1. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small text files stored in your browser when you visit the Service, letting it recognise your browser on later visits. Alongside cookies, the Service uses similar technologies: browser local storage for interface settings and analytics.

2. Cookies Lotima Uses

Lotima uses first-party cookies and browser storage only. By name, purpose, place, and lifetime:

• rc_session: signs you in; cookie; 24 hours;
• rc_refresh: keeps the session without signing in again; cookie; 30 days;
• rc_device: recognises this device so extra sessions are limited; cookie; 365 days, survives sign-out;
• rc_consent: stores your cookie preferences; cookie; 365 days;
• NEXT_LOCALE: interface language; cookie; until you change language;
• rc_device_id: first-party product analytics; localStorage; set only after consent, lives until you clear storage or withdraw consent;
• rc_session_id: links analytics events within one visit; sessionStorage; session with a 30-minute idle rotation;
• rc_acquired_via: which link or campaign first brought you here; cookie; 90 days;
• rc_aff: partner link, so a partner payout is attributed correctly; cookie; 60 days.

The categories are unchanged: essential (rc_session, rc_refresh, rc_device, rc_consent, NEXT_LOCALE), functional (theme and language in local storage), analytical (rc_device_id, rc_session_id), and marketing (rc_acquired_via, rc_aff). Analytics data is not shared with third-party analytics services.

Third-party advertising and analytics trackers (web-analytics counters, advertising pixels, session replay) are not used in the Service.

3. Essential and Non-Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are required for the Service to work and cannot be disabled without losing core functionality. Functional, analytical, and marketing cookies are not essential: disabling them does not affect the availability of the Service's core functionality.

4. Managing Cookie Settings

You can manage cookies at any time through your browser settings (blocking cookies, deleting stored ones). Where the Service shows a cookie consent banner, you can also use that banner and the cookie settings section in the Service. Deleting essential cookies will require signing in to your account again.

5. Third-Party Cookies

Lotima does not place third-party advertising or analytics cookies in the Service. The only exception is the automated-registration protection service (captcha), which, during verification on the sign-in and registration pages, may set its own technical cookies required for the verification to work.

6. Do Not Track

The Service honours the browser's Do Not Track signal: with DNT enabled, non-essential cookies are not set without the user's explicit consent.

7. Changes to This Policy

Lotima may update this policy. A new version is published on this page with an updated version number and effective date; users are additionally notified in the Service of material changes (new cookie categories or third-party providers).

8. Contacts

For cookie-related questions, contact care@lotima.ru.