Cookie preferences
Playvoralox asks before any analytics or advertising cookie is written, and remembers your answer only inside your own browser. Last updated 8 November 2026.
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What you see on a first visit
A banner offers two buttons next to each other, “Accept everything” and “Essential only”. They share one size and one style, so neither is dressed up as the easy way out. A third option opens the categories one by one, in case you want analytics without marketing or the reverse.
Until you pick, the site acts as though you said no. Google Consent Mode v2 begins with all four of its signals, the two for storage and the two for advertising data, marked “denied”, and the Google tag stays unloaded.
The three categories
Essential
Always on, and it holds a single item: the note of your choice, kept under the key sx-consent-state in your browser’s local storage. It does not travel to us with each page; it just stops the banner from reappearing.
Analytics
Off until you turn it on. Google Analytics 4 then sets _ga and _ga_<ID> to tell one visit from another and to count which pages are read. We look at totals, never at named people.
Marketing
Off until you turn it on. Google Ads then sets _gcl_au, and Google may add its own advertising cookies, so we can see whether a visit started from one of our adverts.
Every item, one by one
| Name | Set by | Purpose | Kept for |
|---|---|---|---|
| sx-consent-state | Playvoralox, in local storage | Holds your banner answer | Up to 12 months |
| _ga | Google Analytics 4 | Separates one visitor’s visits from another’s | 2 years |
| _ga_<ID> | Google Analytics 4 | Holds the state of the session you are in | 2 years |
| _gcl_au | Google Ads | Ties a visit to an advert click | 90 days |
Those periods are the most each item can last in your browser; clearing your cookies ends them earlier. How long Google holds the reports built from them is set out on Privacy and your data.
Changing your mind later
Every page has a “Cookie preferences” link in its footer. It reopens the choices, already set to your last answer. Turn a category off and the Google tag stops writing new cookies for it; ones already stored stay until they expire or you remove them.
Your browser settings can also clear cookies and site data. If you delete the sx-consent-state entry, the banner simply asks again on the next page you open, and after 12 months it asks again anyway.
The rules this follows
For readers in the United Kingdom, cookies and similar browser storage come under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR). Their 2025 update through the Data (Use and Access) Act lets some low-risk statistics run without consent under set conditions; Playvoralox does not lean on that and asks you anyway.
For readers in the European Union, the ePrivacy rules as written into the law of Cyprus, where our company is registered, call for consent before any cookie that is not strictly needed, and the GDPR governs the data that results. Both lead to the same place: no measurement until you say yes.
Questions about cookies can go to contacts@playvoralox.com or through Send us a message.
Changing your choice
The cookie panel opens again with your present answer. Without JavaScript none of the optional tools can load at all.