Sahara Sands Casino Cookies Policy
This Cookies Policy explains how Sahara Sands Casino uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our online casino services in Australia. It describes what these technologies do, why they may be used, and the choices available to you.
Cookies can support essential website functions, improve performance, remember selected preferences, and help us understand how visitors use the platform. This policy should be read together with our other applicable website terms and privacy information. Sahara Sands Casino is intended for people aged 18 and over.
Understanding Cookies
Cookies are small text files or similar identifiers placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognise a browser or device and retain limited information between visits. A cookie does not normally contain information that directly identifies you by name, although it may be linked with account or device information held by the website.
Cookies may be set by Sahara Sands Casino or by service providers working on our behalf. Some remain on your device only while your browser is open. These are commonly known as session cookies. Others remain for a defined period or until you remove them, and are known as persistent cookies.
We may also use related technologies, such as pixels, tags, software development tools, local storage, or device identifiers. In this policy, we use the term cookies to refer to these technologies where they perform a similar purpose.
Cookie Categories
The cookies used on the Sahara Sands Casino website can generally be grouped according to their purpose. A single cookie may support more than one website function, but the main categories are:
- Essential cookies, which help the website operate and support requested services.
- Performance cookies, which provide information about website use and technical performance.
- Functional cookies, which remember preferences and help personalise the experience.
- Marketing cookies, which may support advertising measurement, campaign management, or more relevant promotional content.
The availability and use of particular cookies may change as our website, technology providers, or services develop. Where appropriate, we will provide information about optional cookies through a cookie notice or preference tool.
Essential Website Cookies
Essential cookies are needed for core functions of the website. Without them, certain requested services may not work properly. These cookies can help maintain a secure session, keep pages working correctly, remember security-related settings, and support account or gameplay features.
Depending on how you use Sahara Sands Casino, essential cookies may be involved in functions such as:
- Keeping you signed in while you move between relevant pages.
- Maintaining information needed for a transaction or other requested process.
- Supporting fraud prevention, security controls, and protection against unauthorised activity.
- Routing requests across technical systems and maintaining website stability.
- Remembering choices necessary for the correct display or operation of the service.
Because these cookies support the delivery of services you request, they may not be removable through the website cookie preference tool. You can usually block them through your browser, but doing so may prevent account functions, game access, payment processes, or other parts of the website from operating as intended.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
Performance cookies help Sahara Sands Casino understand how the website performs and how visitors interact with it. The information collected may include pages viewed, general navigation patterns, loading times, error messages, and the type of device or browser used.
These cookies are used to identify technical issues, monitor reliability, assess the effectiveness of page layouts, and improve the overall user experience. Information is generally reviewed in an aggregated or otherwise limited form where possible. Performance cookies are not intended to determine the outcome of games or influence the fairness of casino activity.
Examples of performance-related purposes include:
- Measuring visits and page engagement.
- Identifying pages that load slowly or produce errors.
- Testing improvements to website design and functionality.
- Understanding which features are used most frequently.
- Supporting service monitoring and operational reporting.
If you decline these cookies, you should still be able to use core Sahara Sands Casino services, although we may have less information available to improve website performance.
Functional Preference Cookies
Functional cookies allow the website to remember choices you make and provide a more convenient experience. They may retain preferences such as language selection, display settings, or other options that you have chosen during a visit.
These cookies can reduce the need to enter the same information repeatedly and help the website provide features that are more relevant to your selected settings. They may also support optional tools that you choose to use, provided those tools are available on the website.
Turning off functional cookies may not prevent access to Sahara Sands Casino, but some preferences may be lost or need to be selected again. Certain optional features may also be less convenient or may not operate in the same way.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to help manage promotional activity, measure advertising campaigns, understand interactions with promotional content, or present advertising that is more relevant to your interests. These cookies may be placed by Sahara Sands Casino or by carefully selected third parties acting according to their own policies and instructions.
Marketing information may be based on browsing activity, campaign responses, general location information, or interactions with advertisements. It may be used to assess whether a promotion has reached its intended audience and to limit repetitive advertising where the relevant technology supports that function.
Marketing cookies do not determine whether you are eligible to open or maintain an account, and they do not decide game outcomes. Promotional communications and advertising remain subject to applicable settings, eligibility conditions, and the terms of the relevant offer.
You can refuse optional marketing cookies through the cookie preference tool or your browser settings. If you do so, you may still see promotional content, but it may be less tailored to your interests and campaign measurement may be less accurate.
Controlling Your Cookie Choices
When optional cookies are used, Sahara Sands Casino may provide a cookie banner or preference tool that allows you to accept, reject, or adjust selected categories. Essential cookies may remain active because they are required to provide requested website functions.
You can also manage cookies through the settings of your browser or device. Available controls vary, but may allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device.
- Delete existing cookies.
- Block cookies from particular websites.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Require confirmation before cookies are stored.
Deleting or blocking cookies may affect saved preferences, account sessions, website security, and the operation of some Sahara Sands Casino features. If you use more than one browser or device, cookie choices may need to be applied separately on each one.
Changing cookie settings does not necessarily remove information that was collected before the change. Other privacy choices, including those relating to account information and promotional communications, may be managed separately. For questions about your personal information or your rights, please use the Sahara Sands Casino contact page.
Cookies Set by Other Providers
Some website functions may be supported by third-party providers. These providers may set or access cookies and similar technologies to deliver services such as security, analytics, payment support, embedded content, advertising measurement, or technical infrastructure.
Third-party cookies are controlled by the relevant provider and may be subject to that provider's privacy and cookie information. Sahara Sands Casino does not control every technology used by external providers and cannot guarantee that their practices will remain unchanged. We take reasonable steps to select services appropriate for the relevant website function and to manage their use in accordance with applicable arrangements.
Third-party services may receive information about your browser, device, or interaction with a particular website feature. Their ability to use this information may depend on your cookie settings, the provider's own controls, and the configuration of the Sahara Sands Casino website at the time of your visit.
Changes to This Policy
Sahara Sands Casino may update this Cookies Policy when our website, technology, service providers, or operational practices change. We may also revise it to reflect developments in applicable privacy expectations or to make the information clearer.
The updated version will be made available on the relevant website page and will show a revised effective date where appropriate. Changes will apply from the time they are published unless a different date is stated. If an update materially affects the way optional cookies are used, we may provide an additional notice or ask you to review your preferences again.
We recommend checking this page periodically so that you remain informed about our use of cookies. Your continued use of the Sahara Sands Casino website after an updated policy is published will be handled in accordance with the updated policy and any choices available through the cookie preference controls.
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