COOKIE AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR ARAPLAY
Last Updated: June 2026

1. INTRODUCTION AND POLICY FRAMEWORK

This Cookie Policy has been established by Axios AB, in its capacity as the legally designated Data Controller for the Araplay platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Company", "we", "us", or "our"). This document outlines how we utilize cookies, tracking pixels, and equivalent localized data deployment methods—such as Local Storage—across our official website (araplay.se) and our digital streaming applications across various mobile, tablet, and smart TV ecosystems (collectively referred to as the "Application" or the "Service").

We are fundamentally committed to data transparency. The objective of this policy is to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the technical parameters harvested automatically during your sessions, the explicit operational purposes they serve, and your administrative rights to control them under Swedish and European electronic privacy regulations.

2. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF UTILIZED TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

When interacting with Araplay, small alphanumeric text sequences or isolated localized storage fragments are placed within the hardware architecture of your active device. These automated tools are structurally categorized based on their technical lifespan and retention parameters:

• Persistent Cookies: These assets are hardcoded into the digital storage registry of your device for a pre-configured lifecycle (ranging from single-session durations to several months). They persist across application restarts, automatically identifying your device whenever you re-authenticate or re-open the Service, until they cross their expiration threshold or are manually cleared by the user.
• Session Cookies: These are strictly transient operational files designed to manage data routing exclusively during an active user browsing session. They are immediately flushed and systematically purged from your hardware memory layers upon closing the Application or executing a logout command.
• Local Storage: An advanced application-level data caching protocol that secures interface variations and streaming configurations directly inside the isolated memory partition of your device. This protocol drastically optimizes interface loading frames and reduces external mobile bandwidth consumption.

3. DISCLOSURE OF DATA COGNIZANCE: FIRST-PARTY VS. THIRD-PARTY ASSETS

• First-Party Cookies: These tracking and memory elements are configured, served, and monitored directly by Axios AB's network servers to stabilize core user application logic and safeguard your secure active profile sessions within Araplay.
• Third-Party Cookies: These operational components are embedded into our client architecture via automated micro-services owned by our audited technical suppliers. They are leveraged exclusively to execute real-time crash diagnostics, stream routing optimization, and application load calculations. These elements are structurally isolated and cannot track your activity across independent third-party web domains.

4. SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES

To guarantee a professional, glitch-free audio-visual streaming experience, the tracking utilities deployed by Araplay are compartmentalized into three specific functional boundaries:

First: Strictly Necessary Technologies

These elements are a technical and operational prerequisite. The application backend cannot render menus or resolve media streams without their deployment; consequently, the platform does not permit manual opting-out of this tier.

• Operational Purposes & Telemetry: Maintaining user authentication states across view conversions, validating active profile structural safety to neutralize cyber-attacks or security breaches, and load-balancing server clusters to distribute video traffic efficiently without dropouts.

Second: Functional Customization Technologies

These technologies are leveraged to cache interface variables and retain adjustments based on your previous software configurations, delivering a highly responsive user experience.

• Operational Purposes & Telemetry: Caching your preferred user interface configuration (such as Arabic, Swedish, and other supported languages), preserving personalized favorite channel indexing arrays, and storing the precise playback timestamp marker of a media stream so you can seamlessly resume watching from the exact second during future sessions.

Third: Performance and Application Diagnostic Technologies

These technologies allow our engineering teams to closely monitor software performance on external hardware, enabling immediate patching of runtime bugs to satisfy strict software performance bars mandated by global app store environments. All parameters gathered via this framework are completely aggregated, anonymized, and processed under statistical models.

• Operational Purposes & Telemetry: Gauging the display speed of content blocks and measuring video player reaction times from the exact millisecond a stream request is initiated until active video playback renders.
• Integrated Technical Environments (Third-Party Providers):
  1. Google Firebase: A standard, industry-recognized architecture integrated into our Android and iOS deployment builds, utilized exclusively to harvest technical application crash reports. It routes instantaneous data to our development desk when an abrupt system termination occurs, allowing for swift bug resolution.
  2. Datadog: A highly specialized cloud observability framework used to monitor live-stream throughput efficiency and backend server performance matrix values in real-time to preserve optimal video quality.

5. ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL AND REVOCATION OF PRIVACY PERMISSIONS

Upon initializing the Araplay interface for the first time, our integrated Privacy Control Banner grants you total administrative autonomy to selectively approve or deny permissions for functional and performance tracking categories.

Furthermore, you can manipulate cookie behaviors through external system mechanics:

• OS and Browser Restrictions: You can adjust your mobile device privacy configurations or browser frameworks (such as Apple Safari or Google Chrome) to automatically reject cookie writes or clear persistent histories. Step-by-step documentation is available via independent privacy portals such as www.allaboutcookies.org.
• Crucial Operational Advisory: Please be explicitly reminded that blocking or flushing "Strictly Necessary" files will disrupt profile authentication and stream encryption pipelines. This will render it technically impossible to log into your account or initialize live video streams.

6. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS AND COMPLIANCE CONTACTS

Under the mandates of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), certain digital identifiers recorded via cookies (such as your dynamic or static IP address) may be classified as personal data. Axios AB maintains sole legal responsibility as the Data Controller for these records.

For detailed documentation concerning your absolute statutory data rights, data storage lifecycles, and avenues to file grievances with national regulators in Sweden (IMY), please consult our comprehensive Privacy Policy hosted at araplay.se. For technical inquiries regarding this cookie infrastructure, contact our privacy desk directly at: privacy@araplay.se.