1. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer/tablet/mobile phone’s hard drive through your browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people.

Cookies allow our Site to recognize you. The Site learns your preferences and automatically adjusts to your wishes. Cookies ensure that your visit of Winamp’s site is much faster and more enjoyable.

Cookies can also help with assessing the popularity of web pages or the average time spent during your visit. A cookie can also be used for commercial purposes. For example, they can keep track of your areas of interest, so that you only see advertisements that may be of interest to you.

2. Who installs these cookies?

There are two main categories of cookies:

 – First-party cookies are installed and managed by Winamp. They are specific to the Winamp Site.

– Third-party cookies are installed and managed by a third party. They are installed during your visit to Winamp Site. They ensure that your visit to the Winamp Site results in certain information being sent to third parties.

3. Type of cookies that we use

Necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary for the correct functioning of the Site. You cannot refuse strictly necessary cookies. Removal of these cookies would for instance result in failure to logon to the Site, browse the pages or use forms on the Site.

Functionality cookies: These cookies allow you to customize your experience on the Site. Removing or refusing these cookies will not have a blocking impact on your browsing experience. You will however not benefit from the use of it and will need to reconfirm choices across visits or across pages.

Performance cookies: We use these to measure the use of the Site. These cookies could allow us to get an idea on Site and page performance and load times.

At Winamp, those information are aggregated and anonymized.

Targeting cookies: A cookie that we use to display banners and product advertisements based on a profile we have created from our visitors. Removal of these cookies will result in a non-personalized browsing experience. It will not remove the banners or product advertisements but will show a generic version.

Unclassified cookies: Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorization.

4. Overview of the cookies

Name: _ga 
Description: Used to distinguish users.
Lifetime: 2 years
Type: Google Analytics (performance cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: _gid 
Description: Used to distinguish users.
Lifetime: 24 hours
Type: Google Analytics (performance cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: _ga_<container-id>
Description: Used to persist session state.
Lifetime: 2 years
Type: Google Analytics (performance cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: __cfruid
Description: Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to identify trusted web traffic.
Lifetime: session
Type: CloudFlare (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: Third-party

Name: _help_center_session
Description: Stores unique session key for Help Center Functionality.
Lifetime: session
Type: Zendesk (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: _zendesk_session
Description: Stores account ID, route for internal service calls and the cross-site request forgery token.
Lifetime: session
Type: Zendesk (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: __cf_bm 
Description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
Lifetime: 30 minutes
Type: Zendesk (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: CookieScriptConsent
Description: This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly.
Lifetime: 3 months
Type: CookieScript (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: cf_chl_2
Description: Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge.
Lifetime: 1 hour
Type: CloudFlare (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: __cf_bm
Description: This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
Lifetime: 30 minutes
Type: Hcaptcha.com (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: Third-party

Name: _zendesk_shared_session
Description: Authentication cookie – set to be anonymous.
Lifetime: session
Type: Zendesk (necessary cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

Name: cf_chl_seq_*
Description: These cookies are used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. They are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge.
Lifetime: session
Type: CloudFlare (functionality cookie)
First/Third-party: First-party

5. Management of cookies preferences

It is possible to allow, reject or customize the use of cookies through the Cookie Banner that is located on the bottom left corner of the device’s screen on winamp.com website. However, giving instructions regarding the use of cookies through the browser settings is more powerful than accepting or rejecting cookies through the Cookie Banner.

6. How do I reject or delete cookies?

 6.1. Refusing cookies:

Most browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. If you would prefer not to accept cookies in general, but want to make an exception for Winamp’s cookies, you can specially configure your browser settings.

6.2. Removing cookies:

You can configure your browser to automatically remove cookies when you close your browser. If you do that, your browser will not for example remember log-in details such as usernames and passwords. You will have to enter them again every time you start a session.

6.3. How do avoid being tracked?

You have to enable Do Not Track in your browser. Do Not Track is a feature in a browser that allows you to let a website know you would like to opt-out of tracking for purposes including behavioral advertising. It does this by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header every time your data is requested from the website. 

Last version updated on September 21th, 2022