What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners.
How We Use Cookies
RetroTV uses cookies and similar technologies to provide essential features of our streaming platform:
- Session Management: To keep you signed in and maintain your authentication state across pages
- Watch History: To track your viewing progress and enable "Continue Watching" features
- Watchlist: To save and remember shows you've added to your personal watchlist
- Preferences: To remember your viewing preferences, theme settings, and display options
- Recommendations: To personalize content recommendations based on your viewing behavior
- Search History: To remember your recent searches and provide search suggestions
- Performance: To optimize page load times and improve overall platform performance
- Security: To protect your account and prevent unauthorized access
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation, access to secure areas, and remembering your login status. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They may also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of web pages.
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve our website and services.
Third-Party Cookies
RetroTV integrates with third-party services that may set their own cookies:
- YouTube: When you watch episodes hosted on YouTube, YouTube may set cookies for video playback, analytics, and personalization
- Google OAuth: When you sign in with Google, Google may set authentication and security cookies
- Analytics Services: We may use analytics services to understand platform usage and improve our service
We do not control these third-party cookies. Please review the privacy policies of YouTube, Google, and other integrated services to understand their cookie practices.
Managing Cookies
You have several options for managing cookies:
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences
- Opt-out: You can opt out of non-essential cookies by adjusting your browser settings
- Delete Cookies: You can delete existing cookies from your browser at any time
Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either "session" cookies or "persistent" cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
Impact of Disabling Cookies
If you disable cookies, RetroTV's functionality will be significantly limited. You may not be able to:
- Stay signed in to your account - you'll need to log in on every page visit
- Save shows to your watchlist
- Track your watch history or resume watching where you left off
- Receive personalized recommendations
- Remember your viewing preferences and settings
- Use search history and suggestions
- Rate shows and have your ratings saved
Essential cookies are required for RetroTV to function properly. We recommend allowing cookies to enjoy the full streaming experience.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please use our contact form to reach out to us.