How Wolf Winner Uses Cookies, And How To Take Control Of Them
Most cookie notices are written to be agreed with rather than read. This one is written to be used. It says which cookies the Wolf Winner site sets, what each group is doing in concrete terms rather than in the language of "improving your experience", how long each type lives on your device, which ones you can refuse without breaking anything, and where the relevant switch sits in whichever browser you happen to be using.
If you are here because the site keeps signing you out, skip to the section on blocking everything. That is almost always the cause.
A Cookie, Without The Jargon
A cookie is a short piece of text a website asks your browser to store and hand back on the next request. Usually the text is nothing more interesting than a random reference number.
That matters because web connections have no memory of their own. Without something to carry between requests, the page you open after signing in has no way of knowing you are the same person who typed the password. The cookie is that something. Every other use, remembering your language, counting page views, measuring an advertising campaign, is built on top of that one basic trick.
Cookies cannot run programs, cannot read files on your computer and cannot see anything on your device outside the site that set them.
The Four Groups We Use
| Group | What it actually does here | Do you have a choice? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Holds your signed-in session, protects forms, keeps the cashier consistent mid-transaction | No, the site cannot function without them |
| Functionality | Remembers language, layout, favourited games, dismissed notices | Yes |
| Performance and analytics | Counts page views, load times, errors and where journeys break | Yes |
| Advertising and targeting | Records which campaign brought you here and whether it led to a registration | Yes, and off unless you agree |
Strictly necessary. These carry your authenticated session, protect forms against cross-site request forgery, hold the cashier steady while a deposit or withdrawal is being processed, spread traffic across our servers, and store the cookie choices you have already made so you are not asked again on every page. No consent is sought for these because they are not an addition to the site, they are the mechanism by which it works at all. Refusing them means no sign-in, no balance and no cashier.
Functionality. These remember decisions you have already made: the language you selected, interface preferences, which games you added to favourites, which titles you recently played, and whether you have closed a particular notice. Block them and the site still works, it just forgets you between visits.
Performance and analytics. These count and measure. Which pages get opened, how long a page takes to become usable, which step of a journey people abandon, and which errors occur on which browser and device. The reporting is aggregated rather than personal, and its purpose is diagnostic. Without it, a registration step that quietly fails on one mobile browser would never come to light.
Advertising and targeting. These log which campaign brought you here, cap how often the same advertisement reaches you, and report whether a campaign ended in a registration. Advertising partners set them or receive them, and this is the group most people have in mind when they ask what is being tracked.
How Long Each One Lives
Cookies fall into two lifespans.
Session cookies last only as long as the browser stays open, and vanish when it closes. The cookie holding your sign-in is one of them, which is why shutting a browser on a shared computer ends the session.
Persistent cookies carry an expiry date and outlast the browser session, though how long they last varies enormously by purpose. Your language choice is held for a long stretch, since re-asking on every visit would be tiresome. The record of your consent survives for as long as that choice counts as current. Analytics identifiers run on a shorter clock, and advertising identifiers shorter again, because browsers now impose their own ceiling whatever a site asks for.
None of them are permanent. Each carries an expiry date, browsers apply their own ceilings on top of ours, and clearing your browsing data wipes the lot at once regardless of what date was attached.
Cookies That Come From Our Partners
A first-party cookie comes from the domain shown in your address bar. A third-party cookie comes from some other domain whose content has been embedded into the page. Both are present here, and the distinction starts to matter as soon as you block something.
Game studios. Each pokie is delivered by the studio that built it and runs inside a frame on our page. That studio issues an identifier of its own so a round can be followed from the first spin through to settlement, so an interrupted game picks up in the right place, and so the amount credited to your balance matches what the reels actually did. A game stuck behind a loading spinner is almost always this: third-party cookies blocked at browser level.
Analytics services. Measurement suppliers run identifiers of their own across the site to build the aggregated reporting described earlier.
Advertising and attribution partners. These appear only if you have agreed to the advertising group. Their job is to link a campaign to an outcome, not to assemble a picture of what you do once you are signed in.
What We Do Not Do With Cookie Data
We do not sell it, and it is not handed to unrelated companies for purposes of their own. It reaches only the verified partners named above, each under contract for one function and held to that function.
That is deliberately narrower than "we never share data", because a claim that broad would not be true of any casino lobby. A games catalogue physically cannot work unless the studio serving a game recognises its own session. What that network of partners does not contain is an open market for information about you.
If You Block Everything
Browsers offer a single switch that refuses all cookies. Before you use it on this site, here is what it does.
- You cannot stay signed in. Every page treats you as a new visitor, which puts your account, your balance and the cashier out of reach.
- Games stop loading dependably, since studio content relies on a session identifier of its own.
- Preferences reset over and over, the cookie notice included, which reappears on every page because your choice cannot be recorded anywhere.
- Security protections that work by matching a token to a session are weakened.
If what you want is less tracking rather than a broken site, refuse the analytics and advertising groups in the preference panel and leave the other two switched on. That delivers the outcome you were after and none of the side effects.
Managing Cookies In Your Browser
Cookies can be inspected, deleted and restricted in every browser. These paths are accurate for current versions.
Google Chrome (desktop). Open the menu, then Settings, then Privacy and security. The "Third-party cookies" entry carries the blocking choices, Incognito-only blocking among them. "Delete browsing data" clears whatever is already stored, while "Site settings" lets you allow or block a single site instead of everything.
Safari (macOS). Safari menu, then Settings, then the Privacy tab. The blanket switch is "Block all cookies"; "Manage Website Data" breaks storage down site by site so individual entries can be deleted. On top of whatever you choose, Safari runs its own cross-site tracking prevention by default.
Safari (iPhone and iPad). Open the Settings app, go to Apps, choose Safari, then Advanced, where "Block All Cookies" and "Website Data" sit; the latter clears storage for one site at a time. On older iOS releases Safari sits directly in the Settings list instead of under Apps.
Mozilla Firefox. Open the menu, choose Settings, and go to Privacy and Security. Enhanced Tracking Protection comes as Standard, Strict or Custom, with Custom the place to choose category by category. Underneath it, "Cookies and Site Data" clears storage and can be told to clear itself every time Firefox closes.
Microsoft Edge. Open the menu, choose Settings, and go to "Cookies and site permissions", where "Manage and delete cookies and site data" sits. Third-party blocking, per-site permissions and a view of what is stored are all in that one place. Edge keeps its tracking prevention levels separately, under "Privacy, search, and services".
Chrome and Firefox on Android. Both put the controls under Settings, then Site settings, then Cookies, with per-site allow and block options matching the desktop builds.
A choice made in one browser applies to that browser only. Cookie settings do not synchronise across your devices even when your bookmarks do, so a preference set on a laptop has no effect on a phone.
On Mobile And In The App
The mobile site behaves exactly as the desktop site does, with the same four groups and the same preference panel in the footer.
The Wolf Winner app uses the equivalent local storage mechanisms rather than browser cookies, for the same purposes: keeping you signed in, remembering preferences and allowing game sessions to run. Clearing the app's storage through Android's app settings has the same effect as clearing cookies in a browser, and your consent choices can be reviewed in the same place inside the app as on the site.
Other Things Stored On Your Device
Cookies are not the only mechanism in use, and consent and control work the same way for everything below.
- Local storage and session storage, which hold more than a cookie can and carry interface state such as a partly filled form or the position of a carousel.
- Pixels and tracking beacons, single-pixel transparent images inside a page or an email that fire when the content loads.
- Software development kits bundled into embedded content, which create identifiers of their own whenever a third-party component starts.
Wiping site data in the browser clears local and session storage at the same time as the cookies.
Updates To This Policy
This page is revised whenever the technology behind it changes. Each revision goes up here under a new effective date, and if a change materially affects what gets collected or who receives it, a notice waits inside your account so you meet it at your next sign-in instead of finding out by accident.
Asking A Question
Anything you want to know about cookies, tracking, or what a particular identifier is doing can go to live chat inside your Wolf Winner Casino Australia account, which is open at any hour. Say that it is a data question, ask for it to be logged as one, and it lands with the people who can answer in detail. Wider data rights, access and deletion among them, are set out in our privacy policy.