Cookie Policy
Understanding how we use cookies to enhance your lottery experience, ensure security, and support responsible gaming practices.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit our website. They help us provide you with a better experience by remembering your preferences, keeping you logged in, and understanding how you use our lottery services.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive. They do not typically contain personal information that can directly identify you, but they do help us personalize your experience and provide essential functionality.
For our Australian lottery platform, cookies play a crucial role in age verification, session management, payment security, and responsible gaming features that protect our users.
Important Note
By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through your browser settings.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes to enhance your lottery experience, ensure security, and comply with regulatory requirements. Below are the primary ways we utilize cookies on our platform.
Essential Functionality
Enable core website features, session management, and security protocols.
Age Verification
Remember age verification status to comply with 18+ requirements.
Payment Security
Secure payment transactions and prevent fraudulent activities.
Responsible Gaming
Support spending limits, session tracking, and self-exclusion features.
Analytics & Insights
Understand usage patterns to improve our services and user experience.
Marketing & Personalization
Deliver relevant lottery promotions and personalized content.
Types of Cookies We Use
Our website uses different categories of cookies, each serving specific purposes to enhance your lottery experience and ensure compliance with regulations.
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function and cannot be disabled. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have requested cannot be provided.
Session management: Keep you logged in during your visit
Security: Protect against fraudulent activity and ensure secure connections
Load balancing: Distribute website traffic efficiently
Age Verification Cookies
These cookies remember your age verification status to comply with legal requirements that lottery services are only accessible to users 18 years and older. These cookies prevent you from having to verify your age on every visit.
Age gate status: Remember that you've confirmed being 18+
Verification timestamp: Track when verification was completed
Regulatory compliance: Ensure adherence to Australian gaming laws
Payment Security Cookies
These cookies are essential for processing secure lottery ticket purchases and protecting your payment information. They work with our payment processors to encrypt transaction data and prevent fraud.
Transaction security: Encrypt payment information during checkout
Fraud detection: Identify and prevent suspicious payment activity
Payment processor integration: Connect securely with third-party payment services
Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and how users navigate through the lottery calendar. This information helps us improve our services and user experience.
Usage tracking: Monitor which features are used most frequently
Performance metrics: Measure page load times and technical issues
User behavior analysis: Understand navigation patterns to optimize layout
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your visit to our website and record which lottery games you viewed or added to your calendar. We use this information to show you relevant promotions and personalized content about upcoming draws.
Personalized promotions: Display relevant lottery game offers
Content recommendations: Suggest lottery draws based on preferences
Campaign effectiveness: Measure promotional campaign performance
Responsible Gaming Cookies
These cookies support our responsible gaming features, including spending limits, session time tracking, and self-exclusion programs. They help ensure that your lottery play remains controlled and within healthy boundaries.
Spending limits: Track expenditure against your set limits
Session tracking: Monitor time spent on lottery activities
Self-exclusion: Remember and enforce voluntary exclusion periods
Reminder systems: Store preferences for break reminders and alerts
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we use cookies from trusted third-party service providers to deliver specific functionality and enhance your experience. These partners are carefully selected and comply with data protection regulations.
Payment Processors
Our payment providers use cookies to process transactions securely and prevent fraud. These include services like PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
Analytics Services
We use analytics platforms to collect anonymous usage data about how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve the lottery calendar experience and identify technical issues.
Content Delivery Networks
CDN providers use cookies to ensure fast and reliable delivery of website content, images, and resources across Australia.
Security Services
Third-party security providers use cookies to protect against malicious attacks, bot activity, and fraudulent account access.
Cookie Duration
Cookies have different lifespans depending on their purpose. Understanding cookie duration helps you make informed decisions about your privacy preferences.
Session Cookies
These temporary cookies are deleted when you close your browser. They're used for essential functionality like maintaining your login state during a single visit.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies remain on your device for a set period (from days to years) and are activated each time you visit our website. They remember your preferences across sessions.
Specific Cookie Lifespans
Managing Your Cookies
You have full control over how cookies are used on your device. Here's how you can manage your cookie preferences and maintain your desired level of privacy.
Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically block cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive warnings before cookies are stored.
Mobile Device Settings
Mobile devices also provide options to manage cookies. Access cookie settings through your browser app or device settings.
Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner. This allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cookies.
Your cookie preferences are stored for 12 months. After this period, you'll be asked to confirm your preferences again.
Opting Out of Analytics
If you prefer not to be tracked by analytics cookies, you can opt out through browser extensions or privacy tools designed to block tracking scripts.
Impact of Disabling Cookies
While you have the right to disable cookies, please be aware that doing so may significantly impact your experience on our lottery platform.
Loss of Essential Functionality
Without essential cookies, you won't be able to log in, complete purchases, or access secure areas of the website.
Repeated Age Verification
You'll need to verify your age every time you visit the website, as we won't be able to remember your verification status.
Impaired Payment Processing
Ticket purchases may fail or encounter security issues without payment security cookies.
Disabled Responsible Gaming Features
Spending limits, session tracking, and self-exclusion tools won't function properly without responsible gaming cookies.
Generic Experience
You won't receive personalized lottery recommendations or see content tailored to your preferences.
Reduced Security
Security cookies help protect your account from unauthorized access. Disabling them may increase vulnerability.
Recommendation
We recommend accepting essential, age verification, payment security, and responsible gaming cookies to ensure the lottery platform functions properly and safely. You can always opt out of marketing and analytics cookies if you prefer.
Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy.
If we make material changes to how we use cookies, we will notify you by displaying a prominent notice on our website or by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies.
Policy Updates
We'll notify you of significant changes through website notices or email.
Review Regularly
Check this page periodically to stay informed about our cookie practices.
Effective Date
Last updated: January 2025
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Questions About Cookies?
If you have any questions about how we use cookies or would like more information about our privacy practices, please don't hesitate to contact us.
For privacy inquiries: privacy@GoldenWattleLotto.com