Cookie Policy
This cookie policy explains which cookies lamabet-casino.com places on a visitor’s device, what each category does, how long it stays and how to switch any of it off. Four groups are in use: strictly necessary cookies that make pages load and remember consent choices, preference cookies that hold settings such as language, analytics cookies that count visits and show which pages get read, and affiliate tracking that records when a reader follows a link to the operator. Only the first group runs without permission; everything else waits for a choice made in the consent banner, and that choice can be changed or withdrawn at any moment. No cookie set by this site identifies anyone by name, and none is sold to advertisers. The sections below list the specific cookies involved, their retention periods, the third parties behind them, browser-by-browser instructions for managing them, and the rules that apply to Canadian and European visitors.
What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks a browser to store. On the next visit the browser hands it back, which is how a site recognises a returning device, remembers a language preference or knows that a consent banner has already been answered.
Two distinctions matter for everything that follows. Session cookies disappear when the browser closes, while persistent cookies survive for a set period – anywhere from a day to two years. First-party cookies are set by the site being visited, while third-party cookies come from another domain whose service is embedded in the page, such as an analytics provider.
Related technologies work the same way in practice and are covered by this cookie policy even though they are not technically cookies: local storage, session storage, pixels and tracking scripts all store or transmit small pieces of information from a browser.
Why This Site Uses Cookies
Three reasons, in order of necessity. Some cookies keep the site functioning – remembering a consent decision so the banner does not reappear on every page is itself a cookie. Some improve the experience by holding a language or display preference. And some measure what happens: which articles get read, how visitors arrive, where they stop reading, and how many follow a link through to the operator.
That last group is what funds the site. This is an affiliate resource, and measurement is how the arrangement works commercially. Saying so plainly is more useful than describing analytics as being purely “to improve user experience”, which is the standard formulation and only half true.
Categories of Cookies Used
| Category | Purpose | Consent needed | Typical lifespan |
| Strictly necessary | Page delivery, security, load balancing, storing the consent choice | No | Session to 12 months |
| Preferences | Language, display settings, dismissed notices | Yes | Up to 12 months |
| Analytics | Visit counts, page popularity, traffic sources, reading depth | Yes | Up to 24 months |
| Affiliate tracking | Recording that a visitor arrived at the operator through this site | Yes | Up to 30 days, set by the operator’s domain |
Nothing on this site places advertising cookies for behavioural retargeting. Visitors are not added to remarketing audiences and no profile is built for ad networks.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These run regardless of consent, because without them the site either breaks or forgets a visitor’s own privacy decision one page later. The set is small.
The WordPress platform behind the site sets a test cookie to confirm that cookies are enabled at all, and session cookies for anyone logging into the administration area, which does not apply to ordinary readers. The consent management tool stores the answer given in the banner along with a timestamp, which is what makes it possible to prove later that consent was obtained. Hosting and security layers may set short-lived cookies for load balancing and to filter automated attacks.
These cannot be switched off through the banner. Blocking them at browser level is possible, but the consent banner will then reappear on every single page load, which most people find worse than the cookie itself.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies hold small choices so they do not have to be repeated: interface language where more than one is offered, dismissal of a notice, or a display setting. They store a value, not an identity, and typically expire within a year.
Declining this category costs nothing beyond having to repeat those choices on each visit. No content becomes inaccessible.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics answers questions that cannot be guessed: whether a guide gets read to the end, whether a page is reached mainly from search or from a link, and which sections readers leave immediately. Editorial decisions here are made on that data rather than intuition.
Google Analytics 4 is the service in use. It sets identifiers such as _ga and _ga_CONTAINERID, which distinguish one browser from another and hold a session identifier, generally lasting up to two years. IP addresses are truncated before storage, and no name, email address or payment detail is ever passed to it, because this site never collects such data in the first place.
What the data shows is aggregate: how many people read a page, roughly where they were, which device they used, how they arrived. What it does not show is who they are. Declining analytics has no effect on how any page displays or behaves.
Affiliate Tracking Explained
This part deserves precision, since it is the least understood and the most relevant to how the site operates.
When a reader follows a link to the operator, a parameter identifying this site travels with the click. The operator’s platform records it on its own domain and keeps it for an attribution window, commonly thirty days. If that visitor registers and plays within the window, the referral is credited here and a commission is paid.
Two points follow. First, the tracking cookie is set by the operator’s domain, not by lamabet-casino.com, which means it is governed by the operator’s own privacy and cookie policies once a reader leaves this site. Second, nothing about a player’s account, balance, deposits or gameplay is visible here. Reporting arrives as aggregate figures, and no individual is identifiable in it.
Refusing this category, or blocking third-party cookies in the browser, does not restrict access to anything. Every bonus, promo code and offer described on this site remains available on identical terms to someone who types the operator’s address directly.
Third-Party Services That May Set Cookies
Cookies can also arrive from services embedded in pages rather than from this site directly.
- Google Analytics – measurement, as described above.
- Content delivery networks – short-lived cookies used for routing and bot filtering.
- Embedded media – a video or map embedded in an article sets cookies from its own provider when it loads.
- The operator’s affiliate platform – referral attribution, set on the operator’s domain after a click.
Each of those parties processes data under its own policies, and this site has no control over what they store or for how long. Anyone concerned about a specific service should read that provider’s cookie notice, which is linked from its own site.
Consent and How to Change It
On a first visit a banner appears offering acceptance of all optional categories, rejection of all, or a selective choice. Nothing beyond the strictly necessary group runs until that decision is made.
The decision is not permanent. A settings link in the footer reopens the preference panel at any time, and switching a category off stops the associated cookies from being set going forward. Cookies already stored can be cleared through browser settings, which is worth doing at the same time for anyone who wants a clean slate.
Consent records are retained with a timestamp, since demonstrating that permission was given is a requirement under several privacy regimes and impossible to do from memory.
Managing Cookies in Your Browser
Browser controls override anything set here and apply across every site visited.
Chrome: Settings, then Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies and Delete browsing data.
Safari on Mac: Safari menu, Settings, Privacy, where cookies can be blocked and website data managed.
Safari on iPhone or iPad: Settings app, Safari, then Block All Cookies or Clear History and Website Data.
Firefox: Settings, Privacy and Security, Enhanced Tracking Protection, plus Cookies and Site Data.
Edge: Settings, Cookies and site permissions, then Manage and delete cookies and site data.
Android Chrome: the three-dot menu, Settings, Site settings, Cookies.
Private or incognito windows discard cookies when closed, which is a simple option for anyone who wants no persistence at all. Browser extensions that block trackers work too, though aggressive ones occasionally break page elements on sites generally, not only here.
Blocking cookies entirely leaves this site fully readable. Every article, table and guide displays as normal – the consent banner simply reappears each time, because the record of the earlier answer is itself a cookie.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Browsers can send a Do Not Track header, though no common standard governs how sites should respond and most ignore it. Global Privacy Control is a newer signal with clearer legal recognition in some jurisdictions. Where a recognised opt-out signal is received, optional cookie categories are treated as declined rather than pending, which is the outcome the signal is intended to produce.
Cookies and Canadian Privacy Rules
Canadian visitors are covered by PIPEDA, which requires meaningful consent for the collection and use of personal information and a clear explanation of purposes. Quebec’s Law 25 goes further, requiring privacy-by-default settings and explicit consent for technology that profiles or tracks individuals. The banner and the preference panel on this site are built for that standard, which is why nothing optional runs before a choice is made.
European visitors are covered by the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, which impose materially the same requirement for prior consent to non-essential cookies. Rather than maintaining different behaviour by region, the stricter approach is applied to everyone.
Retention Periods
Necessary cookies last from a single session up to twelve months, with the consent record at the longer end so the banner does not reappear constantly. Preference cookies typically last up to twelve months. Analytics identifiers can persist for up to twenty-four months. Affiliate attribution generally runs for thirty days from a click and lives on the operator’s domain.
Deleting cookies through browser settings ends any of these immediately, regardless of the period originally set.
Children and Cookies
This site publishes material about real-money gambling and is intended solely for adults of legal gambling age – 19 in most Canadian provinces, 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. It is not directed at children, and no cookie is used to target anyone under those ages. Households sharing a device with minors may want to consider filtering software that blocks gambling-related content at device level.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
Services change, and so does the list of cookies attached to them. This policy is reviewed periodically and updated when a new service is added or an old one removed. The revision date below shows when it last changed. Where an update introduces a new category of processing, consent is requested again rather than assumed from an earlier answer.
Contact About Cookies
Privacy and cookie enquiries: [email protected]
Response time: normally within two business days.
Languages: English and French.
Requests to access, correct or delete data, and questions about how a specific cookie behaves, are all handled at that address. Anything concerning a gambling account, deposit or withdrawal belongs with the operator’s own support desk, since this site holds no player data of any kind.