Cookie policy

A cookie is a small text file that a page saves in your browser and reads again later. It lets a site "remember" you from one visit to the next: for example, so your session doesn't get lost when you reload.

There are two families of cookies. First-party ones are saved by this site and read only by this site; without them you couldn't stay signed in or keep your table preferences. Third-party ones are saved by a different domain, almost always a provider this site connects to in order to measure visits or show advertising.

Cookies don't run programs, don't read your hard drive and don't see what you do outside whoever set them. Their risk is limited to what can be inferred from your browsing within the sites that use them, which is why the law requires that you're told what's stored and allowed to decide.

Behind the third-party cookies on this page are two specific providers. The first is Google Analytics, which measures how many visits the site gets, from which cities, and which rules pages are read most; it helps us know if what we write is useful. Its cookies start with _ga and generally expire after two years.

The second is Google AdSense, which handles the ads that keep the game free. Depending on your consent, it may store an advertising cookie that avoids showing you the same ad repeatedly, and it may measure whether an ad was seen or clicked. If you choose not to share personalised advertising, ads still appear, but chosen by context rather than history.

Both providers are covered by their own privacy policies, and the decision to enable them or not is yours: with third-party cookies rejected, the game works exactly the same.

Each cookie in the table has its own duration. Session cookies only live while the browser is open and disappear when you close it. The ones that keep your account session renew while you use it and expire on their own if you go a while without logging in. Measurement and advertising ones are usually set for months or years, which is why European regulation requires them to be explained one by one.

You can shorten any of these periods whenever you like: clearing your browser's cookies removes them all at once, and withdrawn consent stops them being created again.

If you accepted everything and have changed your mind, there are two routes. The first is your browser itself: go to its privacy settings, search for "cookies" and delete the ones from lascuarenta.es (The Forty). The next time you visit, the notice will ask you again and you can decide afresh.

The second is the panel just below: reconfiguring your cookies stops us activating the advertising and measurement ones that depend on your permission. First-party technical ones can't be disabled, because without them the site can't even remember you.

Neither route affects your games, your deck, your Sotas or your ad-free subscription: all of that lives in your account, on the server, not in your browser's cookies.