Last updated: July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how our Pin-Up Casino Canada review website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit us. We are an independent affiliate and review platform focused on the Canadian market, which means we publish information, comparisons, and opinions about online casino brands and betting operators. We are not a casino, we do not accept wagers, and we do not process gambling transactions. Because our business model relies on referring interested Canadian visitors to licensed operators, cookies play an important role in how our site works and how we are credited for the visitors we send. This document describes what cookies are, which types we use, why we use them, how long they last, and how you can control or remove them at any time.
By continuing to browse this website after being shown our cookie banner, and by adjusting your preferences through that banner or your browser settings, you help determine which non-essential cookies are placed on your device. We encourage you to read this policy alongside our Privacy Policy, which describes in broader terms how we handle any personal information connected with your visit.
What Are Cookies and Why We Use Them
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, tablet, or smartphone when you visit. They are stored by your web browser and can be read back by the site that created them, or in some cases by third parties whose code runs on the page. A cookie typically contains a name, a value, the domain it belongs to, and an expiry date that tells the browser when to delete it. Cookies cannot run programs, install software, or carry viruses. What they can do is remember small pieces of information between page views and between visits, which is what makes the modern web feel smooth and personalised rather than forgetful.
Alongside cookies, websites often use related technologies that serve similar purposes. These include local storage and session storage, which are browser features that hold data on your device; tracking pixels, which are tiny invisible images that signal when a page or email has loaded; and software development kits or scripts embedded from third parties. Throughout this policy, when we say “cookies” we generally mean cookies and these comparable technologies together, because the way you control them and the reasons we use them overlap heavily.
We use cookies for several practical reasons. Some are strictly necessary to make the website load and function, such as remembering that you have already dismissed the cookie banner so it does not reappear on every page. Others help us understand, in aggregate, how visitors find and use our content, so we can improve the pages that matter most to Canadian readers researching Pin-Up Casino and its competitors. A further group supports the affiliate relationships that fund this site: when you click through to an operator from one of our links, cookies help ensure that the operator recognises us as the source of that visit. Finally, some cookies remember your preferences, such as whether you prefer a light or dark layout, so the site behaves the way you expect on your next visit.
It is worth being clear about what we do not do. We do not use cookies to build detailed advertising profiles for resale, and we do not knowingly place cookies to track children. The cookies described here are focused on running the site, measuring performance at a general level, honouring your settings, and supporting the referral model that keeps our reviews free to read.
Types of Cookies We Use
The table below summarises the main categories of cookies you may encounter on this website. Because we work with third-party analytics and affiliate networks whose own cookies can change over time, the exact names and durations may vary, but the categories and purposes remain stable. We describe each type in the columns Cookie type, Purpose, Duration, and Party, where “Party” indicates whether the cookie is set by us directly as a first party or by an external service as a third party.
| Cookie type | Purpose | Duration | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential / functional | Enable core site features such as page navigation, security, load balancing, and remembering that you have responded to the cookie banner. The site cannot work properly without these. | Session to 12 months | First party |
| Analytics | Help us understand how visitors reach our pages, which reviews are read most, and where people leave, so we can improve content. Data is aggregated and used for statistics rather than to identify you personally. | Up to 24 months | Third party |
| Affiliate tracking | Record that a visit or click originated from our website when you follow a link to a casino or betting operator, so we may be credited for the referral. See the dedicated section below. | Session to 12 months | First and third party |
| Preferences | Remember choices you make, such as language display, layout theme, or region, so the site presents content the way you left it. | Up to 12 months | First party |
| Session | Hold temporary information needed only while you browse, such as which pages you have opened during a single visit. These expire when you close your browser. | Until browser closes | First party |
Essential and Functional Cookies
Essential cookies are the foundation of a working website. They let pages load correctly, keep the site secure against certain kinds of abuse, balance traffic across servers, and remember short-lived choices that make navigation coherent. Functional cookies build on this by storing small preferences that improve usability, such as recalling that you have already accepted or rejected non-essential cookies. Because these cookies are necessary for the site to operate and to respect the choices you have made, they are always active and are not something you can switch off through our banner. You can still block them through your browser, but doing so may break parts of the site.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies allow us to measure how our content performs. They tell us, in aggregate, how many people visit a given review, how they arrived, how long they stay, and which links they follow. We use a third-party analytics service for this, and its cookies collect information such as an anonymised identifier for your browser, the pages you view, and general technical details like device type and approximate region. We deliberately configure our reporting around aggregated trends rather than individual identities, and we do not use analytics data to contact you. Analytics cookies are non-essential, which means they are only placed where consent allows it under the rules that apply to your visit.
Affiliate Tracking Cookies
Affiliate tracking cookies are central to how this website is funded, and they deserve a fuller explanation, which follows in the next section. In short, they help operators recognise that a visitor was referred by us so that we can earn a commission without any additional cost to you.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies store the small decisions that personalise your experience. If you switch to a dark layout, change a display language, or set a regional option, a preference cookie remembers that choice for your next visit. These cookies do not track your behaviour across other websites; they simply make our own site feel consistent.
Session Cookies
Session cookies are temporary by design. They exist only for the duration of a single browsing session and are erased automatically when you close your browser. They handle things that need to be remembered from one page to the next during a visit but that carry no value afterwards, which is why they have the shortest lifespan of any cookie we use.
How Affiliate Tracking Cookies Work
Because affiliate tracking is the least familiar type of cookie to most readers, we want to explain it plainly. As an independent review site, we do not charge you to read our content and we do not run a casino ourselves. Instead, we earn revenue through affiliate partnerships. When we write about Pin-Up Casino or another operator and you decide to visit that operator, you often do so by clicking a link on our pages. That link is what makes the affiliate model function.
When you click an affiliate link, a short chain of events takes place. The link typically routes your click through the operator’s affiliate program or a specialised affiliate network before delivering you to the operator’s website. During that routing, a cookie is placed that records a unique code identifying us as the partner who referred you. This is called attribution. If you later register an account or take another qualifying action with that operator, the operator’s system reads the attribution cookie, sees our partner code, and credits the referral to us. On the strength of that record, the operator may pay us a commission.
Several points are worth emphasising so there is no confusion about what this means for you. First, the attribution cookie is generally set on the operator’s or the network’s domain, not ours, which is why we describe affiliate tracking as involving both first-party and third-party cookies. Second, being credited as the referring partner does not increase any price you pay, change the terms an operator offers you, or give us access to your account. Third, the cookie has a limited lifetime, often ranging from the length of a single session up to a number of months, after which the attribution simply expires. Fourth, we do not receive your personal registration details from operators through these cookies; what we may receive from our partners is aggregated or anonymised reporting about referrals and conversions, which tells us how many people acted on our recommendations without telling us who those people are.
If you would prefer that no affiliate cookie is set, you can decline non-essential cookies through our banner, use your browser controls to block third-party cookies, or simply choose not to click through to operators from our site. None of these choices affects your ability to read our reviews, and none of them changes the information we publish.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on this site are set by organisations other than us. Two groups matter most. The first is our analytics provider, whose scripts run on our pages to compile the aggregated usage statistics described above. The second is the affiliate networks and operator programs that manage the referral relationships behind our outbound links. When you interact with content or links connected to these third parties, they may place their own cookies according to their own policies, which we do not control.
We choose our partners carefully and expect them to handle data responsibly, but their cookies are governed by their own cookie and privacy notices rather than by this document. Because third-party services occasionally update their technologies, the specific cookie names and durations they use can change without us amending this page each time. If you want to know exactly what a given third party stores, the most reliable source is that party’s own policy, and the most effective control is your browser’s cookie settings, which apply regardless of who set a cookie. We deliberately avoid naming specific analytics vendors and their identifiers here, because those details shift over time and are best confirmed at the source.
How to Manage or Disable Cookies
You are always in control of the cookies stored on your device. Beyond the choices you make in our cookie banner, every major browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies directly. The steps below describe the general path in the most common browsers. Menus are updated periodically, so if the wording differs slightly on your version, look for a section named Privacy, Security, or Site data.
Google Chrome
In Chrome, open the menu shown as three dots in the top-right corner and select Settings. Choose Privacy and security, then click Cookies and other site data, or Third-party cookies on newer versions. From there you can block third-party cookies, block all cookies, or clear existing cookies. To remove cookies for our site specifically, use the See all site data and permissions option, search for the site, and delete its stored data. You can also open the padlock or tune icon in the address bar while on our pages to review and clear cookies for this site alone.
Mozilla Firefox
In Firefox, click the menu button shown as three horizontal lines and choose Settings, then select Privacy and Security. Under the Cookies and Site Data heading you can clear data, manage exceptions, and decide whether cookies are deleted automatically when you close the browser. Firefox also offers Enhanced Tracking Protection, which you can set to Standard, Strict, or Custom to limit third-party tracking cookies, including many used for cross-site attribution. Choosing Strict blocks more third-party cookies but may affect how some referral links behave.
Apple Safari
In Safari on macOS, open the Safari menu and select Settings, then click the Privacy tab. Here you can choose to block all cookies and use the Manage Website Data option to see which sites have stored cookies and remove them individually or all at once. On an iPhone or iPad, open the device Settings app, scroll to Safari, and use the Block All Cookies switch along with the Clear History and Website Data option. Safari blocks many third-party cookies by default through its tracking prevention features.
Microsoft Edge
In Edge, click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner and choose Settings, then select Cookies and site permissions, followed by Manage and delete cookies and site data. From this screen you can block third-party cookies, clear cookies on exit, and review or delete the data stored by individual sites. Edge also offers a Tracking prevention setting under Privacy, search, and services with Basic, Balanced, and Strict levels that adjust how aggressively cross-site cookies are blocked.
Remember that cookie settings are specific to each browser and each device. If you use several browsers or switch between a phone and a computer, you will need to adjust your preferences in each place. Clearing cookies also removes the record of any choices you made in our banner, so the banner will appear again on your next visit and ask you to set your preferences afresh.
Consent and the Cookie Banner
When you first arrive at our website, you are shown a cookie banner that explains we use cookies and invites you to make a choice. Essential and functional cookies are active because the site cannot run without them, but non-essential cookies, such as analytics and certain tracking cookies, are only placed in line with the consent you provide. Through the banner you can accept non-essential cookies, reject them, or open a settings panel to decide category by category where that option is offered.
Your decision is remembered so that you are not asked repeatedly on every page. You can change your mind at any time by clearing our cookies and reloading the site, which brings the banner back, or by using your browser controls to remove specific cookies. Withdrawing consent does not undo data that was already collected while consent was active, but it stops further non-essential cookies from being set going forward. We treat consent as something you grant freely and can revoke just as freely.
Legal Context: Canada and Visitors from the EU
As a website aimed at Canadian visitors, our handling of cookies and any related personal information is guided by Canadian privacy law, principally the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, known as PIPEDA. Under PIPEDA, organisations are expected to be transparent about the information they collect and to obtain meaningful consent for its use, with the appropriate form of consent depending on how sensitive the information is and what a reasonable person would expect. Cookies that gather information about your browsing fall within this framework, which is why we tell you what we use, explain why, and give you a genuine ability to decline non-essential cookies. Depending on your province, additional local privacy rules may also apply, and where they do we aim to meet the stricter standard.
Although our focus is Canada, we recognise that visitors from the European Union and the United Kingdom may reach our pages. For those visitors, stricter consent rules under the General Data Protection Regulation and related ePrivacy rules are relevant. These frameworks generally require prior, informed, opt-in consent before non-essential cookies are placed, and they grant rights such as access to and deletion of personal data. Where these rules apply to a visitor, we intend our banner and controls to give you a clear opportunity to accept or reject non-essential cookies before they are set, and to exercise your rights by contacting us. We mention these regimes not because we target those markets, but because we want any visitor, wherever they are, to understand the standard we try to uphold.
Retention Periods
Different cookies live for different lengths of time, and the durations shown in the table earlier reflect this. Session cookies disappear the moment you close your browser. Persistent cookies, by contrast, remain until they reach their set expiry date or until you delete them, which is why some functional and preference cookies may last up to about twelve months while certain analytics cookies can persist for up to around twenty-four months. Affiliate attribution cookies typically fall somewhere in between, lasting from a single session up to several months depending on the operator or network involved.
These periods are the maximum lifetimes we consider reasonable for each purpose, and many cookies are refreshed or replaced before they expire as you revisit the site. Where a third party sets a cookie, its retention is ultimately governed by that party’s own configuration. If you would rather not wait for cookies to expire naturally, you can delete them at any time using the browser steps described above, which removes them immediately regardless of their stated duration.
What Happens If You Disable Cookies
You are free to block or delete any cookie, but it is fair to explain the trade-offs. Disabling essential and functional cookies can stop parts of the site from working as intended. For example, the cookie banner may reappear on every page because your dismissal is no longer remembered, and features that rely on remembering a short-lived choice may behave unpredictably. Blocking preference cookies means the site will forget settings such as a chosen layout, so it reverts to defaults on each visit.
Turning off analytics cookies has no effect on your experience of the site, but it does make our aggregated statistics less complete, which in turn makes it a little harder for us to see which reviews are most useful and to improve them. Blocking affiliate tracking cookies is entirely your right and does not restrict your access to any of our content; the only consequence is that, if you then click through to an operator and act on that visit, we may not be credited for the referral. In every case, you retain full access to read, compare, and rely on our reviews. Disabling cookies limits certain conveniences and background measurement, not the information we publish.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, in the third-party services we work with, or in the legal requirements that apply to our audience. When we make a material change, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page, and where appropriate we may prompt you again through the cookie banner so you can review your choices. Minor edits for clarity or accuracy may be made without a separate notice. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically so you stay informed about how we use cookies. Your continued use of the website after an update takes effect means you are aware of the current version of this policy and the choices available to you.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, about the cookies we use, or about how to exercise any choice described here, we are happy to help. You can reach us by email at [email protected]. Please include enough detail about your question so that we can respond usefully, and if your enquiry relates to a specific cookie or a request to remove data, let us know which browser and device you are using so we can point you to the right steps. We aim to reply to genuine enquiries within a reasonable time and to treat any information you share with the same care described in our privacy documentation.