This page explains, without the legal fog, which cookies vegasnow-canada.ca sets, what each one is for, how long it survives, and how to switch them off in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge. We set very few of them: this is a reading site with no accounts, no cart and no cashier, so there is nothing here that needs to follow you around. Blocking every cookie we set still leaves every article fully readable.
What a cookie actually is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. On your next visit the browser hands that file back, so the site can recognize the same device (though never the same person) and remember something about it: the language you picked, the fact that you already dismissed a notice, or an anonymous identifier used to count visitors.
Two distinctions matter here:
- Session vs persistent. A session cookie disappears when you close the browser. A persistent cookie stays for a set lifespan, whether that is a day, a month or a year, unless you delete it sooner.
- First-party vs third-party. A first-party cookie is set by the site you are actually reading. A third-party cookie is set by another domain whose code runs on the page, such as an analytics platform.
Cookies cannot execute programs, cannot install malware and cannot read other files on your device. What they can do is build a picture of browsing behaviour over time, which is exactly why the controls below exist.
The cookies this site uses
Three categories, with no advertising or retargeting cookies at all. We do not run ad networks on these pages and we do not build advertising profiles of readers.
| Type | What it does | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Keeps the site functioning: load balancing, security filtering of malicious requests, protection of form submissions, correct page delivery. Cannot be switched off from inside the site — without them pages fail to load properly. | Session to 12 months |
| Preferences | Remembers choices you made: your cookie consent decision, language or region selection, dismissed notices. Purely convenience — refusing them just means you get asked again. | Up to 12 months |
| Analytics | Counts visitors and measures which pages are read, for how long, on which device, and where readers arrive from. Data is aggregated and anonymized; it is not used to identify you. | 24 hours to 24 months |
| Advertising / retargeting | Not used on this site. | — |
Analytics cookies are the only ones that genuinely require your consent, and refusing them costs you nothing at all as a reader. What the data does for us and how long we hold it is set out in the Vegas Now Canada policy on personal data.
Third-party cookies
Some cookies are set by the services we rely on rather than by our own domain: the analytics platform that produces traffic reports, and the content delivery and security layer that serves pages quickly and filters attacks. Those providers set their cookies under their own privacy policies, and we configure them for the narrowest possible use, meaning traffic measurement and site protection rather than advertising.
One point needs stating plainly. The moment you follow an outbound link and land on the casino’s own domain, you are inside that operator’s cookie environment, not ours, and its rules apply from that click onward. Settings you make here do not carry across, and cookies we set cannot be read there.
How to control cookies in your browser
Every major browser lets you block cookies wholesale, block only third-party cookies, delete what is already stored, or wipe everything automatically when you close the window. The steps below are current for desktop versions in 2026; mobile menus differ slightly but the wording is close.
Google Chrome
- Open the three-dot menu at the top right and choose Settings.
- Select Privacy and security, then Third-party cookies.
- Choose to allow, block third-party cookies in Incognito, or block them everywhere.
- To clear what is already stored, go to Delete browsing data, tick Cookies and other site data, pick a time range and confirm.
- For a single site: click the icon to the left of the address bar, open the site settings and clear or block data for that domain alone.
Safari (macOS and iOS)
- macOS: Safari menu → Settings → Privacy. Tick Block all cookies, or leave Prevent cross-site tracking enabled, which is on by default.
- Use Manage Website Data in the same panel to see stored data per site and remove individual entries.
- iOS / iPadOS: Settings app → Apps → Safari → Block All Cookies, or Clear History and Website Data to wipe everything at once.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the menu (three lines, top right) → Settings → Privacy & Security.
- Under Enhanced Tracking Protection, choose Standard, Strict, or Custom. Custom lets you block cookies by category, including all third-party cookies.
- Under Cookies and Site Data, use Clear Data to delete what is stored, or tick Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed for an automatic wipe every session.
- Manage Exceptions lets you block or allow specific domains.
Microsoft Edge
- Three-dot menu → Settings → Cookies and site permissions.
- Open Manage and delete cookies and site data to block third-party cookies or block them entirely.
- Use See all cookies and site data to inspect and remove entries site by site.
- Under Privacy, search, and services, set tracking prevention to Basic, Balanced or Strict, and optionally clear browsing data on exit.
Two extra options are worth a mention. Private or incognito windows discard all cookies when the window closes, and most browsers now support a global privacy signal that tells sites you refuse tracking. We honour that signal where the browser sends it.
What breaks if you block everything
Very little, on this site, which is the whole point of keeping the list short:
- Reading: unaffected. Every review, table and guide loads normally with cookies fully disabled.
- Preferences: forgotten. The consent notice reappears on every visit, and any language or region choice resets each time.
- Analytics: your visit is not counted. No consequence for you; it simply means our traffic figures are slightly less complete.
- Security cookies: if you block strictly necessary cookies at browser level, some pages may load incorrectly or protective filters may challenge your requests more often.
Elsewhere on the web, blanket blocking has a bigger cost. Login sessions drop, saved carts empty, and multi-step forms lose their state between pages. That is exactly what happens on a casino platform if you block everything, because the cashier and the session depend on those cookies. Blocking third-party cookies while keeping first-party ones is usually the sane middle ground.
Updates to this policy
We revise this page whenever we add or remove a tool that sets cookies, or when a browser changes how it handles them, and browsers keep changing that, from Safari’s tracking prevention to Chrome’s long-running rework of third-party cookies. The revision date at the top of the page always shows the current version. Your rights over the data behind these cookies, and the conditions that govern use of the site as a whole, are covered in the site terms and conditions, while the wider brand coverage starts at our Vegas Now Casino Canada review and ratings.
19+ (18+ in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec). Vegas Now Casino is available to Canadian players under a Curaçao Gaming Authority licence and is not regulated by any Canadian province; it is not available to residents of Ontario. Play responsibly.
We fund a CAD account on every casino we cover, play through part of the offer, run a real withdrawal and re-check the limits each quarter. Numbers on this page come from the operator's own Canadian terms, checked in August 2026.