What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. ALL the data is collected in an anonymous form. Note the deliberate emphasis of anonymous, as no personally identifiable information is collected about you unless you explicitly submit that information on this website.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
More Information
| Name | Domain | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _atuvc | casinomeister.us | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. | 396 Days | Stored cookie |
| _atuvs | casinomeister.us | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service. | Session | |
| _ga | casinomeister.us | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 730 Days | Stored cookie |
| _gid | casinomeister.us | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 Day | Session |
| _gat_ | casinomeister.us | This cookie name is asssociated with Google Universal Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. Tracking Purpose. | 1 Day | Stored cookie |
| ouid | addthis.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in our site to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.racking Purpose. | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| mus | addthis.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in our site to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. Performace Purpose. | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| uid | addthis.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in our site to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. Performace Purpose. Random UserID Tracking Purpose. | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| loc | addthis.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in our site to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer. | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| uvc | addthis.com | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in our site to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis. | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| __cfduid | addtoany.com pushcrew.com | .addtoany.com , pushcrew.com– track sharing of pages | 1 year | Stored cookie |
| PREF, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC,GPS | youtube.com | These cookies help track the number of views for a particular video. The pref cookie will track user preferences and serve up related content or adverts within an embedded YouTube video | from 180 up to 365 days | Stored cookie |
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.
Email: bryan@casinomeister.com