1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They're kind of like a little sticky note that a website leaves on your device — a friendly reminder of your preferences, session status, and choices so the site can recognise you on your next visit.
Cookies were created to make web browsing smoother and more personalised. Without cookies, you'd need to log in every single time you visit a page, re-enter your preferences constantly, and websites would have no way of providing a continuous, tailored experience across sessions.
Cookies can be set by the website you're visiting (called "first-party cookies") or by third-party services that website uses (called "third-party cookies"). They can be "session cookies," which are deleted when you close your browser, or "persistent cookies," which remain on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them.
Friday Morning Gaming uses only first-party cookies and a minimal set of third-party analytics tools. We do not use advertising cookies, tracking pixels for ad targeting, or any cookies designed to follow you across the web. Our cookies are here purely to make your experience on our platform better — nothing more.
Other technologies similar to cookies — such as local storage, session storage, and similar tools — may also be used by our platform to store small amounts of data on your device. This policy covers all such technologies collectively.
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use three categories of cookies on Friday Morning Gaming. Here's a high-level overview before we dig into the details of each:
| Category | Purpose | Can Be Declined? | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | Core platform functionality, security, session management | No (required) | Session to 1 year |
| Analytics | Understanding how visitors use the site, improving platform | Yes | Up to 2 years |
| Preference | Remembering your choices, settings, and game progress | Yes (affects experience) | Up to 1 year |
We do not use advertising cookies, social media tracking cookies, or any cookies intended to build profiles of your activity across other websites. Friday Morning Gaming is not in the advertising business — we're in the fun business.
3. Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are strictly necessary for the Friday Morning Gaming platform to function correctly. Without these cookies, certain features of the site simply cannot work — for example, you wouldn't be able to stay logged in to your account, your age verification couldn't be remembered, and our security measures couldn't function properly.
Because essential cookies are required for the platform to operate, they cannot be declined through our cookie banner. However, you can always delete them through your browser settings (see Section 7), though doing so may significantly impair your ability to use the Platform.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| fmg_session | Maintains your login session and account authentication | First-party | Session |
| fmg_age | Remembers that you've confirmed you are 19+ in Canada | First-party (localStorage) | 1 year |
| fmg_csrf | Protects against cross-site request forgery attacks | First-party | Session |
| fmg_cookie | Records your cookie consent preference | First-party (localStorage) | 1 year |
4. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors find and use Friday Morning Gaming, which pages are most popular, how long people spend on the platform, and where any technical issues might be occurring. This information is invaluable for helping us improve the platform and make the experience better for everyone.
The data collected by analytics cookies is aggregated and anonymised wherever possible — we're interested in patterns and trends, not in tracking individual users. We do not use analytics data to build personal profiles or to target you with advertising.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| fmg_analytics | Tracks anonymised page views and session duration | First-party | 2 years |
| fmg_perf | Measures page load times and performance metrics | First-party | 6 months |
| fmg_ref | Tracks how visitors arrived at the site (referral source) | First-party | 30 days |
You can opt out of analytics cookies by clicking "Decline" on our cookie banner when you first visit the site, or by adjusting your cookie preferences at any time.
5. Preference Cookies
Preference cookies allow Friday Morning Gaming to remember choices you make to give you a more personalised experience. These might include your display preferences, sound settings, the last game you were playing, your notification preferences, and similar customisations.
Without preference cookies, you'll still be able to use the Platform, but you'll need to re-set your preferences each time you visit. We think these cookies genuinely improve the experience — it's always nicer when the platform remembers that you prefer the sunny orange colour scheme!
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| fmg_prefs | Stores your display and notification preferences | First-party | 1 year |
| fmg_game_state | Saves your game progress and recent achievements | First-party (localStorage) | 1 year |
| fmg_theme | Remembers your visual theme preference | First-party | 1 year |
6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You are in control of your cookies on Friday Morning Gaming. There are several ways you can manage your preferences:
Our Cookie Banner
When you first visit our platform, we display a cookie banner at the bottom of the screen. Clicking "Accept" allows all categories of cookies. Clicking "Decline" will disable analytics and preference cookies while keeping essential cookies active (since those are required for the platform to work).
Browser Settings
All modern browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies through their settings menus. See Section 7 for step-by-step instructions for popular browsers. Note that clearing all cookies will log you out of your account and reset your preferences.
Browser Extensions
Various browser extensions and privacy tools can also help you manage cookies across all websites you visit. These tools give you granular control and can be useful if you want consistent privacy settings across your entire browsing experience.
Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" signal. While there is no legal requirement for websites to honour this signal, Friday Morning Gaming respects it where technically feasible by minimising non-essential tracking when this signal is detected.
7. Browser-Specific Instructions
Here's how to manage cookies in the four most popular browsers used by our community:
Google Chrome
- Click the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of Chrome
- Select Settings from the dropdown menu
- Click Privacy and security in the left sidebar
- Click Cookies and other site data
- Choose your preferred cookie setting, or click See all cookies and site data to manage specific cookies
- To delete cookies from Friday Morning Gaming specifically, search for "fridaymorninggaming.com" and remove those entries
Mozilla Firefox
- Click the three-line menu (☰) in the top-right corner of Firefox
- Select Settings (or Options on older versions)
- Click Privacy & Security in the left panel
- Under the Cookies and Site Data section, click Manage Data...
- Search for "fridaymorninggaming.com" to manage our specific cookies
- You can also adjust Enhanced Tracking Protection settings from this panel
Apple Safari (macOS & iOS)
- On macOS: Click Safari in the menu bar, then Preferences (or Settings)
- On iOS: Open Settings, scroll down to Safari
- Click or tap the Privacy tab
- On macOS, click Manage Website Data... to view and delete specific site cookies
- On iOS, you can tap Advanced then Website Data for similar options
- Toggle Prevent Cross-Site Tracking on for additional privacy protection
Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot menu (…) in the top-right corner of Edge
- Select Settings from the dropdown
- Click Cookies and site permissions in the left panel
- Click Manage and delete cookies and site data
- Click See all cookies and site data to browse by site
- Search for "fridaymorninggaming.com" to manage our cookies specifically
Please note: the exact menu names and steps may vary slightly depending on your browser version. If you're unsure, searching "[browser name] manage cookies" in any search engine will find up-to-date instructions.
8. Questions? Contact Us!
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, how we use cookies, or how to manage your preferences, please don't hesitate to get in touch. We're real people and we're happy to help clarify anything.
- Email: privacy@fridaymorninggaming.com
- General Inquiries: hello@fridaymorninggaming.com
- Contact Form: Visit our Contact page
We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 2 business days. This Cookie Policy was last updated on March 18, 2026, and may be revised from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. We will post any updates on this page.
For broader privacy information, please also review our full Privacy Policy.