Cookie Policy
ARCHIVED 2021-08-01, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20210801_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20200915_rev01
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| 37 | 37 | Yandex may use web beacons (pixel tags) to access cookies previously placed on your device. Their use is necessary to analyze your activities when using the Services through accessing and using the cookie files stored on your device for collection of statistics on the operation of the Services or other Yandex products and utilities. |
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| 39 | 39 | Yandex also uses cookie containers with multiple values, called Y-cookies. For example, a cookie container named _ys_ stores the Yandex data for the duration of the user session (until you close the page or browser window). The Y-cookie reduces the number of cookies processed by your browser and improves page loading. |
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| 41 | 41 | Yandex's web analytics tool Yandex.Metrica allows us to collect impersonal information about website traffic and its sources, and evaluate ad effectiveness. For counting website visitors Yandex.Metrica uses anonymous browser identifiers stored in cookies. You can read more about cookies used by Yandex.Metrica [here](https://yandex.ru/support/metrica/general/cookie-usage.html). |
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| 43 | Yandex may use Google Analytics on the gaming platform located at: [https://yandex.com/games](https://yandex.com/games/). Yandex uses Google Analytics cookies to provide you with gaming services for the purpose of maintaining and improving them, developing new features and services, personalizing content and measuring the effectiveness of advertising. The information received through Google Analytics is used in accordance with the [Privacy Disclosures Policy](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7318509), as well as with specific guidelines on [how Google uses data of partners' sites or apps](http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/). For more details on functionality, security and analytics features of the cookies used by Google Analytics, as well as managing cookies' preferences, please visit [Types of Cookies Used by Google](https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies). | |
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| 43 | 45 | Disabling some of the above types of cookies may affect proper functioning of our sites and Services. For example, access to sections of the Services that require authorization is provided by technical cookies, and without their use, the site may not work correctly. |
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| 45 | 47 | Yandex uses session cookies to provide a comfortable user experience on the Services. For example, the file _cookie\_check_ memorizes your authorization on the Services, so that when you switch to another domain within the Services, you do not need to go through the authorization process again. Session cookies expire at the end of each session when you close the page or browser window. |
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| 47 | 49 | Yandex may also use cookies that stored for a longer period, for example, to remember your preferences on the Services, such as language or location. How long collected data will be stored on your device depends on the type of cookies, which are automatically removed from your system as soon as their task is performed. |
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| 57 | 59 | Information collected through cookies is stored in accordance with applicable law and provisions of Sections 7 and 8 of the [Privacy Policy](https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/index.html). |
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| 59 | 61 | Yandex partners may also collect information about users on the Services using cookies, tags and pixels in the course your using the Services. The use of cookies and other technologies allows Yandex and its partners to analyze the use of the Services, to count the number of visits, and to display ads tailored to the Services. |
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| 61 | 63 | The use of information stored on your device, if any, can be transferred and available to Yandex and/or the partners under the terms of the [Privacy Policy](https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/index.html). The use of information outside the scope of the Services, if any, may be the subject of separate user agreements available on third-party websites. Yandex and/or partners may also provide you with the opportunity to opt out of the personalized advertising, which may be subject to regulation of the legislation and rules applicable to such products and offers. |
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| 63 | Date of publication: 03.08.2020 | |
| 65 | Date of publication: 06.07.2021 | |
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| 67 | _Previous version of the document: [https://yandex.com/legal/cookies\_policy\_eng/03082020](https://yandex.com/legal/cookies_policy_eng/03082020/index.html)_ |