This Cookie Policy explains how tops.games uses cookies and similar technologies across our website. It outlines what these files are, which ones may be stored on your device when you visit, and how you can manage your preferences.
What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small data file that a website places on your computer, tablet, or phone when you open a web page. Your browser keeps this file in its storage and can send it back to the website during subsequent interactions. This mechanism helps websites recognize a browser across separate page loads, allowing various features to coordinate their actions as you move around an online service.
Along with cookies, modern websites frequently rely on similar identifiers and storage mechanisms. These include browser local storage, session storage, and small tracking pixels or scripts. These related tools serve comparable functions by saving details locally on your device or sending an identifier when a network request takes place.
Cookies are generally divided into first-party cookies and third-party cookies. A first-party cookie belongs directly to the website you are viewing, while third-party cookies originate from outside services embedded into the page, such as analytics platforms, advertising networks, or external media frames. Depending on how they are configured, these files may disappear when you close your browser or remain on your device until a set expiration window passes.
Why We Use Cookies
Cookies and similar technologies are used on tops.games to enable essential technical operations, measure traffic patterns, and deliver online advertisements. Running a platform that lists and embeds web-based games requires a combination of basic internal session handling and external services that assist in maintaining the site.
Some of these tools are strictly necessary to hold a browsing session together while you explore different titles or switch between sections. Without basic session management, the website would treat each loaded page as an isolated event disconnected from the previous one.
Other technologies on the site support external functions. Subject to your consent choices and the individual configuration of each provider, third-party services deploy identifiers to measure audience engagement and display advertising alongside our listings. In addition, many of the games listed in our catalog load directly from external hosts, which set their own cookies to operate their embedded content independently.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are necessary for this website to function properly. The site sets its own first-party session cookie so that a visitor's journey holds together seamlessly as they browse across different pages and browse game listings.
This first-party session cookie is designed with specific operational limits. It is restricted to HTTP requests, meaning scripts running on the page cannot access its value directly. It is also sent over HTTPS where the network connection allows it. To protect session integrity, the cookie expires after 30 minutes of inactivity, and its identifier is automatically replaced every 30 minutes.
Because there are no user accounts, logins, or stored passwords on tops.games, this essential cookie does not sign you into a profile or track a registered user identity. Playing any game on the site never requires registering an account. The cookie operates strictly to maintain the continuity of your current visit, ensuring the technical infrastructure responds coherently as you navigate between different areas of the website.
Analytics Cookies
To understand how the site is accessed and where visitors spend time, tops.games uses Google Analytics to measure traffic across our pages. Measuring traffic provides aggregate visibility into overall site usage, helping identify general visitor patterns over time.
Google Analytics operates subject to visitor consent choices and provider configuration. Depending on those settings, it may set cookies and similar identifiers on your device to gather traffic information and send it to Google for analysis. We do not control Google's external infrastructure, and its tools operate under Google's independent rules and privacy configurations.
Alongside third-party measurements, tops.games records first-party page-view entries. Each record includes the requested path, the page type, the game identifier when viewing a game, a device class, the referring host name, and a timestamp. The full referring URL is never kept, and no third party receives any of this first-party page-view data. Raw page-view rows are deleted after 3 days, with only daily totals retained beyond that timeframe. Furthermore, our internal visitor counter computes a hash combining a secret, the date, your IP address, and browser user-agent string, storing no readable IP address and preventing linkability from one day to the next.
Advertising Cookies
Advertising displayed on tops.games is served by Google AdSense. In order to serve these advertisements across the site, Google may use cookies and similar identifiers to deliver them, operating under its own policies and the consent choices presented to each visitor.
Whether advertising cookies are placed on a specific device depends on the visitor's consent selections and Google AdSense configuration. This site does not establish or report whether specific advertisements are delivered on a personalized or non-personalized basis; Google manages the delivery of ads based on its internal systems and the permissions granted by the user.
Because the audience for tops.games includes school-age children, personal information is treated with extra care. Nothing that this site collects is used to build an advertising profile of a child. Advertisements help support the hosting and availability of our free browser games, but all ad-related tracking, delivery, and storage remain managed through Google's advertising network and subject to its platform controls.
Cookies Set by Embedded Games
A substantial portion of the games available on tops.games are embedded in iframes loaded directly from third-party providers. When you load one of these game pages, the external provider's servers receive your browser requests directly.
Because these games load within third-party frames, the providers set their own cookies and receive the visitor IP address during regular network communication. tops.games does not control these third-party providers or the technologies they choose to deploy inside their frames. Our platform acts as a catalog that lists and embeds these games; this site did not build, develop, or publish any of the embedded titles.
Each embedded game provider operates under its own legal notices and data practices. Third-party content loaded inside an iframe functions as a distinct website environment within your browser, and any storage keys, cookies, or identifiers created by that content are managed entirely by that external provider. Visitors should consult the notices of the respective game developers and hosting services for information regarding their practices.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
You have direct control over how cookies and storage mechanisms are handled on your device through your web browser settings. Most modern browsers allow you to view existing cookies, clear stored files, block cookies from specific websites, or reject all third-party cookies by default.
To change these options, open your browser's preferences or settings menu and look for the privacy, security, or site settings section. From there, you can choose whether to permit cookies, prompt for permission when a site attempts to set one, or remove cookies automatically whenever you close your active browsing window.
When adjusting browser controls, please be aware that some site features, advertisements, analytics or embedded games may behave differently when browser storage or third-party scripts are restricted. For instance, restricting third-party storage may limit the ability of an embedded game to communicate with its originating server. If you choose to clear your browser cache and cookies, any preferences previously saved in your browser will be reset.
Managing Advertising Preferences
You can manage how advertising networks deliver ads to your device by adjusting settings offered by advertising providers and industry opt-out portals. Because Google AdSense serves the advertisements on tops.games, you can review and adjust your ad settings directly through Google's Ads Settings dashboard.
Through your Google account or browser controls, Google provides tools to inspect how its advertising systems operate and manage your ad preferences. Depending on your location and regional settings, you may also use industry-wide opt-out tools such as those provided by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA).
These external dashboards allow you to register preferences regarding how advertising providers use identifiers across participating networks. Opt-out choices set through these mechanisms rely on browser-level settings or opt-out cookies. If you switch to another browser, use private browsing mode, or clear your device cookies, you may need to update your preferences again.
Changes to This Notice
This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our technical setup, external providers, or website practices. Tops.games has been running since 2025, and any revisions to this document will be posted directly to this page with an updated text.
Contact
If you have any questions or requests regarding this Cookie Policy or the technologies used on our site, you can write to the operator at privacy [at] tops [dot] games.