protect our contact form from spam and abuse
  • Session Cookies: Essential for maintaining your session while browsing our website

2. Preferences Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. These cookies do not track your browsing activity on other websites.

Examples:

  • Language Preferences: Remember your preferred language
  • UI Preferences: Remember your display preferences

3. Statistics Cookies (Analytics)

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website performance and user experience.

What we collect:

  • Google Analytics (GA4): We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. This includes:
    • Page views and navigation patterns
    • Session duration and bounce rates
    • Geographic location (country, region, city)
    • Device type, browser, and operating system
    • Traffic sources (how you found our website)
    • Form submission events (success/failure, not form content)
    • Anonymized IP addresses (IP anonymization enabled)
  • Performance Monitoring: Helps us identify and fix technical issues

Google Analytics data is processed in accordance with Google's privacy policy. We do not collect personally identifiable information through analytics cookies. For more information, see Google's Privacy Policy.

4. Marketing Cookies

These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display communications that are relevant and engaging for individual users, thereby making them more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

Examples:

  • Social Media Pixels: Enable social media features and track campaign effectiveness
  • Advertising Cookies: Used to show you relevant ads based on your interests

How to Control and Manage Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies (except for functional cookies which are essential for the website to work). You can manage your cookie preferences through:

1. Our Cookie Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie banner where you can accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences.

2. Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking "Manage cookies" in the footer of our website.

3. Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically find these settings in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser. Here are links to cookie settings for popular browsers:

Please note that blocking certain types of cookies may impact your experience on our website and limit the services we can provide.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these third-party cookies and recommend that you check the third-party websites for more information about how they use cookies.

Updates to This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please check this page periodically for updates.

Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including:

  • The right to access your personal data
  • The right to rectify inaccurate personal data
  • The right to request deletion of your personal data
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal data
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object to processing of your personal data
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time

Contact Us

If you have any questions/comments about this Cookies Policy please contact Us by sending an email to the following address dataprotection@chiliz.com with the subject "COOKIES POLICY REQUEST" or by writing to:

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

The Chiliz Group Limited,

Level 6, Wembley Business Centre, 179

Rue D'Argens

Msida MSD 1360, Malta