This cookie policy explains which cookies vegas-now-casinos.nz sets, what each category is for, how long the files survive and how to remove them. It is deliberately specific, because “we use cookies to improve your experience” tells a reader nothing. This is a review site for players in New Zealand aged 18 and over — there are no accounts, no balances and no payments on these pages, so the cookies here are limited to keeping the site functional, remembering a preference and counting visits. For the wider picture of data handling, including analytics, server logs and your rights under the Privacy Act 2020, see how your data is handled. Current as at August 2026.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. On each subsequent request to that site, the browser sends the file back, which is how a site recognises that two page views came from the same visitor. Cookies hold short values — an identifier, a flag, a timestamp — not documents, and they cannot read files on your device, run programmes or access anything outside the browser’s storage for that site.
Two distinctions matter. Session cookies are erased when the browser closes; persistent cookies carry an expiry date and survive until it passes or you clear them. First-party cookies are set by the domain in the address bar, third-party cookies by another domain whose code the page loads. Browsers also offer local and session storage, which do a similar job differently; where this policy says “cookies”, it covers those too.
Categories we use
Everything set on this site falls into one of three groups. Lifetimes are typical values — an individual cookie may differ slightly, and third-party tools occasionally change their defaults.
| Category | Purpose | Typical lifetime | Can it be switched off? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Core delivery and security: load balancing, bot filtering at the CDN layer, protecting forms against automated abuse, and keeping a page request consistent from start to finish. | Session to about 12 months | No — the site cannot be served reliably without them. They set no marketing identifiers. |
| Preferences | Remembering choices you have made: your cookie consent decision, and any display setting the site offers, so you are not asked the same question on every page. | 6 to 12 months | Yes — but declining them means your choices are forgotten and the consent prompt reappears. |
| Analytics | Counting visits and page views, distinguishing a new visitor from a returning one, and measuring which pages are read, where readers stop, and which entry points bring them in. | Session to about 24 months | Yes — optional. Decline them and every page still works exactly as before. |
There are no advertising or retargeting cookies on this site, and no cookies are used to build a profile for ad targeting.
Analytics cookies in detail
Analytics is the only category with real substance behind it, so here is what it does. When you open a page, the script records the URL, the time, the referring source, approximate location derived from your IP address (city or region level, never an address), device type and screen size, browser and operating system, and how far you scrolled. A cookie holds a randomly generated identifier so three page views in one visit count as one session rather than three visitors, and a return visit next week is not counted as a brand-new person.
That identifier is not a name. It is not linked to an email address, a casino account or any identity document, because none of those exist here. The output we look at is aggregate: page views per URL, average time on page, scroll depth, entry and exit pages, device split. It is the mechanism by which a page that everybody abandons at the halfway mark gets rewritten — for example if the payout section of the main review turns out to be where readers stop, that section is the one that gets fixed.
Analytics cookies are the ones most worth having an opinion about, and they are also the ones you can decline with no functional cost whatsoever.
Third-party cookies
The site loads a small number of third-party services — a content delivery and security layer in front of the server, and the analytics provider — and those services set their own cookies under their own domains. They are limited to the purposes described above.
More importantly: when you follow an outbound link to a casino, that operator sets its own cookies on its own domain, and we have no control over them at all. Operator cookies typically handle session management, campaign attribution, fraud prevention and marketing, and they persist independently of anything you decide here — declining analytics on this site declines nothing on theirs. A casino’s own cookie and privacy policies are the only authoritative source on what it stores, and they are worth thirty seconds before you register. The same applies to every external site linked from these pages.
Managing cookies in your browser
Your browser is the final authority on cookies, regardless of what any site prefers. Every major browser lets you view what is stored, delete it, and block future cookies either everywhere or per site. Menu wording changes between versions, so these are the general paths rather than exact labels — if something does not match, the settings search box in your browser will find it faster than a written route will.
Google Chrome
Open the browser menu, go to Settings, then the privacy and security section, then the entry covering third-party cookies or site data. From there you can block third-party cookies, clear browsing data for a chosen time range, or open the per-site view to remove data for one domain only. On a page, clicking the icon at the left of the address bar shows what that site has stored and lets you clear it on the spot.
Safari
On macOS, open Safari → Settings → the privacy section, where you can block all cookies or manage stored website data site by site. Safari also enables cross-site tracking prevention by default. On iPhone and iPad, the equivalent controls sit in the system Settings app under Safari, including the option to clear history and website data.
Mozilla Firefox
Open the menu, go to Settings, then the privacy and security section. Firefox groups this under enhanced tracking protection with standard, strict and custom levels; custom lets you decide exactly which categories of cookies to block. The same section holds the controls for clearing cookies and site data, either wholesale or for a single site.
Microsoft Edge
Open the menu, go to Settings, then the cookies and site permissions section. You can block third-party cookies, clear data on exit, add exceptions for individual sites, and inspect what a specific domain has stored.
Two extras worth knowing. Private or incognito windows discard cookies when the window closes, which makes them a decent one-off option. And most browsers let you set a rule that clears cookies automatically every time you quit — a single setting that removes the need to think about any of this again.
What happens if you block cookies
Blocking analytics or preference cookies costs you nothing here: every page loads, every table renders, every link works, and no content is withheld. The visible difference is that your consent choice is no longer remembered, so the cookie prompt will appear again on your next visit — an irritation caused by the block itself, not by anything we do in response to it.
Blocking cookies globally is a different matter. Strictly necessary cookies help the security layer tell a person from a bot, so blocking everything can trigger extra checks or, in edge cases, stop pages loading properly. Sites where you hold an account — banks, email, a casino — generally cannot keep you logged in, because a session needs somewhere to live. That trade-off is browser-wide, and entirely yours to make.
Changes to this policy
This page is updated when the tools behind the site change — a different analytics provider, a new security layer, a change to retention periods — or when the relevant law changes. Revisions are published here with an updated date rather than announced by email, since this site keeps no mailing list. If you cleared your cookies since your last visit, the consent prompt will reappear and give you a fresh opportunity to read this before choosing. Last reviewed: August 2026.