Cookie Policy
Cookies and similar technologies used by Drawpunkt.
DRAWPUNKT COOKIE POLICY
Effective Date: July 26, 2026
Last Updated: July 26, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Drawpunkt (“Drawpunkt”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use the Drawpunkt website, drawing studio, artwork replay system, artist profiles, artist channels, live chat rooms and related services collectively referred to as the “Service”.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with the Drawpunkt Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files placed on your browser or device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser, maintain a login session, remember preferences, provide security functions, measure performance and deliver advertisements.
Cookies may store identifiers, preferences, consent choices and technical information. Cookies do not normally contain the files, artwork or passwords stored in your account.
2. WHAT ARE SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES?
In addition to cookies, Drawpunkt or its service providers may use similar technologies, including:
• Local storage;
• Session storage;
• Pixels;
• Tags;
• Scripts;
• Software development tools;
• Device identifiers;
• Browser identifiers;
• Server logs;
• Cache identifiers;
• Consent signals;
• Other technologies used for storage, security, measurement or advertising.
References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.
3. WHO PLACES COOKIES?
Cookies used through Drawpunkt may be placed by:
• Drawpunkt;
• Drawpunkt’s hosting or security providers;
• Consent-management providers;
• Analytics or performance providers;
• Google AdSense;
• Google advertising partners;
• Other advertising providers authorized by Drawpunkt.
Cookies placed directly by Drawpunkt are generally called first-party cookies.
Cookies placed by another company through Drawpunkt are generally called third-party cookies.
Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookie and privacy practices.
4. HOW LONG DO COOKIES LAST?
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser or when your session ends.
Persistent cookies remain on your browser or device until they expire, are replaced or are deleted manually.
The exact duration of a cookie depends on its purpose, configuration and provider.
Where a consent-management interface is available, additional details about individual cookies and their duration may be displayed there.
5. WHY DRAWPUNKT USES COOKIES
Drawpunkt may use cookies and similar technologies to:
• Keep users signed in;
• Authenticate accounts;
• Protect login sessions;
• Prevent cross-site request forgery;
• Detect unauthorized access;
• Maintain Service functionality;
• Remember privacy choices;
• Remember interface preferences;
• Support drawing and replay features;
• Prevent spam and abuse;
• Apply rate limits;
• Diagnose errors;
• Measure performance;
• Understand how the Service is used;
• Deliver advertisements;
• Measure advertisement performance;
• Prevent advertising fraud;
• Provide personalized advertising where permitted;
• Provide non-personalized advertising;
• Comply with legal obligations.
6. STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Strictly necessary cookies are required for the Service to operate securely.
These cookies may be used for:
• Account authentication;
• Login sessions;
• Session continuity;
• CSRF protection;
• Account security;
• Load balancing;
• Fraud prevention;
• Consent-choice storage;
• Essential technical preferences;
• Secure administration;
• Request validation.
Without these cookies, important features may not work correctly.
For example, you may be unable to:
• Sign in;
• Remain signed in;
• Save artwork;
• Publish artwork;
• Update account settings;
• Submit comments;
• Post chat messages;
• Manage subscriptions;
• Use administration tools securely.
Where permitted by law, strictly necessary cookies may be used without optional consent because they are required to provide a requested or secure Service.
You may block these cookies through your browser, but doing so may prevent Drawpunkt from working correctly.
7. AUTHENTICATION AND SESSION COOKIES
Drawpunkt may use session cookies to recognize a signed-in account and maintain an authenticated session.
Authentication cookies help the Service determine:
• Whether a user is signed in;
• Which account is using the Service;
• Whether the account has member or administrative permissions;
• Whether a request belongs to the active session;
• Whether the session should remain valid.
Authentication cookies should not contain a plain-text password.
Signing out normally ends or invalidates the relevant login session.
8. SECURITY COOKIES
Security cookies or session values may be used to:
• Generate and verify CSRF tokens;
• Detect repeated login attempts;
• Prevent automated abuse;
• Protect forms;
• Validate sensitive actions;
• Protect profile changes;
• Protect account cancellation;
• Protect artwork publishing;
• Protect moderation actions;
• Protect administration features.
These technologies are necessary to protect users and the Service.
9. FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Functional cookies may remember choices that improve the user experience.
These choices may include:
• Interface preferences;
• Consent status;
• Dismissed notices;
• Drawing workspace preferences;
• Replay preferences;
• Accessibility settings;
• Other optional customizations.
Functional cookies may be considered essential or optional depending on their specific purpose and applicable law.
10. DRAWING STUDIO STORAGE
The Drawpunkt drawing studio may use browser storage or session information to support:
• Draft state;
• Unsaved-change protection;
• Drawing-tool preferences;
• Selected brush or tool;
• Color choices;
• Canvas settings;
• Replay preparation;
• Temporary editor state;
• Error recovery.
Artwork and replay files may also be transmitted to and stored on Drawpunkt’s servers when the user saves or publishes an artwork.
Browser storage used by the drawing studio is not necessarily a traditional cookie, but it may operate as a similar storage technology.
Clearing browser storage may remove unsaved local information or reset drawing preferences.
Users should save important artwork through the available account controls.
11. CHAT AND RATE-LIMITING TECHNOLOGIES
Drawpunkt may use cookies, session identifiers or server-side records to support live chat and community safety.
These technologies may help:
• Identify the current session;
• Determine when a user joined a chat room;
• Display messages sent after entry;
• Prevent rapid repeated messages;
• Limit excessive links;
• Detect spam;
• Prevent blocked users from evading restrictions;
• Support message moderation;
• Protect chat rooms against automated attacks.
These controls are used to maintain Service security and community integrity.
12. CONSENT COOKIES
Drawpunkt or its consent-management provider may store cookies or similar records to remember:
• Whether a consent notice was displayed;
• Whether the user accepted or rejected optional cookies;
• Which purposes were accepted;
• Which advertising providers were accepted;
• Whether personalized advertising was accepted;
• When consent was provided;
• Which policy version applied;
• Whether consent was later withdrawn.
Consent records may be retained where necessary to demonstrate compliance with applicable law.
13. ANALYTICS AND PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Drawpunkt may use analytics or performance technologies to understand how the Service operates.
These technologies may collect information such as:
• Pages visited;
• Approximate visit duration;
• Referring pages;
• Browser type;
• Device type;
• Operating system;
• Screen dimensions;
• Approximate location;
• Error information;
• Feature usage;
• Page performance;
• Artwork replay activity;
• Aggregated interaction statistics.
This information may be used to:
• Diagnose technical problems;
• Improve page speed;
• Improve mobile compatibility;
• Understand feature popularity;
• Improve navigation;
• Prevent service failures;
• Plan future development.
Where required by law, optional analytics technologies will be used only after appropriate consent.
14. DIRECT IMAGE ADVERTISEMENTS
Drawpunkt may display direct image advertisements uploaded and managed by Drawpunkt administrators.
A direct image advertisement may include:
• An advertisement image;
• Alternative text;
• A destination link;
• Campaign scheduling;
• Basic rotation controls.
Displaying a direct image advertisement may not require a third-party advertising cookie if the image and configuration are served directly by Drawpunkt.
However, Drawpunkt may process limited technical information for security, advertisement rotation, fraud prevention or aggregate measurement.
Selecting a direct advertisement may take you to an external website. That website may use its own cookies and privacy technologies.
Drawpunkt does not control cookies placed after you leave Drawpunkt and visit an advertiser’s website.
15. GOOGLE ADSENSE
Drawpunkt may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google and its partners may use cookies, identifiers and similar technologies to:
• Deliver advertisements;
• Select advertisements;
• Measure advertisement performance;
• Limit how often an advertisement is displayed;
• Detect invalid traffic;
• Prevent advertising fraud;
• Provide personalized advertisements where permitted;
• Provide non-personalized advertisements;
• Generate reports for publishers and advertisers.
Google may process information such as:
• IP address;
• Browser information;
• Device information;
• Cookie identifiers;
• Advertising identifiers;
• Advertisement interactions;
• Approximate location;
• Consent signals;
• Information about the page where an advertisement appears.
Google’s processing is governed by Google’s own terms, privacy policies and advertising technology controls.
16. PERSONALIZED ADVERTISING
Personalized advertisements may be selected using information about a user’s activity, interests, device or previous interactions.
Where legally required, personalized advertising will be enabled only after appropriate consent.
If you reject personalized advertising, you may still see:
• Contextual advertisements;
• Non-personalized advertisements;
• Direct image advertisements;
• Advertisements selected using limited information;
• Advertisements required to fund the Service.
Rejecting personalized advertising does not mean that all advertisements will disappear.
17. NON-PERSONALIZED ADVERTISING
Non-personalized advertisements are generally selected using limited information such as:
• The content of the current page;
• General location;
• Device type;
• Current search or session context;
• Fraud-prevention information;
• Frequency-limiting information.
Some cookies or local storage may still be required for:
• Frequency capping;
• Aggregated reporting;
• Security;
• Fraud prevention;
• Consent records.
The availability of non-personalized advertising depends on the advertising provider and applicable law.
18. ADVERTISING CONSENT IN THE EEA, UK AND SWITZERLAND
Users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland may be shown a consent-management platform before Google advertising technologies are activated.
The consent interface may allow users to:
• Accept optional advertising technologies;
• Reject optional advertising technologies;
• Select advertising purposes;
• Review participating vendors;
• Accept or reject personalized advertising;
• Save privacy choices;
• Withdraw consent later.
Where required by Google’s policies, Drawpunkt should use a Google-certified consent-management platform integrated with the applicable Transparency and Consent Framework.
The exact appearance and available choices may depend on the user’s location, Google’s requirements and the consent-management provider.
19. WITHDRAWING OR CHANGING CONSENT
Where consent controls are available, you may change or withdraw your consent at any time.
You may be able to do this through:
• A “Privacy choices” link;
• A “Manage cookies” link;
• A consent-management interface;
• The Cookie Policy page;
• Account settings;
• Browser settings;
• The Drawpunkt Contact page.
Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.
After consent is withdrawn, some cookies may remain temporarily until they expire or are deleted. Consent records and strictly necessary cookies may also remain where legally permitted.
20. BROWSER COOKIE CONTROLS
Most browsers allow you to:
• View stored cookies;
• Delete individual cookies;
• Delete all cookies;
• Block third-party cookies;
• Block all cookies;
• Clear local storage;
• Receive a warning before cookies are stored;
• Configure site-specific permissions.
Browser controls vary by browser and device.
Blocking all cookies may prevent Drawpunkt from functioning correctly.
You may need to sign in again after deleting authentication cookies.
Deleting browser storage may also remove preferences or unsaved local drawing information.
21. MOBILE DEVICE CONTROLS
Mobile devices may provide privacy controls for:
• Advertising identifiers;
• Tracking permissions;
• Browser cookies;
• Application storage;
• Personalized advertisements;
• Location information.
Drawpunkt is currently accessed through a browser unless a separate application is expressly provided.
Browser and operating-system controls may affect how cookies and similar technologies operate.
22. GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL AND DO NOT TRACK
Some browsers transmit signals such as:
• Global Privacy Control;
• Do Not Track;
• Advertising opt-out signals.
These signals are not interpreted uniformly by every website, provider or jurisdiction.
Where required by applicable law and technically supported, Drawpunkt may recognize a legally valid opt-out preference signal.
Users should also use Drawpunkt’s available consent and privacy controls.
23. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Drawpunkt may contain links to:
• Advertiser websites;
• Artist websites;
• Social media platforms;
• External resources;
• Other third-party services.
Third-party websites may place their own cookies after you visit them.
This Cookie Policy does not govern cookies placed directly by third-party websites outside Drawpunkt.
You should review the cookie and privacy policies of external services before providing personal information.
24. COOKIE SECURITY
Cookies may contain identifiers but should not contain plain-text account passwords.
Drawpunkt uses reasonable security measures intended to protect authentication and security cookies.
These measures may include:
• Secure transmission over HTTPS;
• HttpOnly attributes;
• Secure attributes;
• SameSite restrictions;
• Session expiration;
• Token rotation;
• CSRF protection;
• Server-side session validation.
The exact attributes used may depend on technical configuration and browser support.
No internet-based technology can guarantee absolute security.
25. COOKIE RETENTION
Cookie retention depends on the cookie’s purpose.
Examples may include:
• Session cookies that expire when the browser closes;
• Authentication cookies that expire when the session ends;
• Security cookies retained for a limited period;
• Consent records retained long enough to remember the user’s choice;
• Functional preferences retained until changed or deleted;
• Advertising cookies retained according to the provider’s settings and applicable law.
Drawpunkt should periodically review active cookies and remove technologies that are no longer required.
Third-party cookie durations are controlled by the relevant third-party provider.
26. CHILDREN AND COOKIES
Drawpunkt does not intend to use personalized advertising cookies to profile children where prohibited by law.
Where Drawpunkt knows that a user requires parental authorization, additional restrictions may apply.
Parents and guardians may use browser or device controls to restrict cookies.
If you believe a child’s information has been collected improperly, contact Drawpunkt using the information on the Contact page.
27. CHANGES TO ADVERTISING PROVIDERS
Drawpunkt may add, replace or remove advertising and technical providers.
Changes may affect:
• The cookies used;
• Cookie duration;
• Advertising purposes;
• Consent options;
• Available vendors;
• Information shared with providers.
Where required, the consent interface and this Cookie Policy will be updated to reflect material changes.
28. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
Drawpunkt may update this Cookie Policy because of:
• Changes to the Service;
• Changes to advertising;
• New technical providers;
• New cookies or storage technologies;
• Security improvements;
• Legal or regulatory changes;
• Changes to consent requirements.
The current version will display an updated “Last Updated” date.
Where required by law, Drawpunkt may request consent again after a material change.
29. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on your location, you may have rights concerning information collected through cookies, including rights to:
• Receive information about processing;
• Withdraw consent;
• Object to certain processing;
• Request access;
• Request deletion;
• Opt out of certain advertising disclosures;
• Submit a complaint to a data protection authority.
More information about these rights is available in the Drawpunkt Privacy Policy.
30. CONTACT
For questions about cookies, advertising technologies or privacy choices, contact Drawpunkt through the Contact page or the published privacy email address.
Your request should include:
• A clear description of your question;
• The device and browser used, where relevant;
• The country from which you access Drawpunkt;
• A screenshot of the consent interface, where helpful;
• The date and approximate time of the issue.
Do not include your password or unnecessary sensitive personal information.
31. COOKIE CATEGORIES SUMMARY
Drawpunkt may use the following general cookie categories:
STRICTLY NECESSARY
Purpose:
Authentication, security, session continuity, CSRF protection, consent storage and essential Service functions.
Can they be disabled through Drawpunkt?
Generally no, because they are required to provide or protect the Service.
What happens if blocked?
Login, saving, publishing, account controls and other features may stop working.
FUNCTIONAL
Purpose:
Remembering interface preferences and optional Service choices.
Can they be disabled?
Depending on the feature and applicable controls.
What happens if blocked?
Preferences may be lost or reset.
ANALYTICS AND PERFORMANCE
Purpose:
Measuring performance, diagnosing errors and understanding aggregated feature usage.
Can they be disabled?
Where required by law, these technologies are optional and depend on consent.
What happens if blocked?
The Service should generally remain usable, but Drawpunkt receives less diagnostic information.
ADVERTISING
Purpose:
Delivering, measuring and protecting advertisements.
Can they be disabled?
Personalized advertising technologies may be rejected where consent controls are available. Some limited technologies may still be used for non-personalized advertisements, security, consent records or fraud prevention where legally permitted.
What happens if blocked?
You may continue to see direct, contextual or non-personalized advertisements.
32. FINAL STATEMENT
By continuing to use Drawpunkt with cookies enabled, you acknowledge that strictly necessary cookies and similar technologies may be used to operate and secure the Service.
Optional analytics or advertising technologies will be used according to your consent choices where consent is required by applicable law.
You may review or change available privacy choices at any time through Drawpunkt’s consent controls, browser settings or Contact page.