Cookie Policy

Cookies, in one paragraph

Think of a cookie as a short note the website hands your browser for safekeeping. Your browser returns the note on the next request, which is how the visit gets recognised. There is no more to the mechanism than that: no code executes, no file on your computer can be read, and the note itself carries an identifier plus a few settings. Modest as that sounds, it is what keeps a session alive as you click through pages, what remembers that you want figures shown in Australian dollars, and what lets an analytics tool tell one returning visitor apart from five separate arrivals.

Two neighbouring technologies work the same way and are covered by this policy. Local storage keeps small values in the browser without an automatic expiry date. Tracking pixels are one-pixel image requests whose only job is to register an opened page or message.

The four categories in use

Analytics deserves one clarification. The output answers questions of the shape "what proportion of phone users dropped out of the deposit form last week". It is not assembled into a portrait of one named player's evening.

The bottom row deserves emphasis rather than burial. Advertising and targeting cookies run on consent. Refusing that consent, or withdrawing it later, changes nothing about your account, your balance, your bonuses or which games you can open. No feature is held back from a player who says no to advertising cookies.

How long each one survives

Duration is set per cookie and follows the job it does.

Session cookies live only while the browser is open, and closing it wipes them. Much of your signed-in state rests on them, which is why a full browser restart usually lands you back at the sign-in form.

Persistent cookies stay for a fixed span, anywhere from a single day to a couple of years. A language preference is written to last; a cookie measuring a two-week campaign expires almost immediately by comparison. Every cookie carries its own expiry date, your browser will display it, and you can delete any of them long before it lapses.

Cookies that come from other parties

Not everything stored during a visit is set by this site.

Game studios. Launching a title loads a frame served by the studio itself, and that frame sets its own cookies to hold the round, retain the options you picked inside the game, and keep the outcome aligned with your balance. Refuse them and titles either stall on the loading screen or fall over mid-round.

Analytics services set the measurement cookies described in the table.

Advertising partners set the targeting cookies, and only after consent has been given.

Payment providers may set cookies while a deposit or withdrawal is being processed, usually for fraud screening and to carry the transaction safely through a redirect.

Every one of those companies publishes cookie and privacy terms of its own, and each is contracted on conditions limiting what it may do with what it collects.

Where the sharing boundary actually sits

Nothing gathered by cookies is put up for sale, and nothing goes to an unconnected company to use as it pleases. Circulation is restricted to the vetted partners listed above, and only for the jobs already described: delivering games, gauging site performance, settling payments and measuring advertising you consented to.

That wording is chosen carefully. An absolute pledge of no sharing whatsoever would simply be untrue on a platform that streams games from outside studios and accepts card payments. A limited partner network under contract is the honest description, and it is a different thing from a sealed system.

Choosing what stays on your device

Three levers exist, and using them is routine rather than drastic.

• The consent controls on this site accept or refuse the non-essential categories. Reopen them whenever you like and change your answer.
• Your browser settings go further, including the ability to remove cookies this site treats as necessary.
• Clearing stored cookies for the site signs you out and resets preferences. Nothing happens to the account, the balance or the play history, all of which are stored server-side rather than on your device.

Read this before blocking everything

Switching every category off produces symptoms that look exactly like a faulty site, so read the list before you do it.

Block the lot and a session cannot be held at all: expect to be dropped between one page and the next, if the sign-in form accepts you in the first place. Titles whose studio frame depends on a cookie will not start. A deposit can stall halfway, since the payment step has to carry your session across a redirect to the provider and back. Every preference resets each time a page loads.

None of that is malfunction. It is the predictable result of removing the only mechanism the site has for recognising you between requests. To limit tracking without dismantling the site, block the advertising and analytics categories and leave the strictly necessary ones in place.

Managing cookies in your browser

Vendors move these menus around between releases; the paths below were accurate when this page was published.

Google Chrome

1. Open the three-dot menu and choose Settings.
2. Select Privacy and security.
3. Open Third-party cookies for the blocking options.
4. Use Delete browsing data to clear what is already stored, or Site settings for control over one website at a time.

Safari on macOS

1. Choose Settings from the Safari menu.
2. Open the Privacy tab.
3. Tick Block all cookies for the blanket option.
4. Use Manage Website Data to remove stored data for individual sites.

Safari on iPhone and iPad

1. Open the Settings app and find Safari, which sits under the Apps list on recent iOS versions.
2. Scroll to the privacy options and switch on Block All Cookies.
3. Tap Clear History and Website Data to remove what is already stored.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Open the menu and choose Settings.
2. Select Privacy & Security.
3. Under Enhanced Tracking Protection pick Standard, Strict or Custom; Custom lets you choose the cookie types to block.
4. Use Cookies and Site Data to clear or manage what is stored.

Microsoft Edge

1. Open the three-dot menu and choose Settings.
2. Select Cookies and site permissions.
3. Open Manage and delete cookies and site data.
4. Tracker blocking is separate: open the Privacy, search, and services page and set Tracking prevention to Basic, Balanced or Strict.

When this policy changes

A change to the cookies in use means this page gets rewritten and republished under a new effective date at the top. Anything significant, particularly a change to the advertising category or to the way consent is collected, triggers a notice at your next sign-in rather than being left for you to discover.

Questions

Anything about cookies, tracking or the handling of data collected through them: [email protected], or live chat on the site. Broader requests about your personal information, including access and deletion, are dealt with in the Privacy Policy for ReefSpins Casino Australia.