Privacy policy: what this site collects, and what it does not
Most privacy pages are long because the site behind them does a lot with visitors. This one is short for the opposite reason. Reading these pages is one of the few ways to tell an editorial site from a data operation, so the useful version states plainly what runs on the page, what the server unavoidably records, and what changes the moment you follow a link to an operator.
What this site does not collect
Everything below is a property of the published files rather than a promise about intent: it is what the pages contain, and it can be checked by anyone who views the source of this page.
- No cookies of our own
This site sets no cookie. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
- No analytics
No traffic script of any kind runs here - no page-view counter, no heatmap, no session recorder.
- No accounts, no forms
There is nothing to sign up for and no form to fill in. The contact page publishes addresses instead, on purpose.
- No third-party assets
Fonts, images and scripts are served from this domain. No font CDN, no embedded video, no social widget sees your visit.
If any of that changes - an analytics tool, an embedded widget, a newsletter field - this page changes with it, in the same release. A privacy page that lags behind the code is worse than none, because it reads as a reassurance while being wrong.
What the server records anyway
Delivering a web page requires the server to receive a request, and the request itself carries information: the IP address it came from, the address of the page asked for, the time, and the browser's own description of itself. The hosting infrastructure keeps those access logs for a short period so that the site can be operated, faults can be traced and abuse such as scraping or an attack can be recognised. They are technical records rather than a profile: nothing here joins them to a person, enriches them from another source or passes them to an advertiser, and there is no identifier of ours in the request to join them by in the first place.
If you write to us
The contact page publishes addresses for corrections, operator enquiries and press questions. An email you send contains whatever you chose to put in it, including your address, and it is kept for as long as the exchange is useful - a reported error, for instance, is worth keeping alongside the correction it produced, so that the same figure is not re-published later. Correspondence is not added to any mailing list, not used to contact you about anything else, and not passed to an operator. If you would rather a message and your address were deleted, say so in a reply and that is what happens.
What happens when you follow a link to a casino
Some links here go to operators, and some of those are commercial: the operator pays a commission if a visitor opens an account, which is how the site is funded. The ranking is decided before any link is attached and an operator cannot pay for a position, but the mechanics are worth stating in a privacy context rather than only a commercial one.
Following one of those links takes you to the operator's own site, and from that point their privacy policy applies rather than this one. They will normally set their own cookies, and one of those records that the visit came from here so a commission can be attributed. That is the extent of it as far as we are concerned: we receive statistics about clicks and sign-ups from the operator's affiliate system, never the identity of the person who signed up, and never any account, deposit or play data attached to a name. A casino account, its verification documents and its transaction history are entirely between you and the operator, and this site has no access to any of them - which is also why it cannot intervene in a payout dispute.
Your rights, and how to use them
Canadian federal privacy law gives you the right to ask an organisation what personal information it holds about you, to have a mistake in it corrected, and to withdraw consent for its use. In practice the answer here will be short, because the only personal information this site holds is the email correspondence described above. Ask at [email protected] and you will get a straight account of what exists, or confirmation that nothing does. If you are not satisfied with the response, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada accepts complaints about how an organisation has handled personal information.
This site is for adults: 19+ in most provinces, 18+ in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. It is not directed at children and collects nothing from them.
