Cookie Policy — Stay Casino Australia
Cookies are the quiet housekeeping layer behind almost every website, and this page sets out exactly how stay-casino-australia.net — an independent review and information resource covering Stay Casino for an Australian audience — uses them, along with related tracking technologies, whenever you visit. We’re not the operator of the real-money platform; we’re a publisher that researches, tests and writes about it. If you’re after the cookie documentation for the actual gaming account you’d open with the operator, that lives on staycasino.com itself, not here. What follows covers only the cookies this review site places on your device while you’re reading our pokies guides, bonus breakdowns and payment comparisons.
We’ve tried to write this in plain English rather than dense legal boilerplate, because most visitors skim a cookie policy for about ten seconds before clicking away. If you only read one section, make it the table below — it tells you exactly what each cookie category does and why it’s there.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your browser or device when you visit. It doesn’t run programs, it doesn’t carry viruses, and on its own it can’t identify you by name. What it does is let a site remember something between page loads or between visits — that you’ve already dismissed a banner, that you prefer dark mode, or that a particular session came from a particular referral link.
Technically, cookies fall into a couple of useful buckets. Session cookies exist only while your browser tab is open and disappear the moment you close it. Persistent cookies stick around for a set period — anywhere from a day to a couple of years — so the site can recognise you on a return visit. We use both, and we’ve tried to keep the persistent ones to the minimum this site actually needs to function and to be maintained sensibly.
Alongside cookies, some parts of the web also use related technologies — local storage, pixel tags, and similar device identifiers — that behave in broadly the same way. For simplicity, this policy treats all of them as “cookies,” since that’s how most browsers group them in their privacy settings anyway.
Why We Use Cookies on This Site
We’re not trying to build a profile of you for its own sake. The cookies on stay-casino-australia.net do a handful of practical jobs:
- Keep the site working properly — loading pages, remembering your cookie-consent choice, and preventing the same notice from popping up on every single page.
- Understand which guides people actually read, which pokies comparisons get the most traffic, and where visitors drop off — so we can prioritise updates and fix pages that aren’t pulling their weight.
- Measure how our content performs against search intent, which helps us decide whether a page like this one needs expanding, trimming or rewriting.
- Attribute outbound clicks correctly when you follow a link from our site to Stay Casino, so the operator’s affiliate system knows the visit came via an independent review rather than direct traffic. This is standard practice across the affiliate publishing industry and is how sites like ours are funded without charging readers.
We don’t use cookies to sell your personal details to data brokers, and we don’t run cross-site advertising retargeting networks bolted onto every page. The footprint here is deliberately modest for a content site in this niche.
The Types of Cookies We Use
The table below breaks down the four broad categories you’ll encounter on this site, what each one is actually for, and a concrete example so it’s not just abstract jargon.
| Cookie type | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Required for the site to function — without these, pages may not load correctly or your consent preference won’t be remembered. | Cookie-consent banner state, security/session token |
| Functional | Remembers choices you’ve made to improve your experience on return visits. | Preferred currency display (A$), previously viewed pokies category |
| Analytics | Measures traffic, page performance and reader behaviour in aggregate, so we can improve content and fix broken pages. | Google Analytics-style pageview and session tracking |
| Marketing / affiliate | Tracks outbound clicks to Stay Casino so the referral is attributed correctly to this site. | Affiliate click-ID cookie set when you use a “Sign Up” link |
Essential cookies are set the moment you land on the site, before you make any choice, because the site genuinely can’t function without them — there’s no consent toggle for these, in line with how cookie law treats strictly necessary technologies across Australia and most other jurisdictions. Everything else — functional, analytics and marketing — is either optional or tied to the consent choice you make in our banner, which we cover further down.
Third-Party Cookies
Some of the cookies on this site aren’t set by us directly — they’re set by third-party services we rely on to run analytics and to manage affiliate tracking. This is normal for any content publisher and worth being upfront about, since it’s the part of a cookie policy readers usually care most about.
Analytics providers
We use a standard web analytics platform to see aggregated, anonymised patterns — how many people visited our pokies guide this week, whether visitors on mobile bounce faster than desktop, which internal links actually get clicked. This data is reported back to us in aggregate; we don’t receive a name-and-address dossier on individual readers. The analytics provider may itself process data in accordance with its own privacy terms, which sit outside our control once the data leaves our site.
Affiliate tracking
When you click a “Sign Up” or “Visit Site” button pointing to Stay Casino, a tracking parameter is attached to that outbound link. This is how the operator’s affiliate program knows the referral originated from stay-casino-australia.net rather than from a search engine or another site. The cookie associated with that click is set by the affiliate network’s tracking domain, not by us directly, and it typically persists for a defined attribution window so that a sign-up completed a day or two after the click still credits correctly. We don’t see your account activity, deposits or gameplay on the operator’s side — the tracking cookie only communicates that a referral happened, nothing about what you do afterwards.
If you’d like to see this site’s independent take before deciding anything, our the Stay Casino Australia review homepage walks through the welcome offer, payment options and the honest downsides, not just the pitch.
Other embedded content
Where a page embeds third-party content — a video player, a social media post, or a widget — that provider may set its own cookies when the embed loads, under its own separate privacy policy. We keep embeds to a minimum on legal and informational pages like this one specifically to avoid loading cookies you didn’t come here for.
How to Manage or Disable Cookies
You’re in control of cookies at two levels: the consent banner we show on this site, and your browser’s own settings, which override everything a site tries to do.
Our consent banner
On your first visit, a banner asks you to accept, decline, or customise which non-essential cookie categories you’re comfortable with. Your choice is stored so we don’t ask again on every page load. You can change your mind at any time — clearing your browser’s site data for stay-casino-australia.net will bring the banner back on your next visit, letting you reset your preference from scratch.
Browser-level controls
Every major browser lets you view, block or delete cookies, either site-by-site or globally. Broadly:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data, where you can block third-party cookies or clear data for specific sites.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data, with options for standard, strict or custom tracking protection.
- Safari: Settings → Privacy, where “Prevent Cross-Site Tracking” limits third-party cookies by default on recent versions.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
Blocking all cookies will likely break some functionality on this site — the consent banner may reappear repeatedly, and functional preferences like your currency display won’t persist. Blocking only third-party or analytics cookies typically leaves the core reading experience intact while limiting tracking.
Opting out of analytics and ad networks
Beyond browser settings, several industry tools let you opt out of tracking more broadly across the sites you visit, not just this one. Ad-industry opt-out pages (such as those run by the Digital Advertising Alliance and similar bodies in the EU and UK) let you register a device-level preference against participating networks. Analytics providers also commonly publish their own browser opt-out add-ons. None of these tools are things we control or endorse specifically — they’re general-purpose privacy resources worth knowing about regardless of which sites you browse.
How Long We Keep Cookies
Retention depends on the cookie’s job. Essential session cookies typically expire the moment you close your browser tab — they were never meant to outlive the visit. Functional and consent-preference cookies are usually set to persist for around twelve months, so you’re not re-asked on every single visit, after which they expire and reset naturally. Analytics cookies commonly follow a similar window, often somewhere between thirteen and twenty-six months depending on the provider’s default configuration, after which the identifier ages out and a fresh one is generated on your next visit.
Affiliate and marketing tracking cookies are generally the shortest-lived of the lot in practical terms — attribution windows for casino affiliate programs are commonly measured in days to a few weeks, long enough to credit a sign-up that happens shortly after a click, not to build a long-term profile. Once the attribution window closes, the cookie has effectively done its job whether or not it’s technically expired.
None of these figures are a guarantee down to the exact hour — cookie lifespans are configuration settings on our end and on our providers’ end, and providers do periodically update their defaults. If precision matters for your own compliance purposes, your browser’s cookie inspector will always show you the actual expiry date set on any given cookie stored on your device right now.
Your Consent
By continuing to use this site after seeing our cookie banner, and by making a choice within it, you’re telling us what you’re comfortable with. Declining non-essential cookies doesn’t stop you from reading our content — it simply means we don’t set analytics or marketing cookies for that visit, and some personalisation (like remembering your preferred pokies category) won’t carry over between sessions.
Where required by the rules that apply to your location, we treat consent as something you give actively, not something assumed from silence. That’s why essential cookies are the only category active before you’ve made a choice, and why the rest wait on your input in the banner.
Updates to This Cookie Policy
This page doesn’t stay static forever — we come back to it whenever the analytics tools we run change, when a new type of embedded content gets added to a guide, or when the affiliate tracking arrangement with Stay Casino changes on our end. Rather than a running changelog, we simply move the “Updated” date in the byline whenever a revision is substantial enough to matter. There’s no email alert or pop-up notice for cookie policy changes specifically; this page is the record that counts, so if cookie handling is something you care about, a quick check back now and then beats assuming last year’s version still applies.
For the broader picture of how we handle any personal information collected through this site — not just cookies — see our full Privacy Policy. Our Terms and Conditions cover how the site itself may be used, and our Disclaimer explains the informational nature of our content and our affiliate relationship with the operator in plain terms.
Contact Us
Got a question about how tracking works on stay-casino-australia.net specifically, or think something on this page needs correcting? Our Contact page is the right place to send that. Anything account-side — a deposit that hasn’t landed, a withdrawal stuck in review, a KYC document that bounced back — needs to go to Stay Casino’s own team at [email protected] instead, since we don’t hold your funds, your login or any ability to act on your account from our end.
A Reminder on Responsible Play
Cookies and tracking are a housekeeping topic, but since you’re on a page about an online casino review site, it’s worth restating the basics briefly. Nothing about how this site is funded — including affiliate tracking cookies — changes the fact that pokies are entertainment involving real money, not a way to make money, and every spin carries genuine variance. If gambling stops being fun or starts affecting your finances, relationships or mood, Gambling Help Online (1800 858 858) is a free, confidential Australian service worth calling. Tools like Gamban and BetBlocker can block gambling sites at the device level if you want a firmer boundary, and Lifeline (13 11 14) is there for anything heavier than a gambling question specifically. Our full Responsible Gambling page goes into the operator’s own limit-setting and self-exclusion tools in more detail. This site, and the platform it reviews, are strictly for players aged 18 and over.
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In short — this policy exists so you know exactly what’s ticking away in the background while you read our reviews: a handful of essential cookies to keep the site upright, functional cookies for small conveniences, analytics so we know which guides are worth improving, and affiliate tracking so independent publishing like this stays viable. Nothing here is hidden, nothing here is sold on, and nothing here requires more than a browser setting to switch off if you’d rather not have it.