This page explains how Mela Bet uses cookies and similar technologies on its Ethiopian website, mobile site, and app-related services where applicable. These technologies may support secure login sessions, account protection, fraud and abuse prevention, website performance, analytics, marketing measurement, language and user preferences, and responsible gaming and age-restriction controls. Their use depends on the service, technology, and cookie choices available to you.
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What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small file stored on your device by your browser. It helps a website remember information about a visitor or device between page visits. For example, a session cookie can help a site recognize that you have signed in as you move from your account page to another section.
Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, software development kits (SDKs), and device identifiers, if used. Local storage saves information in your browser; pixels and tags can record page activity; SDKs can support comparable functions in an app. In this policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where relevant, although their controls may differ.
Why Mela Bet Uses Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the platform to work. Others support optional features, measurement, or personalization and may depend on consent, applicable requirements, and browser or device settings. Cookies may help Mela Bet:
- Maintain secure signed-in sessions and protect accounts against suspicious activity.
- Remember cookie choices, language preferences, and useful display settings.
- Improve loading speed, navigation, and service reliability.
- Identify useful pages and investigate errors or interrupted journeys.
- Measure campaigns without including sensitive account details in advertising reports.
- Support security, eligibility checks, responsible gaming measures, and applicable compliance requirements.
Cookies do not replace identity verification, customer due diligence, or payment authorization. A remembered device or successful login does not, by itself, establish eligibility to use a service.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies support essential website functions, including registration, login, secure account access, session continuity, payment-flow protection, age-gate checks, and storing cookie preferences. Without them, account pages may not recognize your session or complete a requested action reliably.
For example, moving between Mela Bet login and an account page may require a session identifier. Registration may also need temporary storage to maintain progress. Age-related controls should be read alongside the Age Restriction Policy; a remembered age-gate response is not a substitute for any required verification.
Security and Fraud Prevention Cookies
Security cookies may help identify suspicious activity, reduce automated abuse, protect account sessions, and preserve the integrity of betting, keno, live betting, and gaming areas. Some serve essential security purposes; classification depends on their actual function, not simply their name.
Detailed detection rules are not disclosed here because doing so could weaken safeguards. Cookies may also support responsible gaming controls, but clearing them must not be treated as removing account-based restrictions, deposit limits, or self-exclusion. See Responsible Gaming for the applicable controls.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Mela Bet analytics cookies may help assess page usage, loading problems, device types, navigation paths, and content quality. In a typical mobile journey, this information can help identify where a page loads slowly or a form fails, rather than assuming the user completed an action.
Analytics may be aggregated or pseudonymized where applicable. Pseudonymized information can still be personal data; it should not be described as fully anonymous without verification. Analytics should improve service performance, not publicly expose private betting histories, balances, or account-holder information. Optional analytics can be rejected where the relevant controls support that choice.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember language, region, odds format, device preferences, or a requested login preference. Cookie consent storage may instead be classified as strictly necessary because it records your privacy choices. The classification depends on the purpose.
For the Mela Bet app, settings may be stored within the application or managed through device controls rather than browser cookies. Browser and app preferences may not synchronize. A remembered login preference is not a reason to stay signed in on a shared device.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Mela Bet marketing cookies may measure advertising campaigns, identify referral sources, limit repeated advertisements, or help display more relevant offers. They do not guarantee a bonus, eligibility, or winnings. Any offer remains subject to its separate terms.
Where available, users can reject or manage these technologies through cookie settings, browser controls, device privacy settings, or a provider’s advertising preferences. Rejecting marketing cookies may not remove all advertising; it may reduce personalization or measurement.
First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are set by Mela Bet. Third-party cookies may be set by service providers supporting analytics, security, payment verification, advertising, hosting, fraud prevention, or customer support. A third-party tool does not necessarily use cookies, and providers may process information under different arrangements.
The confirmed inventory should identify each technology’s category, purpose, example use, duration, required or optional status, and provider. Provider names and exact cookie details are not specified here because they require operator confirmation. This information may be updated as services change; category descriptions are not a substitute for a verified inventory.
Cookie inventory: [Operator to insert confirmed cookie and provider details, including expiry periods and consent classifications.]
How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Session cookies usually expire when the browser closes or the session ends. Some browser restore features may preserve a session, so signing out is safer than relying solely on closing a window.
Persistent cookies remain for a defined period unless deleted earlier. Their duration depends on their purpose and configuration. Exact expiry periods must be confirmed in the cookie inventory; no fixed retention period is assumed in this policy.
Deleting a cookie does not necessarily delete related server-side records. Personal-data retention is a separate matter addressed in the Privacy Policy.
How Users Can Manage Cookies
- Step 1: Open the website cookie banner or preference center, if available. Review the categories, reject optional analytics or marketing cookies as supported, and save your choices.
- Step 2: Review your browser’s privacy settings. Depending on the browser, you can block third-party cookies, restrict storage, or remove existing site data. Compare these options: blocking third-party cookies is narrower than blocking all cookies.
- Step 3: Check device or app privacy settings for advertising identifiers, tracking permissions, and app storage controls. Browser settings may not control app SDKs.
- Step 4: After clearing data, revisit your preferences. You may need to sign in again and repeat these steps on other browsers or devices.
Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect login, account security, payments, and betting or gaming functions. Removing cookies during a deposit or withdrawal journey can interrupt the session without cancelling the underlying request. Check the account transaction record before repeating an action, and ask support if the status is unclear.
Before entering account or payment information, verify the website address through a known official communication channel. Do not rely only on search advertisements or unsolicited links. For an app or APK, verify the download source and permissions. Read the Terms and Conditions for verification requirements, fees, limits, and withdrawal procedures, and verify the current legal status in Ethiopia rather than assuming that a cookie banner proves authorization.
Cookies and Personal Data
Cookies may contain or be linked to personal data, including online identifiers, device information, account references, or browsing activity. Their handling should follow applicable Ethiopian laws and regulations and the operator’s documented practices. This policy does not assert approval by a competent authority or establish licensing status.
The Privacy Policy explains relevant data collection, storage, processing, recipients, user rights, and contact options. Cookie choices govern relevant device storage or tracking; they do not necessarily stop processing needed for account security, transaction records, identity verification, or other applicable obligations.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
Mela Bet may update this policy when technologies, providers, legal requirements, or website features change. The revision date should reflect the latest published version. Where required, material changes to optional tracking should be accompanied by updated information and renewed choices.
Contact Us
For questions about cookies, unavailable preference controls, or privacy, use Contact Us. State which browser or app you use, the relevant page, and the issue you encountered. Never send your password, one-time verification codes, or full payment credentials. Ask support for the applicable privacy or complaint-handling procedure if your concern remains unresolved.
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