At Alberta Online Casino, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Policy outlines how we handle your personal information, ensuring transparency and security. Along with our website’s general terms and conditions, these guidelines explain how we collect, use, and safeguard your data.
We encourage you to review the details below to understand our approach to data protection better. By accessing our website, you acknowledge and agree to the procedures described in this Privacy Policy.
Data We Gather
We collect two primary categories of information from our users to improve their experience and enhance our services:
Anonymous Data
This includes non-identifiable details that cannot be linked back to you specifically. We collect this through your interactions with our site and offerings. Examples include technical specifications like browser configuration, operating system, language settings, timing of visits, and referring websites. This data is obtained via third-party analytical cookies to improve our site functionality and enhance your browsing quality. We also monitor how you navigate our services, including pages viewed, time spent on each section, and user behaviors such as clicks and navigation patterns. This information is aggregated and anonymized to ensure it remains untraceable to individual users. Therefore, our handling and sharing of this de-identified data are not restricted by the limitations of this Privacy Policy.
Personal Data
This encompasses any information that can identify a specific individual, such as your name, email address, or IP address. We collect this when you sign up for newsletters or post comments on our site. If you provide us with personal details, we may combine them with anonymous data to enhance our offerings. In these instances, the combined information is treated as personal data for as long as it remains integrated.
How We Use Your Information
We handle your data carefully and only use it when legally permitted, primarily in these scenarios:
Legitimate Business Needs
We utilize your data solely when necessary for legitimate business purposes, either for ourselves or third parties, while ensuring that your rights remain respected and protected.
Permission-Based Usage
When you explicitly allow us to use your data, such as for marketing communications, you may withdraw this permission at any time by contacting us.
In accordance with this privacy policy, your information may also be utilized for:
- Service Provision: To deliver our offerings, enable content distribution, and allow you to follow others’ shared materials.
- Correspondence: Answer your questions, provide updates, and distribute newsletters.
- Technical Assistance: To support, maintain, and fix any issues with our offerings.
- Organizational Growth: To develop our operations and aid in strategic planning.
- Membership Updates: To provide relevant information about your membership.
We employ the data we collect to enhance our products, grow our operations, understand visitor interactions, and inform our promotional strategy. Importantly, we don’t use personal information for analytical purposes. All analyses conducted are anonymous and aimed at improving and customizing our offerings to meet your needs better.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We don’t trade, sell, or share your personal information with outside parties unless specifically mentioned in this Privacy Policy. Here’s when we might transfer or reveal your information:
Within Our Organization
We may share information with companies within our corporate family to enhance our services and improve the quality of our offerings. This collaboration allows us to provide better experiences and solutions for our customers.
For Performance Analysis
We employ outside services to analyze site performance. Any information shared here is anonymized, particularly for visitors from the European Economic Area. We might also collaborate with marketing providers to keep you informed via email, such as when distributing our monthly newsletter.
Corporate Changes
In the case of a merger, acquisition, or sale involving our company, please be aware that your personal information may be shared with potential buyers or vendors as part of this process.
Marketing Enhancement
We may involve other marketing service providers to boost our site’s capabilities. We only partner with outside entities that maintain robust security measures to safeguard your personal information. They must handle your data according to legal requirements and can only use it for purposes we’ve explicitly outlined.
In certain situations, we might need to disclose personal information if we believe it’s necessary to:
- Comply with laws, regulations, or government requests.
- Investigate, prevent, or address illegal activities, suspected fraud, or security threats.
- Protect our rights or defend against legal claims.
- Safeguard the rights, property, or safety of our company, users, yourself, or others.
- Cooperate with law enforcement agencies.
Our priority is maintaining the security of your information while ensuring compliance with legal obligations.
About Cookies
Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your computer, phone, tablet, or similar device. These cookies help us recognize your device, improve technical features, remember your preferences, compile statistics, and target ads effectively.
While cookies may contain text, numbers, or dates, they don’t store personal data or contain malicious code such as viruses. By continuing to use our website, you consent to our use of cookies, including those from third parties. You can delete or block all cookies at any time.
However, removing or blocking cookies may impact your browsing quality. You might see more frequent, less relevant ads, and some website features or content may not function properly.
Cookies are also recorded in log files that collect certain data from website users.
These log files are a standard feature of websites and include information such as:
- pages visited on the website;
- time of visit;
- access location.
The log files collect your IP address, allowing us to see the city you’re visiting from but not your exact location. We use these log files to monitor website traffic and as a security measure.
We can detect unusual traffic patterns that may indicate hacking attempts by analyzing IP addresses. Monitoring user locations via IP addresses enables us to strengthen our website’s security and protect against potential threats.
Safeguarding Your Data
We prioritize the security and confidentiality of your information. Our protection strategy incorporates industry-standard protocols and policies, including Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology, to defend against unauthorized access and misuse.
As a Norwegian service provider with clients across the globe, we occasionally need to transfer your personal details to nations outside the EU. While data protection regulations in these countries might not align with the robust standards of the EU, we implement necessary safeguards to guarantee your information receives equivalent protection. Our protective measures include:
- Implementing European Commission-Approved Agreements: For certain service providers, we employ specific contracts endorsed by the European Commission, ensuring your personal details maintain the same level of protection as within Europe.
- Sending Data Only to Approved Nations: We limit transfers of your personal information exclusively to countries the European Commission has recognized as offering sufficient data protection.
- Selecting Privacy Shield-Certified Partners: For American service providers, we may transfer data only to those with Privacy Shield certification, guaranteeing they provide equivalent safeguards for personal information shared between Europe and the United States.
If you feel your privacy hasn’t been handled according to our guidelines, or if you detect any misuse of our services, please alert us immediately.
Should a personal data breach occur, we have established protocols to tackle the issue promptly. We will inform you and the relevant regulatory authorities as legally required to ensure a quick and transparent response.
Data Retention Policy
Your privacy matters deeply to us, giving you total control over your personal details. Contact us anytime for modifications or updates. We’ll address correction requests or removal of your information upon request, except for legally mandatory data. Simply email us. Unless instructed otherwise, we keep your information according to our retention guidelines (available when requested).
We establish retention timeframes based on: the quantity, type, and sensitivity of collected data, unauthorized access risks, processing objectives, alternative methods to achieve these aims, and legal obligations. We aim to fix, add to, or eliminate any partial or incorrect information immediately upon discovery.
Your rights include:
- Requesting access to your data
- Seeking corrections
- Asking for data transfers
- Opposing data processing
- Requesting data deletion
- Limiting data processing
- Removing consent at any point
