Cookie Policy

Effective date: 14 April 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how hobartcasino.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with the Hobart website, products, pages, and related services. It is designed to give you a clear understanding of what cookies are, why they are used, what choices you have, and how these technologies relate to privacy obligations in Australia.

Hobart Casino is committed to transparency, lawful handling of information, and responsible digital practices. This policy should be read together with any applicable Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions published on hobartcasino.com. If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on the website, you may contact: [email protected].

1. Introduction to Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you access a website. They help a website recognise a browser or device and store limited information about your visit or preferences. Cookies may be set directly by the website you are visiting or by external service providers whose tools are used on the website.

When you use hobartcasino.com, certain data may be collected automatically through cookies and similar tracking technologies. Depending on the purpose of the cookie, this may include:

• IP address
• Browser type and browser version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Language settings
• Screen resolution
• Referring website or source
• Date and time of visit
• Pages viewed and navigation path
• Session identifiers
• General location derived from IP address
• Interaction data such as clicks, scroll behaviour, and session duration

Cookies serve a range of important functions. Some are necessary for the secure operation of the website, while others help remember your preferences, improve performance, understand how users engage with content, and assess the effectiveness of advertising and marketing activity.

Under Australian privacy expectations, information collected through cookies may amount to personal information where an individual is reasonably identifiable. Hobart handles such information in line with applicable privacy principles, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles, where relevant.

2. Why Hobart Uses Cookies

Hobart Casino uses cookies to support the proper operation, security, performance, and administration of hobartcasino.com. The use of cookies also helps provide a smoother and more consistent user experience.

Cookies may be used to:

• Enable core website features and secure page access
• Maintain session continuity while a user navigates the website
• Detect technical errors and prevent fraudulent or suspicious activity
• Remember user preferences such as language or display settings
• Analyse traffic volumes and website performance
• Understand how visitors use content and features
• Measure the effectiveness of promotions and campaigns
• Support registration flows and attribution tracking
• Improve website design, responsiveness, and functionality over time

Hobart does not use cookies as a substitute for direct identity verification. Where advertising or analytics cookies are used, their function is generally to identify a browser, device, or session rather than reveal a person’s direct civil identity.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Hobart Casino uses cookies in three primary functional categories:

• Required cookies
• Functional cookies
• Advertising cookies

In addition, from a technical architecture perspective, cookies used on hobartcasino.com are segmented into three implementation groups:

• Back-end cookies
• Front-end cookies
• Third-party cookies

These two classification methods work together. A cookie may, for example, be a required cookie and also be deployed as a back-end cookie. Another may be an advertising cookie and be set by a third-party provider.

4. Required Cookies

Required cookies are essential for the operation of hobartcasino.com. Without them, core website services may not function correctly, and some pages or features may become unavailable.

These cookies are generally used for purposes such as:

• Preserving secure login or session state
• Supporting page navigation and form submission
• Routing website traffic through the correct servers
• Managing load balancing and stability
• Protecting against malicious requests, bot activity, and abuse
• Enabling fraud prevention and security controls
• Allowing access to secure or restricted areas of the platform
• Remembering consent selections where applicable

Because required cookies are necessary to deliver the website or requested services, disabling them may materially affect website functionality. In many cases, these cookies are active by default when you access the website.

Examples of the information that may be processed through required cookies include:

• Temporary session IDs
• Authentication tokens
• Security validation data
• Server allocation data
• Consent state records

These cookies are retained only for as long as needed to fulfil their technical purpose. Some expire when you close your browser, while others may persist for a defined period where necessary for security or preference management.

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies help Hobart Casino improve usability and customise the website experience. They are not always strictly essential to basic website operation, but they provide important enhancements that make interaction with the website more efficient and consistent.

Functional cookies may be used to:

• Remember language preferences
• Retain region or display settings
• Save non-essential user interface choices
• Recognise returning visitors in a non-directly identifying way
• Analyse how users move through the website
• Monitor performance and troubleshoot usability issues
• Support session continuity across certain pages
• Store session keys needed to maintain a smoother interaction

These cookies assist Hobart in understanding how visitors engage with the website at an aggregated or device level. The insights generated help identify which pages are useful, where navigation issues occur, and which features may need refinement.

In some cases, functional cookies may work alongside analytics technologies to generate reports about:

• Number of visits
• Popular pages
• Time spent on content
• Device and browser combinations used to access the site
• Error frequency and page loading behaviour

While these cookies can enhance the experience, users may choose to restrict them through browser settings. If you do so, some preferences may not be saved, and the website may not display in the most convenient or personalised manner.

6. Advertising Cookies

Advertising cookies are used to help Hobart Casino and its service providers understand the effectiveness of marketing, promotions, and user acquisition activity. These cookies may track interactions with advertisements, referral sources, campaign links, and registration pathways.

Advertising cookies may be used to:

• Measure whether a user arrived through a marketing campaign
• Attribute visits or registrations to a specific advertising source
• Limit repeated display of the same promotion
• Assess campaign reach and engagement
• Build aggregated insights into audience behaviour
• Support remarketing or campaign optimisation, where permitted

Hobart does not state that advertising cookies reveal your direct personal identity in ordinary use. Rather, they commonly rely on browser, device, campaign, or session-based identifiers. However, where those identifiers can be linked with other information and make an individual reasonably identifiable, they may be treated as personal information under Australian privacy law.

Third-party advertising partners may place or read these cookies subject to their own systems and policies. Hobart expects such providers to process information lawfully and with appropriate safeguards, but users should be aware that external providers may maintain separate privacy and cookie practices.

If you disable advertising cookies, you may still see advertising or referral content, but it may be less relevant, and campaign measurement may be affected.

7. Technical Segmentation of Cookies

To provide a clearer explanation of how cookies are used across the website infrastructure, Hobart Casino divides cookies into three technical groups based on the architecture of hobartcasino.com.

7.1 Back-end Cookies

Back-end cookies are generated or managed by the server-side systems that power the website. These cookies are commonly used for:

• Session management
• Authentication support
• Security verification
• Fraud detection
• Traffic routing
• Load balancing
• Maintaining server-side state during navigation

Back-end cookies are often closely tied to required website functions and may be essential for service integrity.

7.2 Front-end Cookies

Front-end cookies are typically created or read by website scripts, interface components, or browser-side functionality. These cookies commonly support:

• User interface preferences
• Language selection
• Remembered settings
• Performance analysis
• Interaction tracking for usability improvements
• Feature customisation within the browser session

These cookies help ensure that the website behaves consistently and responds appropriately to the user’s selections and actions.

7.3 Third-party Cookies

Third-party cookies are set by external providers whose services are integrated into hobartcasino.com. These providers may include analytics, performance measurement, security, or marketing technology partners.

Third-party cookies may be used to:

• Analyse website traffic and visitor behaviour
• Measure campaign performance
• Record referral and conversion events
• Support advertising attribution
• Detect abnormal access patterns
• Improve service reliability and content delivery

The operation of third-party cookies depends partly on the relevant external provider. Hobart takes reasonable steps to engage service providers suited to business, security, and compliance needs, but it does not control every technical aspect of third-party cookie deployment once external scripts or tags are active.

8. Third-Party Service Providers

Hobart Casino may use carefully selected external service providers to assist with analytics, website optimisation, security monitoring, marketing measurement, and related support functions. These providers may set cookies or similar technologies on hobartcasino.com for legitimate operational purposes.

Third-party service providers may help Hobart:

• Understand website traffic patterns
• Measure page performance and technical stability
• Detect suspicious or fraudulent activity
• Attribute registrations or visits to campaigns
• Evaluate the success of digital marketing channels
• Improve website functionality and user journeys

Where a third party collects information through cookies on hobartcasino.com, that third party may act as:

• A service provider processing data on Hobart’s instructions
• An independent controller of certain data under its own privacy terms
• A party with shared operational responsibility depending on the tool and implementation

Users should be aware that third-party providers may process information outside Australia. Where cross-border disclosure occurs, Hobart seeks to use providers that maintain reasonable standards of data handling and security consistent with commercial and legal expectations.

9. Legal Basis and Privacy Context in Australia

For users in Australia, cookie-related data practices should be understood in the broader context of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), the Australian Privacy Principles, and guidance issued by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

In practical terms, this means:

• Hobart aims to be transparent about the use of cookies and similar technologies
• Information collected through cookies is handled only for legitimate website, security, analytics, and business purposes
• Reasonable steps should be taken to protect information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification, or disclosure
• Users should have access to clear information about how to manage cookie preferences through browser tools

Where cookie data can reasonably identify an individual, Hobart treats that data with the same seriousness applied to other personal information handled in connection with website operations.

10. How to Control and Manage Cookies

You can control or limit cookies in several ways. Most web browsers allow you to review, block, or delete cookies through their settings menus. You may also be able to configure your browser to notify you when a cookie is being placed.

Common cookie management options include:

• Blocking all cookies
• Allowing only selected cookies
• Deleting stored cookies when closing the browser
• Preventing third-party cookies
• Clearing cookies manually at any time
• Using private or incognito browsing modes

Please note that restricting cookies may affect your experience on hobartcasino.com. Depending on the settings you choose:

• Some pages may not load properly
• Secure areas may become inaccessible
• Preferences may not be remembered
• Website performance may be reduced
• Certain forms, registration pathways, or session-based functions may fail
• Campaign attribution or referral tracking may not work correctly

If you use more than one browser or device, you may need to update settings separately on each one.

11. Browser-Specific External Resources

For further guidance on managing cookies, you can consult the help pages published by your browser provider. Common resources include:

• Google Chrome help and privacy settings documentation
• Mozilla Firefox cookie and site data guidance
• Apple Safari privacy and cookie management guidance
• Microsoft Edge cookie controls and tracking prevention guidance

Because browser interfaces may change over time, users should refer to the latest official support pages supplied by the relevant browser developer.

12. Data Retention and Cookie Lifespan

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their function.

The main lifespan categories are:

• Session cookies, which expire automatically when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or are manually deleted

Hobart Casino aims to retain cookie-based data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose, such as security, session continuity, performance analysis, or campaign measurement. Retention periods may vary according to:

• The type of cookie
• The technical purpose it serves
• Security requirements
• Legal or compliance needs
• The settings determined by a third-party provider where applicable

13. Updates to This Cookie Policy

Hobart may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, technology, website functionality, service providers, or business practices. Any changes will be published on hobartcasino.com with an updated effective date.

Users should review this page periodically to remain informed about how cookies and similar technologies are used. Continued use of the website after an updated policy is published may indicate acknowledgment of the revised policy, to the extent permitted by law.

14. Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests relating to this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on hobartcasino.com, you may contact Hobart Casino at:

• [email protected]

15. Sources and References

This Cookie Policy has been prepared with reference to generally applicable Australian privacy and online transparency standards, including:

• Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)
• Australian Privacy Principles
• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner guidance on privacy obligations and online personal information handling
• Browser provider support documentation for cookie controls, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge

This policy is intended to provide a transparent explanation of cookie use on hobartcasino.com for the Australia jurisdiction. It is informational in nature and should be read together with the website’s wider privacy and legal documentation.