Privacy Policy
This page describes which personal information Online Casino gathers from visitors, why each item is collected, how long it's kept, who can access it and what rights you hold over it. The technical detail of cookies and analytics sits separately on the Cookie Policy page; this privacy policy is the higher-level document on data and rights, while the cookie policy is the granular inventory of every storage mechanism running on the site.
What this site is, again
Online Casino is an independent informational resource publishing reviews and guides about the best australian online casino sites available to Australian players. The site doesn't run player accounts, doesn't take deposits, doesn't hold balances and doesn't facilitate gambling on this domain. What that means for privacy (the broader description of the site lives on the About page): Online Casino never asks for and never stores account credentials, banking details, payment instruments, photo ID or proof-of-address documents. Those items are handled by individual operators if you choose to register on their platforms; the operator's own privacy policy governs them, not this one.
What data Online Casino actually collects
Online Casino gathers three categories of data: anonymous traffic measurement, voluntary contact information when you reach out, and a minimal set of preferences held in your browser. Each is described in full below.
Anonymous traffic measurement
Every page visit to Online Casino is logged in aggregate by a privacy-respecting analytics provider (Plausible Analytics, or a self-hosted Umami instance — the deployment varies). The data points captured per visit are: the URL of the page visited, the URL of the referring page (where one exists), the screen-size category (mobile / tablet / desktop), the browser language preference, the country derived from the IP address at request time, and the timestamp. The IP address itself isn't stored. No persistent cross-site identifier is set; no advertising profile is built; no data is sold or shared with third parties.
Aggregate analytics let me see which guides are read most, which inbound search terms drive the most readers to which pages, and which outbound links get clicked. That feeds back into the site — spotting guides that aren't reaching people, catching broken navigation patterns, prioritising updates on busy pages — and is used for nothing else.
Voluntary contact information
If you contact Online Casino via the contact form, the email channel listed on the Contact page, or the comment functionality on individual reviews (where it's open), the data you provide is collected and held to respond to you. The fields involved are: your name (or chosen handle), an email address for the reply, the message body, and any attachments you include. I hold those records for as long as the conversation stays active plus two years afterwards, for reference if the same query returns from the same address. After that, the record is deleted.
I don't pass contact submissions to operators. I don't sell or trade them to third-party marketing lists. I don't use them to send unsolicited follow-ups; any reply from me is a direct response to your message.
Browser preferences
Three preference items are stored locally in your browser by Online Casino: your cookie-banner choice, your theme preference (dark/light mode), and an accessibility font-size override if you've set one. None of these leave your device; none are visible to me in aggregate; clearing your browser's site storage removes them. The full inventory sits on the Cookie Policy page.
What Online Casino does not collect
For clarity, the absence of items matters as much as the presence. Online Casino does not gather: account passwords (none exist on this site), payment-card details, bank account or PayID identifiers, photo ID documents, proof-of-address documents, dates of birth (other than 18+ confirmation in the cookie banner), location data more granular than country, contact lists, device fingerprints, biometric data, or behavioural-advertising profiles. If you come across a third-party site claiming to "log into Online Casino" or asking for credentials supposedly to verify your account, it isn't me. Online Casino has no accounts to log into.
Where the data sits
Aggregate analytics data is stored on infrastructure run by my analytics provider, in a data centre located in the European Union. Contact-form submissions live on the same infrastructure as the rest of this site, hosted in a data centre in Australia. Backups are encrypted at rest and kept for 30 days before rolling expiration. Access to either dataset is restricted to named members of the editorial and technical team; access is logged and audited quarterly.
Your rights over the data
Under Australian privacy law (the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles), and under equivalent regimes that may apply to overseas readers (the GDPR for EU/UK readers, for example), you hold a defined set of rights over the personal data I keep about you. The ones relevant to Online Casino are:
- Access. You can ask what personal data I hold about you. I respond within 30 calendar days with the list and copies of the underlying records.
- Correction. If any data I hold is wrong, you can ask me to correct it. I act within 30 calendar days and confirm in writing.
- Deletion. You can ask me to delete the data I hold about you. I act within 30 calendar days unless I'm legally required to retain it for an overriding reason (I'm not aware of any such reason currently applying to Online Casino data).
- Objection to analytics. You can opt out of aggregate analytics at any time via the cookie banner. The cookie policy explains how.
- Complaint. If you believe I've mishandled your personal data, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) at oaic.gov.au. The OAIC can investigate and, where appropriate, issue determinations.
To exercise any of these rights, use the Contact page and describe what you're asking for. I don't require a special form, and I don't charge a fee.
Children
Online Casino is intended exclusively for adult Australian audiences (harm-minimisation guidance sits on the Responsible Gambling page) (18+). I don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you suspect a child has interacted with this site and provided data, reach out via the contact page and the data will be deleted promptly.
Third-party links
Outbound links from Online Casino to operator sites are governed by those operators' privacy policies once you arrive there. Online Casino can't read, control or delete data held by an operator on your behalf; that request needs to go directly to the operator. Where an outbound link is affiliated (as described in the Affiliate Disclosure), the operator is told via the affiliate-tracking mechanism that the click came from Online Casino, but the operator receives no personal data about you from me — no name, no email, no IP address. They learn only that "a click arrived from referring URL X".
Changes to this policy
When this privacy policy changes in any substantive way, the "Last updated" date at the top is moved forward and the change is summarised in the change log at the bottom of the page (added on the first material change after publication). If the change affects what's required for consent under Australian law, the cookie banner resurfaces for all visitors regardless of their previous choice. Minor wording fixes (handled per the Editorial Policy) trigger none of that.
Questions about this policy not covered above belong on the Contact page. Read the contact page first — it lists the different categories of question and the right person to route each to.