1. What a cookie actually is
A cookie is nothing more than a small text file a website hands to your browser. Its job is to carry little scraps of information between page loads or return visits, for instance whether you have already closed the cookie banner or which section you last had open. Cookies are plain data rather than runnable code and cannot carry viruses. On this page we use the word "cookies" as shorthand that also covers related technologies such as browser local storage and tracking pixels.
2. The cookies ausino.club sets
Below is the complete inventory of cookies you may pick up while browsing ausino.club, grouped by purpose. The strictly necessary session cookies are always on, because the site simply would not work without them. The analytics cookies only start loading once you have ticked them through on the consent banner.
| Type | Cookie name(s) | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential session | cc_session |
Anonymous session identifier used for core security and rate-limiting. | Session only (cleared when the browser closes) |
| Essential session | cc_consent |
Remembers your cookie-banner choice so it does not reappear on every page. | 12 months |
| Analytics | _ga, _ga_* |
Google Analytics, IP-anonymised traffic numbers reported only in aggregate. | 13 months |
| Analytics | _clck, _clsk |
Microsoft Clarity, aggregated heatmap and scroll data with no personal identifiers. | 12 months (_clck) / session (_clsk) |
| Analytics | _pk_id, _pk_ses |
Matomo, visitor and session counts with IP anonymisation switched on. | 13 months / 30 minutes |
That is the full list. No advertising cookies are dropped, no remarketing pixels are fired, and nothing collected via cookies is ever sold or passed to any third party for marketing use.
3. Switching cookies off in your browser
The quickest way to stop analytics on ausino.club is from the consent banner itself — simply decline and none of the analytics cookies will ever be written. If you would rather manage cookies more broadly, across every site you use, every major browser ships with built-in controls for inspecting, blocking or clearing them:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data. From there you can block third-party cookies, block them altogether, or clear existing cookies for individual sites.
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data. Flipping the setting to "Strict" automatically blocks cross-site tracking cookies.
- Safari (macOS): Settings → Privacy → block all cookies, or open Manage Website Data to clear specific entries. On iOS: Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data.
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data.
- Private / incognito windows: any cookie set inside a private window is wiped automatically the moment you close it.
Blocking the strictly necessary cookies will cause parts of the site to misbehave, most obviously the consent banner will stop remembering your previous choice. Blocking the analytics cookies, by contrast, has no effect on the content or the reviews and will not restrict any part of the site.
4. Third-party cookies you might pick up
A handful of cookies you can encounter while browsing ausino.club are set by other companies rather than by us. The most common case is affiliate tracking: when you click an outbound link to an Australian casino, that operator or its affiliate network may write a cookie so any account you later open gets credited back to ausino.club. That is how referral commissions are counted. It costs you nothing extra and never bends our reviews. The instant you reach the operator's site, their cookie policy takes over from ours. These affiliate cookies typically remain active for somewhere between 30 and 90 days.
5. Getting in touch and policy revisions
If you have any questions about the cookies in use or the information we hold on you, email blake@ausino.club and senior editor Blake Davidson will reply personally. Wider personal-data questions are covered in the Privacy Policy. Whenever our tooling or the underlying Australian regulations change, this page and the last-updated date at the top are refreshed to match. The current version carries the date 1 October 2026.