Cookie policy – Pokies Melbourne

Pokies Melbourne is an editorial publication about online gambling, written for readers in Australia.

Table of Contents
  1. Legal basis
  2. Stored without asking you
  3. Stored only if you agree
  4. Changing your mind
  5. How long items are kept
  6. Complaints

Australia has no separate cookie statute. Where something stored in your browser, or read back from it, identifies you or could reasonably identify you, it is personal information, and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) applies together with the Australian Privacy Principles set out in that Act. APP 1 requires open and transparent handling of personal information, and this page exists to meet that obligation. APP 3 governs what may be collected at all; APP 5 requires that you be told, at or before the time of collection, what is being collected and for what purpose. Where consent is relied on, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner treats it as valid only when it is voluntary, informed, current and specific, and given by a person with the capacity to give it.

Stored without asking you

A small number of items are set because the page cannot be delivered without them: the session identifier that serves the page you have requested, and the record of the choice you make about everything else. Without the second one, the same question would be put to you on every visit.

Stored only if you agree

Everything beyond that — audience measurement, statistics and any third-party item — is stored only after you have agreed in the banner. Declining costs you nothing here: the page remains fully readable and only the measurement stops. Declining is as easy as agreeing, and access to what you came to read is not conditional on your answer either way.

Changing your mind

You may withdraw your agreement at any time, with effect from that point onwards, by reopening the cookie settings or by clearing the items your browser has stored for this site. Nothing on the site becomes unusable as a result, and you are not asked to explain the decision.

How long items are kept

The session identifier ends when the browser is closed. Your recorded choice is kept for six months at most, after which the question is put to you again. Server-side connection logs are a separate matter and are described in the privacy policy.

Complaints

The supervising authority is the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). If anything set out here concerns you, raise it first through the contact details published on pokies-hub.com; if our answer does not resolve the matter, you are free to take it to the OAIC.