Legal
Cookie Policy
Effective August 3, 2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Sandscape ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website (www.sandscape.app) or use our multi-platform social gaming application and related services (collectively, the "Service"). It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides more detail on how we handle your personal information.
Strictly necessary Cookies operate when needed to provide the Service. Optional analytics and advertising Cookies are used only after you make an affirmative choice through our consent controls.
2. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or use an application. Cookies are widely used by online service providers to make their websites or services work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the service provider (in this case, Sandscape) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the service provider are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the service (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics).
Other similar tracking technologies include web beacons (also known as "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"), scripts, and local storage (like HTML5). These technologies can also store small amounts of data on your device or monitor your activity.
In this policy, we refer to all these technologies collectively as "Cookies."
3. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party Cookies for several reasons. Some Cookies are required for technical reasons for our Service to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" Cookies. Other Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Service, perform analytics, and serve advertising (primarily for free tier users).
The specific types of first-party and third-party Cookies served through our Service and the purposes they perform are described below:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Service and to enable you to use some of its features, such as accessing secure areas, processing payments, and ensuring basic functionality. Because these Cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Service, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Service functions.
- Examples: Session management, authentication, security, load balancing.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These Cookies help us understand how the Service is used, measure campaigns, identify popular features, and improve performance.
- Examples: Google Analytics 4 and internal consent-gated event tracking.
- Functionality Cookies: These Cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our Service. They enable us to personalize our content for you, remember your preferences (e.g., your choice of language or region, login details), and provide enhanced features.
- Examples: Remembering user settings, language preferences, login state.
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These Cookies and pixels measure whether an advertising campaign led to a visit or conversion and may support audience measurement or retargeting by the advertising provider. These are third-party technologies and are optional.
- Current example: Reddit Pixel.
- Social Media Cookies: These Cookies may be set by social media services that we have added to the site (e.g., share buttons) to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests, which may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit.
Current optional measurement providers
| Provider | Technology and identifier | Purpose | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
Google Analytics 4, G-YPD6HKTZFF | Site/app analytics and campaign measurement | Page views, bounded product events, waitlist, account registration, first playable, publication | |
| Google Tag Manager | Loads approved tags and distributes consent state; GTM is not itself a separate advertising destination | Consent and data-layer routing | |
Reddit Pixel, a2_jgrznudh0xn9 | Reddit campaign attribution and audience measurement | Page visit, lead, sign-up |
Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel are not currently enabled. We will update this table before enabling either service.
4. How Can You Control Cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject Cookies (other than Strictly Necessary Cookies).
- Cookie Consent Tool: When you first visit our website or application, the cookie banner lets you accept or reject all optional analytics and advertising Cookies. You can change that choice at any time using the Cookie settings below. Essential authentication and security Cookies are unaffected.
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control Cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service effectively.
- Find out how to manage Cookies on popular browsers:
- Mobile Device Settings: You can control advertising identifiers on your mobile device through your device settings. For iOS, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Tracking / Advertising. For Android, navigate to Settings > Google > Ads.
- Third-Party Opt-Outs: Many advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. For more information, visit:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): http://optout.aboutads.info/
- Network Advertising Initiative (NAI): http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (for users in Europe)
Refusing Cookies may impact your experience, and some functionality and features of the Service may become unavailable.
5. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the Cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of Cookies and related technologies. The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of Cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us using the details provided in our Privacy Policy or at privacy@sandscape.ai.