Privacy and Cookie Policy

Introduction

This privacy and cookie policy (together referred to as the “Privacy Policy”) governs the collection, storage and use of your non-personal information collected by our website at www.onlinecasino.co.nz (the “website”, “we”, “us”, “our” or “Online Casino”). This Privacy Policy should be read closely by users of the website (“you”, “your” or “users”).

By visiting and using the website, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Service (the “Terms”) which can be found here. You must not visit or use the website if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or the Terms.

Our website provides information on gaming websites, the gaming industry, and it occasionally may contain links or advertisements to external third-party websites (the “Services”). Please note that such websites have their own privacy and cookie policies.

To the extent you have any questions relating to this policy, please contact us by email at the following address: [email protected].

Types of information collected

Non-personal Information

When you use our Services, we may collect un-identified and non-identifiable information from you ("Non-Personal Information"), such as information broadcast by your device. This includes aggregated usage information and technical data (like your IP address and other online identifiers), in addition to certain software and hardware information, such as the kind of browser and operating system your device uses, language, and your preferred access times to the website's domain name, from which you access our Services.

Information about your activity on the Services and engagement on the website may also be gathered to improve the functionality of our website and Services.

Using your information

We (or such third-party data processors who act for us) may process the data we collect for the following reasons:

• Providing you with the Services;

• Preserving the safety and security of our website;

• Evaluating the relevance of the accessed content to you;

• Improving and modifying our Services through conducting research or analytics;

Minors

The content of this website is not meant to be accessed by minors, therefore we do not collect any information relating to any person under the age of 18 years.

Purposes of information collected

The information we collect from you is also used for the following purposes:

To provide our Services to you

We process your personal information to perform the contract that you have with us, for example, for hosting your casino reviews on our website.

Legitimate interests

We may use your personal information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For example, we analyse users’ behaviour on our services to improve our offerings and for administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.

Legal obligation

In some cases, applicable laws may require us to process certain information about you.

Consent

We may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons (for example, when we ask if you would like to be contacted by us). You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Notice.

Sharing your information

You share information with other users when you voluntarily share information on our website and use our Services (for example, by sharing a user review). Please be careful with the personal information you choose to share and who you choose to share it with.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Data gathered by us might be shared by us as follows:

Service providers and others

Online Casino may share your non-personal information with particular trusted third-party service providers and business partners, so as to aid them in performing their function and processing user data on the behalf of the website, such as carrying out research, analytics or technical diagnostics. The processing of anonymized data to third parties according to the methods described above will follow strictly the security obligations outlined in this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

With other Internal third party businesses

We share your non-personal information with other entities that form part of the same group of companies as Online Casino, for them to assist us in processing your personal information, as service providers, upon our instructions and on our behalf. This includes technical processing operations, such as personal information hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing and targeted advertising, finance and accounting assistance, better understanding how our service is used and users’ behaviour to improve our service, securing our personal information and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings.

We may also share information with other Group entities for legitimate business purposes such as corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting as well as compliance with applicable laws. This information will be anonymised wherever possible and reasonable to do so.

Other disclosures

We may share and disclose anonymized data with advisers and auditors of Online Casino. Such data may also be shared with our affiliates and subsidiaries.

We may also share anonymized data with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this Privacy Policy.

Besides the above cases, information may also be shared if it is our belief that disclosing such information would be:

• reasonably necessary so as to comply with any legal obligation, governmental request or applicable law;

• enforce any legal rights such as intellectual property;

• take action when it comes to any illegal activities or other types of wrongdoing, such as security issues and suspected fraud;

• enforce our internal policies;

• exercise our rights to contest legal claims; and

• prevent harm to our, your, or any third party's safety or rights.

With your consent or at your request

We may ask for your consent to share your personal information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.

Anonymised data

As mentioned above, we may use and share anonymised data (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioural personal information, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in an aggregated, hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances.

We may combine this information with additional anonymised data in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other sources.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies in order to distinguish one user from another. This helps us to provide you with an enjoyable experience when you access our and interact with the pages and features displayed on it. It also assists us in improving the website generally.

For your understanding, a cookie is a small file that is stored on your browser or hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. This enables you to navigate across pages of a website efficiently allowing the website to remember your preferences and activating certain features based on your on-going engagement with the website.

When you arrive on our website, before we use any non-essential cookies, we ask you to select your cookies preferences. We only use essential cookies prior to you making your selection. Once you have selected your preferences, we only use cookies according to your selection. If you change your mind at any time, you can update your preferences by clicking: here.

We may apply cookies in the following ways:

1. 'Session cookies' – these are files that are stored in a temporary memory while you browse, and deleted once you close the browser. These are strictly necessary in order to allow for the normal operation of our website. If these are disabled, the website's performance may be reduced.

2. 'Persistent cookies' – these are a group of cookies that are typically kept for a longer period of time (usually 1 year) by the company who sets up, the length of time depending on the policies of the company. On our website they are set by the third-party service providers, such as third-party web-traffic analytics companies who monitor and analyse your interaction with our website, over whose policies we have no control. These cookies can be one of the following types:

   • Analytical/performance cookies: these are files which collate anonymous visitor data. They show us which parts of the website visitors access, in what order and for how long, in order to help us provide you with easier and more efficient access to our website.

   • Functionality cookies: these cookies help us identify you in case of repeat visits, so that we can save and recall your preferences for following visits; and

   • Targeting cookies: this type of cookies track the pages and links which you access, so that we can try to improve our website's relevance to your interests.

Other tracking technologies

Other technologies (which we also call cookies) such as web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear gifs), tracking URLs, software development kits (SDKs) or tags can also be used. Web beacons are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our service or opened an e-mail that Online Casino has sent them.  Tracking URLs are custom generated links that help us understand where the traffic to our webpages comes from.  SDKs are small pieces of code included in apps, which function like cookies and web beacons. Tags are short pieces of code included in our website that function like cookies and involves the sharing of certain information about your device and your interactions with our website and with our third party partner(s).

What we use cookies (and other tracking technologies) for?

Like most providers of online services, Online Casino uses cookies and other tracking technologies to provide, secure and improve our services, including by remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you visit our website, personalizing and tailoring ads to your interests and for, advertising or retargeting purposes. To accomplish these purposes, Online Casino may also link information from cookies with other personal information we hold about you.

Please note that we also allow trusted third parties to use cookies on our website, for example, providers of external services like advertising networks and web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be for analytical or targeting purposes.

When you visit our website, some or all of the following types of cookies may be set on your device.

If you would like more details, we can provide you with information regarding the cookies and other tracking technologies used on our website. We will try to be as comprehensive as possible when providing such a list, however, the cookies and other tracking technologies used on our website will change from time to time.

You may disable all cookies by going to your setting on your internet browser and turning off selected settings for cookies. However, you should be aware that some features on the website may not function effectively and the overall experience may be reduced if you opt to turn off all cookies.

Retention of your information

Any data collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy will be held in accordance with applicable law and kept for as long as necessarily required to carry out the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements.

We will endeavour to do all that is reasonably necessary to ensure that any data collected from you is being processed and stored securely and according to this Privacy Policy.

Security and transfer of your information

It is essential for Online Casino to be furnished with adequate security for both the Services and your Personal Information. We have implemented and will maintain current, reasonable physical, technical and organisational security measures and procedures in order to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. Despite all our considerable efforts to protect our data, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to stop all unlawful access to it or any exploitation of our Services.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure. Online Casino makes every possible effort to safeguard information, but it is impossible to guarantee that all information transferred to our website will be secure; any internet-based transmission is carried out at your own risk.

Online Casino operates on a global scale, which means that we may need to transmit your Personal Information to countries outside of New Zealand. What is important to note about this is that data protection and other relevant laws of countries outside of New Zealand may be less comprehensive than the laws and regulations within New Zealand. In such a situation, Online Casino will endeavour to take all reasonably necessary measures and have adequate safeguards in place to provide you with an equivalent level of protection when it comes to any personal data collected from you.

Your rights

In certain circumstances, if you are a New Zealand resident, you may exercise the rights available to you under applicable data protection laws as follows:

• You can request access to your personal data, or ask us to correct, update or delete the whole or part of your personal information.

• You can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.

• If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. This may mean your access to certain services is restricted or denied as a result. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

• You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

You can exercise your rights at any time by contacting us using the contact details below.

We respond to all requests we receive from users in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests. In some cases, we may reject requests for certain reasons (for example, if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user).

Other referred websites

This Privacy Policy does not concern the privacy of information (including cookies and other tracking technologies) stored by third-party websites which may be featured on our website in the form of hyperlinks. We have no control over these websites or their privacy policies.

If you click on a link to these third-party websites, you should check carefully the privacy policies of such websites before submitting any data to them.

We do not accept any liability relating to the privacy policies of such websites or any liability arising from your submission of data to them. You bear all risk in respect of the information that you give to such websites. Our Privacy Policy will not apply to any information you choose to give to any third-party website which we may display on our website.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

You are strongly advised to reread this Privacy Policy regularly, especially since it may be revised from time to time, at our sole judgment. You will always find the latest version of the Privacy Policy on our website. In case of any material change, you will be informed by way of the Services, where needed.

Your continued use of the Services after a notification from us regarding any Privacy Policy changes on our website will be your acknowledgment and agreement to such amendments.

Information about us and contact details

If you have any questions regarding the information that you submit to us and about our use of your information in relation to the Services, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also use this email address to exercise your rights, as outlined above.