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Cookies, one of ours and two that exist only if you accept

This site writes one cookie of its own (to remember the answer given to the banner), and lets Google Analytics write its cookies only after a reader has accepted them. The service that recognizes a region writes none, and no cookie on this site serves advertising, because the site uses no advertising network to serve them in the first place.

The short version

Before anyone answers the banner, no cookie is written at all: the page loads, the region service may send a reader from Ontario or the United States to the page written for them, and nothing is left behind in the browser of anyone who simply reads. After an answer, one small cookie remembers it, and only a reader who accepted also receives the two cookies that Google Analytics uses to count visits and to tell one session from the next.

We set that sequence on purpose (plenty of sites start measuring before they ask anyone), and the browser's "network panel" will show it to you on a first visit.

What refusing does

Refusing writes the "consent cookie" with a refusal in it, so that the banner does not return on every page of a visit, and nothing else; Google Tag Manager is never requested (so no "measurement script" exists on the page, then or later). That is the whole effect. The site reads exactly the same with or without acceptance, since nothing on it depends on measurement, and no page hides content behind the banner.

Changing your mind

The "Cookie settings" link (at the bottom of each page) brings the banner back for anyone who accepted earlier, and refusing at that point switches the Analytics "property" off, erases the "identifiers" it had written and reloads the page with no container, so that nothing from earlier visits goes on being counted. That goes further than deleting a cookie by hand (as the browser's "storage panel" confirms once the page has reloaded itself).

The service that writes nothing

Geo Targetly, which reads the region of a connection on the pages with operator links, is set with a "cookie time" of zero and no "frequency limit", so it writes no cookie and keeps no record in the browser of having redirected anyone, on this visit or on any later one. What the service receives, and why it can run before anyone answers the banner, is set out in the privacy policy (in short, it decides what may lawfully be shown and measures no one).

We checked the reply that the service sends to a redirected reader, rather than taking its word for it, and it carries no instruction to write a cookie.

Why there are no advertising cookies

This site earns from commissions on operator links (not from advertising networks), so there are no advertising cookies, no "retargeting" and no "third-party pixels" on any page. The consent settings that accompany the container deny advertising storage and the use of data for advertising, whatever the reader answers; a reader who accepts measurement accepts measurement and nothing more. We would rather earn less than follow our readers around the web!

Controlling cookies in the browser

Every browser can block or delete cookies in its settings, and doing so here costs nothing except the banner, which we will show again on the next visit because the cookie that remembered the answer is gone from the browser for good, as intended. The publisher named in the privacy policy is the controller, and cookie questions can be sent to the address on the contact page like any other question. If you use more than one browser or device, the choice has to be made in each of them (the cookie lives in one browser only, on one device).

By the Alberta Casinos Online editorial team · Last updated: November 13, 2026 · Online since 2026