Cookie Policy
This page describes the cookies and similar technologies this site uses, what each one does, how long it stays on your device, and how you can control or wipe them. The broader topic of personal data handling is covered separately on the Privacy Policy page; what you are reading here is the technical companion to that one. The site as a whole is described on the About page, with the flagship operator review on the Spinaud Casino homepage.
1. What a cookie is, briefly
Under the hood, a cookie is a brief piece of text dropped by a website into the browser running on your device. Each subsequent visit to the same site triggers the browser to send that fragment back, which is how the site recognises returning readers, retains chosen settings, or tallies traffic numbers. Cookies are inert by design: they cannot execute anything on the machine, they have no access to other files on disk, and they carry no identifying information about you unless a separate data source has been linked to them previously. Plenty of mechanisms commonly bundled under the "cookies" label are actually adjacent browser-storage technologies — localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB — that share much of the same model; the word "cookie" on this page is used as a shorthand covering all of them.
2. Categories of cookies used on this site
The cookies on this site fall into three buckets. Each appears on the consent banner shown during your first visit, and the same selection can be opened again at any time through the dedicated link in the footer.
| Category | Purpose | Consent required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Make the site work: load the page, remember your cookie-banner choice, route traffic, block abuse. | No (legal basis: legitimate interest) |
| Analytics | Anonymous, aggregated traffic measurement: which pages are read, where readers come from, which links are clicked. | Yes |
| Affiliate tracking | Recognise that a click through to Spinaud (or any partner operator) originated from this site so the partnership can be credited. | Yes |
This site does not use advertising or remarketing cookies. There is no on-site display advertising, no programmatic ad network, and no pixel-tracking of readers across other sites. The funding model that supports the site is detailed on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
3. Specific cookies, third parties and lifetimes
The table below itemises every cookie that may land on your device during a visit here. Where a cookie comes from a third party, the policy of that third party is the binding one, and a direct link is provided so you can read it yourself.
| Name | Set by | Category | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
sp_consent | This site | Strictly necessary | Saves your cookie-banner choice so the banner does not reappear on every page load. | 12 months |
sp_session | This site | Strictly necessary | Anonymous session identifier used to load assets and rate-limit abusive traffic. | Until browser closes |
_ga, _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | Aggregated traffic statistics: pages per session, traffic sources, average time on page. IP addresses are anonymised before storage. | 14 months |
sp_aff | This site | Affiliate tracking | Logs that a click on an outbound Spinaud link came from this site so the partnership is credited. | 30 days |
For third-party details: Google Privacy & Terms applies to anything dropped by Google Analytics. After you click through to Spinaud or any partner operator, the cookies they set on their own domain are governed by that operator's privacy policy rather than this one.
4. How to control cookies in your browser
All current browsers expose controls for blocking new cookies, wiping the ones already on disk, or refusing third-party cookies wholesale. The vendor documentation for each is linked below:
An alternative is loading the site through your browser's private or incognito window, which discards any cookies the moment the window is closed.
5. What happens if you decline non-essential cookies
The site continues to function as expected. Every page remains readable, every internal link still works, and clicking through to Spinaud is unaffected. Three small effects do follow: the visit will not register in our aggregate analytics; a click on an affiliate link with affiliate tracking switched off prevents the partnership from being credited (Spinaud still treats your account identically — only the referrer attribution to this site goes missing); and the consent banner will resurface after a cookie wipe because the consent choice itself lives in a cookie. The full editorial framework that governs how affiliate links are flagged sits on the Editorial Policy page, with the player-safety commitments on the Responsible Gambling page.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
The Global Privacy Control (GPC) header is recognised on this site: any browser sending GPC has every non-essential cookie blocked by default and the consent banner suppressed. The older Do Not Track signal lacks a settled enforcement framework across the web and is therefore not acted on here.
7. Updates to this policy
Whenever the cookie inventory shifts, this page is amended and the "Last updated" header reflects the change. A material change — a new cookie category or a fresh third-party processor — prompts a one-time re-trigger of the consent banner so returning visitors can review the new arrangement. Light edits such as rewording or link maintenance do not generate a new consent prompt.
8. Questions and complaints
Questions about specific cookies on this site are best routed through the Contact page. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au handles complaints about Australian sites under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).