Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

We use cookies to ensure that our website works properly and remains secure, as well as to provide a better user experience. This policy explains how we use cookies on our site.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file sent from our web server to your device when you access our website. It stores information about your visit and preferences, which can be retrieved by us during future visits.

Why Do We Use Cookies?

Cookies are essential for creating a smooth user experience and ensuring the security of our site. They also help us understand how users interact with our content, allowing us to improve its relevance and usefulness. Here's where cookies fit into your browsing session:

• Initial contact: When you first visit our website, we set a few necessary cookies that enable our servers to remember you as an individual.
• Session management: We use these initial cookies to track your activities during each visit (a "session"), ensuring seamless navigation and efficient data handling.

Types of Cookies

We categorize cookies based on their function:

Essential Cookies

These are strictly essential for the proper functioning of our website. They're set automatically by us as soon as you access our content and persist until you close your browser or logout (if applicable).

• Session ID: A unique identifier for each session, helping to maintain your browsing experience.
• Login Data: Cookies that enable login persistence across sessions.

Session Cookies

These cookies are stored in memory while the user is actively engaged with the website. They're deleted once you close your browser or at the end of a session.

• User preferences: These set preferences based on choices made during each visit.
• Language and currency settings to adjust our content's display language or the monetary format for easier navigation.

Persistent Cookies

These are stored permanently on users' devices. We use them for analytics, user preferences, platform optimisation, login persistence, and more.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We also employ cookies from third-party providers to help us better understand how our content is consumed:

• Google Analytics: To gather anonymous statistics about site visits.
• Mixpanel: For detailed data analysis on user interactions with our website.

Preference and Language Settings

These are stored as part of our session or in persistent form, based on your preference for language, currency settings, and layout options within the site. These allow us to tailor our content more closely to individual users' needs without overloading them with unnecessary information.

Login/Session Continuity and Device Recognition

To enhance user experience, we use cookies that aid session continuity across devices (provided they are logged into an account) by ensuring seamless access between browser tabs or sessions on the same device.

• Login Persistence: Ensures your login details persist across visits within a certain time frame without requiring re-entry.
• Device Identification: To streamline browsing experiences and preferences management for users who log in across multiple devices with our site.

Security-Related Cookies

These help ensure the integrity of user interactions by detecting malicious attempts to compromise security. For example:

Browser Storage Technologies

We support modern browser storage solutions, like indexedDB or localStoreage (in case they are supported and available), for advanced session management features where cookies might not be appropriate.

Third-Party Integrations

In some cases, our website integrates tools from other providers that also use their own set of cookies. For these services:

Marketing/Communication Preferences

Cookies enable us to remember your marketing preferences across sessions or between multiple visits, improving personalisation for you on future interactions with our site and related digital channels.

Cookie Consent Management

This policy forms part of a broader effort towards compliance with data regulations such as GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) that mandate user awareness about tracking technology. It outlines how we manage cookie preferences at both the essential level required by law, allowing users to opt in for additional features through explicit consent requests during session setup.

Browser Cookie Controls and Disabling Cookies

Cookies are an important feature of online life but acknowledge your right to control them. If you wish to:

• Disable cookies: Most web browsers allow this action within their settings menu (refer to the help section provided with each browser application for detailed instructions).

Site Functionality Impact When Cookies Are Disabled

Our site still functions, though certain features may not work as intended or smoothly without enabling all types of cookies.

Technical Diagnostics and Performance Optimisation

For full performance optimisation on our website, enable both session and persistent cookie functionality (also consider allowing third-party analytics scripts for their benefits).

Aggregated Analytics Information and User Experience Improvements

• Statistical insights: Data is aggregated across a broad pool of users to refine site layouts and improve content relevance without exposing specific user identities.
• User-centric adjustments: Feedback from you, our visitors, helps in shaping new features or improving navigation processes.

Summary and Next Steps

This cookies policy covers the practices we employ with respect to all types of cookie functionality on Cobourg Bingo's platform. It is part of a comprehensive approach aiming at delivering seamless, engaging experiences across users' interaction pathways while being fully transparent about the technologies used in these efforts.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or questions regarding specific data processing practices described here and how they fit with regional privacy laws you're subject to.