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Privacy, what this site does with a visit and what it never collects

With no accounts, forms, newsletter or comment section, this site handles very little personal data: the network address of each visit, used to apply the rules of the reader's location, the measurement that starts only with your consent, and any email that a reader chooses to write. This page explains each of them, why it exists and the rights a reader has over it.

Who is responsible

The "controller" of the personal data described here is [OWNER], represented by [REPRESENTATIVE], which publishes Alberta Casinos Online. Its seat is at [ADDRESS], it is entered in the register under [FIRM NUMBER], and it is identified for VAT as [VAT NUMBER]. Requests about this policy and about personal data can be sent to albertacasinosonline@atomicmail.io, the site's only address, and we answer them for the publisher.

What the site does not collect

No page here asks for a name, an email address or a date of birth, since there is nothing to "register" for and nothing to subscribe to. Personal data reach us directly only inside an email that a reader decides to send, and we keep such a message until it has been answered (or, when it reports an error, until the correction is online). Nothing else is collected.

The country read by the hosting

The site is hosted by Amazon Web Services (through its "Amplify Hosting" service), and the rules that decide where certain links lead are applied there, before a page or a link is served. Those rules look only at the country a request comes from (nothing narrower), so that an operator link followed from the United States leads to a page written for American readers rather than to the operator. The country is read for that purpose alone.

The region read by Geo Targetly

Telling Ontario from Alberta is beyond what the hosting can do, so every page with operator links also loads a short script from Geo Targetly (a service of TechTurtle, s. r. o., based in Bratislava) that reads the province or state of the connection. Someone reading from Ontario lands on our Ontario page, limited to operators registered in that province, someone reading from the United States lands on a page with no operators at all, and every other reader stays put.

For this purpose the service is sent the IP address, the URL of the page and of the page before it, the size of the screen and the kind of browser, and it works out a location from the IP address. The provider states that it handles the data in real time, keeps no database of them and holds them only in "server logs" while "debugging", on Google Cloud machines in several countries; it does this for us, as a "processor". Crawlers of search engines, identified by their "user agent" against a list held in the service, are never redirected, and the script starts with the page (before the banner has an answer), because its only task is to decide what may lawfully be shown, not to build a profile.

The measurement uses Google Analytics, loaded by Google Tag Manager, and neither of them exists on a page until the banner's "accept button" has been pressed; until then the browser sends Google nothing and stores no identifier. Once accepted, Analytics records the ordinary things (which pages were read, a rough location worked out from the address, the kind of device and browser) and one event that we added ourselves, fired by a click on an operator link and holding the casino's name and the link's destination.

Advertising storage and the use of data for advertising are denied in the "consent settings" sent with the container, since this site runs no advertising network at all. Refusing leaves everything unloaded, and changing the decision later on the cookie page switches the "property" off and erases the "identifiers" that Analytics wrote; the choice itself is remembered for 182 days.

Clicking an operator link takes the reader to the operator's site, whose own privacy policy governs everything from there on. All the link passes on is a code identifying this site, which the operator needs for its "commission accounting", and it says nothing about who clicked.

When a redirect does not happen

Because Geo Targetly runs inside the browser, an ad blocker or a browser with JavaScript disabled stops it, and the reader simply remains where they were. From the United States the operator links still do not work in that case, because the rules at the hosting stop them, which keeps the editorial content available and the commercial function closed (the right way round, as we see it).

The country and region checks rest on our "legitimate interest" in complying with each jurisdiction's rules on gambling advertising (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR), the measurement rests on your consent (Article 6(1)(a)), and an email is answered on the basis of the request it contains. Google and Geo Targetly may process data outside Canada and the European Union, under the safeguards that each provider describes, which for Google include the EU-U.S. "Data Privacy Framework".

You may ask to see, correct or delete the data held about you, object to the checks or withdraw consent at any time, and complain to a "supervisory authority", either in the country where you live or work or in the one where the infringement took place (Article 77 of the GDPR) or, in Canada, to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Since the site holds no accounts, we will usually answer a request by confirming how little there is.

Children

The site is written for adults, and it does not knowingly collect data about anyone under eighteen.

Changes to this policy

Because this policy describes how particular mechanisms work, any change to the hosting rules, the region service or the measurement is matched by a new version of this page, published together with it and carrying a new date. If any sentence here stops describing what the site actually does, we want to know, and the contact page gives the address!

Questions readers ask

Does this site collect my name or email address?

No. There is nothing to register for and nothing to subscribe to, and the only message the site receives is an email that a reader chooses to send to the address above.

Does the region service write a cookie?

Not with the settings in use: its cookie time is set to zero and it applies no frequency limit, so it writes nothing to the browser, which can be checked in the browser's own storage after a redirect.

Can I use the site without being measured?

Yes. Refusing on the banner leaves Google Tag Manager unloaded, so no measurement script runs at all, and the cookie page explains how to change the choice later.

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