Cookie Policy

1. Purpose and Scope of This Cookie Policy

To ensure complete technical transparency, this Cookie Policy documents every browser storage object utilized by yourcanadiancasinoguide.com, explains why it is required, specifies its exact retention lifespan, and outlines how Canadian and international visitors can inspect, modify, or purge these objects at any time.

2. Definition of Cookies, LocalStorage & SessionStorage

HTTP Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a web server when you load a website. HTML5 LocalStorage and SessionStorage are modern browser key-value storage mechanisms that allow a website to save interface state (such as whether you have already passed the 18+/19+ age verification gate) locally inside your browser without transmitting that value back to the server on every HTTP request.

3. Legal Framework in Canada (PIPEDA, CASL & Quebec Law 25)

Under guidelines issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and Section 8.1 of Quebec's modernized private-sector privacy act (Law 25), any technology that identifies, locates, or profiles a user requires prior informed consent. Conversely, strictly necessary technical storage required solely to deliver a service requested by the user or enforce statutory age and provincial compliance rules (such as AGCO Standard 2.05 in Ontario) operates strictly locally within your browser.

4. Category A: Strictly Necessary & Compliance Storage

These objects are essential for the legal and technical operation of yourcanadiancasinoguide.com. Without them, our website could not remember that you confirmed being of legal gambling age (18+ or 19+) or retain your cookie consent preference between pages.

5. Category B: Functional & Provincial Regime Preferences

Functional storage remembers user-initiated customization—specifically, when you select a Canadian province (e.g., Ontario, Quebec, or British Columbia) in our comparison filter or age verification prompt so that our tables highlight relevant provincial licensing and enforce AGCO Standard 2.05 rules.

6. Category C: Analytical & Advertising Tags (Zero Third-Party Scripts Deployed by Default)

In its current production build, yourcanadiancasinoguide.com does not load any third-party analytics trackers, behavioural advertising pixels, or cross-site tracking cookies. Your selection on our Cookie Consent Banner (all_accepted or essential_only) is stored in yccg_cookie_prefs_v2 so that if first-party analytical measurement or Google Consent Mode v2 conversion diagnostics are enabled in a future release, they will execute strictly for users who explicitly clicked "Accept All Cookies".

7. Category D: Outbound Affiliate Attribution Parameters

As disclosed in our Affiliate Disclosure, yourcanadiancasinoguide.com is funded through referral commissions from licensed Ontario operators. We do not load third-party behavioural retargeting pixels on our pages. Instead, if you choose to click an outbound link to a licensed partner casino, the destination URL appends a transparent referral query string (?utm_source=yourcanadiancasinoguide.com&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=on_audit_2026). The receiving operator may then set its own first-party attribution cookie on its domain to credit our publication.

8. Granular Technical Inventory of Active Storage Keys

Below is the complete, audited inventory of storage keys implemented on yourcanadiancasinoguide.com:

9. How Our Interactive Cookie Consent Banner Operates

Upon your initial visit to yourcanadiancasinoguide.com, our bottom compliance bar presents two equal-prominence options: "Accept All Cookies" and "Essential Cookies Only". Selecting "Essential Cookies Only" records essential_only in your local browser storage.

10. How to Modify or Revoke Consent on Our Website

You can reopen the Cookie Consent Banner on any page at any time by clicking the "Manage Cookie Preferences" link located in the "Legal & Governance" column of our global site footer, and switching your preference to "Essential Cookies Only".

11. Browser-Level Cookie & LocalStorage Controls

In addition to our on-site controls, all modern web browsers allow you to block or delete cookies and LocalStorage data directly through browser settings:

• Apple Safari (macOS / iOS): Navigate to Settings > Privacy > Manage Website Data to remove data stored by yourcanadiancasinoguide.com.
• Google Chrome: Navigate to Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-party cookies & Site Data.
• Mozilla Firefox: Navigate to Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data > Manage Data.
• Microsoft Edge: Navigate to Settings > Cookies and site permissions > Manage and delete cookies and site data.

12. Do Not Track (DNT) & Global Privacy Control (GPC) Signals

Our client-side compliance script (main.js) actively inspects browser-level Global Privacy Control (navigator.globalPrivacyControl) and Do Not Track (navigator.doNotTrack) signals. When a GPC or DNT signal is detected and no prior preference is saved, our platform automatically records essential_only without prompting you for non-essential consent.

13. Absence of Cross-Site Behavioural Profiling

Bazeli Trading Ltd does not participate in real-time bidding (RTB) ad exchanges (as verified in our public /ads.txt ledger), does not deploy canvas fingerprinting scripts, and never constructs behavioural profiles of Canadian readers across unrelated websites.

14. Retention & Periodic Audit of Storage Technologies

Our engineering team audits the codebase of yourcanadiancasinoguide.com prior to every release to ensure no unauthorized third-party cookies are introduced. All LocalStorage keys can be reset instantaneously by clearing site data or using the footer preference toggle.

15. Updates to This Policy & Corporate Contact Information

Any modification to our storage keys or tracking architecture will be documented in Table 4.1 above prior to deployment. For technical questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact: