What This Policy Covers
This Cookie Policy explains how Cobber Casino (operated at cobber-casino-nz.com, registered address: 25 Albert Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy and should be read together with it to get the full picture of how we handle your data.
When you land on cobber-casino-nz.com, small data files called cookies are placed on your device. These aren’t unique to us — nearly every website you’ve visited today uses them. What matters is that you know exactly what we’re doing with them, why, and what your options are.
What Cookies Actually Are
A cookie is a small text file stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. It lets the site remember certain information about you or your session, such as language preferences, login status, or which pages you’ve browsed. Cookies don’t run programs or carry viruses. They’re essentially short notes your browser keeps on behalf of the sites you visit.
Beyond traditional cookies, we also use related technologies that function in a similar way:
- Web beacons — tiny invisible images embedded in pages or emails that confirm you’ve opened a page or message
- Local storage — a browser feature that holds data on your device between sessions, similar to cookies but with larger capacity
- Session storage — temporary data that clears automatically when you close your browser tab
- Pixel tags — used to track interactions with specific page elements or promotional content
Throughout this policy, when we refer to “cookies,” we’re referring to all of these technologies collectively unless we specify otherwise.
Categories of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for cobber-casino-nz.com to work. Without them, basic functions like logging into your account, navigating between pages, or processing a deposit simply wouldn’t operate. Because they’re required for the site to function at all, these cookies don’t require your consent and cannot be switched off through your cookie settings.
Examples of what these cookies handle:
- Keeping you logged in during your session
- Maintaining the security of your account connection
- Remembering items you’ve added to your preferences within a session
- Load balancing across our servers to keep the site responsive
- Fraud detection and security checks during login and transactions
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use cobber-casino-nz.com: which pages get the most traffic, where people tend to exit, how long sessions last, and whether error messages appear. The information gathered is aggregated and doesn’t identify individual users.
We use this data to improve the platform — figuring out what’s working well and what needs attention. For example, if our analytics show that a particular game loading page has an unusually high drop-off rate, we investigate why and fix it.
Analytics cookies we rely on include tools that track page performance and user flow patterns. You can opt out of these through our cookie consent settings.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you make on the site to give you a more personalised experience. These aren’t essential, but they make a noticeable difference to usability.
They handle things like:
- Remembering your preferred language or regional settings
- Storing your display preferences (such as game grid layout)
- Keeping track of your last selected payment method for convenience
- Saving your responsible gambling settings between sessions
You can disable functional cookies if you prefer, though some site features may not work as smoothly without them.
Targeting and Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your browsing activity across cobber-casino-nz.com and, in some cases, other websites. Their purpose is to build a picture of your interests so that promotional content — whether on our site or elsewhere — is relevant to you rather than generic.
They also help us measure whether our marketing campaigns are working. For instance, they let us see whether a player who clicked a promotional banner went on to register or make a deposit, so we can evaluate which promotions are worth running.
Marketing cookies are only placed with your consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time through the cookie settings panel.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on cobber-casino-nz.com are set by third parties rather than by us directly. These include our game providers (such as Evolution, Play’n Go, Pragmatic Play, and others), payment processors, and analytics platforms. Third-party cookies are governed by the privacy policies of those companies, and we’d encourage you to review their terms if you want a complete understanding of what data they collect.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that any third party operating cookies on our platform has appropriate data handling practices, but we can’t be held responsible for the content of their privacy policies.
How Cookies Support Responsible Gambling Compliance
As an online casino serving New Zealand players, Cobber Casino takes responsible gambling obligations seriously. Certain cookies play a specific role in supporting these obligations:
- Self-exclusion enforcement — cookies help us recognise and honour self-exclusion requests by flagging excluded accounts during login attempts
- Deposit limit tracking — session data maintained through cookies helps enforce player-set deposit and loss limits in real time
- Session time monitoring — we use session cookies to track active gambling time, which feeds into our session duration reminders
- Age verification status — once your age has been verified, a cookie records this status so you don’t need to repeat the process every visit
- Cooling-off period enforcement — if you’ve requested a temporary break from gambling, cookies help ensure you can’t bypass that restriction by simply clearing your standard session data
Disabling certain cookies may interfere with the operation of these responsible gambling tools. If you’re using any of our self-exclusion or limit features, we recommend keeping strictly necessary and functional cookies enabled.
Cookies and the Privacy Act 2020
New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 governs how personal information is collected, stored, used, and shared. To the extent that cookies collect information that identifies or could identify you as an individual, that information is personal information under the Act.
Cobber Casino complies with the Privacy Act 2020 Information Privacy Principles by:
- Collecting cookie-derived personal information only for lawful purposes directly related to our operations
- Not collecting more information than is reasonably necessary for those purposes
- Taking reasonable steps to ensure the information we hold is accurate and up to date
- Retaining cookie data only as long as it’s needed for the purpose it was collected
- Protecting cookie-derived data from unauthorised access, loss, or disclosure using appropriate security measures
- Giving you access to personal information we hold about you upon request, and correcting it where necessary
If you believe we’ve mishandled personal information collected through cookies, you have the right to raise a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand.
How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies fall into two broad categories based on how long they persist:
- Session cookies are temporary. They exist only while your browser is open and are deleted automatically when you close it. We use session cookies to maintain your login state and track activity within a single visit.
- Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser, for a set period of time. Depending on the cookie’s purpose, this could be anywhere from a few days to two years. We use persistent cookies for things like remembering your preferences and supporting our analytics.
You can view and delete individual cookies stored on your device through your browser settings at any time, regardless of their intended lifespan.
Your Choices and Controls
Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit cobber-casino-nz.com, you’ll see a cookie consent banner. This gives you the opportunity to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customise your preferences by category. Your choice is recorded and respected across your visits.
Changing Your Preferences
You’re not locked into your initial choice. You can revisit and change your cookie settings at any time by accessing the cookie preferences panel available in the site footer. Changes take effect immediately.
Browser-Level Controls
All major browsers let you manage cookies directly. You can usually find these settings under your browser’s Privacy or Security options. Here’s where to look for the most commonly used browsers:
- Google Chrome — Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox — Settings > Privacy and Security > Cookies and Site Data
- Safari — Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data
- Microsoft Edge — Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions > Cookies and Site Data
If you block all cookies at the browser level, you should be aware that cobber-casino-nz.com may not function correctly. You’ll likely have trouble staying logged in, and some site features may be unavailable.
Opting Out of Analytics
If you want to stop analytics tools from tracking your browsing behaviour across websites, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This works regardless of your cookie consent settings for our site.
Cookies Used for Security Purposes
Some cookies on cobber-casino-nz.com exist specifically to protect you and the integrity of our platform. These include:
- CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) tokens that prevent malicious sites from making unauthorised requests on your behalf
- Rate-limiting cookies that protect against automated login attempts and bot activity
- Fraud detection signals that flag unusual account behaviour for review
These security cookies are classified as strictly necessary and cannot be disabled. Attempting to tamper with or delete them may trigger security alerts on your account.
Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting that sends a signal to websites requesting that they don’t track your browsing behaviour. Currently, there’s no universal standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals, and cobber-casino-nz.com does not alter its cookie behaviour based on DNT requests. We rely instead on the consent and opt-out controls described above, which give you more granular and reliable control over your experience.
Cookies and Children
Cobber Casino is strictly an adults-only platform. Our services are available only to players who are 18 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect cookie data from anyone under 18. If we become aware that a minor has been using the site, we take steps to close the account and delete associated data. If you believe a minor has accessed cobber-casino-nz.com, please contact us at support@cobber-casino-nz.com.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the technologies we use, the way we operate our platform, or updates to applicable law. When we make material changes, we’ll notify you through a notice on the website or, where appropriate, by email. Continued use of cobber-casino-nz.com after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about how Cobber Casino uses cookies, want to exercise your rights under the Privacy Act 2020, or need help adjusting your preferences, you can reach us through any of the following:
- Email: support@cobber-casino-nz.com
- Phone: +64 21 345 6789
- Post: 25 Albert Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
- Website: cobber-casino-nz.com/contact-us
Our team is available Monday to Saturday, 9AM to 6PM. We aim to respond to all written enquiries within two business days.