What Are Cookies and Why Do We Use Them
When you visit dudespin-casino-nz.com, small text files called cookies are placed on your device. These files allow our website to recognise your browser, remember your preferences, and deliver a more consistent experience each time you return. Cookies themselves do not contain your name, payment details, or any other directly identifying information unless you have provided that information to us separately.
DudeSpin Casino uses cookies for a range of operational and analytical purposes. Some are essential for the site to function properly, while others help us understand how players interact with our pages so we can make ongoing improvements. This policy explains what types of cookies we use, what they do, and how you can manage or remove them.
Our Obligations Under New Zealand Law
This Cookie Policy is written in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 (New Zealand), which governs the collection, use, and storage of personal information. Where cookies collect or process data that can be linked to an identifiable individual, that activity is subject to the Information Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act 2020.
DudeSpin Casino is committed to collecting only the personal information that is reasonably necessary for our stated purposes, and to being transparent about how that information is handled. If you have questions about how your data is managed more broadly, please read our Privacy Policy.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to operate. Without them, core features such as logging into your DudeSpin account, navigating between pages, and completing transactions cannot function. Because these cookies are essential to the delivery of the service you have requested, they are placed automatically and cannot be disabled through your cookie preferences on our site.
Examples of what these cookies handle:
- Maintaining your session while you are logged into your DudeSpin account
- Keeping track of your preferences during a single browsing session
- Enabling secure connections and fraud prevention checks
- Ensuring correct pages load when you switch between sections of the site
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide a more tailored experience. They are not strictly required, but disabling them may affect how certain parts of the site behave.
These cookies may store:
- Your preferred language or region settings
- Whether you have acknowledged our responsible gambling notices
- Display preferences such as game grid layout or currency format
- Whether you have previously dismissed certain notifications or banners
Performance and Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to gather information about how visitors use our website. This data is aggregated and used to identify which pages receive the most traffic, where users tend to exit, and how long players engage with different sections of the site. None of this information identifies you as an individual.
Tools that may set performance cookies on our site include third-party analytics platforms. The data collected may include:
- Pages visited and the order in which they were visited
- Time spent on each page
- Browser type, device category, and operating system
- Referring website or search query that brought you to our site
- Errors encountered during browsing sessions
Marketing and Targeting Cookies
Marketing cookies track your activity across websites to build a profile of your interests. This profile may be used to show you relevant promotions or advertisements on other platforms. These cookies are set by us or by third-party advertising partners whose services appear on our site.
You are not required to accept marketing cookies in order to use DudeSpin Casino. If you decline them, you may still see advertising, but it will not be tailored to your browsing behaviour.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our site are set by external services, not by DudeSpin Casino directly. These include game providers, payment processors, and analytics or advertising platforms. Third-party cookies are governed by the privacy policies of the respective companies that set them. We do not have direct control over third-party cookies, but we only work with providers whose data practices meet reasonable standards of transparency and security.
If you want to understand how specific third parties handle your data, we recommend reviewing their individual privacy and cookie disclosures.
Cookies and Responsible Gambling Compliance
As an operator that takes its responsible gambling obligations seriously, DudeSpin Casino uses certain cookies to support player protection features. These may include:
- Storing self-exclusion or session limit preferences you have set in your account
- Displaying responsible gambling messages at intervals during extended play sessions
- Tracking whether age verification steps have been completed for your account
These cookies form part of our obligations to promote safer gambling practices and are treated as necessary for compliance purposes.
Cookie Retention Periods
Cookies remain on your device for varying lengths of time depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies are temporary and are deleted automatically when you close your browser
- Persistent cookies remain on your device for a set period, which can range from 30 days to 24 months depending on the cookie’s function
- Third-party cookies are subject to retention schedules determined by the relevant third party
You can delete cookies from your device at any time using your browser settings. Instructions for the most commonly used browsers are provided further below.
Your Rights Under the Privacy Act 2020
Under New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to:
- Request access to any personal information we hold about you
- Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate, out of date, or misleading
- Ask us to explain how your information is being used
- Make a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner if you believe we have breached the Privacy Act 2020 in the way we handle your data
Requests related to your personal information can be directed to our support team at support@dudespin-casino-nz.com. We will respond within a reasonable timeframe, generally within 20 working days, consistent with the requirements of the Privacy Act 2020.
How to Manage Your Cookie Preferences
Through Our Website
When you first visit dudespin-casino-nz.com, you will be presented with a cookie notice that gives you the option to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can revisit and update these preferences at any time through the cookie settings link in the footer of our site.
Please note that disabling certain categories of cookies may affect your experience. For example, declining functional cookies could mean your account preferences are not saved between sessions, and you may be asked to re-confirm certain settings each time you visit.
Through Your Browser
All major browsers give you the ability to view, manage, and delete cookies stored on your device. The steps differ slightly between browsers, but most include an option within the privacy or security settings menu. You can find specific guidance for your browser below:
Deleting cookies from your browser does not prevent new cookies from being placed when you next visit our site. If you want to stop certain cookies from being set in the future, you need to change your browser’s settings to block them, or decline them through our cookie preference centre.
Opting Out of Analytics
If you want to prevent your browsing data from being collected for analytics purposes across websites that use Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on. This tool prevents data from being sent to Google Analytics without disabling all cookies on the site.
Cookies on Mobile Devices
If you access DudeSpin Casino through a mobile browser or via our app, similar tracking technologies may be used. Mobile operating systems offer controls over advertising identifiers and certain data collection settings. These can typically be found under your device’s privacy or advertising settings.
- On iOS, go to Settings, then Privacy and Security, then Tracking
- On Android, go to Settings, then Privacy, then Ads
Disabling tracking on your mobile device will limit the use of advertising identifiers but may not affect cookies set through the mobile browser itself.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We review this policy periodically and may update it to reflect changes in the cookies we use, updates to applicable laws, or changes in our business operations. Any revised version will be published on this page. We encourage you to check back from time to time to stay informed about how we use cookies.
If there are any significant changes that affect your rights or the way we handle data linked to your account, we will take reasonable steps to notify you directly.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, or if you would like to exercise your rights under the Privacy Act 2020, you can reach our team through any of the following channels:
- Email: support@dudespin-casino-nz.com
- Phone: +64 9 081 7640
- Post: Level 8/139 Quay Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- Online form: Contact Us